《TIME》: Pictures of the Week: February 15 – 22, 2013

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Jerome Delay—AP
Feb. 15, 2013. Children walk on the Askia mausoleum, built in 1495, in Gao, northern Mali.






Muzaffar Salman—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. Women from Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights) stand with their weapons as they undergo military training in Aleppo, Syria.






Jon Nazca—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. Spanish apprentice bullfighter Francisco de Asis "Lama de Gongora" touches his face during the first International Biennial of bullfighting at Reservatauro Ronda cattle ranch in Ronda, near Malaga, Spain.






Ibraheem Abu Mustafa—Reuters
Feb. 19, 2013. A Palestinian works inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.






Naseer Ahmed—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. The body of a baby, killed in last week's bomb attack in a Shi'ite Muslim area, lies in a coffin at a mosque during a funeral ceremony in the Pakistani city of Quetta.






Kim Hong-Ji—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. A bride waits for her groom during a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, South Korea.






David Guttenfelder—AP
Feb. 17, 2013. North Korean soldiers ride an escalator past a model of their country's Unha Rocket as they enter an exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea.






Alexandra Wey—EPA
Feb. 17, 2013. Andre Best, on his horse 'Niya,' competes during the 'Grand Prix The St. Leger Club of Lucerne' race in St. Moritz, Switzerland.






Mohammad Hannon—AP
Libyans release lanterns into the air, at Nasr Square, during the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled long-time dictator Moammar Gadhafi, in Benghazi, Libya.






Susana Vera—Reuters
Feb. 19, 2013. A model gets made up backstage during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain.

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Jerome Delay—AP
Feb. 15, 2013. Women pray during the traditional Friday prayer at the Askia mausoleum's mosque in Gao, northern Mali.






Eric Gaillard— Reuters
Feb. 16, 2013. Artists perform during the Carnival parade in Nice, France.






Suzanne Plunkett—Reuters
Feb. 15, 2013. Conceptual artist Pandemonia poses for a photograph outside Somerset House during London Fashion Week.






Amit Dave—Reuters
A dhobi, or clothes washer, tries to retrieve a piece of cloth blown by the wind on the river banks of Sabarmati in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.






David Guttenfelder —AP
Feb. 16, 2013. Female North Korean traffic police officers gather in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to pay their respects in Pyongyang, North Korea.






Sohail Shahzad—Reuters
Feb. 16, 2013. Villagers gather around the flag-draped casket of Pakistani soldier Muhammad Akhlaq before his funeral in Rawalpindi, India.






Bulent Kilic—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 16, 2013. A dummy is displayed in a flat used by rebel fighters to confront Syrian government forces in the Salaheddine neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria.






John Hogg—EPA
Feb. 16, 2013. South African Ntsoana Contemporary Dance Company perform 'Displacement Powerlines' at the South African Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg, South Africa.






Sean Gallup—Getty Images
Feb. 16, 2013. Visitors look at a model of Knut the polar bear on the first day it was displayed to the public at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Germany.






Farooq Naeem—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 17, 2013. Spectators watch a dog fighting match in Chakwal, around 100 kilometers from Islamabad.

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Jon Nazca—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. Spanish bullfighter Manuel Jesus "El Cid" is seen through a small window of a door as he performs a pass to a heifer during a "tentadero" (a small bullfight to check the bravery of calves and heifers which are not killed) during the first International Biennial of bullfighting at Reservatauro Ronda cattle ranch in Ronda, near Malaga.






Naseer Ahmed—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. A man prepares graves for the burial of victims of last week's bomb attack in a Shi'ite Muslim area, in the Pakistani city of Quetta.






Ricardo Moraes—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. A Catholic faithful attends a mass on the first Sunday of lent at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.






Ivan Alvarado—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. Archbishop of Santiago Ricardo Ezzati listens to a confession from a Roman Catholic faithful during mass at Santiago Cathedral in Santiago, Chile.






Muzaffar Salman—Reuters
Feb. 17, 2013. A woman, who is part of the Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights), holds a weapon as she undergoes military training in Aleppo, Syria.






Tomas Bravo—Reuters
Feb. 18, 2013. A soldier uses a welding torch to destroy a gun handed in by a resident during the "Voluntary Disarmament Programme" at the Venustiano Carranza district in Mexico City, Mexico.






Jason Edward—Newspix/Rex
Feb. 18, 2013. Country Fire Authority (CFA) firefighters and the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) work to contain a blaze Bushfires at Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia.






Divyakant Solanki — EPA
Feb. 18, 2013. Indian youngsters play cricket during an anti-malaria fumigation in Mumbai, India.






Eraldo Peres—AP
Feb. 18, 2013. Women bathe in mud in a presentation for the inauguration of the National Meeting of Rural Women, in Brasilia, Brazil.






Rafael Marchante—Reuters
Feb. 18, 2013. A woman displays her dog's skills to her neighbors at the Alfama neighborhood in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Mohammad Abu Ghosh — ZUMAPRESS.com
Feb. 18, 2013. A Syrian refugee, who was injured while crossing the border, waits for ambulance in Jordan.






Mohammad Abu Ghosh — ZUMAPRESS.com
Feb. 19, 2013 Syrian refugees walk near Mafraq, as they cross the border from Syria into Jordan.






Shaam News Network/AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 19, 2013. Syrians inspect destruction following an apparent surface-to-surface missile strike on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.






Tobin Jones—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 19, 2013. A soldier from the Somali National Army (SNA) laying on a bed at an SNA infirmary in Belet Weyne, where the SNA are given training by the Djiboutian contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia.






Cesare Abbate — ZUMAPRESS.com
Feb. 19, 2013..The hands of a blind person touch the Veiled Christ by Giuseppe Sanmartino during the special opening of the Museum of the Chapel of Sansevero, for the blind and visually impaired, in Naples, Italy.






Mark Kolbe—Getty Images
Feb. 19, 2013. Spare doll heads are seen at Sydney's Original Doll Hospital in Bexley in Sydney, Australia.






Oded Balilty—AP
Feb. 24, 2013. A costume shop employee eats his lunch ahead of the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, in Tel Aviv, Israel.






Suzanne Plunkett—Reuters
Feb. 19, 2013. A model presents a creation from the Meadham Kirchhoff Autumn/Winter 2013 collection during London Fashion Week.






Rouelle Umali—ZUMAPRESS.com
Feb. 19, 2013. A boy looks for reuseable materials at his charred home after a fire hit a residential area in Valenzuela City, Philippines.






Hani Mohammed—AP
Feb. 19, 2013. Yemeni soldiers and firefighters work to extinguish fire at the site of a plane crash in Sanaa, Yemen.

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How Hee Young—EPA
19 Feb. 19, 2013. A motorcyclist rides past a Chinese security guard outside an office building in Beijing, China.






Bernat Armangue—AP
Feb. 19, 2013. A masked Palestinian attends a protest to support Palestinian prisoners, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah.






Marc Tirl—DPA/Landov
Feb. 19, 2013. Type Marder infantry fighting vehicles of the German Army are parked cheek by jowl in Rockensussra, Germany.






Damir Sagolj—Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. A U.S. Marine drinks the blood of a cobra during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand.






Damir Sagolj — Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. A Thai Navy instructor demonstrates to U.S. Marines how to catch a cobra during a jungle survival exercise as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand.






Damir Sagolj—Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. U.S. marines react as a cobra gets too close to them during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand.






Naseer Ahmed—Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. Shi'ite Muslims carry coffins of victims killed in last week's bomb attack, during a funeral in Quetta, Pakistan.






Muzaffar Salman — Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. A girl who returned from school cries upon seeing her house destroyed after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria.






Mauricio Morales—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 20, 2013. A Syrian child is helped following an explosion in the city of Aleppo, Syria.






Rivo Andries — AP
Feb. 20, 2013. Indonesian men put a chain onto a young pig-tailed macaque as it is displayed for sale in Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, Indonesia.

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Navesh Chitrakar — Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. A woman begs for alms at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.






Muhammed Muheisen — AP
Feb. 20, 2013. Khurram Mehtab checks a film strip before playing it for spectators at a cinema in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.






Muzaffar Salman — Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. Activists watch a televised broadcast of the Champions League soccer match between Barcelona and AC Milan in a school hall in Aleppo, Syria.






Manu Brabo—AP
Feb. 20, 2013. Displaced Syrian children attend school in a makeshift classroom in the Azaz camp for displaced people, north of Aleppo province in Syria.






Joe Penney—Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. Boys play on the roof of the entrance to a football stadium in Gao, Mali.






Juan Medina—Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. A model gets made up backstage during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain.






Chris Ricco—PA Photos/Landov
Feb. 20, 2013. Oscar Pistorius enters the court room during the second day of his bail application at Pretoria Magistrates Court, Pretoria, South Africa.






Joe Penney—Reuters
Feb. 21, 2013. A Malian soldier takes cover amidst dust after a rocket propelled grenade was fired by his comrades in Gao.






Joe Penney—Reuters
Feb. 21, 2013. A Malian soldier fires an AK-47 during fighting with Islamists in Gao.






SANA—Xinhua/Landov
Feb. 21, 2013. In a handout provided by SANA, Syrians carry an injured man after a blast in Damascus, Syria.

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Guillermo Arias—Zuma Press
Feb. 20, 2013 Mexican soldiers stand guard during a drug burning in Tijuana, Mexico.






Nasser Nasser—AP
Feb. 21, 2013. Egyptian men inspect posters of slain men with their picture and Arabic that reads their names "Ahmed el-Syyed, Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, Islam, Osama el-Sherbiny, Ahmed el-Shahat," at a protest camp in front of the provincial government headquarters, during the fifth day of a general strike, in Port Said, Egypt.






Mohammed Al-Shaikh—AFP/Getty Images
Feb. 21, 2013. A Bahraini boy stands on chairs holding national flags during a pro-government rally in the village of Arad on the Bahraini island of Muharreq.






Chris McGrath—Getty Images
Feb. 21, 2013 Dancers from the PAYM Youths Poppera wait to perform during a media preview for Fire In Snow, Chingay Parade in Singapore.






Matt Sullivan—Reuters
Feb. 20, 2013. Golf spectators look for cover as snow forces suspension of play during the first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship golf tournament in Marana, Arizona.






John Kolesidis—Reuters
Feb. 22, 2013. A woman is rescued from flood waters by a resident standing on top of her car during heavy rain in Chalandri suburb north of Athens.






Themba Hadebe—AP
Feb. 22, 2013. Photographers take photos of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius as he stands in the dock during his bail hearing at the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa.