《TIME》: Pictures of the Week: January 4 – January 11, 2013

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Stephen Shaver—UPI/Landov
Jan. 7, 2013. The 14th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, touted as the world's biggest ice and snow festival, opens in Harbin, the capital of the China's northern Heilongjiang Province near Russia.






Jo Giuliani—EPA
Jan. 4, 2013. A bushfire smoke plume is visible from Park Beach in Forcett, south-east of Hobart, Tasmania.






Ali Ali—EPA
Jan. 7, 2013. Palestinian Greek Orthodox Christian altar boys attend Christmas mass at the Orthodox Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City.






Filippo Monteforte—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2013. The Costa Concordia cruise ship lays aground on the Italian island of Giglio.






Muzaffar Salman—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2013. Men help a wounded person after a missile struck Aleppo's al-Mashhad district.






Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Jan. 4, 2013. A Pakistani woman stands outside her makeshift home in a slum during a foggy and cold morning in Islamabad, Pakistan.






Agung Kuncahya B. —Xinhua/Landov
Jan. 7, 2013. Crude Palm Oil cleaners work in the bilge of a palm oil ship docked at the Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta, Indonesia.






ChinaFotoPress—ZUMAPRESS.com
Jan. 6, 2013. Lions in their enclosure react as tourists throw snowballs at them in the Hangzhou Zoo.






Cathal McNaughton—Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013. A burnt out car blocks Dee Street in east Belfast. Pro-British militant groups are instigating and exploiting the riots that have rocked the Northern Irish capital Belfast in the past month, a police officers' representative said.






Cristina Quicler—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2013. Classical dancers of the Latvian National Ballet perform during a dress rehearsal of 'Giselle' at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain.

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Carlos Garcia—Reuters
Jan. 4, 2013. A picture of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is seen on a religious altar in Caracas, Venezuela.






Jon Nazca—Reuters
Jan. 4, 2013. People watch a demonstration march after two men set themselves on fire, from the windows of their homes in Malaga, southern Spain.






Punit Paranjpe—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 4, 2013. An Indian instructor shows a self defence technique to a school girl during a self-defence classes at a school in Mumbai, India.






Matthias Schrader—AP
Jan. 4, 2013. Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer soars through the air during his final jump to win the third stage of the four hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria.






Khuram Parvez—Reuters
Jan. 4, 2013. The feet of a suspect who was killed during an exchange of fire with police forces during an attack in Swabi, Pakistan.





Chris Kidd—AFP
Jan. 5, 2013. The devastated area Boomer Bay after bush fires swept through the Australian island of Tasmania.






Tim Holmes — Holmes Family/AP
Jan. 4, 2013. Tammy Holmes, second from left, and her grandchildren, two-year-old Charlotte Walker, left, four-year-old Esther Walker, third from left, nine-year-old Liam Walker, eleven-year-old Matilda, second from right, and six-year-old Caleb Walker, right, take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, Australia.






Young Lee—EPA
Jan. 6, 2013. Firefighters try to douse blaze at a market in Pudong, the new district of Shanghai, China.






Anupam Nath—AP
Jan. 6, 2013. A man arranges the head gear of another before playing the khol, a traditional percussion instrument, as they participate in an attempt to create a Guinness record, in Titabar, India.






Dado Ruvic—Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013. A young Bosnian Serb roasts lamb and pig for a traditional Orthodox Christmas meal, in front of his home in the village of Vojkovici, near the capital of Sarajevo.

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Jim Hollander—EPA
Jan. 6, 2013. A young woman prays in the Manger in the 'Grotto' of the Church of the Nativity, accepted by Christians as the birth place of Jesus Christ, as a Russian Orthodox Christian woman kisses a gate where the Baby Jesus is located as faithful flock to the church to celebrate the Christian Orthodox Christmas eve.






Alessandro Di Meo—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 6, 2013. Newly appointed bishops, Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin, Pope Benedict XVI 's personal secretary Georg Gaenswein, Nigerian Fortunatus Nwachkwu and Angelo Vincenzo Zani lie during the Epiphany mass in St. Peter's Basilica, in Vatican City.






John Kolesidis—Reuters
Jan. 6, 2013. An Orthodox man kisses a cross during a water blessing ceremony on Epiphany Day at Faliro suburb near Athens, Greece.






Andoni Lubaki—AP
Jan 6, 2013. Syrian men leave the old city of Aleppo, Syria.






Muzaffar Salman—Reuters
Jan. 7, 2013. People help a wounded person after a missile hit Aleppo's al-Mashhad district.






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Jan. 7, 2013. Syrians shout slogans as they rush to the location of a building targeted by a missile in the al-Mashhad neighborhood of Aleppo.






Alessandra Benedetti—Corbis
Jan. 7, 2013. Pope Benedict XVI delivers his annual 'state of the world' address to accredited ambassadors at the Regia Hall at the Vatican.






Christopher Furlong—Getty Images
Jan. 7, 2013. Pilgrims view a plaster replica of 19th century Italian Catholic priest Saint John Bosco in Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral in Liverpool, England.






Michael Klimentyev—Ria Novosti/EPA
Jan. 7, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks to a child as he attends a Christmas service in the Holy Trinity St. George's Monastery in the village of Lesnoe Adler outside Sochi, Russia, Russian Orthodox church celebrates Christmas following the Julian calendar.






Alex Wong—Getty Images
Jan 7. 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan and former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) leave at the end of a personnel announcement in the East Room at the White House.

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Petr David Josek—AP
Jan. 8, 2013. Classical music composer and presidential candidate Vladimir Franz answers questions from the media prior to a rehearsal of his opera "War with the Newts" at the State Opera in Prague, Czech Republic.






Filippo Monteforte—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2013. Workers stand on the Costa Concordia cruise ship, aground near the port on the Italian island of Giglio.






Marina Lacasse—AP/The Canadian Press
Jan. 8, 2013. People watch as a killer whale surfaces through a small hole in the ice near Inukjuak, in Northern Quebec.






Hussein Malla—AP
Jan. 8, 2013. Syrian refugees make their way in flooded water at a temporary refugee camp, in the eastern Lebanese Town of Al-Faour near the border with Syria.






Zohra Bensemra—Reuters
Jan. 8, 2013. Girls attend class at a school in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.





William Hong—Reuters
Jan. 8, 2013. Children play on self-made swings hung from scaffolding at a construction site in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China.






Franck Fife—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 8, 2013. Qatar's Nasser Al-Attiyah competes during Stage 4 of the Dakar 2013 between Nazca and Arequipa, Peru.






Zohra Bensemra—Reuters
Jan. 8, 2013. A girl cries while she stands behind a torn makeshift curtain at the entrance of her house in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.






Pedro Armestre—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013. Wheels are stored for recycling in a field in Sesena, near Madrid.






Ariel Schalit—AP
Jan. 9, 2013. A doll covered with mud lies on the floor after a flood hit the village of Bat Hefer, in central Israel.

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Ammar Awad—Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013. Palestinians play with snow during a snow storm in the West Bank village of Halhul near Hebron.






Andrew Biraj—Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013. A member of police inhales smoke from papers set on fire, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.






Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Jan. 9, 2013. Pakistani Anwar Ali, 13, center, and his brother Hamad, 8, sit around a fire to warm themselves from the cold, in Murree, near Islamabad, Pakistan.






Chris McGrath—Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013. A sculpture of a man made of Lego is seen during the 'The Art of the Brick' exhibition at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore.






Jeon Heon-Kyun—EPA
Jan. 9, 2013. A polar bear plays in a pool in South Korea's largest amusement park Everland on Youngin in Gyeonggi-province, South Korea.






Mohammad Hannon—AP
Jan. 9, 2013. A Syrian refugee walks toward his tent at Zaatari refugee camp, near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan.






Spencer Platt—Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013. Injured passengers are aided following an early morning ferry accident during rush hour in Lower Manhattan, New York.






Filippo Monteforte—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 9, 2013. A photographer takes pictures of the Costa Concordia cruise ship laying aground near the port on the Italian island of Giglio.






Brett Martin—fishwrecked.com/Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013. A cloud formation tinged with red dust travels across the Indian Ocean near Onslow on the Western Australia coast.






J Gerard Seguia—Demotix/Corbis
Jan. 9, 2013. Barefoot devotees wait while replicas of the Black Nazarene passes the procession of the feast of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo, in Manilla, Philippines.

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Alexander F. Yuan—AP
Jan. 9, 2013. Trainees at a body guard training camp stand with taped face masks before a blind fighting training session in Beijing, China.






Brennan Linsley—AP
Jan. 10, 2013. A stuck mule deer buck struggles unsuccessfully to get off the ice of a frozen-over lake in Golden, Colo.






David Guttenfelder—AP
Jan. 10, 2013. North Korean men shovel snow from the roof of a building in Pyongyang, North Korea.






Ivan Lieman—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 10, 2013. The body of a woman and her daughter lie on the ground following an overnight attack on the village of Kibusu, Kenya.






Nvan Lieman—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 10, 2013. A woman is consoled after seeing the bodies of relatives following an overnight attack on the village of Kibusu, Kenya.






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Jan. 10, 2013. Security officers walk away as a man mourns next to the bodies of his wife and daughter, who were gunned down outside their house as they attempted to escape when suspected Orma raiders attacked their village of Kibusu in Kenya.






Philippe Lopez—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 10, 2013. A banana ball python, worth about $85,141 USD, is displayed during a snake display to promote responsible breeding and pet ownership in Hong Kong.






Cherie Diez/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Press
Jan. 10, 2013. Sao Doan, 5, right, watches as her mom, Tiffany Ringer, both of Kenneth City, snaps a photo of Spider- Man (aka Merrill Hunt, 43, of Clearwater) as he washes her window at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida.






Ilya Naymushin—Reuters
Jan. 11, 2013. Members of a local winter swimming club take part in their weekly bath in the Yenisei River, while air temperatures stand at minus 17 degrees Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the town of Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.






Sheng Li—Reuters
Jan. 11, 2013. An employee wearing a panda costume slides down from an ice sculpture during the Harbin International Ice and Snow World festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

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