Week in Pictures: 11 - 17 February 2012
Visitors at Tunnel View, like Kaori Nishimura and Eriko Kuboi from Japan, pose in front of Half Dome, center facing, during the reopening of Yosemite National Park, Calif., Oct. 17, 2013.
Yamda Johnson, kisses a signed photo of Whitney Houston as she and her friend Regina Kujemya both from Staten Island, N.Y., pay their respects at New Hope Baptist Church, in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.
Sudanese Mutasim Qamrawi, 22, shows his scars from four months he was held in captivity by smugglers in Egypt's Sinai desert, at a shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
Carnival dancers perform on a float during a parade by the Perola Negra samba school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early Sunday Feb. 19, 2012.
A young woman injured in violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters is transported to an ambulance by emergency responders from the Senegalese Red Cross, in central Dakar, Senegal Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. Anti-government protesters and po
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Firefighters try to contain a fire at an informal diesel fuel depot in Lagos, Nigeria on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012.
A Buddhist monk prays at Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012.
Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai gives a copy of her book "I am Malala", to Britain's Queen Elizabeth during a Reception for youth, education and the Commonwealth at Buckingham Palace in London.
Ivory Coast's captain Didier Drogba, left, makes a penalty shootout against Zambia's goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene during their Africa Cup of Nations final soccer match at the Stade de l'Amitie in Libreville, Gabon, Sunday Feb. 12, 2012.
Olebogeng Tseleng, 21, is seen at her former Catholic school at Matlou, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. Impoverished and angry South Africans held a marathon march across a platinum-rich corner of the country Friday to demand that a multinational min
In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, Chief Francis Kariuki, left, is shown a gap in a fence that thieves escaped through, by village elder Peter Ndungu, right, in the village of Lanet Umoja, near Nakuru, in the Rift Valley of Kenya. Kariuki's latest