Week in Pictures: 7 - 13 January 2012

Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim (C) talks to his supporters while flanked by his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail after the verdict of his sodomy trial was announced in Kuala Lumpur January 9, 2012.

Demonstrators gather at a burning barricade during a protest against the elimination of a popular fuel subsidy that has doubled the price of petrol, at Gwagwalada on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital Abuja January 9, 2012.

Syrian refugees who fled the violence in Syria watch Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking in Damascus, on a television at their temporary home at Al Hussein Palestinian refugees camp in Amman January 10, 2012.

Manchester City's Samir Nasri (L) gestures to Liverpool's Jordan Henderson during their English League Cup semi-final, first leg soccer match at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, northern England, January 11, 2012.

A man holds a sign reading "Obama Bin Lyin'" before a campaign rally with Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in Columbia, South Carolina January 11, 2012.

The stricken container ship Rena sits on a reef after it separated into two after being battered by waves the previous night, about 14 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island January 8, 2012.

Gael Monfils of France serves to Bernard Tomic of Australia at the Kooyong Classic tennis tournament in Melbourne January 12, 2012.

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Palestinian farmers look at the destroyed olive trees in the northern West Bank village of Qarut. Around 80 olive trees were cut down overnight in Qarut in an act of vandalism blamed on Jewish settlers, Palestinian officials said.

People travel on an outdoor public escalator at Commune 13 in Medellin January 12, 2012.

Internally displaced people are seen in Pibor January 12, 2012.

EDITOR'S NOTE: REUTERS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY CONTENT OF THE VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN. VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH. A still image taken January 11, 2012 from an undated YouTube video shows what is believed to be U.

A woman reacts during a church service to commemorate the second anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, January 12, 2012.

A giant panda sits in a tree at a panda breeding center in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province January 11, 2012.