《TIME》: Pictures of the Week: January 11 – January 18, 2013

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Jan. 13, 2013. A Sadhu blows a conch shell as holy men bathe on the banks of the Ganges river during a procession ahead of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India.






Alessio Romenzi
January 12, 2013. Displaced Syrians rest in the regions largest displacement camp, located along the border with Turkey, in Atmeh, Syria.






Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Jan. 15, 2013. Pakistan Sunni Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri addresses his supporters from behind bullet-proof glass at an anti-government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan.





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Diptendu Dutta—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 14, 2013. Indian clown Abul Hussain applies makeup in a tent at Kohinoor Circus in Siliguri, India.






Arshad Butt—AP
Jan. 14, 2012. Pakistani Shiite Muslims carry victims of Thursday twin bombings during their funeral in Quetta, Pakistan.






Thomas Peter—Reuters
Jan. 15, 2013. Models are reflected in a mirror in the backstage area before the Africa Fashion Day show, part of Berlin Fashion Week in Germany.






Akintunde Akinleye—Reuters
Jan. 13, 2013. A man paddles a canoe through a swamp after an oil pipeline explosion just outside Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos.






Paulo Duarte—AP
Jan. 12, 2013. Girls from the Pontevra Bagpipe Band wait for their appearance at the unveiling of the 2013 Cycling Classic, La Vuelta route in Vigo, Spain.






Justin Lane—EPA
Jan. 15, 2013. The claw of a demolition vehicle brings down a house, which was irreparably damaged by flood waters during Hurricane Sandy, in the Ocean Breeze neighborhood of Staten Island, New York.






Feng Li—Getty Images
Jan. 16, 2013. A tourist wearing the mask looks at the Forbidden City as pollution covers the city in Beijing, China.

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Jan. 11, 2013. Chinese rescue workers carry a dead body found while searching for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, in the Yunnan province, China.






Tauseef Mustafa—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 11, 2013. Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol the border fence at an outpost along the India-Pakistan border in Suchit-Garh, India.






Leon Neal—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 11, 2013. Media representatives gather in front of British artist Paul Emsley's portrait of Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, after its unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in central London.






Achilleas Zavallis—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 11, 2013. Displaced Syrians wait to get pallets of wood to use as heating material in a refugee camp in Azaz, near the Turkish border.






Gemunu Amarasinghe—AP
Jan. 11, 2013. Supporters of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa dance on the road leading to parliament where lawmakers are gathered for the impeachment process of the country's Chief Justice, Shirani Bandaranayake, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.






Dieu Nalio Chery—AP
Jan. 12, 2013. Haiti's President Michel Martelly, left, UN special envoy to Haiti and former President Bill Clinton, and Haiti's first lady Sophia Martelly, attend a memorial service for victims of the 2010 earthquake, at Titanyen, a mass burial site north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.






Alexander F. Yuan—AP
Jan. 12, 2013. A trainee at a bodyguard camp sheds tears as he is briefed on his performance after the day's training by a coach at the Genghis Security Academy in Beijing.






Johan Ordonez—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 13, 2013. Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina (L) and his Vice-President Roxana Baldetti attend the commemoration of the first year of their administration at the La Alameda neighborhood in Guatemala City.






Roberto Schmidt—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 13, 2013. Workers fix a light post, one of many that will illuminate the vast grounds receiving the millions of Hindu devotees for the next couple of months to celebrate the Kumbh Mela, in Allahabad, India.






Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
Jan. 13, 2013. A Hindu devotee is overcome by emotion as she bathes with others on the banks of the Ganges river ahead of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India.

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Monirul Alam—Zuma Press
Jan. 13, 2013. A Bangladeshi Muslim prays during the last day of the three-day Islamic Congregation on the banks of the River Turag in Tongi, Bangladesh.






Kevin Frayer—AP
Jan. 13, 2013. An Indian Hindu holy man, or Sadhu, dries his hair after taking a bath at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, ahead of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India.






Ronen Zvulun—Reuters
Jan. 13, 2013. A Franciscan priest baptizes a child during a ceremony at the site known as Qasr el-Yahud, near the West Bank city of Jericho, Israel.






Andoni Lubaki—AP
Jan. 13, 2013. Men help a wounded civilian after a mortar attack in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.






Akintunde Akinleye—Reuters
Jan. 13, 2013. A body lies in a swamp after an oil pipeline explosion in Arepo village, just outside Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos.






Altaf Qadri—AP
Jan. 13, 2013. An Indian girl dressed as Lady Justice stands after the participants of a candlelight vigil were stopped by Indian police in New Delhi, India.






Federico Scoppa—Demotix/Corbis
Jan. 14, 2013. A rainbow is seen above the wreck of the Costa Concordia.






Rupak De Chowdhuri—Reuters
Jan. 14, 2013. A female Hindu pilgrim takes a dip at the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal at Sagar Island, south of Kolkata, India.






Reuters/China Daily
Jan. 14, 2013. Students exercise during class break in a classroom in Jinan, Shandong province, China.






Joe Penney—Reuters
Jan. 9, 2013. Girls attend a French class at a secondary school in the capital of Mali, Bamako.

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Kenichiro Seki—Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com
Jan. 14, 2013. Young girls dressed in traditional kimonos walk in snow to attend the annual Coming-of-Age Day ceremony at an amusement park in Tokyo, Japan.






Amir Cohen—Reuters
Jan. 14, 2013. Israeli women stand behind a curtain during an annual pilgrimage to the grave site of Rabbi Yisrael Abuhatzeira, a Moroccan-born sage and kabbalist, in the southern town of Netivot, Israel.






Markus Schreiber—AP
Jan. 14, 2013. A man cleans the snow-covered tomb at the Neue Wache (New Guard House), the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny in Berlin.






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Jan. 15, 2013. Hindu devotees move their hands towards the flames presented by a priest during an aarti ceremony on the banks of the Ganges during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India.






Daniel Berehulak—Getty Images
Jan. 14, 2013. Hindu devotees bathe in the waters of the holy Ganges river during the bathing day of Makar Sankranti of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India.






Kevin Frayer—AP
Jan. 15, 2013. An Indian Hindu woman carries a coconut as she takes part in morning prayers while bathing at Sangam, the confluence of the holy rivers Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India.






Kevin Frayer—AP
Jan. 14, 2013. An Indian Hindu holy man, or Naga Sadhu, swings his head as he bathes at Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, during the royal bath on Makar Sankranti at the start of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India.






Adel Hana—AP
Jan. 15, 2013. Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of Palestinian farmer Moustafa Abu Jarad in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.






Jody Amiet—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 15, 2013. Waves hit the road along the sea near Cayenne, Guyana.






Chaiwat Subprasom—Reuters
Jan. 15, 2013. Thai prison officers escort Iranian Saeid Moradi at Bangkok South Criminal Court in Thailand.

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SANA/Reuters
Jan. 15, 2013. Two explosions destroyed numerous buildings around the University in Aleppo city, Syria.






Spencer Platt—Getty Images
Jan. 15, 2013. Workers with the Parks Department clean sand from a playground damaged during Hurricane Sandy in the Rockaways in Queens, New York.






Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 15, 2013. Supporters of Pakistani cleric Tahir-ul Qadri warm themselves around a fire during a protest rally in Islamabad, Pakistan.






Robin Utrecht—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 15, 2013. Snow covers the historic windmills at Kinderdijk, The Netherlands.






Ted Aljibe—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 15, 2013. A Brahminy kite, locally know as Lawin, swoops down on a prey in the sea inside an enclosure of Ocean park along Manila Bay, Philippines.






Anupam Nath—AP
Jan. 15, 2013. Spectators watch a pair of buffaloes lock horns during a traditional buffalo fight during Magh Bihu in Ahotguri, India.






Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 15, 2013. Cast members apply make-up prior to a Chinese performance of 'Cats' at the Century Theatre in Beijing, China.






Goran Tomasevic—Reuters
Jan. 16, 2013. A Free Syrian Army fighter fires a sniper rifle at a Syrian Army checkpoint in Haresta neighborhood of Damascus.






Giath Taha—Reuters
Jan. 16, 2013. Internally displaced children watch cartoons in a classroom of a school in Kafranbel in Idlib province, Syria.






Hossein Esmaeli—AP
Jan. 16, 2013. An Iranian officer lashes a man, convicted of rape, at the northeastern city of Sabzevar, Iran.

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Muhammed Muheisen—AP
Jan. 16, 2013. Supporters of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric, Tahir-ul-Qadri, read local newspapers featuring Pakistan's Prime Minister as they camp near the parliament, during an anti-government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan.






Elias Edouard—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 16, 2013. Syrian rebels launch a missile near the Abu Baker brigade in Albab, Syria.






Mohammad Sajjad—AP
Jan. 16, 2013. Pakistani villagers comfort a man mourning the death of a family member, outside the governor's house in Peshawar, Pakistan.






Mohammad Sajjad—AP
Jan. 16, 2013. A boy sits next to his father's dead body in Peshawar, Pakistan.






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Jan. 16, 2013. A local commuter train, hijacked by a 20 year old woman, crashed into a home in Stockholm, Sweden.






Dai Kurokawa—EPA
Jan. 16, 2013. Kenyan activists carry mock coffins during a protest against lawmakers who passed the bill to award themselves a sendoff bonus, in Nairobi, Kenya.






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Jan. 16, 2013. People and rescue workers carry a child found alive in the rubble of a collapsed building in Alexandria, Egypt.






Mark Wilson—Getty Images
Jan. 16, 2013. President Barack Obama is flanked by young children as he signs an executive order designed to tackle gun control in Washington, DC.






Daniel Ochoa de Olza—AP
Jan. 16, 2013. A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain.






Markus Schreiber—AP
Jan. 16, 2013. A model presents a creation by designer Patrick Mohr, at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Berlin, Germany.

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F. Comeron—EPA
Jan. 16, 2013. This image, from the European Southern Observatory, shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming.






Ed Jones—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 16, 2013. Trainee bodyguards aiming mock pistols during an exercise in their classroom at the Genghis Security Academy in Beijing.






Fabrizio Bensch —Reuters
Jan. 17,2013, The entrance of a tunnel dug by thieves in order to enter the safe deposit room of a bank in Berlin. Robbers dug the 100-foot (30 metre) long passage, which was discovered by police on Monday, from a nearby underground parking garage into a branch of Berliner Volksbank and stole the contents of several hundred safe-deposit boxes.






Tomas Bravo—Reuters
Jan. 17, 2013. Couples kiss at the base of the flag pole at the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City.






Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty Images
Jan.17, 2013. Pakistani Muslim cleric Tahir-ul Qadri (C) embraces a Pakistani official during a protest rally in Islamabad.






Asif Hassan—AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 17, 2013. Female supporters of moderate preacher Tahir-ul Qadri stand guard to protect sleeping women taking part in the fourth day of protests in Islamabad.






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Jan. 17, 2013. 77-year-old retired teacher Gao Yinyu exercising in his underwear at a snow-covered bathing spot in Jilin, in northeastern China's Jilin province, in a temperature of minus 25 degrees Celsius.






George Burns—Harpo Studios, Inc. / Reuters
Jan. 14, 2013. Cyclist Lance Armstrong is interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in Austin, Texas. Armstrong finally admitted to using performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career on January 17, 2013, describing himself as a "bully" and a "deeply flawed character" in an interview with talk show host Winfrey.