pictures of the week (in the news)
Stolen from MSNBC.com

U.S. Army soldier Jorge Avino, from Miami, Fla., carves the toll of enemy dead that his mortar team killed on March 9 near the villages of Sherkhankheyl, Marzak and Bobelkiel, Afghanistan. The team said they have killed at least 40 fighters.

Helicopter pilot Jess Hagerman swoops low as Rocky Spencer of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife fires a tranquilizer dart into a Roosevelt elk south of Elma, Wash., on March 9. The elk are being relocated to the south side of Mount Rainier, where native herds are diminishing.

Chechen boys Dzhankhot Hashiyev, 11, and Anzor Magaziyev, 10, carry a frame of a Russian rocket to a metal-collecting station, which buys and sells scrap, to earn a living in the shattered republic's capital, Grozny, on March 10.

Police and residents pull a motor scooter away from a flaming building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 12. More than 1,000 people were left homeless by the fire, which engulfed 235 wooden homes built on the roof of the building.

Masked Palestinians pull the body of Mahmoud Sabatin up the stairs of a building in the Bethlehem on March 14, intending to hang it from the roof. Sabatin, who was sentenced for collaborating with Israel by the Palestinian Authority, was shot dead by armed Palestinians not affiliated with Palestinian security.

Dixie Burgauer carts Penelope, a potbelly pig, around the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Muncie, Ind., during Ag Days on March 13. Although Penelope appears to be walking, those are actually the legs of Annie, a goat, trotting alongside.

Samad helps to place pottery on his roof to dry at his home on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on March 11. The potters use a small portion of one of several kilns partially destroyed during Taliban rule that line a road leading into town.

A wounded man runs from the site of an explosion that rocked a cafe in central Jerusalem on March 9 just 50 yards from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's official residence. The blast left at least six dead.

This satellite image, taken Feb. 22 and released March 12, shows Mecca, Saudi Arabia, surrounded by a large number of Muslims during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city. An estimated 2 million muslims are taking part in the annual pilgrimage.

Children walk through lineups of the Indian Rapid Action Force who prepare to conduct a flag march March 14 in the disputed northern Indian city of Ayodhya. The police have sealed the city to prevent the building of a temple near the site of a razed mosque.

U.S. Army soldier Jorge Avino, from Miami, Fla., carves the toll of enemy dead that his mortar team killed on March 9 near the villages of Sherkhankheyl, Marzak and Bobelkiel, Afghanistan. The team said they have killed at least 40 fighters.

Helicopter pilot Jess Hagerman swoops low as Rocky Spencer of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife fires a tranquilizer dart into a Roosevelt elk south of Elma, Wash., on March 9. The elk are being relocated to the south side of Mount Rainier, where native herds are diminishing.

Chechen boys Dzhankhot Hashiyev, 11, and Anzor Magaziyev, 10, carry a frame of a Russian rocket to a metal-collecting station, which buys and sells scrap, to earn a living in the shattered republic's capital, Grozny, on March 10.

Police and residents pull a motor scooter away from a flaming building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on March 12. More than 1,000 people were left homeless by the fire, which engulfed 235 wooden homes built on the roof of the building.

Masked Palestinians pull the body of Mahmoud Sabatin up the stairs of a building in the Bethlehem on March 14, intending to hang it from the roof. Sabatin, who was sentenced for collaborating with Israel by the Palestinian Authority, was shot dead by armed Palestinians not affiliated with Palestinian security.

Dixie Burgauer carts Penelope, a potbelly pig, around the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Muncie, Ind., during Ag Days on March 13. Although Penelope appears to be walking, those are actually the legs of Annie, a goat, trotting alongside.

Samad helps to place pottery on his roof to dry at his home on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on March 11. The potters use a small portion of one of several kilns partially destroyed during Taliban rule that line a road leading into town.

A wounded man runs from the site of an explosion that rocked a cafe in central Jerusalem on March 9 just 50 yards from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's official residence. The blast left at least six dead.

This satellite image, taken Feb. 22 and released March 12, shows Mecca, Saudi Arabia, surrounded by a large number of Muslims during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city. An estimated 2 million muslims are taking part in the annual pilgrimage.

Children walk through lineups of the Indian Rapid Action Force who prepare to conduct a flag march March 14 in the disputed northern Indian city of Ayodhya. The police have sealed the city to prevent the building of a temple near the site of a razed mosque.
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