The Week in Photos: Feb. 18-24

A Serb from the former Yugoslavia, designer Roksanda Ilinicic stays grounded this season with clouds of tulle at her Valentine’s Day runway show.  (Kirk McKoy / LAT)

Canadian Army Capt. Lee Mossop, accompanied by Afghan forces, tries to kick in the door of a compound near Kandahar, despite pleas from Afghan commanders to cease the practice. “If you enter someone’s house by breaking down his door,â€� an Afghan official said, “that man and all his relatives are your enemy forever.â€� Conducting joint patrols for weapons and intelligence material, Canadian and Afghan National Army soldiers on this day found only large quantities of marijuana.  (Damon Winter / LAT)

On his first trip to Los Angeles since he declared himself a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) generates enthusiasm in the Crenshaw District, and later generates big money from big names at a Beverly Hills gala.  (Myung J. Chun / LAT)

Three loops around the state Capitol in Sacramento signal the end of the 115.8-mile second stage of the Amgen Tour of California bicycle race. The 141 riders conclude their 700-mile competition Sunday in Long Beach.  (Robert Durell / LAT)

The Lakers’ Ronny Turiaf fights Brandon Roy for one of his two rebounds against the Trail Blazers at Staples Center.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

At Roosevelt High School, Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students learn how to fold a U.S. flag properly. Over three years, enrollment in JROTC has fallen 24% in L.A., but is up nationwide.  (Spencer Weiner / LAT)

Rain puddles in Laguna Beach  (Mark Boster / LAT)

Andy Bussell settles in for sweet dreams in the bed of his pickup truck. Of life without a conventional home, he says, “Once you find a routine, it’s actually really easy.â€�  (Don Kelsen / LAT)

The faithful, including Olivia Mestizo and her 5-month-old, Esai Romero, mark the beginning of Lent at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Anaheim by the anointing of their foreheads with ashes.  (Robert Lachman / LAT)

A Royal Air Force CH47 Chinook Helicopter creates a dust storm during the re-supply of Patrol Base Delhi before Op Glacier 4 in the Afghan district of Garmsir.  (Sean Clee / AP Photo)

U.S. soldiers try to liberate a vehicle from the mud at a forwarding base in Orgun-E in eastern Afghanistan.  (Rafiq Maqbool / AP Photo)

Darlaman Palace, like much of West Kabul, incurred significant damage during the warlord-Taliban wars of the early 1990s. The process of rebuilding Afghanistan is underway, but ruins and war-scarred structures are prominent city features.  (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)

An Indonesian police officer removes an injured child from a cargo ship that rescued passengers from a burning ferry at Tanjung Priok port in Jakarta. Carrying at least 350 people, the Indonesian ferry caught fire in rough seas off the north coast of Java Island; according to military officials, at least six people were killed.  (Bagus Indahono / EPA)

After her release from captors, Colombian army soldiers escort Marina Garces, 72, in Cali, Colombia. Garces was kidnapped three months ago by National Liberation Army guerrillas.  (Carlos Julio Martinez / AFP / Getty Images)

Representing a diminishing number of coal miners in Romania’s Valea Jiului region, this worker is one of 11,800 remaining from a work force of 46,000 in 1990. The general population has plummeted as well, from 300,000 to half that number.  (Daniel Mihailescu / AFP / Getty Images)

The coffin of Yasmina Akhtar, a victim of the firebomb assault on a train linking India and Pakistan, is removed from an ambulance near Srinagar in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir. The twice-weekly train service, seen as a symbol of peace between rivals India and Pakistan, was carrying more than 750 Pakistanis and Indians when it was attacked.  (Altaf Qadri / EPA)

The European Union and Japan ageed to slash tuna quotas by more than 20% in an effort to stanch their alarming decline. Environmentalists warn that, thanks to overfishing, 80% of bluefin tuna, seen here at a farm near Zadar, Croatia, before being shipped to Japan, have disappeared in the last 20 years.  (Stinger / AFP / Getty Images)

A masked militant in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine participates in a rally for the organization’s 37th anniversary in the West Bank city of Ramallah.  (Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo)

An unidentified airport worker is immersed in backlogged luggage at Philadelphia International Airport, courtesy of canceled flights resulting from winter storms.  (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)