The Week in Pictures

Rafael Nadal of Spain serves to Ivo Karlovic of Croatia during their men’s singles fourth-round match at the Australian Open tennis championship on Sunday. Nadal won, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.  (Andrew Brownbill / Associated Press)

Iranian firefighters work on a passenger plane that crash-landed at Mashhad airport ub northeastern Iran. The Russian-made Tupolev passenger plane was carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew members; at least 45 were hospitalized, state television reported. Full story  (Mehdi Ghorbani / Associated Press)

“Leo,” a seven-year-old South American sea lion, performs during a training session at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo.  (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)

Border Security Force officers on camels rehearse during preparations for Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. India will celebrate Republic Day on Jan. 26.  (Mustafa Quraishi / Associated Press)

Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Austin Collie (17) is tackled short of the goal line by New York Jets safety Kerry Rhodes (25) in the second quarter during the AFC Championship game on Sunday. The Colts won, 30-17, and are headed to Super Bowl XLIV.  (Darron Cummings / Associated Press)

People participate in the “Flour battle” during a festival in the village of Xinzo, in northwestern Spain.  (Miguel Riopa / AFP / Getty Images)

The Soufriere Hills volcano erupts on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.  (Wayne Fenton / Associated Press)

A boy watches as French soldiers put up tents for Haitians in Champ de Mars in Port-au-Prince. More aftershocks rocked the Haitian capital today, as U.N. teams switched focus from search and rescue to relief efforts 10 days after a catastrophic earthquake demolished much of the city.  (Roberto Schmidt AFP / Getty Images)

A Haitian walks past burning rubbish along a street in Port-au-Prince. More aftershocks rocked the Haitian capital today, as U.N. teams switched focus from search and rescue to relief efforts 10 days after a catastrophic earthquake demolished much of the city.  (Roberto Schmidt AFP / Getty Images)

Onlookers watch firefighters extinguish a burning NATO supply truck outside Peshawar. Taliban militants attacked and destroyed a fuel tanker in northwest Pakistan supplying NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan, police said. Militants launch frequent attacks on supplies for U.S. and NATO-led forces fighting against Taliban insurgents across the border.  (Hasham Ahmed AFP / Getty Images)

Indian soldiers march during the final full dress rehearsal for the Indian Republic Day parade. India will celebrate its 61st Republic Day on Tuesday with a large military parade.  (Raveendran / AFP / Getty Images)

Families huddle beneath umbrellas to watch a rainbow as a jet takes off from Los Angeles International Airport. After a week of severe storms in the Southland, milder weather is expected.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Joe St. Georges, a Los Angeles city firefighter, approaches a dog stranded in the swift waters of the Los Angeles River. St. Georges, who was lowered into the river from a Fire Department helicopter, was able to save the dog.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A family watches from a desert ridge as a Gulf Air passenger jet leads the French team, Patrouille de France, during Bahrain’s International Air Show. Hundreds of people scattered on rocky desert cliffs watched the show.  (Hasan Jamali / Associated Press)

Storm clouds clear to reveal the sunset at Dana Point . More storms are expected to arrive in Southern California, but the brief break provided a pleasant view.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

An leprosy patient waits for her turn to be treated by the volunteers of the U.S.-based Arpan Global Charities, a medical volunteer organization, in Amritsar, India. Arpan provides free services to the medically underserved populations of the world.  (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)

A folk dance troupe from Karnataka state performs at a preview of Republic Day celebrations in New Delhi. India will celebrate the holiday Tuesday.  (Gurinder Osan / Associated Press)

Crowds brave temperatures expected to hit 104 degrees during the Australian band Bluejuice’s set at the Big Day Out music festival in Sydney, Australia. This year’s festival features international headline acts such as Muse, Groove Armada and Lily Allen as well as a host of Australian acts.  (Dan Himbrechts / EPA)

Gorilla mother Baghira holds her baby, Kajolu, in their enclosure at an animal park in the southern German city of Munich. Kajolu was born on Dec. 7 after a gestation period of 225 days.  (Oliver Lang / AFP/Getty Images)

A player shoots the ball during the 2010 motoball indoor championship at the sidelines of the Faszination Motorrad (“Fascination Motorcycle”) trade fair in Karlsruhe, southwestern Germany. At this weekend’s trade fair, more than 200 companies from Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Hungary and Germany are presenting their latest products.  (Sascha Schuermann / AFP/Getty Images)

Italy’s Elena Fanchini during the women’s Alpine Skiing World Cup super-G race in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Lindsey Vonn of the USA won the race.  (Claudio Onorati / EPA)

A cyclist passes rests of snow in fields near Frankfurt, in central Germany.  (Michael Probst / Associated Press)

Rich Phelps of the U.S. Forest Service surveys the water and mud flow into the backyard of a home at the end of Haskell Street just north of Bigbriar Way in La Cañada Flintridge. Los Angeles County firefighters used sandbags and plastic sheeting to redirect water and mud away from the house. The runoff came down a natural drainage but quickly filled the backyard when it breached a sandbag wall constructed by the homeowners before they evacuated.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

A crew clears rural Modjeska Canyon Road of mud and water in the Modjeska Canyon area of southern Orange County. The latest winter storm moved through Southern California with a wallop, flooding roads and causing small mudslides in foothill communities. The storm brought winds of up to 80 mph and waves recorded at up to 20 feet. The brunt of the storm has moved to the east, but more showers and isolated thunderstorms are forecast through Friday.  (Glenn Koenig / Los Angeles Times)

Robert Redford, actor, director and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, attends the opening of the annual festival with a news conference inside the Egyptian Theater in Park City, Utah. Citing a T.S. Eliot poem that one should “return to the place we first started but see it for the first time,” Redford said, “We’re going back to our roots with fresh new voices.”  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Novak Djokovic of Serbia exults after winning a point against Switzerland’s Marco Chiudinelli on Thursday in the Australian Open. Djokovic went on to win, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 , and advanced to the third round.  (Mark Baker / Associated Press)

Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic laments losing a point to Argentina’s Gisela Dulko, who prevailed, 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4, in a second-round women’s singles match in the Australian Open on Thursday.  (Andrew Brownbill / Associated Press)

Russian communists hold red flags as they walk to the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square to mark his 86th death anniversary. Vladimir Lenin was the father of the Soviet Union.  (Misha Japaridze / Associated Press)

A truck parked outside a travel center is covered in snow in Bellemont, Ariz. Snowstorms have blanketed other parts of the state, with some regions seeing up to 4 feet of snow. In Phoenix, flights were canceled.  (Felicia Fonseca / Associated Press)

A Haitian policeman beats a young looter with his rifle in Port-au-Prince.  (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman on crutches heads toward an encampment in Port-au-Prince.  (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images)

Lisa Curtin and her dog Loch Morlich have a little fun while preparing for the 27th annual Aviemore Husky Sled Dog Rally. The event will be competed on snow for the first time in 15 years.  (Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images)

An elderly man of the Romanian Jewish community walks past graves after a commemoration ceremony for the 130 Jews killed by members of the fascist group the Iron Guard in late January 1941.  (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)

A man sorts fish at a food market in the fishing port of Cabinda.  (Issouf Sanogo / AFP / Getty Images)

Indigenous people arrive from around Bolivia for the inauguration of President Evo Morales.  (Ernesto Benavides / AFP / Getty Images)

Christian Egyptians living in Greece demonstrate against the killing of Copts in Egypt. On Jan. 6, the eve of the Coptic Orthodox Christmas, three gunmen opened fire on worshipers emerging from mass in Nagaa Hammadi, killing six.  (Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP / Getty Images)

Motorists make their way through floodwaters, stranding some cars on the 710 Freeway near Willow in Long Beach.  (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)

Fresh snow covers the ground near Gorman.  (Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times)

Brazilian top model Raquel Zimmermann wears a creation by Animale as part of the 2010-2011 fall-winter collections during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week.  (Mauricio Lima / AFP/Getty Images)

Italy’s Nicole Della Monica, left, and Yannick Kocon perform in the pairs free skate at the European Figure Skating Championships on Wednesday.  (Ivan Sekretarev / Associated Press)

Scavengers look for goods at a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince after last week’s powerful quake.  (Ramon Espinosa / Associated Press)

Visitors at the Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore’s first casino resort, which has partially opened to the public.  (Wong Maye-E / Associated Press)

Republican Scott Brown displays a special edition of the Boston Herald after winning the Massachusetts Senate election.  (Photo by Robert Spencer / Getty Images)

Hotteline Lozama, 26, is pulled from the earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by French aid workers.  (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

A woman carries a heavy load as she navigates the earthquake destruction of downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Fashion model Franziska wears an outfit from “Generation DNA,” a clothing collection by German designer Torsten Amft, in front of the world clock at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz square.  (Michael Gottschalk / AFP / Getty Images)

A woman holds a candle during an interfaith prayer service for Haiti earthquake victims at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi, India. The prayer service was organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of New Delhi, and members of the Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain communities took part.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

An Orthodox Christian woman lights a candle during an Epiphany celebration at a church in Tbilisi, Georgia.  (Zurab Kurtsikdze / EPA)

A woman plunges herself into icy waters as part of Epiphany celebrations in St. Petersburg, Russia. Orthodox Christians there braved freezing temperatures across the country to immerse themselves in ice holes in rivers and lakes to celebrate the religious holiday. To Orthodox believers, water blessed by a priest on Epiphany has miraculous powers, a belief harking back to Christ’s baptism in the Jordan River. Jumping into the water is optional, but is a popular ritual among the faithful.  (Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty Images)

A flying gull is seen as the sun rises over the Swiss Alps in Lausanne, Switzerland.  (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Images)

Relatives of one of the Chinese U.N. peacekeepers killed during the earthquake in Haiti walk with his portrait during a ceremony at the airport. The bodies of all eight Chinese peacekeepers killed in the collapse of the United Nations building in Haiti arrived in the Chinese capital a week after the quake.  (Ng Han Guan / Associated Press)

Carrying a pizza, Andy Dotson, 46, makes his way over a mound of mud more than 6 feet high in front of his home at 785 Skyland Drive in Sierra Madre after crews stopped clearing mud from the area. Dotson, who has lived there for 17 years, said he had to walk down the hill because police stopped the pizza delivery from going into the mud-filled neighborhood.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

King penguins walk on the snow-covered road at Asahiyama Zoo . The animals take the stroll every day during the winter.  (Junko Kimura / Getty Images)

A supporter of Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich listens during a campaign rally at Ukraine’s central election commission. The election commission released a partial vote count today showing Yanukovich and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on course to battle for the presidency in a runoff next month.  (Alexander Zemlianichenko / Associated Press)

Britain’s Prince William shares a traditional Maori greeting, known as the hongi, with Kahu Ropata during a visit to an avian reserve on Kapiti Island. The 27-year-old prince’s three-day visit to New Zealand was his first official trip overseas on behalf of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth.  (Brendon O’Hagan / AFP / Getty Images)

Kevin Ochoa, 3, left, his sister Angie, 8, and mother, Edith, get a great view from their apartment window of the 25th annual Kingdom Day Parade honoring the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The parade was held on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

Andy Dotson watches mud and debris flow down the street in front of his home in the 700 block of Skyland Drive in Sierra Madre. A flood warning has been issued for burn areas because of heavy rain.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Sebastian Pinera celebrates with his wife, Cecilia Morel, right, after winning Chile’s presidency. The right-wing billionaire defeated former President Eduardo Frei in a runoff election.  (Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty Images)

Pakistani soldiers take part in an exercise near Multan. The army, along with other forces, is engaging the Taliban along the border with Afghanistan.  (Khalid Tanveer / Associated Press)

Justine Henin hits a return to fellow Belgian Kirsten Flipkens, whom she defeated, 6-4, 6-3, on Monday in the Australian Open. The victory enabled Henin, who won seven Grand Slam singles titles before retiring 20 months ago and is in the tournament as a wild-card entry, to advance to a match against fifth-seeded Elena Dementieva,  (Rick Rycroft / Associated Press)

Afghan security forces gather at the scene of an attack in central Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban militants struck the heart of the Afghan government in Kabul, prompting fierce gun battles after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the presidential palace.  (Ahmad Massoud / Associated Press)

Flowers are left at the tomb of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, on his national holiday in Atlanta. The slain civil rights leader would have been 81 years old.  (Erik S. Lesser / EPA)

A driver clears his windshield during a snowfall in Budapest, Hungary. Heavy morning snow caused problems for motorists throughout the country.  (Bela Szandelszky / Associated Press)

Displaced Haitians whose homes were either destroyed or too unsafe to return to wake up on the street in Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of last week’s earthquake. Survivors live outside for fear of unstable buildings and aftershocks.  (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)

Supporters of Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Martha Coakley hold signs as a worker clears snow from the street in front of the Hynes Auditorium prior to a Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast in Boston. Coakley is campaigning on the day before the special election for the U.S. Senate seat of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.  (Elise Amendola / Associated Press)

Japanese cranes are seen in a snow-covered field at the Tsurui village in the Akan district of Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan. About 900 Japanese cranes (Grus japonensis), also known as tanchos, inhabit the Kushiro Marshland, an area of nearly 27,000 hectares.  (Koichi Kamoshida / Getty Images)

A protester wraps a protest banner on his face with the words ‘Let the people judge’ during an anti-corruption protest in Jakarta as the parliament conducts an investigation on the government bailout of Bank Century. The demonstrators denounced the government’s decision to pump some $730 million (U.S.) into the failing Bank Century in 2008; the bank has been linked to a string of damaging corruption allegations. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has denied allegations that some of the money went to his political patrons and to charitable organizations that subsequently backed his 2009 election campaign.  (Bay Ismoyo / AFP / Getty Images)

Russian Orthodox pilgrims emerge themselves in a tub of water from the Jordan Valley as they take part in a baptism during the Orthodox Christian Epiphany ceremony in Kasser el-Yahud, outside the West Bank town of Jericho, believed to be the place where tradition says John the Baptist baptized Jesus Christ. Several thousand Orthodox Christians flocked to the Jordan River site for baptisms under a rainy sky. Israel does not allow the pilgrims to enter the Jordan River water but provides tubs filled with water from the Jordan River for baptisms and for the pilgrims to take back home.  (Jim Hollander / EPA)