The Week in Pictures

Rescue workers clear debris so they can extricate the body of a quake victim in the village of Jumanak near Pariaman, Indonesia. Last week’s 7.6 quake has left hundreds dead and many more missing.  (Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images)

Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler dives over Lions linebacker Julian Peterson for a touchdown in the first quarter of Sunday’s matchup at Soldier Field in Chicago. Despite being tied at half time, Chicago scored 27 points in the second half to pull away from Detroit and win, 48-24.  (Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press)

Colorado Rockies second baseman Eric Young Jr. fails to hold onto a ball hit at him by Doug Mientkiewicz during the seventh inning at Dodger Stadium on Sunday. The Dodgers close out the season by defeating the Rockies, 5-3, and with a record of 95-67 entering the playoffs.  (Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)

Father Christian Mondor, left, and Father Matt Munoz, center, lead the Blessing of the Waves, an annual interfaith event celebrating the ocean’s strength. This year, a moment of silence was observed for the victims of recent natural disasters in Southeast Asia. Full story  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Derrick Mason catches a touchdown pass and comes down awkwardly in the first quarter against the New England Patriots. Baltimore lost for the first time Sunday, to New England, 27-21. Mason had seven catches for 88 yards receiving.  (Winslow Townson / Associated Press)

A Swiss disaster relief team searches for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed school in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, after a powerful earthquake.  (How Hwee Young / EPA)

About 500 nude models pose for U.S. artist and photographer Spencer Tunick in a vineyard. The environmental group Greenpeace commissioned Tunick to take pictures of nude volunteers in the vineyard to call attention to the issue of global warming and its effect on wine production.  (Francois Mori / Associated Press)

A man looks at damaged houses as he walks amid debris in a flooded street Saturday after torrential rains in Sicily. Anger grew as the death toll rose to 21 after the rains, with some 30 still missing.  (Mario Laporta / AFP / Getty Images)

Palestinian children in war-ravaged Ezzbed Abed Rabbo neighborhood, in the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalia, bathe outside their destroyed home Saturday. The United States welcomed a decision to delay a vote on a U.N. report that condemned an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and raised concerns about war crimes committed by both sides.  (Mahmud Hams / AFP / Getty Images)

Chinese performers dance along the newly rebuilt Qianmen shopping street in Beijing after its official opening in advance of China’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of the communist revolution.  (Andy Wong / Associated Press)

Aleksandra Wozniak of Canada serves during a first-round match in the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo.  (Toru Yamanaka / AFP/Getty Images)

A boy does tricks on his bicycle in the middle of a vacant street in central Jerusalem as Jews celebrate Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, which religious Jews spend in prayer. Traffic is not allowed throughout Israel during the day so children and secular Jews get around the city on bicycles.  (Yossi Zamir / EPA)

Residents displaced by floods trudge toward higher ground in Pasig City, Philippines, near Manila. Tropical storm Ketsana dropped the heaviest rain in more than 40 years on Manila and neighboring areas and flooding has displaced nearly half a million people, killing scores.  (Mike Clarke / AFP / Getty Images)

Ethiopian Orthodox priests, monks and children sing and dance together as thousands of pilgrims hold candles in the background during a procession for the celebration of Meskel, or Finding of the True Cross, in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. More than 100,000 people gather to celebrate Meskel, one of the most holy days in the Ethiopian Orthodox religion that celebrates the legendary finding of the cross on which Christ was crucified. The True Cross is said to have been discovered in 326 by St. Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine I during a pilgrimage she made to Jerusalem.  (Stephen Morrison / EPA)

Displaced residents scramble for relief goods being distributed in suburban Marikina, Philippines, outside Manila, after escaping the area’s worst flooding in more than four decades.  (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)

A Jordanian woman’s eyelashes peek through her veil.  (Mohammad abu Ghosh / Associated Press)

Pope Benedict XVI is framed by an airplane window as he arrives at Ciampino Airport, near Rome, at the end of a pilgrimage to the Czech Republic.  (Alessandra Tarantino / Associated Press)

A Turkish demonstrator attends a protest against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in central Istanbul. IMF and World Bank representatives are to meet in the city next week.  (Mustafa Ozer / AFP/Getty Images)

A U.S. Marine guards an Afghan found to be carrying nearly 50 pounds of opium on his motorcycle in the western province of Farah. A search of the man’s house yielded about 200 pounds of opium.  (David Furst / AFP/Getty Images)

A dog trained in anti-drug operations jumps through a ring of fire during a visit by U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, not seen, to a school in Bogota.  (Fernando Vergara / Associated Press)

Andrew Garcia, a 4-month-old killed in an apparent gang-related shooting early Sunday, is remembered at a vigil on the site where he was shot. The family was returning home from a baptismal party. Two suspects are at large.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

Clippers’ forward Al Thornton poses for the camera at the team’s media day at Staples Center on Monday. The Clippers finished last season with 19 wins.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Military police stand in formation in front of the Tiananmen Gate after a flag-lowering ceremony. Chinese authorities plan to lock down the Tiananmen Square area Wednesday for Thursday’s National Day celebrations.  (Vincent Thian / Associated Press)

Filipinos take their meals, undeterred by the floodwaters still submerging their feet at a restaurant in suburban Pasig, east of Manila. Typhoon Ketsana caused the capital’s worst flooding in more than four decades, killing at least 284 people, before moving on to Vietnam.  (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)

Audience members watch as a new monument to victims of the World War II Babi Yar massacre is unveiled at a ceremony in Kiev, Ukraine. More than 33,700 Jews were rounded up and shot at Babi Yar -- or Old Woman’s Ravine -- over 48 hours beginning on Sept. 29, 1941. In the ensuing months, the ravine was filled with an estimated 100,000 bodies, among them those of non-Jewish Kiev residents and Red Army prisoners of the Nazis.  (Efrem Lukatsky / Associated Press)

The moon silhouettes Marine Cpl. Adam Boland of Troy, Mo., as he waits to leave on a night patrol from a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan.  (Brennan Linsley / Associated Press)

South Korean soldiers flip simultaneously as they demonstrate their martial arts skills during a rehearsal for Thursday’s observance of the 61st anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryong military headquarters.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celebrates an open air Mass in Stara Boleslav, about 22 miles north of Prague, Czech Republic. Tens of thousands of people gathered to join the pope in a Mass celebrating St. Wenceslas, the Czech patron saint.  (Max Rossi / EPA)

Police arrested 17 people during a protest demanding healthcare for all at a health insurance office building in New York.  (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)

Catcher Mike Napoli and first baseman Kendry Morales are the first to greet Ervin Santana, who shut out Texas on seven hits as the Angels clinched the AL West title.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Russian Su-27 fighter jets take part in joint military exercises at a firing range near Baranovichi in Belarus. The Russian-Belarusian exercises involve more than 12,000 troops as well as more than 200 tanks, 470 armored vehicles and more than 100 aircraft.  (Viktor Drachev / AFP/Getty Images)

Employees of auction house Lyon and Turnbull pose with photographs of Marilyn Monroe, “Marilyn Monroe in Stripe Scarf (The Last Sitting),” left, by Bert Stern and “Marilyn Monroe with white cocktail dress” by Harold Lloyd, in central London. The works are up for auction Friday.  (Shaun Currry / AFP/Getty Images)

LAPD officers try to keep the peace as advocates for the homeless and indigent residents of skid row briefly shut down a Los Angeles City Council meeting today, shouting frustration at the slow pace of the meeting. The activist group handed out citations to City Hall workers to protest the way the city issues citations to the homeless as part of the Safer Cities Initiative. They also decried civil rights abuses and financial waste. Full story  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Devotees dressed as Hindu gods Ram and Hanuman are among those gathering in the eastern city of Bhubaneswar for a festival.  (Biswaranjan Rout / Associated Press)

A model shows off a creation from the Anteprima women’s spring/summer 2010 fashion collection.  (Antonio Calanni / Associated Press)

A main road in downtown Fagatogo, American Samoa, is underwater after tsunami waves swept ashore. They were generated by an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 to 8.3. More than 20 people died in the U.S. territory, and more than 60 were killed in the neighboring island nation of Samoa.  (Fili Sagapolutele / Associated Press)

Residents wade through a flooded street in the town of Binan, Laguna province, south of Manila on Wednesday. Terrified Philippine flood survivors fled their homes amid warnings that a looming typhoon may add to the devastation of a killer storm that affected over 2.2 million people.  (Ted Aljibe / AFP / Getty Images)

A Vietnamese woman paddles past flooded homes at Dien Nam commune in the central province of Quang Nam, following heavy rain brought by typhoon Ketsana on Wednesday. Stranded and soaked Vietnamese were marooned on rooftops waiting to be rescued as aid workers admitted that the scale of the flooding after Typhoon Ketsana was proving to be too much. The typhoon killed 55 people and left 11 missing when it slammed into into central Vietnam on Tuesday after leaving 246 dead in the Philippines, where it struck days before as a weaker tropical storm.  (Hoang Dinh Nam / AFP / Getty Images)

People dine by candlelight at a restaurant where power was lost after Typhoon Ketsana struck Wednesday.  (Chitose Suzuki / Associated Press)

Toppled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya watches the city from a window of the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa on Wednesday. Security forces detained 55 supporters of Zelaya in a dawn raid on a farm workers building where they had been camped out, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Scores of soldiers and police surround the National Institute of Agrarian Reform, which several hundred farm workers had been using as temporary housing in order to attend protests in the capital against the June 28 coup.  (Orlando Sierra / AFP / Getty Images)

‘Yes to Lisbon’ campaigners pose for photographers in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday. Irish people will go to the polls for a second referendum to decide the future of the Lisbon Treaty on Friday. If accepted, the Lisbon Treaty could finally come into effect eight years after European leaders launched a process aimed at making the European Union “more democratic, more transparent and more efficient,” attempting to streamline EU institutions. The Lisbon Treaty was rejected by Irish voters, who saw it as a threat to national sovereignty.  (Aidan Crawley / EPA)

Champion Nobuo Nashiro of Japan, left, lands a right against Mexican challenger Hugo Cazares during the WBA super flyweight title match on Wednesday. Nashiro drew the match and retained his champion belt.  (Jiji Press / AFP / Getty Images)

Relatives of Fatima Younis Zaq, a Palestinian prisoner held in an Israeli jail, celebrate at her home in Gaza City on Wednesday after receiving news of her upcoming release. Israel will free 20 Palestinian women, one of them Younis Zaq, from jail as early as Friday in exchange for a videotape from Hamas proving an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip since 2006 is alive  (Ali Ali / EPA)

A young girl looks shocked as she is vaccinated twice on Wednesday. About 4,000 children are being vaccinated against diseases such as tetanus and measles.  (Ed Oudenaarden / AFP/Getty Images)

Athletes compete in a preliminary round of the men’s individual foil at the World Fencing Championship in Antalya, Turkey.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP/Getty Images)

Work continues at the Soccer City Stadium south of Johannesburg. FIFA officials say stadiums being built for 2010 are near completion and preparations for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa are proceeding well.  (Denis Farrell / Associated Press)

U.S. Marines go on patrol in Nawa district in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province.  (Brennan Linsley / Associated Press)

A supporter of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is detained by riot police during a protest in the nation’s capital. Some of the business and political leaders who backed the June coup against Zelaya are considering reinstating him.  (Rodrigo Abd / Associated Press)

Residents clear mud from a vehicle in storm-ravaged Rizal province. Tropical Storm Ketsana left more than 200 people dead in the Philippines before roaring into Vietnam.  (Aaron Favila / Associated Press)

A crowned solitary eagle flies to its trainer before its release after undergoing a rehabilitation program at the Buenos Aires Zoo. As of 2004, there are fewer than 1,000 crowned solitary eagles, which are on the list of the most endangered species in South America, according to the Argentine zoo.  (Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)

Performers blindfolded to improve their coordination undergo last-minute rehearsals for the National Day celebration at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Tuesday. China will stage a huge military parade and pageant in Beijing Thursday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of communist China.  (AFP / Getty Images)

A fisherman runs from a wave breaking over the Kalk Bay harbor wall Thursday. As the Earth’s climate changes, sea levels rise and storms worsen, leading to greater risk of storm surges in coastal cities and more damage due to wave action. Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is currently hosting the 12-day United Nations Climate Change Talks.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

People look at an overflowing dam in Dindi, in Andhra Pradesh state Thursday. Torrential rains destroyed hundreds of homes and caused heavy flooding in southern India, killing at least 15 people and forcing thousands to flee to higher ground, an official said. The late monsoon flooding in the last two days also damaged roads and inundated rice crops over an area of nearly 120 square miles in Andhra Pradesh state.  (Mahesh Kumar A. / Associated Press)

Judges share a joke outside Westminster Abbey before a swearing-in ceremony Thursday for the country’s new Supreme Court judges, with hundreds of jurists in attendance.  (Andy Rain / EPA)

Turkish protesters wave flags during an anti-International Monetary Fund and World Bank protest Thursday. Earlier, a protester threw a shoe at IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn as he gave a speech to university students in Istanbul. Members of the IMF and World Bank will meet in Istanbul through Wednesday.  (Mustafa Ozer AFP/Getty Images)

Indonesians mourn after identifying a dead relative at a hospital in Padang, West Sumatra, on Thursday after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the area. Thousands of people were likely killed, the head of Indonesia’s Health Ministry crisis center said.  (Bay Ismoyo AFP/Getty Images)

A young boy rides on his father’s shoulders as they wade through the flooded streets at San Roque village, in Laguna province, 25 miles south of Manila on Thursday. A new typhoon gathered strength off the Philippines while nearly 700,000 people still sought help in badly stretched relief centers from massive flooding caused by one of the region’s most destructive storms in years.  (Wally Santana / Associated Press)

At a shopping mall in Beijing Thursday, a man watches a huge screen showing soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army marching. In the morning, tanks and other heavy weaponry rumbled across Beijing behind goose-stepping troops as China celebrated 60 years of communist rule with its biggest-ever military review -- a symbol of its rapidly expanding global might.  (Andy Wong / Associated Press)

Chinese People’s Liberation Army sailors march pass Tiananmen Square during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China on Thursday. The grand celebrations included a military parade and mass pageant of about 200,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square.  (Feng Li / Getty Images)

Valentine Mercardo holds his sleeping 8-month-old son, Steven, as they wait in a long line to receive new clothes, shoes and back-to-school supplies provided to thousands of needy children by the Fred Jordan Mission in Los Angeles. The annual event was established by Willie Jordan, who as a girl had to go to school barefoot.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Washington Capitals defenseman John Erskine and Boston Bruins winger Shawn Thornton scuffle on the ice in an opening night matchup between the two NHL teams. Washington won the game, 4-1, with Alexander Ovechkin scoring two goals and an assist for the Capitals.  (Elsa / Getty Images)

Hui Dian Mo, the cook at Capital Seafood in Monterey Park, displays a plate of beef chou and Asian noodles. At a news conference at the restaurant Thursday, state Sen. Leland Ye (D-San Francisco) called for a change in state regulations regarding the production of Asian noodles.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)

Fireworks light up the sky above Victoria Harbor to celebrate Chinese National Day in Hong Kong. Large crowds gathered on the waterfront to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.  (Ed Jones / AFP / Getty Images)

A polar bear has a rest in its enclosure at the Berlin zoo. In a neighboring enclosure, Giovanna and Knut, who became a worldwide media sensation as a cub in 2007, have been put together in the hope they will mate.  (Margarethe Wichert / AFP/Getty Images)

An Indonesian man prepares to spray water on a burning house in Padang, on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, after two powerful earthquakes struck the area. Many people remained trapped in collapsed buildings.  (Arif Sumbar / EPA)

South Korean T-50 supersonic planes fly in formation during the 61st anniversary of Armed Forces Day at the Gyeryong military headquarters in Gyeryong, South Korea.  (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)

Small boats rest on a lake in Bratislava, Slovakia.  (Samuel Kubani / AFP / Getty Images)

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi is hosed off in Bangalore, India, on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday also observed as the International Day of Nonviolence.  (Jagadeesh NV / EPA)

Germany’s Klaas Voget and Venezuela’s Ricardo Campello ride the waves at the 26th Windsurfing World Cup off Westerland, Germany.  (Carsten Rehder / EPA)

The Little Giantess of the French theatre company Royal de Luxe stands in front of Berlin’s City Hall (“Rotes Rathaus”) on the first day of the giant’s appearance in the German capital. From Oct. 1 to 4, the street theatre company is presenting an open-air theatre spectacle, with marionettes Little Giantess and Big Giant visiting various historical sites in Berlin, as part of celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  (David Gannon / AFP / Getty Images)

A mother kisses her child as her family goes on with their daily business amid floodwaters in Taytay township, Rizal province east of Manila, Philippines. Tropical storm Ketsana brought the worst flooding in metropolitan Manila and neighboring provinces in more than 40 years that left more than 250 people dead and dozens more missing. The Philippines is bracing for the super typhoon Parma, which is expected to hit the northern part of the country Saturday.  (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)

Rebels of the Dima Halam Daogah group, also known as the Black Widow group, hold red roses presented to them after laying down arms during a ceremony in Haflong, about 219 miles from Gauhati, India. More than 370 rebels of the DHD-Jewel group in the insurgency-riven state of Assam emerged from their jungle hide-outs and handed in their weapons to the police, said Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, Assam’s inspector general of police. The rebels are fighting for an independent homeland for the ethnic Dimasa tribes.  (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)

A man controls a ball as people gather to wait for the announcement by IOC members in Copenhagen of the host city for the 2016 Olympics, at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, represented in Copenhagen by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, delivered a passionate appeal for South America to be awarded the Olympics for the first time.  (Silvia Izquierdo / Associated Press)

Ratna Kurnia Sari, an Indonesian woman, is rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in the Sumatran city of Padang after a 7.6-magnitude quake toppled buildings in the area late on Sept. 30. Indonesian officials said it feared thousands had died in a major earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble with their bare hands in a race to find survivors.  (Roslan Rahman / AFP / Getty Images)

A newly released Palestinian prisoner prays at the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Nineteen Palestinian women prisoners were freed in a breakthrough swap for a video of soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been held by Gaza militants since 2006.  (Abbas Momani / AFP / Getty Images)

Schoolchildren place flowers and petals around a portrait of Mohandas K. Gandhi, marking his birth anniversary in Allahabad, India.  (Rajesh Kumar Singh / Associated Press)