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Week in photos: Feb. 18-22

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Children react as a carnivorous theropod known as the Australovenator dinosaur — from Australia’s Erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo — walks through crowds along the Southbank, in London. AP
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A model displays an Autumn/Winter design by Francis Montesinos during Madrid’s Fashion Week. AP
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Hindu holy men are seen before (top) and after (bottom) they had their heads and faces shaved as part of an initiation ritual where they were to become Naga Sadhus, or naked holy men, at the Maha Kumbh Festival at Sangam in Allahabad, India. AP
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Women bathe in mud in a presentation for the inauguration of the National Meeting of Rural Women, in Brasilia, Brazil. AP
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A worker wheels a used tire for recycling in a factory in the village of Gaber, western Bulgaria. AFP/Getty Images
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Jim Dravage and his son Jimmy play a game of ice hockey at Frances Slocum State Park in Wyoming, Pa. AP
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A model prepares backstage before the Vivienne Westwood Red Label show during London Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2013/14 at the Saatchi Gallery. Getty Images
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The Golden Bear award for Best Film is held by winner Calin Peter Netzer for the film “Pozitia Copilului” (Child’s Pose) at the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin. Reuters
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Black poplars are pictured at Fuente Vaqueros, near Granada. AFP/Getty Images
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The Central Stadium for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics is seen through the window of a derelict house in Sochi, Russia. AFP/Getty Images
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The sun sets behind a group of windmills in Straberg, western Germany. AFP/Getty Images
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A worker (clearly unworried about the growing dinosaur threat on the Jersey Shore) cleans debris from the storm-wrecked Funtown Pier in Seaside Heights, NJ. Getty Images
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A Palestinian cleans a cross-border tunnel in Rafah, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. Gaza’s Hamas government and local smugglers accused Egypt Tuesday of flooding the tunnels with sewage in order to halt a thriving smuggling trade. AP
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A camel braves the snowy Frankfurt, Germany, afternoon in its enclosure at the the Frankfurt Zoological Garden. AFP/Getty Images
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A man looks for help as he’s detained by police during a protest against high electricity prices in Sofia, Bulgaria. The rallies prompted Prime Minister Boiko Borisov to promise lower prices and punishment for foreign-owned power companies. Reuters
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Milwaukee Brewers players run a drill during a spring training workout in Phoenix. AP
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Military personnel and firefighters work to extinguish a fire at the site of a fighter jet crash in Sanaa, Yemen, that killed at least six people. Reuters
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Snow blankets the countryside near Rosa Khutor, one of the 2014 Winter Olympics venues, in the Black Sea city of Sochi, Russia. AFP/Getty Images
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A Shi’ite Muslim girl attends a protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against Saturday’s bombing in Quetta’s Shi’ite Muslim area. Pakistani Shi’ites furious over the attack, which killed 89, demanded protection from hardline Sunni groups. Reuters
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Security guard Du Jinqian makes snow birds on the steps in front of a bank where he works in Hangzhou, China. Getty Images
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Olympian Oscar Pistorius's sister Aimee and brother Carl
Olympian Oscar Pistorius’s sister Aimee and brother Carl Reuters
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Masked Palestinians use a car seat as a shield during a protest outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah. AP
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Lee Lazernick, right, snaps a photo of his mother Thelma, who he asked to pose with a customer’s rifle at All Around Pizza and Deli in Virginia Beach, Va. Customers at the pizza joint wearing weapons or who bring their concealed weapons permit are offered a 15 percent discount. AP
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Yankees Francisco Cervelli, manager Joe Girardi, Bobby Wilson and J.R. Murphy watch a pop up soar overhead during a spring-training workout in in Tampa, Fla. AP
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A Palestinian protester throws a stone toward Israeli soldiers during clashes at a checkpoint near Nablus, West Bank, in support of hunger-striking prisoners being held in Israeli jails. Reuters
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A North Korean nurse comforts a budding fellow traveler at a nursery inside Pyongyang Maternity Hospital. AP
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Rangers right wing Ryan Callahan plasters Canadiens defenseman Francis Bouillon into the boards during the second period at Madison Square Garden. Paul J. Bereswill
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At least it has a big trunk… A domesticated elephant transports passengers alongside a public bus in New Delhi, India. AP
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After a monthlong strike crumbled to pressure from pols and union members alike, buses and drivers at the Atlantic Express Transportation Corp. in Queens resume their work getting New York City kids to school. Getty Images
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Schalke’s Jermaine Jones wags his tounge at the crowd after tying up his squad’s UEFA Champions League match with Galatasaray in Istanbul. EPA
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A mother and baby at Chimp Haven in Keithville, La., a federal sanctuary for chimpanzees retired from federal labs. Associated Press
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Coling Farrell rides a horse past the Brooklyn Bridge while filming a scene for his new flick, ‘Winter’s Tale,’ in Brooklyn. Ramey Photo
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A Syrian is in tears following another explosion in war-torn Aleppo. The UN says at least 70,000 have been killed in the near two-year conflict. AFP/Getty Images
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A worker gets as close as he could ever want to the face of Jennifer Love Hewitt on a mural touting her new show, ‘The Client List,’ in Manhattan. Doug Meszler / Splash News
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A model rehearses before the Ashish show at London’s fashion week. Getty Images
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Steaua Bucharest players Iasmin Latovlevici (left) and Raul Rusescu (right) pounce on a coach after Latovlevici’s goal against Ajax Amsterdam during their Europa League match in Bucharest. Reuters
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Italy’s Etna volcano seen erupting from NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite. Reuters
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A couple protests together outside Spain’s High Court as they wait for Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, CEO of state-rescued Spanish bank Bankia, to testify in Madrid. Reuters
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Practice balls sit in snow on the practice range before the first round of the Match Play Championship golf tournament resumed in Marana, Ariz. AP
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Models display creations from the Just Cavalli fall-winter collection at a fashion week show in Milan, Italy. AFP/Getty Images
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Wounded Syrians sit at the site of a powerful car bomb that exploded near the headquarters of Syria’s ruling Baath party in the center of Damascus. AFP/Getty Images
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A yet-unamed, week-old baby Asian elephant snacks on some hay in the Budapest, Hungary, zoo. Reuters
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Pvt. Cristiana Alvarez attends a combat conditioning exercise with fellow Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Though women have only recently officially been given combat duties, the skills training has been required of them since 1997. Getty Images
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Yoga practitioners perform exercises during the inaugural session of the World Yoga Conference in Jammu, India. AFP/Getty Images
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Women show their hands, painted with Yemen’s national colors, during a rally in Sanaa marking the first anniversary of the ouster of autocratic leader Ali Abdullah Saleh. AFP/Getty Images
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Members of the Peasant Women Movement take part in a demonstration in Brasilia, Brazil, to mark the closing of their national meeting. AFP/Getty Images
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Orioles right fielder Steve Pearce leaps to rob teammate Xavier Avery of a home run during at spring training in Sarasota, Fla. AP