The Week in Pictures

A supporter of Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu holds a Turkish national flag during celebrations in the Turkish-controlled area of Nicosia. Final results indicate that hard-liner Eroglu has won a key Turkish Cypriot leadership election with 50.38% of the vote. Cyprus was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.  (Petros Karadjias / Associated Press)

The No.11 GSR Kawasaki French team driven by Julien Da Costa leads during the 33rd 24-hour Le Mans motorcycle race at Le Mans race track.  (David Vincent / Associated Press)

Boston Red Sox’s Adrian Beltre makes the catch in foul territory on a pop foul by Tampa Bay Rays’ Carl Crawford in the ninth inning of a baseball game. The Rays won, 7-1.  (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)

Polish soldiers carry the coffin of President Lech Kaczynski in Krakow. Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, were interred at the historic Wawel cathedral after a majestic funeral Mass at St. Mary’s cathedral.
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Lakers center Pau Gasol is fouled by Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook in the second half of Game 1 of the Western Conference playoffs at Staples Center.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant drives past the Thunder’s Nick Collison in Game 1 of the Western Conference playoffs at Staples Center. The Lakers won, 87-79.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

A Bangladeshi labourer prepares bitumen for road surfacing in Dhaka on April 17, 2010. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations on the planet with 40 percent of its 144 million people living on less than 1 dollar a day.   (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

A plane takes off from Fiumicino airport near Rome.  (Filippo Monteforte / AFP/Getty Images)

The rector of Wawel Cathedral, Prelate Zdzislaw Sochacki, stands near the tomb prepared for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, inside Wawel Castle in Krakow, Poland. Kaczynski and his wife, who were killed in a plane crash in Russia along with 94 others, are to be buried Sunday after a state funeral.  (Petr David Josek / Associated Press)

Nebraska mascot Lil’ Red bounces on his head prior to the annual Red-White spring college football game, in Lincoln, Neb., Saturday, April 17, 2010. The Red team beat the White team 21-16.  (Nati Harnik / AP Photo)

A Palestinian woman, her hands symbolically chained, takes part in a protest on Prisoner Day in the West Bank town of Ramallah, a day after a detainee died in Israeli custody. About 1,000 people marched through the center of the city as rallies and vigils were held in various Palestinian towns on the annual day of support for thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.  (Abbas Momani / AFP/Getty Images)

Violence erupted at a white supremacists rally downtown when a man antagonized the crowd and was followed down the street by an angry mob of people who beat him with protest signs.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Mourners lay candles in memory of late President Lech Kaczynski at the ‘Katyn 1940’ memorial near Castle Wawel in Krakow. Kaczynski, his wife Maria and leading members of the Polish military and government were killed when the presidential plane crashed while attempting to land at Smolensk, Russia.
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Ash spews from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in southern Iceland. Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland on Friday as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars.


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A Palestinian youth hurls a stone at Israeli soldiers during a protest against the Israeli barrier in the village of Bilin, west of Ramallah, in the West Bank. Israel says the network of steel and concrete walls, fences and barbed wire is needed for security while the Palestinians view it as a land grab that undermines their promised state.  (Abbas Momani / AFP / Getty Images)

A construction worker prepares steel reinforcement bars at a building site in Manila. The Philippines will avoid recession and post growth of at least 0.8% this year, despite the effects of the global economic slump and a series of deadly storms, the government said recently.  (Noel Celis / AFP/Getty Images)

Buddhist monks help search for survivors at a collapsed apartment block in Jiegu, in China’s remote Yushu county, which is home to mostly ethnic Tibetans. The toll in the deadly magnitude 6.9 earthquake rose to 1,144.
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Commuters pass a tree uprooted by a cyclone in Rayganj, India, about 250 miles north of Kolkata. Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruits, water and tarpaulins to the victims of the cyclone, which killed at least 119 people in northeastern India and demolished ten of thousands of mud huts.  (Anupam Nath / Associated Press)

A designer prepares a hair creation during Cristal Angel, the 9th International Festival of Hairdresser Art, in Kiev, Ukraine.  (Sergei Supinsky / AFP/Getty Images)

People attend the Thingyan water festival in Yangon, Myanmar. Participants believe the celebration washes away sins before they welcome the Myanmar New Year.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Workers prepare a podium at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw for a ceremony to be held in memory of 96 people who died in an air crash on April 10. President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, Maria, and many of the country’s military and state elite perished in thick fog when their aircraft attempted to land in Russia. World leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, are to travel here to pay last respects to Kaczynski at his funeral April 18.  (Janek Skarzynski / AFP/Getty Images)

The Philadelphia Phillies’ Jayson Werth dives but cannot come up with a single by the Washington Nationals’ Ian Desmond in the ninth inning of a baseball game. Washington, won 7-5.  (Matt Slocum / Associated Press)

A Greenpeace activist dressed as an orangutan is thrown out of the annual general meeting of Nestle shareholders. Protesters criticized Nestle’s use of palm oil, which they said is destroying Indonesian forests and pushing species such as orangutans from their native habitats.  (Tanja Demarmels / AFP/Getty Images)

People looking to refinance mortgage loans stand in line as they wait to enter the “Save the Dream” tour stop by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. The tour, which makes stops around the United States, has hundreds of counselors on hand from different mortgage companies to help people try to restructure their mortgages and avoid foreclosure.  (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

A 4-day-old baby Indian elephant calf sits beside another elephant at Whipsnade Zoo. The as yet unnamed baby weighs in at 273 pounds.  (Matt Dunham / Associated Press)

An airline passenger sleeps on his luggage at Gatwick Airport after flights across Europe were canceled because of a cloud of ash from the eruption of a volcano in Iceland.  (Carl Court / AFP/Getty Images)

Smoke and steam spew from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, which has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising flood waters. Volcanic ash drifting across the Atlantic disrupted air traffic across Europe and beyond.  (Brynjar Gaudi / Associated Press)

Members of the Ailey II dance company perform a scene during a dress rehearsal of “Echoes” at the Joyce Theater in New York.  (Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images)

David De Jesus of the Kansas City Royals slides in safely to home after Detroit Tigers catcher Gerald Laird dropped the ball in a game at Comerica Park in Detroit. The Royals won, 7-3.  (Paul Sancya / Associated Press)

Brenda Althouse watches as a convoy bearing steel beams salvaged from the World Trade Center passes through Coatesville, Pa. Officials hope to use the steel as the centerpiece of an industrial history museum.  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

People stop at the base of a giant cross at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw where candles have been left in memory of the 96 people, including the country’s president and other prominent leaders, who died in an air crash on April 10.  (Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty Images)

A stylist works on a creation for the opening of the IX International Festival of Hairdresser Art in Kiev.  (Serei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images)

A goatherd and his tribe cross parched earth on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India, amid a heat wave.  (Mahesh Kumar A. / Associated Press)

Brenda Althouse, of Pomeroy, Pa., reacts as a convoy bearing steel beams salvaged from the World Trade Center arrives in Coatesville, Pa., Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Officials hope to use the steel as the centerpiece of an industrial history museum. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

Clouds refract light over the western outskirts of Jerusalem. The colors appeared for about 20 minutes at noon before fading away.  (Jim Hollander / EPA)

A Sikh devotee takes a dip in the holy water tank as he pays his respects at the Golden Temple on Wednesday during Baisakhi festival marking the Punjabi and Nepalese New Year and the beginning of the harvest season.  (Narinder Nanu AFP / Getty Images)

A view of the cave of Clamouse, illuminated by a new lighting system. The cave is the first in Europe to be completely equipped with an environmental LED lighting system. Power consumption is 10 times less than that of ordinary lighting. The lights are also water resistant because the cave is damp and often floods.  (Guillaume Horcajeulo / EPA)

A worker at an apartment construction site Wednesday. The Indonesian finance minister said that Indonesia’s economic growth in the first quarter of 2010 was expected to reach 5.7%, a media report said.  (Tatan Syuflana / Associated Press)

Indonesian residents stand on an overturned police vehicle during a clash over the fate of a cemetery near Tanjung Priok port Thursday. Bloody clashes broke out in Indonesia’s capital between scores of demonstrators and security forces over the demolition of the cemetery of an Islamic scholar, witnesses and officials said. Security forces used tear gas and pepper bullets against demonstrators armed with machetes and sticks in more than two hours of clashes around the cemetery in northern Jakarta’s Koja area.  (Mast Irham / EPA)

The silhouette of a visitor is seen as a light installation is reflected in a pond during the Luminale light festival Wednesday night. Various light, sound and media installations are on display around the city during the festival, which runs through Friday.  (Boris Roessler / EPA)

Siam, a 50-year-old orangutan, is one of the world’s oldest apes in captivity. He lives at the Duisburg Zoo, suffers from Parkinson’s disease and became a father in January.  (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

A Mexican sailor cleans the figurehead of the sailboat Cuauhtemoc in the port of Valparaiso, Chile. Eleven nations have been racing sailboats for 64 days.  (Martin Bernetti / AFP/Getty Images)

A family of Hindus bathes in the Ganges, a ritual marking the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar, India.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

Hideki Matsui of the Los Angeles Angels gets a warm greeting from some of his former New York Yankees teammates as he receives his 2009 World Series ring before Tuesday’s game at Yankee Stadium.  (Kathy Willens / Associated Press)

A Sikh boy takes part in a gathering marking World Turban Day at the Gurdwara Pipli Sahib shrine in Amritsar, India.  (Narinder Nanu / AFP/Getty Images)

Indian Central Industrial Security Force members march during a parade on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India.  (Mahesh Kumar A. / Associated Press)

David Luiz of Benfica, left, and Liedson of Sporting vie for the ball during a Portuguese League soccer match at Luz Stadium in Lisbon.  (Armando Franca / Associated Press)

Rescuers gather near the wreckage of a Boeing 737 operated by Indonesia’s Merpati Nusantara Airlines after it skidded off the runway at Rendani airport in Papua province. The plane, carrying about 100 people, skidded off the end of an airport runway while landing in heavy rain and slid into a small canal. About 20 people were injured, most with bruises and some with broken bones, authorities said.  (Abdul Muin / Associated Press)

Egyptian opposition activists clash with police during a demonstration against the nation’s Emergency Law, in place since 1981. The emergency law allows detention without charge for long periods and searches without warrants and is strongly criticized by Egypt’s opposition as well as human rights groups. Despite announcements by Egypt’s government to lift the emergency law, it is still in place.  (Khaled El-Fiqi / EPA)

Hindu holy men relax after taking a holy dip in Ganges River during the Kumbh Mela festival.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

Anti-government demonstrators celebrate the Thai New Year outside a shopping mall. Demonstrators have occupied upscale parts of the capital as they call for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to step down and call new elections.  (Vincent Yu / Associated Press)

Sudanese refugee children hold their writing boards while attending a local school in the refugee camp of Zamzam in Darfur, Sudan. National elections are underway in the nation.  (Nasser Nasser / Associated Press)

Academy Award winner Russell Crowe, left, director Ron Howard, center, and producer Brian Grazer talk before a ceremony in which Crowe was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has received three consecutive Academy Award nominations for best actor, for his performances in “The Insider” (1999), “Gladiator “(2000) and “A Beautiful Mind” (2001), taking home an Oscar for “Gladiator.”  (Katie Falkenberg / For The Times)

An LAPD officer stands vigil near the casket of Robert J. Cottle at the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters downtown. A member of the LAPD SWAT unit, Cottle, 45, of Yorba Linda was also a sergeant major in the Marine Reserves and was killed last month in Afghanistan when his armored vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. He is survived by his wife and child.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

LAPD and Marine Corps honor guards watch over the flag-draped casket of Robert J. Cottle at the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters downtown. A member of the LAPD SWAT unit, Cottle, 45, of Yorba Linda was also a sergeant major in the Marine Reserves and was killed last month in Afghanistan when his armored vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. He is survived by his wife and child.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Texas Rangers catcher Taylor Teagarden, right, crashes to the ground after a collision at the plate with the Cleveland Indians’ Travis Hafner in the sixth inning of a baseball game. Hafner tried to score from second on a single by Matt LaPorta but was tagged out by Teagarden.  (Mark Duncan / Associated Press)

Members of the military unfurl a United States flag before the Philadelphia Phillies’ home opener baseball game against the Washington Nationals. The Phillies won, 7-4.  (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)

Palestinian children play amid the rubble of a building destroyed in January 2009 during Israel’s military offensive in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.  (Bernat Armangue / Associated Press)

An anti-government “Red Shirt” demonstrator stands in front of a line of riot policemen during a protest outside Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s residence.  (Christophe Archambault / AFP/Getty Images)

A Sudanese voter fills out her ballot at a polling station at the refugee camp of Zamzam on the outskirts of El Fasher during the second day of general elections in Sudan. The elections will determine whether President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir wins another term despite his indictment on war crimes charges.  (Nasser Nasser / Associated Press)