The Week in Pictures

A man lights candles in St. Sava temple, in Belgrade. The Serbian Orthodox Church announced that its head Patriarch Pavle died Sunday, in Belgrade. He was 95. Pavle, who led the church from 1990, took over the church leadership just as the collapse of communism ended years of state policy of repressing religion. Full story  (Darko Vojinovic / Associated Press)

German swimmer Paul Biedermann celebrates after winning the men’s 200-meter freestyle final at the FINA short-course swimming World Cup in Berlin on Sunday. He broke his own world record, finishing with a time 1 minute, 39 seconds, beating out a record he set a year ago at the same meet.  (Gero Breloer / Associated Press)

Jacksonville linebacker Justin Durant tackles New York Jets tight end Dustin Keller in Sunday’s game. The Jaguars held off the Jets, 24-22, and move to 5-4.  (Bill Kostroun / Associated Press)

Kristina Gorshkova hangs off of her partner, Vitali Butikov, during a free dance performance at the Skate America championships.  (Mike Groll / Associated Press)

Fifty-year-old elephant Champa is prepared to go out with her caretaker in the western Indian city of Ahmadabad. About 15 elephants are housed and looked after at Shri Jagannathji Temple here.  (Sam Panthanky / AFP / Getty Images)

The Italian aerobatics team Frecce Tricolori (“Tricolor Arrows”) perform above a mosque on the first day of the Dubai Airshow. The airshow opened with more exhibitors and visitors expected than in previous years but amid doubts by analysts that there will be massive orders from the Persian Gulf region’s oil-rich monarchies.  (Karim Sahib / AFP / Getty Images)

Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews dives for the end zone after picking up a fumble by Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo in the second half at Lambeau Field. The ball was eventually placed on the Cowboy’s three-yard line and led to the Packers second touchdown of the game. Green Bay scored 14 points in the fourth quarter to beat the Cowboys, 17-7.  (Morry Gash / Associated Press)

President Obama bows as he shakes hands with Japanese Emperor Akihito; Empress Michiko looks on at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Obama promised the U.S. would remain engaged in eastern Asia’s future. Full story  (Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images)

A helicopter carrying German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg takes off from the German base in Mazar-i-Sharif and is headed to Kunduz. The newly-appointed minister is in Afghanistan to meet with President Hamid Karzai, his Afghan counterpart Abdul Rahim Wardak and NATO officials. Germany has more than 4,300 troops in Afghanistan serving with NATO forces. Zu Guttenberg said Germany will be sending 120 more troops.  (Michael Kappeler / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman visits her family grave at a cemetery for the ethnic Hazara community, who are mostly Shiite Muslims, in Kabul. Afghans often visit graves of loved ones on Friday, the Muslim Sabbath to offer prayers.  (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

The NASA mission that plunged a rocket into the lunar surface last month detected about 25 gallons of water in the form of vapor and ice -- an indicator that there could be enough water on the moon for a self-sustaining human colony.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Some of the 50 international artists working Friday in subzero temperatures on ice and snow sculptures for the Dutch Ice Sculpture Festival. The sculptures fit the theme of “classic stories” and can be seen from Nov. 21 until Feb. 28.  (Koen Suyk / AFP / Getty Images)

A Palestinian youth hurls a stone at Israeli forces during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier Friday. Israeli troops at the Gaza border shot and killed an 18-year-old they said was planning to carry out an attack, but Palestinian witnesses said he was hunting birds.  (Abbas Momani AFP / Getty Images)

Roma children play in the village of Raducaneni, about 186 miles northeast of Bucharest, on Friday. The number of Romanians at risk of falling into poverty will increase by 1.7% over 2008, to 7.4%, with the children facing higher risks, according to the World Bank.  (Daniel Mihailescu AFP / Getty Images)

The sun shines through leaves next to a crucifix on a hill in the southern German town of Kinding on Friday.  (Joerg Koch AFP / Getty Images)

A view of some of the model cars in Lebanese car racing champion Nabil Karam’s are on exhibit at Zouk Mesbeh, just east of Beirut. The 22,222-car collection was officially recognized as setting a new world record by Guinness World Records, surpassing Argentinean Sergio Goldvarg who in July 2009 set a record with 12,000 models cars.  (Nabil Mounzer / EPA)

A woman walks along a snow-covered footpath in Beijing. Residents of the Chinese capital awoke to another morning of snowfall, the third this month. The first snowfall on Nov. 1 was the earliest to hit Beijing in 22 years and was artificially induced by Chinese scientists, who did it again Nov. 10, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with nature.  (Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Images)

Paramore, a rock band known for the striking presence of singer Hayley Williams, performs at the Hollywood Palladium.  (Liz O. Baylen / Los Angeles Times)

Japan’s Maiko Yamaguchi spikes a volleyball against Thailand’s defenders during the women’s World Grand Champions Cup.  (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP/Getty Images)

An Indonesian anti-corruption demonstrator stands at a construction site outside the headquarters of the embattled Corruption Eradication Commission to dramatize support for the panel.  (Romeo Gacad / AFP / Getty Images)

An East Timorese with a painted face participates in a memorial for a 1991 massacre in which pro-independence activists were gunned down by Indonesian troops. East Timor gained its independence on May 20, 2002, following 24 years of Indonesian rule.  (Mario Jonny Dos Santos / AFP/Getty Images)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shakes hands with high school students during a visit to a flood-stricken high school. Clinton is visiting the Philippines for talks on fighting Islamic militants.  (Ted Aljibe / AFP/Getty Images)

As the setting sun casts a warm glow, Virginia Ramirez of Claremont puts her hands on the name of her high school sweetheart, Vietnam veteran Ricky Nelson, at the columbarium at Riverside National Cemetery.  (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

South Koreans walk under colorful lanterns as they participate in the Seoul Lantern Festival 2009 at the Cheonggyecheon, a city-center stream. The festival marks the “2010-12 Visit Korea Years,” showcases 1,000 lanterns and runs through November 15.  (Chung Sung-jun / Getty Images)

Visitors to the Reichstag, the building in Berlin that houses the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, are reflected in the mirror panels of the roof as lawmakers speak below.  (Philipp Guelland / AFP / Getty Images)

Soldiers show their respects during a memorial service for those killed in last week’s shooting rampage at Ft. Hood.  (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times)

John Sam watches a Veterans Day parade pass through downtown Killeen, Texas. The city is still coping with the aftermath of the shooting rampage at nearby Ft. Hood.  (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

LAPD officers arrest a man in a Spider-Man outfit after he allegedly assaulted a man on the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood on Wednesday. The victim refused to press charges, but the Spider-Man character was still booked on outstanding misdemeanor charges.  (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

The Swiss celebrate the start of the carnival season in Zurich, Switzerland.  (Steffen Schmidt / EPA)

The outside of the British Cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan, as British military and embassy personnel held a Remembrance Day ceremony inside.  (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

U.S. ambassador Kristie Kenney and former Philippine President Fidel Ramos pay tribute to fallen American and Filipino veterans who fought during World War II in commemoration of Veterans Day at Manila’s American Cemetery and Memorial.  (Jay Directo / AFP/Getty Images)

The Grave of the Unknown Warrior is filled with poppies after an Armistice Day service at Westminster Abbey in London. The service was held to commemorate the passing of the generation who fought in World War I. The last remaining British veterans of the war, William Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, all died this year.  (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)

President Obama observes a moment of silence after placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

A photographer takes a close-up photo of Tiger Woods’ ball during the Pro-Am for the Australian Masters tournament at the Kingston Heath golf course. It is Woods’ first tournament in Australia in 11 years.  (William West / AFP/Getty Images)

A beachgoer passes a sculpture of a gas pump on Tamarama Beach that is part of the Sculpture by the Sea outdoor art exhibition in Sydney. The 13th annual exhibition, which ends this weekend, has seen more than 500,000 visitors and features over 100 pieces from artists all over the world.  (Ryan Pierse / Getty Images)

Khadija, 40, sits in her cave early in the morning in Bamian. The cave dwellers here are all Hazaras, who are religiously and ethnically distinct and survivors of intense persecution by the Taliban. Bamian, about 85 miles west of Kabul, stands in a deep, green and lush valley stretching through central Afghanistan. The town was home to two ancient Buddha statues before they were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.  (Shah Marai / AFP / Getty Images)

A Palestinian man walks near a spray-painted image of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City a day before the fifth anniversary of Arafat’s death Tuesday. Five years after the leader died, the Palestinians are fiercely divided and no closer to their dream of statehood, with the divergent paths of peaceful negotiations and armed struggle both at an apparent impasse.  (Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty Images)

A man carrying a red umbrella walks down a snowy sidewalk Tuesday during the city’s first major snowfall. Russians are gearing up for the long winter ahead.  (Kirill Kudryavtsev AFP / Getty Images)

A model showcases a creation from a young Chinese designer during the final show of China Fashion Week in Beijing on Monday. The biannual fashion extravaganza showcases China’s fashion houses and their latest collections to buyers all over the world.  (Li Xin AFP / Getty Images)

A funeral cortege carrying the bodies of six British servicemen killed in Afghanistan travels toward an Oxford mortuary Tuesday.  (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)

An Israeli soldier recites his morning prayers on his tank after a nightlong training exercise near the Israeli city of Katzrin in the Golan Heights. Speaking in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday, Syrian President Bashar Assad said if the “occupied Syrian Golan” is not returned by Israel through peaceful means, his country would retake the strategic plateau by force.  (David Silverman / Getty Images)

A resident navigates boulders in the area, now a wasteland of fallen boulders, thigh-deep mud and broken little houses after severe flooding and landslides that left at least 136 dead across El Salvador. Rescue workers and desperate residents were digging amid the debris for signs of those people still missing.  (Yuri Cortez / AFP/Getty Images)

Men team up to clear debris after a landslide in Verapaz, El Salvador, following heavy rain. Full story  (Claudia Barrientos / AFP / Getty Images)

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 09: Honoree-singer Rihanna speaks onstage Monday at the 2009 Women of the Year hosted by Glamour Magazine at Carnegie Hall in New York City.  (Larry Busacca / Getty Images)

Cricket fans attend a match between Pakistan and New Zealand during an international competition.  (Karim Sahib / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman walks through a park during a rainy autumn day in the Bulgarian capital.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP/Getty Images)