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Week in photos - March 22, 2013

 

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Flag Day 2013

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Cities around the country celebrated Flag Day on June 14, 2013.

Week in photos - June 14, 2013

Week in photos - June 14, 2013

A look at some of the photos from the past week's headlines

Oakland Zoo gets two new camels

Oakland Zoo gets two new camels

The Oakland Zoo gave media a behind the scenes look at their two new dromedary (Arabian) camels.

 
  • Danielle Forgione and her daughter, Olivia, 3, play with Petey, the family's pet pig, on Thursday, March 21, 2013, in the Queens borough of New York. Forgione is scrambling to sell her second-floor apartment after a neighbor complained about 1-year-old Petey the pig to the co-op board. In November and December she was issued city animal violations and in January was told by both the city and her management office that she needed to get rid of the pig. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
  • A Colombian fan kisses an image of baby Jesus before the start of a 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match with Bolivia in Barranquilla, Colombia, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
  • An indigenous man shouts to police, clutching a flute from inside the old Indian Museum where a fire burns behind in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, March 22, 2013. Police in riot gear invaded an old Indian museum complex Friday and pulled out a few dozen indigenous people who for months resisted eviction from the building, which will be razed as part of World Cup preparations next to the legendary Maracana football stadium. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
  • A rugby fan smiles during the first day of Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament in Hong Kong, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
  • Bethanie Mattek-Sands returns to Maria Kirilenko, of Russia, during the Sony Open tennis tournament, Friday, March 22, 2013, in Key Biscayne, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
  • Grant Jampolsky, of Squaw Valley, Calif., crashes during the men's super-G race at the U.S. Alpine Ski Championships in Squaw Valley, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
  • Two young girls play house, mimicking their mothers in burqas cut to their size, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
  • In this March 3, 2013 photo, Adela Cabrera, 19, poses for a picture on a horse at Agua Dulce beach in Lima, Peru. For five Peruvian soles or about two U.S. dollars beachgoers can pose for a photo to record their day at the beach, in front of backdrops of their choice that include forest landscapes, exotic beach scenes or atop horses. While Lima's elite spends its summer weekends in gate beach enclaves south of the Peruvian capital, the working class jams by the thousands on a single municipal beach of grayish-brown sands and gentle waves. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
  • A Bangladeshi boy looks inside a car vandalized by activists of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP) during a general strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, March 18, 2013. Opposition activists in Bangladesh's capital detonated several homemade bombs and torched at least one bus during a general strike on Monday, as the country's political unrest continued. No injuries were reported in the blasts. The BNP and its 17 partners were enforcing Monday's shutdown, which is aimed at securing the release of 154 opposition leaders and activists detained this month. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
  • Britain's Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, reacts as she is presented a badge that says
  • A police officer stands by a protest banner outside of parliament before a meeting in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, March 18, 2013. Cyprus' president is briefing lawmakers ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote on a controversial levy on bank deposits that the cash-strapped country's creditors have demanded in exchange for a euro10 billion ($13 billion) rescue package.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
  • Defense attorney Walter Madison, right, holds his client, 16-year-old Ma'Lik Richmond, second from right, while defense attorney Adam Nemann, left, sits with his client Trent Mays, foreground, 17, as Judge Thomas Lipps pronounces them both delinquent on rape and other charges after their trial in juvenile court in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Mays and Richmond were accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August 2012. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Pool)
  • Members of the Seton Hill University's women's lacrosse team attend a memorial mass in St. Joseph Chapel on the school's Greensburg, Pa., campus Sunday, March 17, 2013. Women's lacrosse coach Kristina Quigley and the tour bus driver were killed when their tour bus carrying three coaches and members of the lacrosse team when the bus crashed at about 9 a.m., turnpike spokeswoman Renee Colborn said. It's not clear what caused the crash, but state police were investigating, said Megan Silverstram of the Cumberland County public safety department. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
  • In this photo released by official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech for the Iranian New Year, Nowruz, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Nowruz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year on the Iranian calendar. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
  • A man holds up his dog, dressed as a baby sitting in a stroller, close to a statue of Saint Lazarus, patron of the sick, during a ceremony at a church in the Monimbo neighborhood of Masaya, Nicaragua, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Catholics in Nicaragua associate Saint Lazarus with dogs, and dress up their pets for a Catholic blessing, asking the saint to keep their dogs healthy. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
  • The aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky early Sunday, March 17, 2013, above the Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox church in Kenai, Alaska. The bright display at times filled the sky. (AP Photo/M. Scott Moon)
  • A Puerto Rican fan waves his country's flag as he watches a live telecast of the World Baseball Classic championship game between Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic in San Juan, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The Dominican Republic beat Puerto Rico 3-0 on Tuesday night at AT&T Park in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
  • South Bend firefighters work at the scene, Monday, March 18, 2013, where a plane crashed on Sunday, near the South Bend Regional Airport, in South Bend, Ind. The plane damaged homes, as well as causing injuries. (AP Photo/Joe Raymond)
  • Depositors try to use automated teller machines of Shinhan Bank while the bank's computer networks are paralyzed at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Computer networks at two major South Korean banks and three top TV broadcasters went into shutdown mode en masse Wednesday, paralyzing bank machines across the country and prompting speculation of a cyberattack by North Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
  • President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tour the Iron Dome Battery defense system, at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
  • Pope Francis waves as he arrives in St. Peter's Square for his inauguration Mass at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
  • Officers of the New York City police Emergency Services Unit, covered in mud and dirt, walk to a waiting bus to warm up after securing the rescue of a construction worker trapped underground at an MTA subway construction project in New York early Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The worker, trapped for several hours, was lifted from underground with the assistance of the New York police and fire departments. Fire officials say he is awake and conscious and is being evaluated at a local hospital. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
 
 

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