The Week in Pictures

Penguins, decked out for the season, take a walk at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, Japan, southwest of Tokyo.  (Itsuo Inouye / Associated Press)

Riot police detain a protester on the anniversary of a teenager’s death at the hands of police in central Athens. Clashes broke out across Greece as marchers commemorated the event, which had sparked the country’s worst riots in decades.  (Orestis Panagiotou / EPA)

A wakeboarder in a Santa Claus suit jumps on a lake in Hamburg, Germany.  (Philipp Guelland / AFP/Getty Images)

A protester walks in front of burning trash during clashes in Athens on the anniversary of a teenager’s shooting death by police.  (Petros Giannakouris / Associated Press)

A giant globe on Copenhagen’s central square marks the United Nations Climate Conference, which started Monday.  (Mikkel Moeller Joergensen / AFP/Getty Images)

Real Madrid’s Alvaro Arbeloa attempts to head the ball as an opponent attempts to kick the ball away at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid.  (Alvaro Barrientos / Associated Press)

Fireworks explode over a floating Christmas tree lighted for the holiday season in Lagoa Lake in Rio de Janeiro.  (Felipe Dana / Associated Press)

Warsaw, the Polish capital, is lighted by a Christmas display.  (Czarek Sokolowski / Associated Press)

A world record is broken in Jakarta, Indonesia, for the most sky lanterns flown simultaneously. An organizer said that at least 10,000 lanterns were released.  (Dita Alangkara / Associated Press)

Members of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, patrol an area where a gun battle was fought with insurgents.  (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)

The New Zealand rugby team perform the Haka dance after it beat Samoa during the final of Dubai Rugby Sevens in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  (Kamran Jebreili / Associated Press)

USC tight end Anthony McCoy is upended by Arizona cornerback Trevin Wade in the third quarter at the Coliseum on Saturday. Arizona defeated USC, 21-17, in the final regular-season game for both teams.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Men dressed as a tin soldier and Santa give a Nazi salute during a white-supremacist event outside the Redneck Shop in Laurens, S.C. The American Nazi Party and the International Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held an annual Christmas party that was publicized as a family event.  (Richard Ellis / Getty Images)

Daimler employees protest the decision of the carmaker to move production of the Mercedes-Benz C-class sedans to Alabama. Daimler says jobs will be protected at the Sindelfingen plant, but workers have gone on strike.  (Lukas Barth / EPA)

Venezuelan authorities escort Walter Carapacci, an Italian citizen, during his deportation. Carapacci is wanted in Rome on charges of trafficking heroin and is accused of working with the Sicilian mafia to smuggle drugs to Europe and Africa. Carapacchi has been a fugitive since 2001 and lived illegally in Venezuela for years before being arrested last month, authorities said.  (Juan Barreto / AFP / Getty Images)

Reporters and others stand around director Roman Polanski’s “Milky Way” chalet. Polanski was released to his chalet on $4.5-million bail after spending about two months in a Swiss jail while fighting extradition to Los Angeles, where he faces charges in a child-sex case from the 1970s.  (Thomas Coex / AFP/Getty Images)

Afghan horsemen play buzkashi on the outskirts of Kabul. Buzkashi, which translates as “goat grabbing,” is the national sport of Afghanistan. The object of the game is to try to snatch an animal carcass -- usually a goat -- from the center of the playing field and carry it to the scoring area. The fiercely contested sport can sometimes last several days.  (Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)

South Africans watch big-screen projections of live music acts during the public fan festival held in conjunction with the 2010 FIFA World Cup final draw.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

Ring-tailed lemurs nibble dried fruits out of a Santa Claus boot at a zoo in Hamburg.  (Philipp Guelland / AFP / Getty Images)

Family members grieve over the casket of a slain journalist who was among 57 people killed in a Nov. 23 massacre. The massacre victims were on their way to file the certificate of candidate for Maguindanao governor; 30 journalists and their staff -- the highest number of reporters slain in a single attack anywhere in the world -- were also killed in the attack.  (Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA)

Peter O’Malley bends over to mark his ball as Kevin Stadler waits on the 13th green before play at the 2009 Australian Open at New South Wales Golf Club in Sydney before play in the second round was suspended because of high winds.  (Matt King / Getty Images)

Members of the All Jammu and Kashmir Handicapped Assn. shout anti-government slogans from an Indian police vehicle. They were detained during a protest to mark World Disability Day near the office of the United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Indian police detained nearly a dozen members of the association as they were trying to reach the U.N. office to hand over a memorandum highlighting their demands.  (Farooq Khan / EPA)

A Chinese family walks past a Christmas tree installed in front of an office building. Christmas continues to gain popularity in Chinese consumer culture.  (Feng Li / Getty Images)

Paraguayan riot policemen carry a dummy in an attempt to enter the place where Korean-born storekeeper Sung Pae Ling is hiding and keeping a 64-year-old Korean woman as a hostage, demanding $700,000 and the return of machinery allegedly in her hands.  (Norberto Duarte / AFP / Getty Images)

Employees hold “Portrait of a Young Woman Holding a Chain” by Dutch artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens at Sotheby’s auction house. The portrait of a young Spanish woman was painted in the early years of the artist’s Italian period. Bidding for the painting is expected to reach $6.7 million to $10 million when it is auctioned at the Sotheby’s sale of Old Master and British paintings Dec. 9.  (Shaun Curry / AFP / Getty Images)

A man dressed as Santa Claus receives his H1N1 flu vaccine during a dress rehearsal before a weekend performance in Budapest, Hungary. The H1N1 flu has officially reached epidemic proportions in Hungary with 16 people reported to have died from the virus and about 300 others hospitalized. The Hungarian government has issued recommendations for every Santa Claus impersonator to get vaccinated before they distribute presents to children at Christmas, or attend other meetings with children.  (Bela Szandelszky / Associated Press)

Supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych hold his party flags, with a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in the background, at a campaign rally in the Crimean town of Feodosiya, Ukraine, on Thursday. Yanukovych is a front-runner in Ukraine’s presidential race.  (Sergei Chuzavkov / Associated Press)

A promotional poster for NBC‘s “Heroes” is seen Thursday in New York. Comcast Corp. announced that it plans to buy a majority stake in NBC Universal in a deal valued at $30 billion that will give the nation’s largest cable TV operator control of the Peacock Network, an array of cable channels and a major movie studio.  (Mark Lennihan / Associated Press)

Bosnian forensic experts of the International Commission for Missing Persons search for remains at a mass grave site in the remote mountain area of the village of Zalazje near the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica on Thursday. Forensic experts started exhuming the 80th mass grave containing the remains of Bosnian Muslim civilians killed in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Amor Masovic, the head of the Institute for Missing People, said 100 bags with remains were taken from the grave and sent to a lab for a DNA analysis and identification.  (Amel Emric / Associated Press)

Children cheer as they pose for photographers before a FIFA Executive Committee meeting on Robben Island on Thursday. South African Oscar winner Charlize Theron and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and F.W. de Klerk will be among the star-studded cast attending Friday’s World Cup draw ceremony.  (Victor R. Caivano / Associated Press)

A man rows his boat through a flooded street Thursday where thousands of people have been affected by floods caused by heavy rainfall and the overflowing of a river in northeastern Argentina.  (Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press)

A Somali man who was injured in a suicide bomb attack Thursday during a university student graduation ceremony at a local hotel is helped by other graduating students. Eighteen people, including three government ministers, were killed in the attack.  (Mohadmed Dahir AFP / Getty Images)

The nose of Lexus’ LF-Ch concept hybrid vehicle gleams at the Los Angeles Auto Show.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles holds a torch at the start of a procession of priests and parishioners that marched from Our Lady Queen of Angels church to an area near the immigration holding center at the federal building downtown. The march was intended as a message of hope to the immigrant community.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

U.S. soldiers patrol in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan, the day after President Obama announced he would send 30,000 more troops to fight the Taliban. Full story  (Musadeq Sadeq / Associated Press)

Thousands of Baikal teals fly in formation over a lake in Gochang County, South Korea. The migratory ducks, which breed in central and eastern Siberia, winter in China, Japan and South Korea.  (YNA / EPA)

The Royal Navy’s newest warship, HMS Dauntless, enters her home port of Portsmouth, England, for the first time. The Type 45 destroyer was launched in January 2007 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has since been carrying out sea trials in Scottish waters.  (Chris Ison-pa / Associated Press)

A staff member at the Royal Academy of Arts in London takes a look at British artist Darren Almond’s “Tide,” a display of more than 550 digital clocks. The exhibit “Earth: Art of a Changing World” is open through Jan. 31, 2010.  (Andy Rain / EPA)

An Indian man carries a traditional wire fishing basket in Dubai, where the stock market fell sharply this week after the state-owned company Dubai World asked for more time to pay off debts. Full story  (Dan Kitwood / Getty Images)

Palestinian children alight from a truck as they arrive at school, which is held a tent because the Israeli government does not allow Palestinians to construct buildings in the area.  (Abed Al Hashlamoun / EPA)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish carpenters build the roof on a new synagogue. Synagogues are not included a government-imposed 10-month freeze on Jewish settlement building in the West Bank.  (Nati Shohat / EPA)

Members of a special security force are deployed to guard the Congress. Honduran lawmakers are scheduled to start discussing the reinstatement of deposed President Manuel Zelaya, until his term ends in January, in the latest twist in a five-month crisis.  (Orlando Sierra / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman walks down a staircase designed by Dutch artist Reem Koolhaas at the Ruhr Museum.  (Joerg Carstensen / EPA)

An activist holds a sign and a candle during a vigil on the eve of 25th anniversary of the industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, which killed about 4,000 people. According to the Indian government, at least 500,000 people were affected by the gas leak, and activists say thousands of children, born to parents directly exposed to the gas leak or poisoned by contaminated water, are suffering from cleft lips, missing palates or twisted limbs.  (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)

A demonstrator holds up a sign as Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepares to testify during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.  (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)

A thick fog briefly clears to reveal the Umbrian countryside.  (Luca Bruno / Associated Press)

Adam Chant, the son of Warrant Officer Darren Chant, grieves as his father’s coffin is carried out of the Guards Chapel at the Wellington Barracks after the soldier’s funeral in London. Warrant Officer Chant was killed Nov. 3 while serving in Afghanistan. He was one of five soldiers shot and killed by an Afghan policeman they were training at a police checkpoint.  (Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

Palestinians carry the body of Fatah militant Mohammed Kaloub during his funeral in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City. Kaloub’s vehicle exploded Monday night, killing him and injuring two others when explosives they were transporting accidentally blew up.  (Tara Todras-Whitehill / Associated Press)

Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy stand for the national anthem before a speech by President Barack Obama on the war in Afghanistan. In his address, he said he would swiftly deploy 30,000 more troops. Full story  (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)

President Barack Obama walks along the colonnade before leaving the White House for West Point to address the nation on the war in Afghanistan. Full story  (Tim Sloan / AFP/Getty Images)

Police officers take part in a protest outside the prime minister’s office, demanding payment of overdue wage-related benefits and objecting to cuts in the police force budget.  (Leszek Szymanski / EPA)

A pair of giant red shoes protrude from Harrods as the store opens its “Wicked Witch Of The East” display.  (Neil Mockford / Getty Images)

Women and children wait to get relief supplies. As temperatures in the country drop, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that more than 177,000 blankets, 60,000 plastic sheets and 620,000 items of warm clothing including shawls, sweaters, shoes and socks have been purchased and sent to UNHCR’s regional offices for distribution.  (S. Sabawoon / EPA)

A pedestrian walks in front of NBC Studios on 50th Street. General Electric is poised to buy Vivendi’s NBC Universal stake, clearing the way for GE to sell control of the company to Comcast.  (Michael Nagle / Getty Images)

Performers from Circus Oz portray kangaroos during a media event at Tumbalong Park.  (Greg Wood / AFP/Getty Images)

People light candles in the shape of a red ribbon, the symbol of the AIDS awareness campaign, during a rally to mark World AIDS Day.  (Achmad Ibrahim / Associated Press)

Activists wait for the beginning of a demonsration on World AIDS Day.  (Bulent Kilic / AFP/Getty Images)

On World AIDS Day, activists place white crosses bearing red ribbons at the Museumplein, turning it into a symbolic cemetery as part of the Stop AIDS Now campaign.  (Robert Vos / EPA)

Police investigate the scene where suspect Maurice Clemmons was shot and killed by a patrol officer. Clemmons was the subject of a massive manhunt after he allegedly killed four Lakewood, Wash., police officers in a suburban coffee shop.  (Stephen Brashear / Getty Images)

A man prays in the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Muslims across the world celebrate the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, which marks the end of the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  (Bulent Kilic / AFP/Getty Images)

As dawn approaches, a shopper walks beneath a canopy of holiday lights at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Holding oil lamps, Indian villagers surround an AIDS-ribbon symbol on the beach at Nalsarovar, in Gujarat state, on the eve of World AIDS Day.  (Sam Panthanky / AFP/Getty Images)

Applicants for the Chinese civil service wait outside an examination venue in Wuhan, Hubei province. More than 1 million applicants across the nation will try for 15,000 government vacancies.  (Shepherd Zhou / EPA)

A man shows off a sea bass that he caught with his bare hands in Venice’s St Mark’s Square where water levels reached more than 4 feet. Experts reported that the severity and frequency of floods is becoming worse due to silt deposits raising the floor of the lagoon and a rise in sea levels caused by global warming.  (Andrea Merola / EPA)

Egyptians take a sunset cruise along the Nile on the third day of Eid al-Adha.  (Amr Nabil / Associated Press)

A snow plow drives on the access road to the chalet of film director Roman Polanski in Gstaad, Switzerland. Polanski is expected to move from a Swiss jail this week to house arrest at the luxury chalet with a view of the Alps, where he will await a decision on his extradition to the United States. Read more  (Michel Euler / Associated Press)

A huge traffic jam can be seen on a highway near Cayenne due to the closure of the Larivot Bridge, the most important in French Guiana, a French territory in northern South America bordering Suriname and Brazil. The bridge has been closed for several days out of fears it may collapse.  (Jody Amiet / AFP / Getty Images)

A rider practices during a rehearsal of “Darshan,” the last performance directed by Bartabas, founder of the French equestrian theater Zingaro, on Nov. 27, 2009, in Fort d’Aubervilliers near Paris.  (Bertrand Guay / AFP / Getty Images)

Chinese 104-year-old twins, Cao Daqiao, right, and Cao Xiaoqiao talk in their Shandong province home. According to the Shanghai Guinness World Records, the sisters are the world’s oldest living twins.  (AFP/Getty Images)

People walk through floodwaters in St. Mark’s Square in Venice. Scientists reported that the severity and frequency of floods there is becoming worse due to silt deposits raising the floor of the lagoon and higher sea levels caused by global warming.  (Andrea Merola / EPA)

A police officer with a rifle stands on a Seattle neighborhood street near where officers had surrounded a home. They believed the alleged killer of four police officers was holed up in the house, but after they closed in, they found the house to be empty.  (Elaine Thompson / Associated Press)

Children perform during a dance contest sponsored by a diaper maker as part of a year-end sales promotion.  (Kim Jae-Hwan / AFP/Getty Images)

A woman stands by Christmas decorations at a shopping mall.  (Liu Jin / AFP/Getty Images)

A toddler doesn’t care for a monkey performing at a garden during the last day of the holy festival of Eid al-Adha, in Islamabad, Pakistan.  (Vincent Thian / Associated Press)

Baltazar Siqueiros opens up the gate on Angeles Crest Highway north of La Cañada Flintridge. The Station fire broke out near Angeles Crest Highway, around mile marker 29, and the highway had been closed ever since. The road reopened this morning but not as early as expected due to rock slides from high winds. Siqueiros is president of Baltazar Construction, which has been working on repairing roads that were damaged by the Station fire.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)