This Week in Photos, Feb 11-17, 2011
A birthday celebration for the Prophet Mohammad, New York Fashion Week, Cairo returns to normal and more.
Participants whirl cans filled with burning wood chips during a celebration ahead of "Jeongwol Daeboreum" or Great Full Moon, at a park in Seoul.
A man carries a bunch of balloons as he walks down Union Street on Valentine's Day in San Francisco, CA.
A man drinks tea outside a make-shift tea-stall near a construction site in Mumbai.
Italian judge Paolo Dondina (L) stands with the Best in Show winner Hickory, a Scottish Deerhound and his handler Angela Lloyd during the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York.
A pretzel vendor sells his goods in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. The army finished closing demonstrators' camps in the square as life in the city has begun to slowly return to normal following 18 days of protests.
Egyptians cross the Nile River after leaving Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.
Aquarists Kathryn O'Connor and James Oliver take part in a blessing on Valentine's Day in the Ocean Reef Display in the London Aquarium.
A model walks the runway at the Pamella Roland Fall 2011 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Studio at Lincoln Center in New York City.
<i>The Runner</i>, by artist Faith Bebbington is part of the Liverpool Discovers Art Celebration. Liverpool Discovers has been commissioned by Liverpool City Council and funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The art trail tells the greatest stories seldom told about Liverpool.
Devotees portraying God Madhavnarayan prepare themselves for the Madhav Narayan Mela in Thecho near Kathmandu.
Young people take part in a pillow fight outside Madrid's Royal Palace. The pillow fight was a flash mob event organized by "MadridMobs" with the only rules of having fun and cleaning up after themselves.
Tibetan Buddhists carry a giant thangka, a Tibetan religious silk painting with embroidery to be displayed on a hill near Langmu Temple in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province.
Recently bloomed snowdrops adorn the formal gardens of the National Trust's 17th-century country mansion Kingston Lacy in Wimborne Minster, England.
A boy poses on a motorbike during a religious procession to mark Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi or birthday celebrations of Prophet Mohammad, in the old quarters of Delhi.