Sunday 23 February 2014

Picture of the week - 10 Pics


Pamela Rauseo, 37, performs CPR on her nephew, five-month-old Sebastian de la Cruz, after pulling her SUV over on the side of the road along the west bound lane on Florida state road 836 just east of 57th Avenue around 2:30pm on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. At right is Lucila Godoy who stopped her car to assist in the rescue. The baby was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he is reportedly doing ok.



Opposition supporter Genesis Carmona is evacuated on a motorcycle after being shot in the head during a protest against Nicolas Maduro's government in Valencia, some 100 miles (160 km) from Caracas on February 18, 2014. A 22-year-old student from the central city of Valencia died on Wednesday after being shot in the head during an anti-government demonstration, her family said. She was the fifth victim of the unrest in Venezuela. Genesis Carmona, who was studying tourism and was also a local beauty queen, was shot during a demonstration in Valencia on Tuesday, relatives told. Picture taken on February 18, 2014



Wreckage of a boat is stuck in the solidified salts and sands at Lake Oroumieh, northwestern Iran. Oroumieh, one of the biggest saltwater lakes on Earth, has shrunk more than 80 percent to 1,000 square kilometers (nearly 400 square miles) in the past decade. Experts fear the lake - famous in years past as a tourist spot and a favorite stopping point for migrating flamingos, pelicans and gulls - could disappear within two years if nothing is done. 


London Olympic gold medalist Ryota Murata of Japan, right, delivers a punch to Carlos Nascimento of Brazil during their middleweight eight-round boxing match, in Macau, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Murata won the competition. 


Pope Francis salutes the crowd as he arrives for his general audience in St Peter's square at the Vatican on February 19, 2014.



NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory image in extreme ultraviolet light shows an active region of the sun's coronal loops taken over about a two-day period, from February 8 - 10, 2014 and released on February 18, 2014. Coronal loops are found around sunspots and in active regions. These structures are associated with the closed magnetic field lines that connect magnetic regions on the solar surface. Many coronal loops last for days or weeks, but most change quite rapidly.
 

Lithuania's Isabella Tobias (top) and Deividas Stagniunas compete during the figure skating ice dance free dance program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, February 17, 2014. 


Britain's Prince Charles, wearing a traditional Saudi attire, attends the traditional Saudi dance, known as 'Arda', which was performed during Janadriya culture festival at Der'iya in Riyadh, February 18, 2014.



NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Clint Bowyer (15) gets airborne over NASCAR Sprint Cup driver David Ragan (34) during race two ofthe Budweiser Duel at Daytona International Speedway.


An anti-government student protects herself during clashes with the National Guard within a protest in Caracas on February 16, 2014. Supporters and opponents of Venezuela's leftist government have been staging rival rallies amid spiraling discontent at the country's stubborn inflation and shortage of basic goods. Two anti-government protesters and a pro-Maduro demonstrator died in a rally last week. 


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