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Here are 10 photos from the past week in news.

I-5 Skagit River Bridge collapses

I-5 Skagit River Bridge collapses

17-year cicadas emerge in eastern U.S.

17-year cicadas emerge in eastern U.S.

Cicadas emerge to mate, in huge numbers, at the end of their life cycle.

 
  • Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, parents of Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh and San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh, kiss during a news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, for NFL football's Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. Their sons will be coaching against each other in the Super Bowl on Sunday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
  • A man dressed as a 'Momotxorro' a natural entity made of bones and sheep skin walks to take part on a Carnival in the Basque village of Zubieta, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013.In one of the most ancient carnivals in Europa , dating from before the Roman empire, companies of Joaldunak (cowbells) and Momotxorros parade between the villages of Zubieta and Ituren.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
  • A Hayward Gallery employee poses for photographers inside artist Anthony McCall's installation entitled 'You and I, Horizontal' at the gallery in London, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The exhibition 'Light Show' featuring 25 illuminated installations and sculptures by artists from the 1960's to the present, will run from Jan. 30, 2013 to April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
  • In this Jan. 8, 2013 photo, a plane approaches the Mariscal Sucre airport for landing, seen through a glass wall inside the Eloy Alfaro school in Quito, Ecuador. Landing at Ecuador's capital can be a white-knuckle affair. High altitude, a cramped runway and towering, active volcanos nearby make it one of Latin America's most challenging aiports for pilots. And the constant roar of the planes has tormented those on the ground as well. Mariscal Sucre airport sat amid cornfields when it was christened in 1960, and on Feb. 19, the airport will close and a new airport will be built in an agricultural setting 12 miles (20 kilometers) northeast of the capital. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center left, welcomes Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center right, for talks at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
  • In this Jan. 27, 2013 photo, an assistant of snake handler Saintilus Resilus holds a doll as part of a snake performance during pre-Lenten Carnival celebrations in Petionville, Haiti. Resilus has used snakes and other animals to earn a little money since at least 1974. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
  • Members of the Phoenix Police Department SWAT team prepare to enter the home of a suspected gunman who opened fire at a Phoenix office building, wounding three people, one of them critically, and setting off a manhunt that led police to surround his house for several hours before they discovered he wasn't there, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Phoenix. Authorities believe there was only one shooter, but have not identified him or a possible motive for the shooting. They don't believe the midmorning shooting at the complex was a random act.(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
  • Relatives hold photographs of Pamella Lopes, who died in a nightclub fire, as they stand a public square near the nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. A fast-moving fire roared through the crowded, windowless Kiss nightclub in this southern Brazilian city early Sunday, killing more than 230 people. Many of the victims were under 20 years old, including some minors. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
  • Cleopatra Pendelton cries as she talks with Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy before a news conference seeking help from the public in solving the murder of Pendelton's daughter Hadiya Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Chicago. Hadiya, 15, who had performed in President Barack Obama's inauguration festivities, was killed in a Chicago park as she talked with friends by a gunman who apparently was not even aiming at her. The city's 42nd slaying is part of Chicago's bloodiest January in more than a decade, following on the heels of 2012, which ended with more than 500 homicides for the first time since 2008. It also comes at a time when Obama, spurred by the Connecticut elementary school massacre in December, is actively pushing for tougher gun laws. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
  • Firearms Training Unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson of the Connecticut State Police holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting, for a demonstration during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee reviewing gun laws, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. The parents of children killed in the Newtown school shooting called for better enforcement of gun laws Monday at the legislative hearing. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
  • Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the 13th hole during the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at the Torrey Pines Golf Course Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
  • French chef Paul Bocuse tastes a dish during the
  • National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence. Supporters and opponents of stricter gun control measures face off at a hearing on what lawmakers should do to curb gun violence in the wake of last month's shooting rampage in Newtown, Conn. that killed 20 schoolchildren. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
  • Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously injured in the mass shooting that killed six people in Tucson, Ariz. two years ago, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, for a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence. She is escorted by her husband, Mark Kelly, right, a retired astronaut, Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., second from left, and the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, center,is accompanied with his son George H. Ryan Jr., left, as he arrives at a halfway house in Chicago Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, after serving five-plus years in federal prison on corruption charges. The 78-year-old Ryan began serving his 6 1/2-year sentence in November 2007 in Oxford, Wis., and was released from another prison in Terra Haute, Ind., to enter the halfway house under a work-release program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
  • Hindu holy men of the Juna Akhara sect participate in rituals that is believed to rid them of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God as a 'Naga' or naked holy men, after taking dips at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna River during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, early Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. The significance of nakedness is that they will not have any worldly ties to material belongings, even something as simple as clothes. This ritual that transforms selected holy men to Naga can only be done at the Kumbh festival. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)
  • A newly initiated Hindu monk of the Shri Panchayati Naya Udasin
  • An Indian man walks on a road leading to an illuminated Raisina hill, which houses India's most important ministries and presidential palace, after the Beating Retreat ceremony, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, which marks the end of republic day celebrations. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
  • Exiled Tibetans shout slogans as they take part in a rally during the Tibetan People's Solidarity Campaign in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. The four-day campaign that began Wednesday is being held to express solidarity with Tibetans inside Tibet and to raise awareness and seek international support for Tibet. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
  • Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., emerges after a unanimous vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving him to become America's next top diplomat, replacing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Kerry, who has served on the Foreign Relations panel for 28 years and led the committee for the past four, is expected to be swiftly confirmed by the whole Senate later Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • Malian soldiers guard suspected Islamist extremists after throwing them in the back of the army truck in Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Four suspects were arrested after being found by a youth militia calling themselves the
  • Egyptian riot police march during clashes with protesters, not seen, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Egypt's liberal opposition leader called for a broad national dialogue with the Islamist government, all political factions and the powerful military on Wednesday, aimed at stopping the country's eruption of political violence that has left scores dead in the past week. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
  • A Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldier uses his mobile phone while another watches as they stand near a gas mask, bottom left, in their newly-dug trench at an outpost a mile away from a hill top ceased by Myanmar's government troops, five miles away from the town of Laiza, in Northern Myanmar's Kachin-controlled region, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. A key outpost protecting the headquarters of ethnic Kachin rebels in northern Myanmar has fallen to government troops, a spokesman for the guerrilla group said Sunday. The Kachin Independence Army spokesman said the hillside outpost at Hka Ya Bhum, near the guerrilla group's headquarters in the town of Laiza, was overrun Saturday afternoon. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
  • A passenger plane lands as workers dismantle an abandoned aircraft at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Nigerian aviation officials have begun trying to dismantle and remove the hulks of abandoned airplanes from airports around the country. Officials say there are least 65 abandoned planes at the country's airports, with at least 13 at Lagos' international airport. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
  • A Capitol police honor guard stand watch over the casket containing the body of former Virginia Supreme Court Chief Justice, Harry Carrico which lies in state in the rotunda of the State Capitok Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 in Richmond, Va. A funeral for Carrico who died on Sunday is planned for Thursday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
  • US surfer Garrett McNanamara rides a wave during a surf session at Praia do Norte beach in Nazare, Portugal, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. McNamara is said to have broken his own world record for the largest wave surfed when he caught a wave reported to be around 100ft, off the coast of Nazare on Monday. If the claims are verified, it will mean that McNamara, who was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA, but whose family moved to Hawaii's North Shore when he was aged 11, has beaten his previous record, which was also set at Nazare, of 23.77 meters (78 feet) in November 2011. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
  • Arun Kumar, a senior product manager for BlackBerry, shows off the new BlackBerry Z10 during the global launch of the company's new smartphones in Toronto on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. BlackBerry is promising a speedy browser, a superb typing experience and the ability to keep work and personal identities separate on the same phone, the fruit of a crucial, long-overdue makeover for the company. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)
  • An elderly man walks holding an umbrella, during a snowfall, back dropped by a large poster in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • Actor Dick Van Dyke poses backstage with his life achievement award at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
  • An Ivory Coast supporter strikes a pose on the stands ahead of their African Cup of Nations group D match with Algeria Wednesday, Jan. 30 2013, at the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Rustenburg, South Africa. The two other teams in group D are Tunisia and Togo. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
 

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