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The Week in Pictures

From a Chinese earthquake to the arrest of a leading lady, here's a look at what dominated the headlines this week

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The Week in Pictures

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  • Two Syrian women take a rest within a refugee camp in the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, Sunday. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

    Syria Turkey

  • Europe's Sergio Garcia shows the trophy to some fans after winning the Ryder Cup PGA golf tournament Sunday at the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Sergio Garcia

  • A visitor views a drawing by Turner Prize nominee artist Paul Noble at Tate Britain gallery in London, Monday. The $40,000 Turner Prize is presented to an artist under 50, living, working or born in Britain for an outstanding exhibition in the previous 12 months. The winner will be announced on Dec. 3, 2012. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

    Turner Prize

  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad listens to the Iranian national anthem at the start of a press conference in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday. Ahmadinejad blamed the steep drop in Iran's currency Tuesday to "psychological pressures" linked to Western sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  • Nataliya Magnitskaya, the mother of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky whose death in Moscow's Butyrka prison sparked an international outcry, is seen at the Tverskoy court in Moscow, Tuesday. The mother of a whistle-blowing Russian lawyer is calling for a new inquiry into his death. (AP Photo/ Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Nataliya Magnitskaya

  • Swimmers start in the men's 100-meter backstroke at the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Stephen Hindley)

    FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup

  • Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine looks toward the outfield during their 10-2 loss to the New York Yankees in their baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Monday. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

    Boston Red Sox

  • A Somali youth pulls a donkey-drawn water cart past sacks of charcoal while a convoy of Kenyan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) passes by, in Kismayo, southern Somalia, Tuesday. (AP Photo/AU-UN IST, Stuart Price)

    Somali youth

  • Cast members from "Jersey Shore," from left, Sammi "Sweetheart" Giancola, Jenni "JWOWW" Farley and Deena Cortese, pose for a portrait in New York. The final season of the MTV reality season premieres on Thursday. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Invision/AP)

    Jersey Shore

  • While millions turned on their televisions to watch the 90-minute debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama on Wednesday, a smaller but highly engaged subset took to social networks to discuss and score the debate as it unspooled in real time -- and as it involved Mitt's opinion on Big Bird. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

    Big Bird

  • This booking photo provided by the Wood County sheriff shows actress Daryl Hannah after her arrest in Winnsboro, Texas, Thursday. Hannah has been arrested along with a 78-year-old northeast Texas landowner while protesting construction of a pipeline designed to bring crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. (AP Photo/Wood County Sheriff)

    Daryl Hannah

  • Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney boards his campaign plane at Weyers Cave-Shenandoah Valley Airport in Weyers Cave, Va., Friday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Mitt Romney

  • Rescuers search for victims where a landslide occurred in Yiliang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Thursday. Eighteen primary school students have been confirmed dead in the landslide Thursday in quake-hit Yunnan Province. (Xinhua/Yuan Zhengxiong) (hdt)

    China's Yunnan Province

  • The Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters seen reflected in a shop window in Moscow on Thursday. U.S. prosecutors allege that naturalized U.S. citizen Alexander Fishenko and six others "engaged in a surreptitious and systematic conspiracy" to obtain highly regulated technology from U.S. makers and sold them to Russian authorities. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Russian Foreign Ministry

  • A Bahraini man holds up a sign calling for the release of human rights activist Nabeel Rajab during the funeral procession for Rajab's elderly mother in Manama, Bahrain, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

    Bahrain

  • President Barack Obama looks over to a group of supporters after walking offstage at a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Thursday, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Obama

  • The flagship of Argentina's navy, the A.R.A. Libertad, sits docked at the port of Tema, outside Accra, Ghana, where it is being held by a judge answering a complaint from a U.S. hedge fund, Friday. (AP Photo/ Christian Thompson)

    A.R.A. Libertad

  • U.S. performer Lady Gaga arrives at the Versace atelier in Milan, Italy, Monday. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

    Lady Gaga

  • French President Francois Hollande addresses the press as he attends a Mediterranean summit of southern European and North African countries, in Valletta, Malta, Friday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

    Francois Hollande

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  • 10. "The Guardians" by Sarah Manguso: "Though Sarah Manguso’s 'The Guardians' is specifically about losing a dear friend to suicide, she pries open her intelligent heart to describe our strange, sad modern lives. I think about the small resonating moments of Manguso’s narrative every day." -- M. Rebekah Otto, The Rumpus

  • 9. "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter: "'Beautiful Ruins' leads my list because it's set on the coast of Italy in 1962 and Richard Burton makes an entirely convincing cameo appearance. What more could you want?" -- Maureen Corrigan, NPR's "Fresh Air"

  • 8. "Arcadia" by Lauren Groff: "'Arcadia' captures our painful nostalgia for an idyllic past we never really had." -- Ron Charles, Washington Post

  • 7. "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn: "When a young wife disappears on the morning of her fifth wedding anniversary, her husband becomes the automatic suspect in this compulsively readable thriller, which is as rich with sardonic humor and social satire as it is unexpected plot twists." -- Marjorie Kehe, Christian Science Monitor

  • 6. "How Should a Person Be" by Sheila Heti: "There was a reason this book was so talked about, and it’s because Heti has tapped into something great." -- Jason Diamond, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

  • 4. TIE "NW" by Zadie Smith and "Far From the Tree" by Andrew Solomon: "Zadie Smith’s 'NW' is going to enter the canon for the sheer audacity of the book’s project." -- Roxane Gay, New York Times "'Far From the Tree' by Andrew Solomon is, to my mind, a life-changing book, one that's capable of overturning long-standing ideas of identity, family and love." -- Laura Miller, Salon

  • 3. "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain: "'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' says a lot about where we are today," says Marjorie Kehe of the Christian Science Monitor. "Pretty much the whole point of that novel," adds Time's Lev Grossman.

  • 2. "Bring Up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel: "Even more accomplished than the preceding novel in this sequence, 'Wolf Hall,' Mantel's new installment in the fictionalized life of Thomas Cromwell -- master secretary and chief fixer to Henry VIII -- is a high-wire act, a feat of novelistic derring-do." -- Laura Miller, Salon

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