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The Week in Pictures

From the U.S. elections to protests in Argentina, here's a look at what dominated the headlines this week

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  • Oregon running back Kenjon Barner (24) scores a touchdown as Southern California safety Jawanza Starling (29) attempts to make the stop during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Nov. 3, 2012, in Los Angeles. Oregon won 62-51. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)

    NCAA

  • Students salute as they sing their national anthem before classes begin in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, Monday. Classes resumed Monday in a sign of some return to normalcy after the passing of Hurricane Sandy, but more than 100 schools remain shuttered due to storm damage. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate)

    Cuba storm

  • Roger Federer of Switzerland arrives on court to play Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia during their ATP World Tour Finals singles tennis match at the O2 Arena in London, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

    Roger Federer

  • Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill Biden, and son Beau Biden, waves to members of the media after casting his ballot at Alexis I. duPont High School, Nov. 6, 2012, in Greenville, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

    Joe Biden

  • Reserve bank governor Gill Marcus displays bank notes bearing the image of former President Nelson Mandela, in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday. New South African banknotes featuring the image of former President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela are going into circulation. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

    Nelson Mandela bank notes

  • Voters wait in line to cast their ballots outside a polling station during elections in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday. Puerto Ricans are electing a governor as the U.S. island territory does not get a vote in the U.S. presidential election. But they are also casting ballots in a referendum that asks voters if they want to change the relationship to the United States. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

    Puerto Rico election

  • Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon walks with her ballot in hand while voting in Greenwich, Conn., Tuesday. McMahon and Democratic opponent Chris Murphy were vying for the Senate seat now held by Joe Lieberman, an independent who's retiring. McMahon was defeated. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

    Linda McMahon

  • Protesters demonstrate against Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez in front of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday. Angered by rising inflation, violent crime and high-profile corruption, and afraid Fernandez will try to hold onto power indefinitely by ending constitutional term limits, the protesters banged pots and marched in Argentina's capital. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

    Argentina protest

  • On Wednesday, Amina Al Sado, 5, who fled with her family from the violence in their village, poses for a photograph inside a tent at a displaced camp, in the Syrian village of Atmeh, near the Turkish border with Syria. Most of the displaced people in the tent camp rising near this village on the Syrian-Turkish border are children. All have fled the violence of Syria's civil war further south. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

    Syria displaced children

  • House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks about the elections and the unfinished business of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday. President Barack Obama is slating a White House appearance on Friday, Nov. 9, to set the tone for upcoming talks with congressional Republicans on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff. Republicans are drawing a line in the sand against higher tax rates for upper-income earners, seeking to topple the conventional wisdom that the freshly reelected Democrat has the whip hand in upcoming negotiations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    John Boehner

  • Marijuana plants flourish under the lights at a grow house in Denver, on Thursday. Marijuana legalization votes this week in Colorado and Washington state don't just set up an epic state-federal showdown on drug law for residents. The measures also opens the door for marijuana tourism. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

    Marijuana Colorado

  • Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13) shoots over Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant (35) as Russell Westbrook (0) watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

    NBA

  • People arrive in the chapel of the Cementerio General with decorated human skulls on metal platters, to offer a prayer before attending the Natitas Festival at the largest cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday. "Natitas" are human skulls from unnamed, abandoned graves that are cared for and decorated by faithful who use them as amulets, believing they serve as protection from thieves. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

    La Paz, Bolivia

  • Radhouane Nouicer, the U.N.'s regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, briefs the media during a news conference at the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

    Radhouane Nouicer

  • Posters decorate the street scene outside government buildings in Dublin, Ireland, Friday, before the historic referendum on an upcoming Saturday to decide on increasing legal protection for children in Ireland. Ireland's government is asking voters to agree to insert stronger rights for children into the constitution, a measure designed to make it easier for state agencies to protect children from abuse and for neglected kids to be adopted. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

    Ireland children

  • USA's pilot Jazmine Fenlator with brakewoman Lolo Jones races to a second-place finish in the women's bobsled World Cup competition on Nov. 9, 2012, in Lake Placid, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

    Jazmine Fenlator

  • Supporters of Referendum 74, which would uphold the state's new same-sex marriage law, cheer at a news conference Wednesday, in Seattle. Supporters of gay marriage in Washington state declared victory Wednesday, saying they don't see a way for their opponents to prevail as votes continue to trickle in on Referendum 74. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    Referendum 74

  • Patrick Murphy, the Democratic candidate for Florida's 18th Congressional District, talks to supporters during a "thank you" tour of his district, Thursday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

    Patrick Murphy

  • Cara Jennings joins the demonstration outside the Palm Beach Circuit Court building where people are demanding U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., stop his battle to keep his congressional seat, in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

    Cara Jennings

  • The coffins of slain farmworkers stand in a row during a funeral ceremony in Santa Rosa de Osos in Colombia's Antioquia state, Friday. On Wednesday, a drug-trafficking paramilitary group killed 10 peasants on a farm in northern Colombia, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

    Colombia slain workers

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  • A missing poster hangs on a tree outside the Cleveland home of Amanda Berry Wednesday. Berry and two other women, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus, made a daring escape this week after being held captive for more than a decade.
    Credit: AP/Tony Dejak

  • Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje offer their best impression of  Eric B. & Rakim. On Thursday, New York prosecutors identified the pair as members of an international gang that robbed $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards and draining ATM machines around the world.
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  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walks to a podium during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Technology Enhanced Accelerated Learning Center at Essex County Newark Tech in Newark, N.J., Tuesday. Christie made less flattering headlines this week after undergoing a secret stomach surgery to curb his weight.
    Credit: AP/Julio Cortez

  • Workers stand outside the Tung Hai Sweater Ltd. factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday after a fire broke out in its 11-story building. Eight people were killed in the blaze.
    Credit: AP/Ismail Ferdous

  • Workers rescue a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a garment factory building in Saver, Bangladesh, Friday. The building's collapse was the worst industrial disaster in the country's history, killing more than 1,000 people.
    Credit: AP

  • Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gives his victory speech Tuesday in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., after winning back his old congressional seat in the state's first district.
    Credit: AP/Rainier Ehrhardt

  • Jodi Arias reacts in Maricopa Country Superior Court Wednesday after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Arias has subsequently said she wants the death penalty, claiming she'd "prefer to die sooner than later."
    Credit: AP/The Arizona Republic/Rob Schumacher

  • Ariel Castro stands for his mug shot Thursday at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center, where he is being held on $8 million bail. The former bus driver is accused of imprisoning three young women and beating them repeatedly over a period of 10 years.
    Credit: AP/Cuyahoga County

  • Charles Ramsey addresses the media Monday after helping rescue three women held captive in Cleveland for more than a decade. Ramsey's hero portraiture has been complicated by revelations of his own domestic violence record.
    Credit: AP/The Plain Dealer/Scott Shaw

  • Michael B. Donley, Secretary of the Air Force, testifies during a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday. The military branch was rocked this week after its chief sexual assault prevention officer was charged with sexual battery.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

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