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The Week in Pictures
From a kidnapping in Mexico to starlets at Sundance, here's a look at what dominated the headlines this week SLIDE SHOW
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In this photo taken Sunday, Amalinda Ndlovu shows her catch while harvesting mopane worms in Gwanda, Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe as well as most parts of southern Africa, mopane worms are a staple part of the diet in rural areas and are considered a delicacy in the cities. They can be eaten dry, as crunchy as potato chips, or cooked and drenched in sauce. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
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Actress Mariel Hemingway from the film "Running From Crazy" poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP Images)
Mariel Hemingway
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Beyoncé sings the National Anthem at the ceremonial swearing-in for President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th presidential inauguration in Washington, Monday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Beyoncé
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Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria, Monday. At least 81 people have been reported dead, including 32 Islamist militants, after a bloody, four-day hostage situation at Algeria's remote Ain Amenas natural gas plant. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)
Algeria
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Dakota Fanning from the film "Very Good Girls" poses for a portrait during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the Fender Music Lodge, on Tuesday in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP Images)
Dakota Fanning
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Opposition activists demonstrate against proposed legislation that gives police powers to detain and question a suspect for two days in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Sri Lanka
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A Jordanian woman shows her inked finger after voting at a polling station in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday. Jordan's monarchy has touted Wednesday's parliamentary election as a watershed in the kingdom's democratization. It is the first after last year's constitutional amendments that see King Abdullah II gradually relinquishing much of his powers in running the daily affairs of the state to the legislature, although he will continue for now to set broader foreign and security policies. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
Jordan election
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Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard (12) pushes Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah (13) away from a rebound during the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday in Chicago. The Bulls won 95-83. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Lakers
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A Serbian guard of honour army officer carries a wooden cross with the name of Peter II Karadjordjevic during a solemn ceremony after the remains of Yugoslavia's last king were flown back to Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday. The former king fled the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia at the start of World War II and never returned, as Communists took over at the end of the war. He died in exile and was buried at a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Libertyville, Ill., the only European monarch buried on U.S. soil. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Serbia
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First lady Michelle waves across the aisle at the ceremonial swearing-in for President Barack Obama at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Egyptian protesters try to tear down a cement wall built to prevent them from reaching parliament and the cabinet building near Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday. Egypts black-clad riot police fired tear gas in fierce dawn clashes with dozens of protesters. The violence, which was soothed hours later in central Cairo, comes on the eve of the second anniversary of Egypt's Jan. 25 uprising, which toppled longtime authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak in 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)
Egypt
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British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses a panel session of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
David Cameron
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Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at a meeting with candidates in upcoming elections in Rome Friday. Berlusconi outlined his latest "contract" with Italians on Friday as he pressed his latest comeback bid, promising a host of reforms and measures to give relief to Italians suffering through a deep recession and youth unemployment at a record 37 percent. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Silvio Berlusconi
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A gay rights activist holds a banner during a protest near the State Duma, Russia's lower parliament chamber, in Moscow Friday. A controversial bill banning "homosexual propaganda" has been submitted to Russia's lower house of parliament for the first of three hearings on Friday. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
Gay rights Russia
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Daniela Dede, lawyer for Mihai Alexandru Bitu, speaks to the media in Bucharest, Romania, Friday. Lawyers for three Romanians, Mihai Alexandru Bitu, Radu Dogaru and Eugen Darie, charged with stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands last year, including works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse say there is insufficient evidence to charge them. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Mihai Alexandru Bitu
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A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Japan world markets
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New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony (7) backs down on Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce, left, during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Boston, Thursday. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
New York Knicks
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Current Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough smiles in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, as President Barack Obama announced that he will name McDonough as his next chief of staff. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Denis McDonough
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James Franco, producer of the documentary film "kink," makes a point during an interview at the premiere of the film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
James Franco
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Roger Federer of Switzerland looks on in his semifinal match against Andy Murray of Great Britain during day 12 of the 2013 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Friday in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Mark Kolbe-Pool/Getty Images)
Roger Federer
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Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
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Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
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A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
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Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
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Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
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O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
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Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
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When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
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A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
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