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The week in 10 pics

From the pope's resignation to a meteor burning across the Russian sky, a look at the stories that defined the week SLIDE SHOW

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  • Frank Ocean performs at the 55th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, 2013, in Los Angeles. One can only assume that Chris Brown is doodling a Christ figure on his award show program.
    Credit: AP/Invision/John Shearer

  • Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful at the end of the Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Feb. 13, 2013. On Monday, the pope shocked the world when he decided to hang up his rosary -- a decision he later said was for "the good of the church."
    Credit: AP/Gregorio Borgia

  • After an engine room fire left the cruise ship stranded at sea in the Gulf of Mexico, passengers use makeshift tents on the deck of the Carnival Triumph -- a supposedly fun cruise line 3,200 travelers will never travel with again.
    Credit: AP/Kalin Hill

  • Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius weeps in court during his bail hearing in the murder case of Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius allegedly shot his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.
    Credit: AP/Antione de Ras

  • A South Korean man watches TV news of the third North Korean nuclear test, a move President Obama has condemned as a "highly provocative act."
    Credit: AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

  • President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 12, 2013. The president laid out an ambitious second term agenda, but saved his best for last with an impassioned plea for gun control.
    Credit: Reuters

  • Marco Rubio reaches (clumsily) for a bottle of water during his response to the president's State of the Union address. On Wednesday, the newly appointed "Republican savior" laughed off his embarrassing moment, telling ABC's "Good Morning America," "God has a funny way of reminding us we're human."

  • Law enforcement authorities investigate the charred remains of a cabin where quadruple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner is believed to have died after barricading himself inside -- a grisly end to a nine-day manhunt.
    Credit: AP/The Sun, John Valenzuela

  • Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., sits down before giving testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Republicans have taken unprecedented action to block his secretary of defense nomination.
    Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

  • A meteorite contrail is seen streaking across the sky in Russia's Chelyabinsk region on Feb. 15, 2013. Its blast left as many as 1,000 injured, and prompted one Russian politician to suggest it was actually a U.S. weapons test.
    Credit: AP/Yekaterina Pustynnikova

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Jacob Sugarman is Salon's cover editor and the editor of Open Salon. You can follow him on twitter @jakesugarman. More Jacob Sugarman.

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  • This photo. President Barack Obama has a laugh during the unveiling of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Tx., Thursday. Former first lady Barbara Bush, who candidly admitted this week we've had enough Bushes in the White House, is unamused.
    Reuters/Jason Reed

  • Rescue workers converge Wednesday in Savar, Bangladesh, where the collapse of a garment building killed more than 300. Factory owners had ignored police orders to vacate the work site the day before.
    AP/A.M. Ahad

  • Police gather Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to honor campus officer Sean Collier, who was allegedly killed in a shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last week.
    AP/Elise Amendola

  • Police tape closes the site of a car bomb that targeted the French embassy in Libya Tuesday. The explosion wounded two French guards and caused extensive damage to Tripoli's upscale al-Andalus neighborhood.
    AP/Abdul Majeed Forjani

  • Protestors rage outside the residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday following the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi. The girl was allegedly kidnapped and tortured before being abandoned in a locked room for two days.
    AP/Manish Swarup

  • Clarksville, Mo., residents sit in a life boat Monday after a Mississippi River flooding, the 13th worst on record.
    AP/Jeff Roberson

  • Workers pause Wednesday for a memorial service at the site of the West, Tx., fertilizer plant explosion, which killed 14 people and left a crater more than 90 feet wide.
    AP/The San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel

  • Aerial footage of the devastation following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province last Saturday. At least 180 people were killed and as many as 11,000 injured in the quake.
    AP/Liu Yinghua

  • On Wednesday, Hazmat-suited federal authorities search a martial arts studio in Tupelo, Miss., once operated by Everett Dutschke, the newest lead in the increasingly twisty ricin case. Last week, President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker, R.-Miss., and a Mississippi judge were each sent letters laced with the deadly poison.
    AP/Rogelio V. Solis

  • The lighting of Freedom Hall at the George W. Bush Presidential Center Thursday is celebrated with (what else but) red, white and blue fireworks.
    AP/David J. Phillip

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