The week in 10 pics

From three-point bombs to stealth bombers, a look at the week's most enduring images SLIDE SHOW

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  • North Korean army officers salute and chant slogans during a rally at Kim Il Sung Square in downtown Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday. Channeling his inner Bond villain, Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has vowed to strike such U.S. targets as Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Ca., and Austin, TX (!?).
    AP/Jon Chol Jin

  • Florida Gulf Coast University's Sherwood Brown celebrates with teammates after their shocking 81-71 win over seven-seeded San Diego State Sunday. Before finally being knocked off by Florida, FGCU became the first 15-seed to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, single-handedly destroying most of the nation's brackets in the process. AP Photo/Michael Perez)

  • David H. Petraeus speaks Tuesday at the annual dinner for veterans and ROTC students at the University of Southern California, his first public remarks since retiring from the CIA in scandal. "I join you," the former general noted, "keenly aware that I am regarded in a different light now than I was a year ago."

  • A board on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday shows the S&P 500 index's closing number, a record high that shattered the previous the mark it set in October 2007.
    AP/Richard Drew

  • A child strolls past portraits of former president Nelson Mandela depicted in various stages of his life in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Laureate was hospitalized for a lung infection, but appears to be responding well to treatment.
    AP/Denis Farrell

  • In a stirring speech Thursday, President Barack Obama calls for tighter gun control, declaring "shame on us if we've forgotten" the children of Newtown.
    AP/Carolyn Kaster

  • A U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber flies over Pyeongtaek, South Korea, Thursday. The mock bombing run, which aroused bellicose rhetoric from Pyongyang, was part of a previously planned joint exercise between U.S. and South Korean forces.
    (AP/Shin Young-keun)

  • Gay rights advocates wave a rainbow flag Tuesday in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, whose two new cases challenging Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act respectively will determine the future of gay marriage in America.
    Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

  • A landslide Wednesday disappeared a sizeable chunk of real estate near Coupeville, Wash. on Whidbey Island. The slide severely damaged one home, but there were no reported injuries.
    AP/Ted S. Warren

  • OK, we cheated. The Human Rights Campaign's red-and-pink equal sign logo isn't technically a "pic," but the Internet's ubiquitous new symbol of marriage equality was perhaps the defining image of the week.

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

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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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