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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, Calif., and Austin, Texas (!?).
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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