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Week in photos - Oct. 19, 2012

 

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French artist puts an elephant on man's back

French artist puts an elephant on man's back

A statue of a man balancing an elephant in the business district of Hong Kong is impossible to ignore.

Dad has drawn doodles on sons' sandwich bags every day for 5 years

Dad has drawn doodles on sons' sandwich bags every day for 5 years

Massachusetts-based graphic artist David LaFerriere has kept up quite a family tradition: he's drawn a unique doodle on his sons' lunch sandwich bags every day since May 2008. He's photographed over 1,100 of them, which are available on his Flickr account. http://j.mp/Zb9uLp

Hangout Music Festival 2013

Hangout Music Festival 2013

Scenes from the Hangout Beach Music and Arts Festival, which was held May 16-19 in Gulf Shores, Ala.

 
  • Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera celebrates in the locker room after his team won Game 4 of the American League championship series 8-1, against the New York Yankees, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Detroit. The Tigers move on to the World Series. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya )
  • A man photographs a woman standing behind an art piece called
  • An Afghan National Police man leaves a mosque after prayers at his base in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012. In eastern Afghanistan a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near the gate of a U.S.- Afghan combat outpost Wednesday, wounding at least 10 Afghan soldiers. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
  • A young suspected crack user reacts as she sits inside a van waiting to be taken to a shelter after being removed from the streets by social workers, near the Parque Uniao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Health officials are locating and treating hundreds of crack addicts suddenly left without drugs after police occupied dangerous slums this week where the users congregated en masse to buy and smoke the potent drug. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
  • A dog is groomed during the Pet South America fair in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
  • A protester opposed to abortion demonstrates outside the Marie Stopes clinic in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Thursday, 18, 2012. The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland has opened in Belfast, sparking protests by Christian conservatives from both the Catholic and Protestant sides of Northern Ireland�s divide. The Marie Stopes center plans to offer the abortion pill to women less than nine weeks pregnant _ but only if doctors determine they�re at risk of death or long-term health damage from their pregnancy. That�s the law in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, where abortion is otherwise illegal. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
  • Cambodians burn incense stick as they offer prayers in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Cambodians continue to pray for the soul of their former King Norodom Sihanouk as the country prepared for the return of his body. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
  • The Capitol dome is silhouetted as the sun rises in Washington, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • Birds fly over the covered photograph of an assassinated member of the Patriotic Union political party, which was launched by Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) in the 1908's, during an event in honor of the victims of the nation's armed conflict in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Leaders of the political party were systematically gunned down by right-wing death squads linked to the Colombian military. Colombian government and rebel negotiators on Thursday formally launched peace talks aimed at ending the South American nation's complex, nearly half-century-old conflict. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)
  • A man reads a Tuesday copy of the Communist Party newspaper Granma which published the new migratory policy that will no longer require islanders to apply for an exit visa on it's front page, in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012. The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will eliminate the bureaucratic procedure that has been a major impediment for many seeking to travel overseas for more than a half-century. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
  • Residents of the Quail Ridge Manor independent living apartment complex watch the presidential debate, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, in Boulder City, Nev. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
  • Pedestrians walk past the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in New York, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. A Bangladeshi man snared in an FBI terror sting on Wednesday considered targeting President Barack Obama and the New York City Stock Exchange before settling on a car bomb attack on the Federal Reserve, just blocks from the World Trade Center site, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
  • A hiker rests near a cross as he enjoys the view over the Alps near the top of Wendelstein mountain (1,838 meters; 6,030 feet) near Bayrischzell, southern Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
  • Riot police chase protesters during clashes during the 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Hundreds of youths pelted riot police with petrol bombs, bottles and chunks of marble Thursday as yet another Greek anti-austerity demonstration descended into violence. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
  • Lawyers and doctors scuffle with riot police during an anti-austerity protest outside the Finance Ministry in Athens, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Civil servants and private sector workers stage a nationwide general strike on Thursday to protest new austerity measures the government is still negotiating with the debt-ridden country's international creditors. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
  • A monkey rests inside in a bowl where food is offered by devotees for birds and monkeys at the Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Kamakhya temple honors the Mother Goddess Kamakhya, the essence of female energy, and is believed to be the highest seat of Tantra or Hindu esoteric rituals. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
  • Riot police fire tear gas at Bahraini anti-government protesters, unseen, in Ma'ameer, Bahrain, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. Clashes between protesters throwing rocks and petrol bombs and riot police firing tear gas and stun grenades erupted after the funeral for an elderly man who relatives and opposition groups say died from tear gas exposure. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
  • Morocco's King Mohammed VI, left, shakes hands with Syrian refugees at Zaatari Syrian refugee camp in Mafraq, Jordan, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad of Jordan stands second left. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
  • FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 file photo, a Syrian child, wounded by Syrian Army shelling, lies in a truck bed after being treated by doctors at Dar al-Shifa hospital, Aleppo, Syria. The Aleppo rebellion started off in the rural areas of Aleppo province, not in the city as was the case in most other parts of Syria. Regime forces punish the city daily with artillery and airstrikes. Civilians are killed and wounded while standing on breadlines, walking the streets or watching television at home. Snipers target civilians in areas where rebels have positions. Members of staff at the rebels' field hospital say 80 percent of the average 100-120 cases they treat daily are civilians. Some residents blame the rebels. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)
  • Former President Bill Clinton greets singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen at a campaign event for President Barack Obama, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, in Parma, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
  • A sailor lifts weights on the flight deck of the the USS Underwood while patrolling in international waters near Panama, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. The USS Underwood is the U.S. Navy's oldest surface combatant ship and is scheduled to be decommissioned in March 2013. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
  • Women participate in a procession honoring
  • U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton attends a conference on women's empowerment in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012. Clinton arrived for the long-planned women's event in Lima, Monday, after another weekend of criticism from Republicans over the Obama administration's initial explanation of the Sept. 11 attack and security at the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)
  • A Filipino Muslim woman flashes peace signs after hearing news of the signing of a preliminary peace pact between the government and the nation's largest Muslim rebel group during a rally outside the gates of the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, on Monday Oct. 15, 2012. Muslim rebels and the Philippine government overcame decades of bitter hostilities and took their first tentative step toward ending one of Asia's longest-running insurgencies with the ceremonial signing of a preliminary peace pact Monday that both sides said presented both a hope and a challenge. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
  • Platters of sugar cookies bearing the likenesses of President Barack Obama, left, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, are available for sale on the counter at the Oakmont Bakery on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 in Oakmont, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
  • In this Oct. 11, 2012 photo, Linden Henry kisses his seven-week-old daughter Alline Henry, as lifelong family friend Kim Charbonnet opens her front door in the Treme section of New Orleans. The historic New Orleans neighborhood where immigrants, free people of color and slaves were allowed to own property, worship on Sundays and gather in public to dance and play music, has hit a milestone. It was roughly 200 years ago that cottages were built and a community established just beyond the French Quarter in the area named for French milliner and property owner, Claude Treme. The neighborhood is considered one of America's most unique, and it is getting a new lease on life thanks, in part, to the spotlight provided by HBO's series,
 
 

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