Pictures of the Week

• Army Sgt. Maj. Dennis Edelbrock plays the Taps during a burial service for Army Sgt. Daniel A. Frazier, Dec. 22, at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va. Sgt. Frazier died Nov. 19, in Zabul province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when a suicide car-bomber attacked their unit.
  
  
  

  Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP

• United States Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines "Warlords" rest during an operation to hunt for insurgents following an exchange of fire in the Garmsir district of the volatile Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Dec. 20.
  
  
  

  Kevin Frayer, AP

• Amidst smoke from a flare, a soldier attends a military ceremony in Cali, Colombia, Dec. 23.
  
  
  

  Christian Escobar Mora, AP

• Indian villagers cross a bridge across River Ganges in the morning fog in Allahabad, India, Dec. 21. Cold conditions intensified in most parts of northern India.
  
  
  

  Rajesh Kumar Singh, AP

• Lava cascades on the slopes of Mayon volcano in Legazpi City, Albay province, southeast of Manila late on Dec. 24, as it continues its mild eruption. People displaced by an erupting volcano prepared for a "White Christmas" of a different kind as Mayon spewed ash and politicians bearing gifts trooped to evacuation centers.
  
  
  

  Ted Aljibe, AFP / Getty Images

• A flamingo seen, in the snow-covered outdoor enclosure of the 'Hagenbeck' zoo, in Hamburg, northern Germany, Dec. 23.
  
  
  

  Axel Heimken, AP

• William Hopkins, 7, flies off a jump while sledding on a hill in the Washington, D.C, suburban community of Woodbridge, Va., Dec. 21. The Washington area got hit with some 17 inches of snow during a blizzard that swept up the East coast from the mid-Atlantic through New England.
  
  
  

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• Tourists visit the 11th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival on Dec. 24 in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
  
  
  

  ChinaFotoPress / Getty Images

• Visitors walk through Christmas illuminations at a Tokyo park, Japan, Dec. 22.
  
  
  

  Itsuo Inouye, AP

• Henry Adamucci, 9 months, meets Santa Claus for the first time on Dec. 19, in New York.
  
  
  

  Mike Adamucci, AP