Pictures of the Week

• A man stands in a street covered with rocks from a landslide in Verapaz, El Salvador, Nov. 9. Mud and rock slides caused by rain-fueled floods killed at least 124 people across El Salvador and left about five dozen missing, authorities said.
  
  
  

  Rodrigo Abd, AP

• A child walks inside a mosque at Teluk Meranti village in Pelalawan, Indonesia's Riau province, Nov. 10.
  
  
  

  Beawiharta, Reuters

• A woman with an umbrella walks through a park during an autumn day in the Bulgarian capital Sofia on Nov. 9.
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  Dimitar Dilkoff, AFP / Getty Images

• This handout photograph taken by an Advanced Land Imager on NASA's Earth Observing-1 satellite on June 10 and released on Nov. 10, shows southern Onekotan in eastern Russia. More than 9,000 years ago, a catastrophic volcanic eruption created a huge caldera on the southern end of Onekotan Island, one of the Kuril Islands, located off the southern tip of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Today, the ancient Tao-Rusyr Caldera is filled by the deep blue waters of Kal'tsevoe Lake.
  
  
  

  HO, AFP / Getty Images

• A man stands on the Great Wall during a snowfall on the outskirts of Beijing, Nov. 12.
  
  
  

  Jason Lee, Reuters

• Spectators watch as giant, painted Styrofoam dominoes topple along the route of the former Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate on Nov. 9 in Berlin, Germany. The approximately 1,000 dominoes, painted by schoolchildren and artists all over the world, are meant to symbolically represent the end of communist rule across Eastern Europe and are the highlight of celebrations in the German capitol marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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  Carsten Koall, Getty Images

• Families wait for their loved ones with the U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division to arrive home after a year of deployment in Iraq on Nov. 10, in Fort Hood, Texas. The unit was the first to return home since the shooting at the military base. They arrived back on the evening of the memorial service for the 13 killed in the shooting.
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  Joe Raedle, Getty Images

• A soldier weeps during a memorial service at Fort Hood, Nov. 10. President Barack Obama participated in the memorial for the 13 victims of the shooting incident that occurred on the base on Nov. 5.
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  Kevin Lamarque, Reuters

• Beca Wilkerson, 8, watches as U.S. Army soldiers from Fort Hood march past as they participate in a Veterans Day parade through downtown on Nov. 11 in Killeen. The town where many military families live is still dealing with the aftermath of the rampage allegedly by U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, who is accused of killing 13 people and wounded 30 in the shooting at the base.
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  Joe Raedle, Getty Images

• Frank Squirrel, U.S. Army Korean War veteran and member of the Cherokee Nation Color Guard, readies for the start of the annual Veterans Day parade on Nov. 11 in New York City. The nation's largest Veterans Day parade features 20,000 participants in New York and is celebrating its 90th anniversary.
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  Mario Tama, Getty Images