The Week in Pictures

The 41st annual Barcolana regatta off northeastern Italy draws about 1,800 boats. The race is held on the second Sunday of every October.  (Franco Debernardi / Associated Press)

Lauren Hendricks, 20, of Tallahassee, Fla., left, and Cameron Tolle, 21, of Cincinnati, Ohio, join tens of thousands for a gay-rights march in Washington, D.C.  (Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press)

Dallas Cowboys’ running back Marion Barber flips over Kansas City Chiefs’ cornerback Brandon Flowers for a short gain in the third quarter on Sunday. Despite a last minute touchdown in the fourth quarter by Kansas City to send the game to overtime, Dallas scored a touchdown to win the game, 26-20.  (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press)

Magneto and Jackson leap off foam surfboards at the Surf City Surf Dog contest, held in Huntington Beach to raise money for animal welfare groups. Dogs were judged on the size of the wave they caught, how long they rode it and their posture on the board.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

As a Los Angeles water-dropping helicopter works on brush fire off Anaheim Street in Harbor City, ducks paddle placidly in a nearby lake.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Revelers wave sparklers for Correfoc, or fire run, in Llorenc del Penedes, Spain.  (Manu Fernandez / Associated Press)

Louisiana State Coach Les Miles pleads with an official in the first half against Florida. The No. 1-ranked Gators would beat the No. 4-ranked Tigers, 13-3.  (Kerry Maloney / Associated Press)

Brazilian goalkeeper Rafael attempts to catch a shot from a German player as it flies passed him during the meeting between the two teams in the FIFA Under-20 World Cup quarterfinal matchup. Brazil beat the Germans, 2-1, and will take on Costa Rica in the semifinals on Tuesday.  (Cris Bouroncle / AFP/Getty Images)

An opposition activist waves a flare during a protest in Moscow, one of a few hundred protesters who took part in the “Day of People’s Rage” to express their anger at the current political situation in Russia.  (Dmitry Kostyukov / AFP/Getty Images)

Dodgers left fielder Manny Ramirez gets doused by reliever Ronald Belisaro, right, and infielder Ronnie Belliard during the clubhouse celebration following a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League division series on Saturday.  (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)

UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince tries to avoid the rush of Oregon defensive end Kenny Rowe, who would end up with a sack on the play in the third quarter Saturday.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

An unidentified woman walks her dog as early snow falls in Omaha, Neb. Several inches of the white stuff accumulated in the city.  (Nati Harnik / Associated Press)

A peacekeeper inspects the wreckage of a United Nations plane that crashed in a remote mountain area of Haiti known as Pays Pouri, near the border with the Dominican Republic, about 30 miles east of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. U.N. helicopters reached the remote site of the crash. Eleven peacekeepers were killed when the surveillance flight slammed into a mountain Friday.  (Diev Nalio Chery / Associated Press)

Police officers arrest a man during rival demonstrations between the English Defense League and anti-Nazi protesters in Manchester, England.  (Paul Ellis / AFP/Getty Images)

Residents wade through flood waters as they go on with their daily business in Dagupan City, in Pangasinan province north of Manila. Rescuers struggled through mud Saturday to clear mountain roads after dozens of landslides buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines.  (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)

Angels’ players greet Mike Napoli and Maicer Izturis after both scored on a triple from Erick Aybar in the seventh inning to put the Angels further ahead against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night. The Angels beat the Boston Red Sox, 4-1, and lead the playoff series 2-0. Game 3 will be Sunday in Boston.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

A wounded man gets assistance in the aftermath of the suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan.  (Mohammad Sajjad / Associated Press)

A woman holds on to avoid being swept away in the northern Philippine town of Rosales. Elsewhere in Pangasinan province, a dam weakened by pounding rains collapsed.  (Mike Alquinto / Associated Press)

Hall of Fame slugger Reggie Jackson throws out the first pitch before the start of Game 2 between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins in New York.  (Justin Lane / EPA)

Yankees’ shortstop Derek Jeter leaps after throwing to first on a double play attempt that forced out the Twins’ Nick Punto in the third inning. New York won the second game of its American League Division Series against Minnesota in 11 innings, 4-3. Game 3 will be Sunday at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.  (Kathy Willens / Associated Press)

A baby cries at Padang Alai village near Pariaman on Friday in the continuing aftermath of an earthquake. The Red Cross increased its aid appeal for victims of the Indonesian earthquake to $18.5 million to cover help for about 100,000 people, especially in rural villages. A total of 739 people are known dead in the 7.6-magnitude earthquake that shook Sumatra around the city of Padang on Sept. 30, Indonesian officials have said.  (Juansep AFP / Getty Images)

A woman washes clothes in floodwater on the outskirts of Vijayawada in Krishna district, about 155 miles from Hyderabad on Friday. The worst flooding in a century to hit the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have killed hundreds of people, destroyed or washed away millions of acres of cropland and contaminated grain stocks in millions of homes.  (Mahesh Kumar A / Associated Press)

An Israeli policeman runs after a Palestinian stone-thrower in the Arab East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras Amud on Friday. Israeli police tightly restricted access to Jerusalem’s Old City as Palestinians went on strike in defense of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound following clashes at the site sacred to Muslims and Jews.  (Menahem Kahana AFP / Getty Images)

Afghan children enjoy a ride Friday.  (Farzana Wahidy / Associated Press)

Israeli police plainclothes police officers arrest a Palestinian man, right, during clashes in the Arab East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras Amud on Friday. Israeli police tightly restricted access to Jerusalem’s Old City as Palestinians went on strike in defense of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound following clashes at the site.  (Menahem Kahana AFP / Getty Images)

Gustavo Dudamel throws himself into his conducting during his inaugural performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall as new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.   (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

Rabbi Menahem Furman and his followers hold willows as they pray for rain and mercy during the last day of the Jewish festival of Sukkot at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem.  (Menahem Kahana AFP / Getty Images)

Performers from Transe Express perform during the launch of the Melbourne International Arts Festival on Friday. The performance is held 130 feet in the air and involves an orchestra of bell ringers and percussionists seemingly suspended over the Melbourne city skyline. The carillon contains eight musicians with bells, gongs and drums, and three trapeze artists.  (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)

Danny Balan lifts up the waxwork head of Pope John Paul II into place beside the waxwork of Pope Pope Benedict XVI during final preparations for the official reopening of the National Wax Museum Plus on Wednesday.  (Julien Behal-pa / Associated Press)

Sean Tucker flies his Oracle Challenger biplane over Marine Corps Maj. Nathan Miller’s F/A-18 Blue Angel #5 above San Francisco Bay. Two air shows this weekend celebrate the area’s naval history.  (Ben Margot / AP Photo)

A woman takes a picture of victims’ engraved names as a Romanian presidential honor guard soldier stands at attention inside the newly inaugurated Holocaust memorial in central Bucharest on Thursday. Romania erected the Holocaust memorial to commemorate the killing of more than a quarter-million Jews and Roma by the Nazi-allied Romanian authorities during World War II.  (Ghemnent Robert / EPA)

Colorado Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes tumbles over Pedro Feliz of the Philadelphia Phillies while turning a double play in Game 2 of the National League Division Series playoffs. Colorado won the game, 5-4, to even up the series at one game each.  (Matt Slocum / Associated Press)

A Cardinals player finishes warming up as sailors prepare to unfurl a huge American flag before the start of Game 1 of the National League Division Series on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

Dodgers pinch-hitter Mark Loretta jumps into the arms of center fielder Matt Kemp as catcher Russell Martin arrives to celebrate Loretta’s game-winning hit against the Cardinals in Game 2 on Thursday.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

The red carpet awaits the arrival of stars coming to hear Gustavo Dudamel conduct his first concert at Disney Hall as music director of the L.A. Philharmonic.  (Christina House / For The Times)

A boatman transports three empty wooden coffins above floodwaters on the edge of the Laguna Lake east of Manila on Thursday. Floods killed 298 people and submerged 80% of the capital. At least 400,000 squatters blocking key drainage channels of a giant lake on the edge of the Philippine capital need to be uprooted to fix Manila’s flooding crisis, a government official said.  (Jay Directo AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Marines carry out an operation in southern Afghanistan’s Farah province.  (David Furst / AFP/Getty Images)

An Israeli border police officer fires tear gas during a clash with Palestinians at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, West Bank.  (Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press)

Rescue workers recover a body at the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul on Thursday. The explosion left 17 people dead and at least 70 injured during what local authorities say was a targeted attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul.  (David Goldman / Getty Images)

Special needs children from Cape Mental Health’s Imizamo Yethu Special Care Center play with kites in Khayelitsha, Cape Town on Thursday. As part of the Cape Town International Kite festival being held this week, professional kiters from Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa arranged a preview for the mentally disabled children. Integration and inclusion of people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities is a key component of the work done by the Cape Mental Health society, which sponsors the biggest kite festival in Africa.  (Nic Bothma / EPA)

Fans stretch to catch a batting practice homer in the right-field bleachers before the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim host the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of the American League division series at Angel Stadium on Thursday.  (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

Piglets feed at a trough after their race at a Swiss agricultural fair in St. Gallen, Switzerland.  (Ennio Leanza / Associated Press)

Xiaodong Chen, left, of China and Svetlana Kormilitsyna of Russia vie in a women’s team saber match at the World Fencing Championships in Antalya, Turkey, on Tuesday.  (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)

A child holds a sign during a rally by Russian human-rights activists in honor of Anna Politkovskaya. The Russian journalist, known for her criticism of President Vladimir Putin, was killed three years ago Wednesday. The slaying is still unsolved. The sign reads: “Putin we remember your cynicism.”  (Dmitry Kostukov / AFP / Getty Images)

Indian women are given intricate henna tattoos as they observe Karwa Chauth. During the festival, married Hindu women fast throughout the day and then dine in the evening after looking at the moon through a sieve to seek long life for their husbands.  (Saurabh Das / Associated Press)

A masked man attacks the office of a foreign bank as demonstrators roam the streets of Istanbul, protesting the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which are holding an annual meeting in the city. Protesters clashed with police who used tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators who attacked several bank offices and business in Istanbul, for the second day of protests.  (Ibrahim Usta / Associated Press)

The Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition carries a cross in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building. Today, the high court will hear oral arguments in a case involving a memorial with a cross, erected by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in a remote area within what is now a federal preserve.  (Mark Wilson / Getty Images)

An Afghan boy makes his way over a stream. The U.S. is reviewing its strategy in Afghanistan, where the war is in its ninth year.  (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press)

Villagers sit atop a house destroyed in the Sept. 30 earthquake that devastated a stretch of the western coast of Sumatra.  (Achmad Ibrahim / Associated Press)

A woman pays tribute before a portrait of slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the Russian capital. Hundreds attended a rally marking the third anniversary of the investigative journalist’s death.  (Pavel Golovkin / Associated Press)

A model wears a creation by British fashion designer John Galliano as part of the Ready to Wear Spring Summer 2010 fashion collection presented in Paris<.  (Jacques Brinon / Associated Press)

Pink umbrellas and balloons are on display to promote the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign in South Korea’s capital city.  (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press)

U.S. Army Engineer Staff Sgt. Rick Atkinson of Roswell, N.M., plays with a puppy that soldiers of Forward Operating Base Zerok adopted a few weeks ago. Oct. 7 marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Afghanistan war in 2001; eight years later, thousands of American and international troops are camped out in field bases around the war-torn country.  (Chris Hondros / Getty Images)

A drill team rehearses for the Indian Air Force Day parade. The 77th anniversary of the force will be celebrated on Thursday.  (Mustafa Quraishi / Associated Press)

Residents carry food brought by an Indonesian military helicopter to isolated area hit by last week’s earthquake. The West Sumatra disaster management coordination unit put the death toll from the quake at 448, with more than 2,000 others injured.  (Hajja Ahmad / EPA)

A visitor walks past an eye-shaped exhibit covered with thousands of light-emitting diodes. The exhibit and other spheres will be the center of the German pavilion “Balancity” at the Expo 2010 Universal World Exhibition in Shanghai, China.  (Sascha Schuermann / AFP/Getty Images)

Two boys imitate adults as they visit an annual cattle market, where some farmers come in traditional costumes to sell or buy animals.  (Ennio Leanza / EPA)

Polar bear “Lara” shakes water off her fur in the Alaska area of the Zoom -- World of Experience zoo in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany.  (Volker Hartmann / AFP/Getty Images)

The Minnesota Twins celebrate after beating the Detroit Tigers, 6-5, in 12 innings to capture the American League Central. The Twins advance to the playoffs, where they will face the Yankees in New York on Wednesday.  (Jamie Squire / Getty Images))

France Telecom employees wear masks in front of one of the company’s outlets after unions called for two days of strike and protests. The company has undergone major restructuring that, according to the unions, has left workers stressed and demoralized.  (Sebastien Lapeyrere / EPA)

Bello Nock of the Big Apple Circus performs his high-wire act over the fountain at Lincoln Center in New York. The circus will be in the city from Oct. 22 through Jan. 18.  (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)

Kashmiri children look out from a window of their house during a gun battle between Indian soldiers and suspected militants at Ladhoo, about 16 miles south of Srinagar, India. An Indian soldier was injured in the gun battle, which began Tuesday morning in the forested area of Ladhoo, in Khrew district, a news agency cited police as saying.  (Mukhtar Khan / Associated Press)

Performers take part in a Chinese adaptation of Puccini’s “Turandot,” performed at the Bird’s Nest. The staging of the opera is part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of China’s communist government.  (Elizabeth Dalziel / Associated Press)

A man sprays milk directly from a cow’s udders during a demonstration in front of the EU headquarters. Agriculture ministers from across Europe are to gather in Brussels for a special meeting on what some call a crisis in dairy production. Farmers around the EU have been dumping milk stocks and withholding supplies in protest of what they say are uneconomic prices for milk.  (Oliver Hoslet / EPA)

A Jewish man and his children covered with a tallit (a prayer shawl) attend the Cohanim prayer (priest’s blessing) at the annual celebration of Sukkot, or the Feast of the Tabernacles. Thousands of Jews make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem during Sukkot, which commemorates the desert wanderings of the Israelites after their exodus from Egypt.  (Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Images)

Bangladeshi children peer from their Dhaka home on World Habitat Day. The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of towns and cities and the basic right of all to adequate shelter.  (Pavel Rahman / Associated Press)

Vikings player Ray Edwards runs through the tunnel during pregame celebrations before Minnesota’s Monday night game against the Green Bay Packers. The Vikings staved off a late comeback from Green Bay to win, 30-23.  (Jamie Squire / Getty Images)

Vikings wide receiver Bernard Berrian reaches for a first down after being tackled by Packers Aaron Kampman during the first half of Minnesota’s victory against Green Bay on Monday night.  (Jim Mone / Associated Press)

Tricycle drivers transport passengers along a flooded street in the town of Santa Cruz, south of Manila, after Typhoon Parma hit.  (Ted Aljibe / AFP / Getty Images)

A surfer rides a wave at La Zurriola Beach in Basque Country.  (Javier Etxezarreta / EPA)

Stephanie Robeles plays with her pet cockatoo Daisy in the parking lot of Stater Bros. market in Phelan. Robeles, who turned 8 years old Monday, is with her family many other Wrightwood evacuees gathered in the parking lot waiting to go back to their homes. Full story  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Nasirwan, 26, digs a grave for his father, a victim of a Sept. 30 quake at Lubuk Laweh village. Indonesia called off the search for survivors in the city of Padang as officials sought to contain the risk of disease caused by thousands of trapped bodies.  (Bay Ismoyo / AFP/Getty Images)

A residential area in Angono town, east of Manila, is partly submerged after Typhoon Parma passed through.  (Pat Roque / Associated Press)

A man rides with a child at sunset.  (Vyacheslav Oseledko / AFP/Getty Images)

An Israeli soldier shoots tear gas toward Palestinian protesters, not visible, in the West Bank refugee camp of Kalandia, north of Jerusalem.  (Atef Safadi / EPA)

Sophia Thlagane, leader of the informal traders who sell food to construction workers on the site of the Soccer City Stadium, reacts in protest to their eviction from the site. The traders were served notice to vacate the premises Friday, and police have moved in to enforce their eviction.  (Denis Farrell / Associated Press)

Vikings quarterback Brett Favre shakes hands with Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers after the Minnesota’s win against Green Bay on Monday night. Favre won a Super Bowl and set several records in his 15 seasons with the Packers.  (Morry Gash / Associated Press)

Workers paint the American League Division Series logo on the field at Yankee Stadium in preparation for Game 1 on Wednesday.  (Craig Ruttle / Associated Press)

Jewish men are draped in prayer shawls during the annual blessing celebration of Sukkot at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.  (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty Images)

A man rides his scooter in heavy rains brought on by Typhoon Parma. Taiwan evacuated more than 6,000 people from their villages as the storm lingered near the island, bringing heavy rains and the risk of mudslides.  (Sam Yeh / AFP/Getty Images)

A shepherd leads his sheep along a road, moving the flock to fresh pastures.  (Winfried Rothermel / Associated Press)

An air tanker drops flame retardant over the Sheep fire in the San Bernardino National Forest. By Monday evening, the 7,824-acre blaze was 30% contained. Full story  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A teenager wades through floodwaters with relief supplies in Santa Cruz township after Typhoon Parma weakened into a tropical storm that lingered off the Philippine coast. The storm caused widespread flooding and landslides.  (Bullit Marquez / Associated Press)

Two girls struggle with high winds as Taiwan deals with Typhoon Parma. The storm has lost strength but dumped heavy rain on the island.  (Chiang Ying-ying / Associated Press)