The Week in Pictures
Updated:A selection of some of the images that caught our eye over the past seven days.
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1 Actress Anne Hathaway gets her Best Supporting Actress Oscar engraved at the Governors Ball in Hollywood
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2 Neil Heslin, father of six-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Jesse Lewis, wipes tears as he testifies during a US Senate hearing
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3 Ireland's Sean O'Brien breaks through the tackle from Jim Hamilton of Scotland during the Six Nations match at Murrayfield
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4 A Syrian man stands on the rubble of his house while others look for survivors and bodies in the Tariq al-Bab district of Aleppo
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5 A villager wearing traditional costume jumps over a stone in Orahili Fau village on Nias Island, Indonesia
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6 Hundreds of thousands turned out in St Peter's Square to see Pope Benedict XVI's final general audience
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7 Nuns cheer as Pope Benedict appears on the balcony at the Papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo
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8 Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale performs an overhead kick during the Premier League game against West Ham United
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9 People walk around the Buddha statue holding candles for prayers during Makha Bucha Day at Buddhist Park in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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10 Koreans spin fire cans during a folk game at Han River in Seoul, as part of a holiday to celebrate the first full moon of the lunar new year
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11 An Air Zealand plane flies overhead during the International tour match between New Zealand XI and England at Queenstown
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12 A resident looks at destroyed houses after a fire engulfed a slum area in Manila
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13 Children run towards charity workers from Sentebale in Morija, Lesotho
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14 Finishing touches are made to the monumental rice paper boat by Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi at Olympia Exhibition Centre in London
