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Pictures of the Week: February 7 – February 14

From the most reputable gay club in Sochi and a sinkhole at the Corvette Museum in Kentucky to the Westminster Dog Show in New York and the killing of the healthy giraffe, Marius, at the Copenhagen Zoo, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

From the most reputable gay club in Sochi and a sinkhole at the Corvette Museum in Kentucky to the Westminster Dog Show in New York and the killing of the healthy giraffe, Marius, at the Copenhagen Zoo, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

A girl sticks out her tongue during snowfalls on a street in Hefei Barack Obama, FranÁois Hollande SSUDAN-UNREST People look at the carcass of the giraffe Marius after it was killed in Copenhagen Zoo Dawn Kelly grooms and puts curler's on her Yorkshire terrier at the Westminster Kennel Club 138th Annual Dog Show. African asylum seekers protest in Tel Aviv Riot police stand behind crosses installed by anti-government protesters in memory of the people who have died and went missing during clashes in Ukraine, near the barricades in Kiev Horse in a house SKOREA-RELIGION-UNIFICATION-MARRIAGE Chingay Parade in Singapore Vaculikova of the Czech Republic performs a jump during the women's freestyle skiing moguls qualification round at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Rosa Khutor Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 1 Sochi Olympics Gay in Sochi Israel Tattoo Convention Mass marriage ceremony in Mumbai. SSUDAN-UNREST TOPSHOTS-SSUDAN-UNREST-REFUGEES TOPSHOTS-PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN-SOCIETY TOPSHOTS-UKRAINE-UNREST-EU-RUSSIA-POLITICS Bushfire in Gisborne, Victoria, Australia - 09 Feb 2014 *** BESTPIX *** The Color Run Heavy snowfall in Switzerland Drought emergency declared in California Kenyan LGBT supporters protest against Uganda's anti-gay bill #CHINA-GUANGXI-ROAD ICING ALERT(CN) US-WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW A Treeing Walker Coonhound is judged during competition at the Hound group during day one of judging of the 2014 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York Preparing for Purim parade TOPSHOTS-HONDURAS-GARIFUNA-CHILD-FEATURE A falcon scavenges for scraps as a woman cleans fish at the banks of Sobat river in Upper Nile State Aerial Views Show The Extent Of The Flooding On The Somerset Levels Swollen Thames River Forces Evacuations Piano concert at barricades in Kiev city center TOPSHOTS-US-FRANCE-DIPLOMACY-OBAMA-HOLLANDE Podladtchikov performs a jump during the men's snowboard halfpipe semi-final event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games Zhang and Bartholomay of the U.S. during pairs short program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics TOPSHOTS-SSUDAN-UNREST People cry after losing all of their belongings in a fire at a slum at Mirpur in Dhaka APTOPIX Afghanistan Daily Life Winter storm hits metro Atlanta, Georgia, USA Newlyweds bow to Han Hak-ja (not pictured), widow of Evangelist Reverend Sun-Myung Moon, as they attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong Visitors and Tibetan monks look on as a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying the Buddha portrait, is unveiled amid snowfalls at Langmu Lamasery in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture A member of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) looks through an opening while marching through the streets of Brasilia National Corvette Museum handout photo shows a sink hole that swallowed eight Corvettes in Bowling Green APTOPIX Venezuela Protests Ultra Orthodox Jews protest over ancient tomb desecrations in Beit Shemesh A rebel fighter walks in front of a bushfire in a rebel controlled territory in Upper Nile State APTOPIX Pakistan Valentines Day APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians APTOPIX France Albino Alligators Groom and bride jump into the pond as they are chased by men dressed as pirates in Prachin Buri province Kenya Protest *** BESTPIX *** 2014 Mornington Cup TOPSHOTS-NEPAL-RELIGION-FESTIVAL TOPSHOTS-INDIA-KASHMIR-UNREST-FUNERAL APTOPIX Central African Republic Sochi Olympics Finland's Arttu Kiramo performs jump during men's freestyle skiing moguls qualification round at 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games in Rosa Khutor APTOPIX Mideast Israel

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