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  • Alexey Druzhinin/AFP - Getty Images

    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) and Vagit Alekperov, chief executive officer of Russia's oil firm LUKOIL (L) grease their faces with oil during visit to a Lukoil stationary oil platform in the Caspian Sea, April 28.

    This image startled me today as I looked for images of the oil spill crisis happening on the Gulf Coast in the United States. What do you think of them greasing their faces?

  • Alessandro Della Bella/EPA

    Brady W. Dougan, CEO of Swiss Bank Credit Suisse, looks on during the general assembly of Swiss Bank Credit Suisse CS at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, 30 April 2010.

    Larger than life.

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    This satellite photo made Thursday, April 29, 2010 and provided by NASA shows the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico as it closes in on the Pass a Loutre area of Plaquemines Parish, La.

    I'm full of dread over this.

  • Ivan Sekretarev/AP

    A Russian firefighter prepares a water canon as a figurehead of a burning floating restaurant is seen in a smoke, at the Moskva River in downtown Moscow, Friday, April 30, 2010.

    St. Michael as fire fighter.

  • Mukhtar Khan/AP

    Kashmiri protestors run for cover as policemen fire teargas shells during a protest against the Indian government in Srinagar, India, Friday, April 30, 2010. A civilian was hit by a stone thrown by another group of demonstrators, protesting against India, at a bus and later died at a hospital, police said.

    What a varied collection of body language.

  • Wason Wanichakorn/AP

    A Thai soldier wearing pink sandals takes position at his makeshift camp near Chulalongkorn hospital where anti-government protesters make a search for soldiers inside a hospital building Thursday, April 29 in Bangkok, Thailand.

    Whoever decided to forego Kevlar helmets as a standard issue item in lieu of pink flip flops needs to be fired.

  • Mauricio Lima/AFP - Getty Images

    An Afghan man enjoys a sunny day at a swimming pool in Kabul on April 28, 2010. Afghanistan has commemorated the 1992 toppling of a Soviet-backed regime, which led to bloody civil war and arguably to the rise of the Taliban, as the capital Kabul went under security lockdown.

    Fellow editor Jim Seida pointed out this picture to me. I like its surreal quality where you don't know where the man is coming from, or where he's going.

  • Altaf Qadri/AP

    A young Indian village girl lays on a charpoy or traditional Indian bed next to a buffalo on the outskirts of Amritsar, India, Monday, April 26, 2010.

    We liked the goofy and inquisitive look of this buffalo, and the quiet moment it was sharing with the young girl, but some of the background elements were a little too distracting to include it in this edition of The Week in Pictures.

  • Javier Barbancho/Reuters

    A woman wearing a traditional Sevillana dress looks into a stall at a fair in Seville, April 22, 2010. The fair runs until April 25.

    This image didn't quite make the cut for this week's edition of The Week in Pictures. Check out the link below to see the ones who made it in.

  • Anja Niedringhaus/AP

    People are seen walking near the Jet d'Eau, a large water jet and one of the largest fountains in the world, as water droplets from the fountain create a rainbow, on the shore of Lake Leman, in the center of Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

    How much of the strength of a picture of public art is about the art, and how much about the photograph?

  • Stephen Morton/AP

    A crew member walks up to a water-tight hatch in the narrow passage way the submarine U.S.S. Alaska Thursday, April 29, 2010, at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Ga. The Navy says the first U.S. women to serve on submarines will be reporting for undersea duty in less than two years, ending one of the military's few remaining gender barriers.

    NBC's Ann Curry will have a full package from a sub on Nightly News tonight, and at nightly.msnbc.com shortly thereafter.

  • Hamad Olayan/AFP - Getty Images

    Saudi Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabia (L) works with a fellow surgeon on separating two baby boys from Jordan conjoined at the stomach during a seven-hour operation at King Abdulaziz Medical Centre in Riyadh on April 29, 2010.

    The Saudi king paid for the operation, the minister of health is one of the surgeons. High-powered medical help...

  • Digitalglobe/AP

    This satellite photo taken April 26, shows cleanup vessels working in the area of an oil slick created after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than believed and as the government grows concerned that the rig's operator is ill-equipped to contain it.

    Strangely pretty

  • Joshua Lott/Reuters

    A man walks past graffiti on a building reading "Smash The Border" in Phoenix, Arizona April 29, 2010. Civil rights groups prepared to challenge to Arizona's immigration crackdown in court as Democratic leaders in Congress said they would unveil the "framework" of a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.

    Pictures that depend on words often don't work for mein this case I really appreciate the shape of the words, rather than what they mean.

  • Misha Japaridze/AP

    A soldier of the Kremlin subdivision collapse from heat exhaustion near the Tomb of Unknown Soldier in downtown Moscow, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

    Oh man. . .

  • Vincent Thian/AP

    Pakistani child attend a daily class to learn how to read verses from the Quran at a mosque in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

    I love the light in this.

  • Vincent Thian/AP

    Jumagull, a 7-year-old Pakistani girl, looks on during a daily class to learn how to read verses from the Quran at a mosque in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April 29, 2010.

    Interesting how different a tight portrait can be from a wide shot of the same scene.

  • Chris Graythen/Getty Images

    A boat makes its way through crude oil that has leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico on April 28, 2010 near New Orleans, Louisiana. An estimated leak of 5,000 barrels of oil a day are still leaking into the gulf.

    OMG

  • Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP - Getty Images

    Cambodian Buddhist monks sit at Bayon temple during the Visak Bochea in Siem Reap province, some 300 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh on April 28, 2010.Thousands of Cambodian celebrate 2,554 years of Buddha, called 'Visak Bochea', that is the date of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death on the day of the full moon.

    Catching glimpses of the bright saffron robes of monks around the towns and pagodas of Cambodia was a highlight of a trip I took there last year. I like this shot showing so many brightly clothed men against the backdrop of the heavy grey rocks.

  • Jim Seida/msnbc.com

    A 737 cockpit sits empty, awaiting seats and instruments at the Boeing plant in Renton, WA on April 5, 2010.

    This is my favorite picture from a recent assignment about Boeing 737s. It blew me away that Boeing produces one-and-a-half 737s each workday at this plant. That's a lot of airplanes.

  • Taiwan National Freeway Bureau -/EPA

    The handout photo taken by Taiwan's airbone police on April 27, 2010 (right) shows an aerial view of rescuers using excavators ro remove rubble and search for buried cars and victims at the site of a landslide that covered the full width of a motorway near the northern port city of Keelung. The landslide smothered a 300 metre-length of the No. 3 Freeway on April 26, shown in the picture at left.

    You can see the progress being made in debris removal in Taiwan in this side-by-side view.

  • Sascha Schuermann/AFP - Getty Images

    Student in the 10th grade take part in a physics class at a fairground in the southern German city of Bad Cannstatt on April 28, 2010. The student used the fairground rides to demonstrate the effects of curves.

    What an awesome way to learn about physics!

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    A goat performs wire-walking with a monkey on its back at a zoo in Fuzhou, Fujian province Wednesday, April 28. (Reuters)

    When I saw this picture, I said, "Wow. That's a goat on a tight-rope with a monkey on it's back." I don't know what else to say.

  • Mike Rice/AP

    Bill Rothschild looks at his crayfish, Cray Aiken, on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, at his home in Granite Springs, N.Y. Bill likes to share his problems with his animals, such as Cray, because they are good listeners.

    They're lucky to have each other

  • Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    Fabrice Tourre (C), executive director of the structured products group trading for The Goldman Sachs Group, prepares to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on April 27, 2010 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee is investigating the role of investment banks during the Wall Street financial crisis.

    The hot seat.

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