The week in photos

11/02/11 2,385 Views 1 Comment

BRINGING HOME THE Bacon, a head count of a billion or more, naked festivals… and an elephant in the room (thanks to @janetravers and her 9-year-old daughter for that one): This is the week that was, in pictures.

The week in photos

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Naked ambition
A crowd of men in "fundoshi'' loincloth scramble for good luck amulets at a 1000-year-old traditional naked matsuri festival, held in early February every year to wish for good harvest and health in Oshu, Japan.
Far from resigned
Egyptians celebrate the news of the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak this evening after weeks of protest against 30 years of emergency rule.
Tutankhamun comes to town
A curator examines one of the replica sarcophagus at the Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Treasures show which opens at the RDS Dublin next week.
Reflective mood
British Trials Champion Gary MacDonald is pictured reflected in Loch Linnhe near Fort William in Scotland, during the launch of the tenth Fort William Mountain Festival.
Bringing home the bacon
Three studies for a portrait of Lucian Freud by Dublin-born artist Francis Bacon sold for €27m at Sotheby's, London yesterday.
Billion-plus head count
Census workers take details of a Kashmiri family on the outskirts of Srinagar, India - the country has begun a mammoth effort to document every citizen in three weeks.
Cork plane crash
A lone investigator surveys the destruction at the scene of yesterday's plane crash at Cork Airport in which six people died.
Spring sunrise
Trees are silhouetted against the early morning Kansas sky in the US - although the temperatures there are still sub-zero.
Don't I know you?
Aimee Hall lays out heads on sticks marking the seating plan for Sunday night's BAFTAs in London.
Elephant in the room?
As the political parties contesting General Election 2011 continued to argue over bank guarantees, budget cuts and the fiscal future of Ireland, the 9-year-old daughter of TheJournal.ie reader Jane Travers from Kildare paints it as it is...
Slingshot hotshots
Afghan men fight each other with slings in a traditional game in a park in the centre of Kandahar.
Yes, we're all looking at you
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, pictured centre-stage here making a speech last month, had to apologise this week for making jokes about "inebriated" Irish people.
Grand, no more
The grand hall of a 1000-year-old temple in Fuzhou city, China was gutted by fire this week.
Oh, the weather outside...
A mountain cow looks out from her stable during a snowfall at the Skansen open air museum in central Stockholm, Sweden.

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