Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, left, comforts Carole Burtch during a healing service at Congregation Chaverim in Tucson. Hundreds of people attended the service to pray for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and other victims of a shooting that left six people dead and the three-term Democratic congresswoman in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the head.
People gather outside University Medical Center for a prayer vigil Saturday night for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in Tucson. Giffords, a third-term Democrat, was shot in the head Saturday morning.
A child stands with supporters of the Sunni Tehreek political party during a rally calling for the release of gunman Mumtaz Qadri, the alleged killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Taseer was shot and killed Jan. 4 by Qadri, his bodyguard, who was enraged by the governor’s opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam.
A supporter of incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo sports the initials of the president’s political coalition during a demonstration at the Palace of Culture in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
A man on a bus from Kampala, Uganda, holds a southern Sudan flag as his group arrives in Nimue, Sudan. People are voting on a referendum that is expected to result in independence for southern Sudan.
A man looks at the ruins of the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince. The church was destroyed Jan. 12, 2010, by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
A woman cleans a shop after heavy rain and melting snow caused the Mosel River to flood Zell an der Mosel, Germany.
Drifting ice piles up against the Aflsuitdijk dike in the Netherlands.
Hitomi Nakamura, 12, hangs a wooden plaque bearing her wish to pass a junior high school entrance examination at Yushima Tenjin Shinto shrine in Tokyo. Students and parents will visit shrines to wish for success during the annual school examination season.
Thousands of Roman Catholic devotees swarm around a float of the Black Nazarene, an icon of Jesus Christ holding a cross, as it is wheeled into Quiapo church in Manila, the Philippines.
A kite from Italy is prepared for launch at the International Kite Festival in Ahmadabad, India. People from 36 countries are participating in the festival, which runs until Friday.
