This week we watched as the battle for Col. Muammar el-Qadaffi’s last redoubt, the city of Surt, fell to fighters of the Libyan National Transitional Council after intense street fighting. The world-tour of imagery takes us then to Pakistan, where gunmen turned a convoy of NATO fuel trucks into blazing roadside attraction, and to Afghanistan, where we visit the far-flung and forlorn outposts of NATO troops in Kandahar Province. World leaders, deadly sports, and of course the “Occupy Wall Street” protests around the world were all subjects in the news this week, as were a number of remarkable women, each very different from the next.
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