Five Frames: Best photos of the week

BOSTON — From GlobalPost’s editors, a selection of the best pictures of the week.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Menahem Porush in Jerusalem, Feb. 22, 2010. Porush served as a member of the Israeli parliament for the Agudat Israel Jewish religious party for 35 years until 1994. Also in Israel this week, the son of a Hamas founder talked about his secret life as a key Israeli agent. (Gil Cohen Mage/Reuters)

A Bulgarian Roma woman walks with her mother during a bride fair in the village of Mogila, about 150 miles east of the capital Sofia, Feb. 20, 2010. The bride fair, a kind of annual debutante ball, offers the hope of a stable future for young Roma women, a group deemed vulnerable to racism and poverty across Europe. A cultural route recently opened to promote tourism and connect gypsy settlements in nine countries. (Stoyan Nenov/Reuters)

A worker is seen at the Seed Cathedral, the centerpiece of the U.K. Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site in Shanghai, Feb. 21, 2010. The 20-meter-high cube-like Seed Cathedral will be covered by 60,000 slim, transparent acrylic rods, which will quiver in the breeze. (China Daily/Reuters)

Thina Gxotelwa, 6, strokes the family cat while Sinelizwi Gxotelwa, 7, is washed in a basin by their grandmother, Thenjiwe Madzinga, 66, in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township, Feb. 24, 2010. Madzinga cares for five grandchildren, including four who were orphaned when Madzinga’s own daughter died from AIDS. Some 5.5 million people live with HIV/AIDS in South Africa — more than in any other country. See more work from Finbarr O’Reilly in Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria, Senegal and Congo. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

Slovakia’s hockey team gathers around the net before their game against Latvia their men’s hockey at the Olympics, Feb. 20, 2010. Canadians usually prefer to keep expectations in check since the legendary hockey series between Canada and the Soviet Union in 1972, but this year they set out to win the most medals at all costs. (Hans Deryk/Reuters)

And this week’s cute animal bonus:

A swan swims at the river mouth between the River Drim and Ohrid Lake in the city of Struga, Macedonia, Feb. 25, 2010. (Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters)