Pictures of the week

Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

This week's gallery includes a costumed canine contestant in the run-up to the Westminster Dog Show in New York; visitors walking across dunes at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico; and a goalie protecting the puck during a hockey game in Nashville.

This gallery contains photos from the week of Feb. 9-15, 2019.

Muslims make traditional Friday prayers in front of a police riot truck, providing security due to the ongoing general threat of attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, at a mosque near the Emir's palace in Kano, northern Nigeria, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. Nigeria is due to hold general elections on Saturday, pitting incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari against leading opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

The shadow of Venezuela's Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez is cast on a screen while presenting the country's strategy to promote tourism in all its regions, in the Hotel Alba Caracas, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A paramilitary police officer stands guard under the portrait of former leader Mao Zedong outside Tiananmen Gate as snow falls in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. China's capital is mostly dry in the winter but a storm system brought snow to the city on Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A Kashmiri woman is comforted by another as a young wounded relative is taken for treatment inside a hospital Srinagar Indian-controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. Police and medics say at least 25 high school students have been injured by an explosion in their classroom in Indian-controlled Kashmir. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Boys play billiards as they rent a table for 4 Egyptian Pounds (U.S. $0.25), at Darb Shughlan, a popular district in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Visitors walk across dunes at White Sands National Monument as a rain storm passes, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, near Alamogordo, N.M. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Haiti Protest

Looters run away from a store as national police arrive, during a protest demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Thousands of birds fly in a giant flock over a high voltage electrical tower as the sun sets during a winter evening, near the village of Tudela, northern Spain, on Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

A naked Hindu holy man prays as others cross a pontoon bridge to take ritualistic dip on the auspicious day of Basant Panchami at Sangam, the confluence of sacred rivers the Yamuna, the Ganges and the mythical Saraswati, during the Kumbh Mela or the Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019. The Kumbh Mela is a series of ritual baths by Hindu sadhus, or holy men, and other pilgrims at Sangam that dates back to at least medieval times. Pilgrims bathe in the river believing it cleanses them of their sins and ends their process of reincarnation. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard (35) covers the puck during the third period of the team's NHL hockey game against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. The Red Wings won 3-2. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

A social worker measures the height of Yosmairi Martinez, 7, before lunch in San Antonio de Padua popular dinning room in Petare slum, Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Talos, a Rottweiler, is dressed with a pair of sunglasses to look like Elvis Presley during the "meet the breeds" companion event to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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This gallery was produced by Patrick Sison in New York.