Week in Pictures: January 16 – 22, 2012

The week’s best photography from around the globe

<p>A live image of Joran van der Sloot is seen on a monitor outside the court in the press room during the reading of his sentence at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Friday Jan. 13, 2012.  The Peruvian court sentenced Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for the murder of a young woman he met at a Lima casino, as the family of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway sought to have him prosecuted in the U.S. over her disappearance in 2005. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)</p>

A live image of Joran van der Sloot is seen on a monitor outside the court in the press room during the reading of his sentence at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Friday Jan. 13, 2012. The Peruvian court sentenced Joran van der Sloot to 28 years in prison for the murder of a young woman he met at a Lima casino, as the family of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway sought to have him prosecuted in the U.S. over her disappearance in 2005. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

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