Hibody: Photos of the week

Last Updated: December 4, 2010 12:00am

: This week’s Photo of the Week was taken by Jordan Verlage of the Edmonton Sun, who was one of the Sun's photo crew covering the Grey Cup for QMI Agency in Edmonton this year. The triumphant cup photo is always the main target for photographers, and getting the best shot is akin to winning the CFL trophy itself. Deadlines, accuracy, quality, speed are all factors pushing the photographers into this sometimes difficult conditions. Please send in your comments to alain-pierre.hovasse@sunmedia.ca

: A spectator watches as John Fairbairn of Canada competes in the Mens Skeleton at the VIESSMANN FIBT World Cup in Whistler, B.C., November 26, 2010. CARMINE MARINELLI/QMI AGENCY

: Pakistani eunuchs take part in a rally to mark Worlds AIDS Day in Karachi on December 1, 2010. Pakistan's Sindh province is home to a total of 3,437 HIV positive people, including 30 children, 179 women and 3,228 men besides 192 people suffering from AIDS, a provincial AIDS Control Program official said. Rizwan TABASSUM/AFP PHOTO

: An Alouette player shows off his Grey Cup ring to the crowd during the celebrations of the Grey Cup Parade at the "Place des spectacles" in Montreal on December 1, 2010. PHILIPPE-OLIVIER CONTANT/QMI AGENCY

: Real Madrid's goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas (front) tries to save a ball as he faces Barcelona's midfielder Xavi Hernandez (left) and Barcelona's forward David Villa (right) during the Spanish league "clasico" football match FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid at Camp Nou stadium on November 29, 2010 in Barcelona. Barcelona won 5-0. JAVIER SORIANO/AFP PHOTO

: Fireworks explode to mark the end of the closing ceremony for the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou on November 27, 2010. An "extraordinary" Asian Games prepared to close after 15 days of thrills and spills that saw China reinforce its sporting credentials and Japan slip further behind. GOH CHAI HIN/AFP PHOTO

: Military and riot policemen search the Morro do Alemao shantytown on November 28, 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After days of preparation, Brazilian security forces early Sunday launched a raid against a slum where between 500 and 600 drug traffickers were hiding. The joint raids by police and military forces, ended with euphoric troops waving Brazilian flags from a hilltop they had not controlled in years. Jefferson BERNARDES/AFP PHOTO

: A skull is seen next to a mass grave used for cholera deaths outside of Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday Nov 26, 2010. The skull is from a victim of the January 12 earthquake and was dug up again. Crews were going around the city and picking up people who have died of cholera. (ANDRE FORGET/QMI AGENCY)

: U.S. astronaut Doug Wheelock holds up a sign after landing near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan, on November 26, 2010. The Soyuz TMA-19 capsule carrying the crew of Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA's Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker landed on earth, returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 24 and 25 crews. SHAMIL ZHUMATOV/AFP PHOTO

: Romanians gendarmes parade on Romania's national day in Bucharest on December 1, 2010. Romania's national day marks the 1918 union between Transylvania, until then part of Austria-Hungary, and Romania. DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP PHOTO

: Actors dressed as devils perform during the "gathering of the devils" ahead of Saint Nicholas Day in Podkoren December 1, 2010. On Saint Nicholas Day in Slovenia, a performer representing the saint goes around villages giving out presents to children, and is usually surrounded by performers representing devils. BOR SLANA/REUTERS

: Alessandro del Piero of Juventus shoots and scores a goal against Lech during their UEFA Europa League match on December 1, 2010 in Poznan. JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP PHOTO

: Canoes are parked in a Erdre river snow-covered bank on December 2, 2010 in Nantes, western France. Snow and ice in France this week forced hundreds of drivers to abandon their cars, caused major disruption to flights at Paris airports and shut down half of Eurostar trains to London. FRANK PERRY/AFP PHOTO

: Sontaya, a 39 year-old HIV positive Thai man who claims to have three wives, all HIV positive, plays with a cat at a hospice for those dying of AIDS at a Buddhist temple Wat Prabat Nampu in Lopburi on the World AIDS day December 1, 2010. The temple's AIDS hospice is the largest of its kind in Thailand, providing housing for HIV positive patients and palliative care for those in the final stages of the disease. Thailand has been widely praised for its work in containing the virus. DAMIR SAGOLJ/REUTERS

: Saskatchewan Roughriders' quarterback, Darian Durant leaves the field at the end of the 98th Grey Cup held at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton on Sunday November 28, 2010. JORDAN VERLAGE/QMI AGENCY

: Hip-Hop, Pop, R&B singer Cee Lo Green was in Toronto promoting his album, The Lady Killer, featuring the hit song F--- You, earlier this week. The Gnarls Barkley star has scored a hit that even the Glee kids have covered. JACK BOLAND/QMI AGENCY

: Edmonton Oilers' Brian Gionta is checked into the boards during third period action against the Montreal Canadiens on December 1, 2010. MARTIN CHEVALIER/QMI AGENCY

: Body retrieval personnel throw a body into a mass grave outside of Port au Prince, Haiti, Friday November 26, 2010. Crews were going around the city and picking up people who died of cholera. The mass grave is the same as the one used during the January 12 earthquake. ANDRE FORGET/QMI AGENCY

: Olivier Turcotte-Létourneau of the Red and Gold from Laval U, attemps to block Anthony Parker of the Calgary Dinos during the Vanier Cup in Quebec November 27, 2010. Calgary lost the title. DIDIER DEBUSSCHERE/QMI AGENCY

: An elderly pedestrian was critically injured when a car smashed through a bus shelter in Montreal's north-end on Wednesday December 1, 2010. The driver had suffered a health problem, causing his car to veer our of control, cross into oncoming traffic, demolish the bus shelter and smash partway through the wall of an apartment building. It happened just before 8:30 a.m. MAXIME DELAND/QMI AGENCY