Pictures of the Week: January 21 – 27, 2006

A man takes a shower at a frozen hot mineral spring in the Black Sea town of Varna
PETKO MOMCHILOV / AP

Cool Off
A man takes a shower at a frozen hot mineral spring in the Black Sea town of Varna, some 280 miles northeast of the capital Sofia. The arctic cold wave dropped temperatures to 20 below zero Centigrade (4 below zero Fahrenheit) in northeast Bulgaria

Wednesday, Jan 25, 2006