Gallery: The Week In Pictures

Friday, 3 February 2012


Some of the best photos from around the world this week

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  Indian children dressed as Mahatma Gandhi at an event promoting the ideology of nonviolence in Kolkata
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A competitor runs through water during the Tough Guy Challenge endurance race in Telford, England
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Racing down the back straight at Taunton racecourse on 31 January
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Alan Brogan (Dublin) and Kieren Donaghy (Kerry) pose ahead of the first National Football League clash of the year at Croke Park
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Family members and mourners gather at Cairo's railway station as they receive the bodies of 74 football fans who were killed in Port Said
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  English Lop-Eared Rabbits on the judging table at an annual show on 28 January in Harrogate, England
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  British player Anne Keothavong Fed Cup Europe/Africa Group One fixture in Elait, Israel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  An artist performs in a pool suspended above the audience during the Fuerza Bruta dress rehearsal in Tel Aviv
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  A man opens the mouth of a camel at Birqash camel market on 27 January in Cairo
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Mark McMorris of Canada practices for the men's snowboard slopestyle finals during Winter X Games 2012 in Aspen, Colorado
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The winter sun sets over Shapwick Heath a wetland reserve, near Glastonbury, England
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Mary Jose Cristerna aka 'The Vampire Woman' poses during the Venezuela Expo Tattoo 2012 in Caracas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  An elephant enjoys a bath at the Lord Jagannathji Temple in Ahmedabad
  
  
  

That vampire lady looks more than a little scary, imagine bringing her home to meet the mammy???