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Updated: Saturday, 26 February 2011
A selection of the most striking images from around the world this week
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A selection of the most striking images from around the world this week
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1 Two stallions confront each other at a horse fighting contest in Rongshui, China.
- 2 A police officer is helped from his motorcycle after being hit by a petrol bomb as police clash with protesters in Athens, Greece.
- 3 A young boy looks on as the 11.30 from Howarth on the Keighley and Worth Valley Heritage Railway sets off in Bradford, England.
- 4 Filming for the popular Afghan cop show 'Separ' (The Shield) in Kabul, Afghanistan.
- 5 Zoo-keepers dressed as pandas attempt to put Cao Gen the panda cub into a basket as part of a programme to return pandas to the wild. Sichuan Province, China.
- 6 Anti-government protestors hoist a released political prisoner in the air in the Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain.
- 7 Dublin's Shane Durkin chases Pa Bourke of Tipperary during the National Hurling League clash at Croke Park, Ireland.
- 8 El Faitory Meftah El Bouras holds a portrait of his son Fathig - one of thousands of political prisoners killed by security forces - during a protest against Muammar Gaddafi, Libya.
- 9 Dr Simon Gage and Prof Richard Wiseman perform a science experiment at the launch of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, Scotland.
- 10 A Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes plane takes off from Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 11 Tristan Webb stands in a large hole on River Road in Avonside following the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.
- 12 Wind plays havoc with Pope Benedict XVI's cloak at an unveiling ceremony for the new statue of of Lebanese Saint Maron in St Peter's basilica in the Vatican, Italy.
- 13 Space shuttle Discovery launches for the final time at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, United States.
- 14 Surrealist artist Andrew Baines takes his cow for a walk near Abby Beach in Busselton, Australia.
- 15 Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic serves during her Round 1 match against Ayumi Morita at the Dubai Tennis Championships.
- 16 Traders in the crude oil options pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange react as oil prices leap 5% due to the unrest in Libya.
- 17 A young girl runs down an alleyway in the Gorton area of Manchester, England.
- 18 Friday Prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt.
