The Week in Pictures
Updated:Some of the best images from around the world this week.
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1 The Defence Forces released this image of the Skelligs, which was taken on a recent Air Corps maritime patrol
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2 Russian soldiers wearing World War II uniforms take part in a military parade on Red Square in Moscow
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3 Mist lingers in fields viewed from Glastonbury Tor as the sun rises over the Somerset countryside
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4 A young Afghan boy chases pigeons in front of the Shah-e Doh Shamshira shrine in Kabul
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5 Chinese hostesses jump before the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing
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6 People walk through a darkened street using flashlights as a police spotlight shines behind them during a snowstorm in the Rockaway neighborhood of New York
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7 Ballot boxes are delivered to Tory Island off Co Donegal for the Children's Referendum (Pic: Defence Forces)
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8 A kiosk is set on fire during a protest rally in Athens
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9 The White House released this image of US President Barack Obama embracing Vice President Joe Biden after the television networks called the US Presidential Election in Mr Obama's favour
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10 Republican challenger Mitt Romney gives his concession speech to supporters in Boston
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11 Derry City defender Stewart Greacen scores his side's first goal in their 3-2 victory over St Patrick's Athletic in the FAI Cup final
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12 Oleh Skavysh holds a chain in his teeth as he pulls a tram in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv
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13 Lansdowne's Cian Aherne is kept from the tryline by Robert Clune and Niall O'Driscoll of Cork Con in the Ulster Bank League Division 1A
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14 A sub-lieutenant lies on a field after fainting during a ceremony at the police school in Bogota in Colombia
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15 Chris Johnson No 28 of the Tennessee Titans is tackled and is tripped upside down against the Chicago Bears in Nashville, Tennessee
