The Week in Pictures
Updated:Some of the best images from around the world this week.
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1 Red deer hinds graze as the rutting season draws to a close in Glen Etive in Scotland
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2 Charlotte Aiken and Josh Whidborne pose for photographs at the opening of Skate at Somerset House in London
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3 An aerial view of the Battle On The Midway college basketball game played between the Syracuse Orange and the San Diego State Aztecs on board the USS Midway in San Diego, California
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4 An Akha Hilltribe woman picks Oolong #17 tea leaves during a harvest at the Suwirun Tea farm in the hills outside Chiang Rai, Thailand
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5 A buddha statue is seen among the debris in a destroyed monastery after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Thabeikkyin Township, Mandalay division of Burma
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6 Workers check the security camera before the closing ceremony of 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress on the top of Great Hall of the People in Beijing
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7 Totality is seen during the solar eclipse at Palm Cove in Australia
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8 A Plasticine skull made by the Argentinian Mondongo Collective entitled 'Calavera' is viewed at the Death: A Self-portrait exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London
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9 Afghan National Army cadets secure the perimeter as smoke bombs, simulating detonated IEDs, cover the area during a Taliban capture military exercise at the Kabul Military Training Centre
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10 John Terry of Chelsea is injured in a collision with Luis Suarez of Liverpool during the English Premier League match between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge
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11 People watch as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is raised into position in New York City
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12 A religious motif is placed on a stand as Sadhus and Hindus celebrate Diwali at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in London
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13 Bono speaks during a visit at the World Bank in Washington, DC
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14 Palestinian firefighters extinguish fire from the car of Ahmaed Jaabari, head of the military wing of the Hamas movement, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza
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15 Israeli children play in a large concrete pipe used as a bomb shelter between rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip in Nitzan
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16 Plumes of smoke rise over Gaza during an Israeli air strike
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17 More than 2,000 housewives make Kimchi for donation to the poor in preparation for winter in front of City Hall in Seoul
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18 Sunrise in Kilcoole, Co Wicklow. Taken by Bray student Graeme Fisher on the Gorey to Dublin train at 7.15am on Thursday 15 November
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19 Javanese people walk on the rituals night carnival '1st Suro' (Javanese calendar) during Islamic New Year celebrations at Kasunanan Palace in Solo City, Central Java, Indonesia
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20 People pass a mock ballot box erected to encourage people to vote in the first Bristol mayoral election in England
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21 Flood waters surround a stop sign in Bay Head, New Jersey. Many residents of the seaside town remain without power following Superstorm Sandy
