The Week In Pictures
Updated:Some of the best images from around the world this week.
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1 A roller coaster sits in the Atlantic Ocean after the Casino Pier collapsed when Superstorm Sandy hit in Seaside Heights, New Jersey
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2 A rainbow of laser lights marking one month since Hurricane Sandy is seen from Brooklyn in New York City
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3 A piper performs as the restored historic archway is opened at Scone Palace in Perth, Scotland
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4 Palestinians celebrate on the streets in Ramallah after the UN General Assembly voted to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's status to non-member observer state
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5 A family reads a leaflet of job offers during a jobs fair organised by the Immigration Office of Quebec in Paris and the Catalonia Employment Service in Barcelona, Spain
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6 Protesters, many of them employees at Wendy's fast-food restaurant, demonstrate outside of one of the restaurants to demand higher pay and the right to form a union in New York City
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7 A woman puts the finishing touches to a traditional hand-made 'Anguila' (eel shaped) mazapan Christmas cake at the Santo Tome Obrador de Mazapan cake bakery in Toledo, Spain
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8 A girl performs on ice for 'Thank you from Tohoku' in the Gala Exhibition during day three of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy Rifu, Japan
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9 Shia muslims mark the Day of Ashura, striking themselves until they are bloody with razors and chains in Rangoon, Burma
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10 Runners take the water jump in The Burges Salmon Novices' Limited Handicap Steeple Chase at Newbury racecourse in England
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11 People walk from Glastonbury Tor as flood water in the fields below is seen in Somerset, England
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12 Trees are reflected in flood waters as residents begin to deal with the aftermath of the recent floods in Old Malton, England
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13 The annual Christmas market at Gendarmenmarkt stands illuminated in the city centre on its opening day on in Berlin, Germany
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14 The New Zealand All Blacks perform the Haka before the international rugby match between Wales and New Zealand at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff
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15 Cones mark off the damage caused by beach erosion along route A-1-A, making parts of it impassable to vehicles on in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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16 Shipping container trucks sit in traffic as an International Longshore and Warehouse Union strikes puts a halt to most of the work at the busiest seaport complex in the US in Long Beach, California
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17 Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands with US President Barack Obama in the Oval Office in the White House
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18 People dive off Manly Wharf in Sydney, Australia. Temperatures in the high 30s and low 40s are expected to hit parts of New South Wales over the weekend
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19 A boy walks along the shore at Clovelly Beach in Sydney, Australia, as a red algae bloom inhabits the water
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20 US First Lady Michelle Obama holds the presidential dog Bo on his leash as young children run in to pet him in the White House
