The Week In Pictures
Updated:A selection of some of the best images from around the world this week.
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1 Jershon Witehira jumps from a pier at St Kilda Beach in Melbourne, where temperatures are set to soar to above 40C over the weekend
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2 Liverpool player Luis Suarez swings on the cross bar following a missed chance during a match against Sunderland at Anfield
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3 Sydney welcomes the New Year in style
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4 Richard Murphy (39) of the Jacksonville Jaguars is tackled by Tommie Campbell (37) and Al Afalava (38) of the Tennessee Titans
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5 Austrian ski jumper Wolfgang Loitzl during a training jump at the Four-Hills-Tournament in Oberstdorf, southern Germany
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6 A French gunner sits in a military helicopter flying above Kabul
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7 A reveller takes part in the battle of Enfarinats, a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival in Ibi, Spain
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8 Russian police investigators and emergency services teams work at the Tu-204 jet crash site near the Vnukovo airport outside Moscow
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9 Over 1,000 New Year swimmers, many in costume, braved freezing conditions in the River Forth in front of the Forth Rail Bridge during the annual Loony Dook Swim in South Queensferry, Scotland
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10 A man looks towards the village of Muchelney, which has been cut off by flooding on the Somerset Levels near Langport, England
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11 Barack Obama jumps into the ocean at Pyramid Rock Beach in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
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12 Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank village of Tamoun, near Jenin
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13 People leave the Central African Republic town of Damara, the last strategic town between the rebels from the SELEKA coalition and the country's capital Bangui
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14 Iraqis take part in the Arbaeen religious festival in the shrine city of Karbala, southwest of Iraq's capital Baghdad
