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    The Week In Pictures

    Updated: 14:56, Friday, 25 January 2013

    A selection of some of the best images from around the world this week.

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    • A pop-up beach was installed in London despite the snow
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      A pop-up beach was installed in London despite the snow

    • Rachael Haynes of the Breakers loses her grip on the bat during the women's Twenty20 final at WACA
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      Rachael Haynes of the Breakers loses her grip on the bat during the women's Twenty20 final at WACA

    • A young girl is reflected in the glass as she views a Spot-Eye Cichlid fish at the Beijing Aquarium
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      A young girl is reflected in the glass as she views a Spot-Eye Cichlid fish at the Beijing Aquarium

    • A family of snowmen sit on Box Hill,  in Dorking, England
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      A family of snowmen sit on Box Hill, in Dorking, England

    • Andy Murray signs autographs after winning his match against Gilles Simon at the Australian Open
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      Andy Murray signs autographs after winning his match against Gilles Simon at the Australian Open

    • Models present creations by  Donatella Versace during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer show in Paris
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      Models present creations by Donatella Versace during the Haute Couture Spring-Summer show in Paris

    • Workers prepare to attempt to set a 950-tonne bucket excavator upright following an accident at an open-pit coal mine near Deutzen, Germany
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      Workers prepare to attempt to set a 950-tonne bucket excavator upright following an accident at an open-pit coal mine near Deutzen, Germany

    • A Democratic Republic of Congo supporter prior to the Africa Cup of Nations game with Ghana at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth
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      A Democratic Republic of Congo supporter prior to the Africa Cup of Nations game with Ghana at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth

    • A visitor walks among snow-covered stellae at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
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      A visitor walks among snow-covered stellae at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

    • US President Barack Obama and the first lady dance together during the Comander-in-Chief's Inaugural Ball at the Walter Washington Convention Center
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      US President Barack Obama and the first lady dance together during the Comander-in-Chief's Inaugural Ball at the Walter Washington Convention Center

    • A firefighter helps to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago, Illinois
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      A firefighter helps to extinguish a massive blaze at a vacant warehouse in Chicago, Illinois

    • Huskies pull a sledge in a forest courses during practice for the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally in Feshiebridge, Scotland
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      Huskies pull a sledge in a forest courses during practice for the Aviemore Sled Dog Rally in Feshiebridge, Scotland

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