The Week in Pictures
Updated:A selection of some of the images that caught our eye over the past seven days.
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1 A mahout receives a dousing from his elephant ahead of the tourist season at the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary
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2 A man checks the first European Train Control System line in Profondeville, Wallonia
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3 A woman swims in a pool in Tallinn, Estonia More than 100 swimmers took part in the Pirita swimming festival in icy cold water
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4 Athletes start the New Zealand Ironman in Taupo, New Zealand
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5 Statues of Chinese soldiers displayed at a new shopping mall as Beijing prepares for the upcoming National People's Congress
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6 Artist Peter Fischli poses next to 'Rock on Top of Another Rock', in Hyde Park in London
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7 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge meets three-year-old Olllie Axel as she visits Humberside Fire and Rescue Peaks Lane Fire Station
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8 Soldiers from the Qatari army attend the final day of joint military exercises with the French armed forces, named Gulf Falcon 2013, in Doha
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9 Activists place an oversized gun in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, with the writing 'Our weapons kill, Germany is the third largest weapons exporter in the world'
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10 The sculpture 'Cloud Gate', commonly known as 'the bean' covered in snow in Chicago, Illinois.
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11 Carl Edwards, driver of the #99 Subway Ford, performs a back flip to celebrate after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.
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12 Cardboard characters outside the Houses of Parliament organised by Fairtrade Foundation to draw attention to the plight of smallholder farmers
