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    The Week in Pictures

    Updated: 14:44, Friday, 15 March 2013

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

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    • A young Balinese couple kiss during the annual Kissing Festival known as 'Omed-Omedan' at Sesetan village
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      A young Balinese couple kiss during the annual Kissing Festival known as 'Omed-Omedan' at Sesetan village

    • Mugs on sale outside 'Dracula's Castle' in Brasov, Transylvania. Romania has launched a tourism drive to try to boost its economy
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      Mugs on sale outside 'Dracula's Castle' in Brasov, Transylvania. Romania has launched a tourism drive to try to boost its economy

    • Irish trainer Willie Mullins' string of horses on the gallops at Cheltenham racecourse
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      Irish trainer Willie Mullins' string of horses on the gallops at Cheltenham racecourse

    • A young girl waits to receive a polio vaccination at a clinic in Herat, Afghanistan
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      A young girl waits to receive a polio vaccination at a clinic in Herat, Afghanistan

    • Sand artist Sundersan Pattnaik pays tribute to Pope Francis in Puri, India
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      Sand artist Sundersan Pattnaik pays tribute to Pope Francis in Puri, India

    • Local shop workers bring hot drinks to homeless people sleeping on Athens' Panapestimou Street
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      Local shop workers bring hot drinks to homeless people sleeping on Athens' Panapestimou Street

    • Local residents in Chicago pay tribute to six-month-old Jonylah Watkins, who died after being shot five times while her father changed her nappy in a minivan
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      Local residents in Chicago pay tribute to six-month-old Jonylah Watkins, who died after being shot five times while her father changed her nappy in a minivan

    • Bangladeshi rickshaw pullers take part in a race in Dhaka
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      Bangladeshi rickshaw pullers take part in a race in Dhaka

    • Children draw sketches at the Hong Kong flower show. Organisers expect more than 500,000 visitors over the course of the ten-day event
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      Children draw sketches at the Hong Kong flower show. Organisers expect more than 500,000 visitors over the course of the ten-day event

    • Ultra-Orthodox Jews collect water from a mountain spring near Jerusalem to be used to bake the matzoth (unleavened bread) during the Maim Shelanu ceremony
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      Ultra-Orthodox Jews collect water from a mountain spring near Jerusalem to be used to bake the matzoth (unleavened bread) during the Maim Shelanu ceremony

    • Pope Francis attends his first mass as pontiff at the Sistine Chapel in Rome
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      Pope Francis attends his first mass as pontiff at the Sistine Chapel in Rome

    • Lionel Messi celebrates scoring Barcelona's third goal in his team's emphatic Champions League win
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      Lionel Messi celebrates scoring Barcelona's third goal in his team's emphatic Champions League win

    • A child slides on a snowboard in front of the snow-covered Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Montmartre, Paris
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      A child slides on a snowboard in front of the snow-covered Sacre-Coeur Basilica in Montmartre, Paris

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