The Week in Pictures

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A man rides a horse during a parade on Hungary's National Day in Targu Secuiesc (250km north of Bucharest)
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Reader Joe Doyle sent in this photo of Malahide on Friday morning
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US President Barack Obama is accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner as he leaves the US Capitol after attending a St Patrick's Day lunch along with Taoiseach Enda Kenny
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Ireland's centre Brian O'Driscoll reacts after the Six Nations match between Italy and Ireland at the Olympic Stadium in Rome - possibly his last game, and one in which he was sin-binned
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Two brown bears play in the snow at the Tierpark Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, northern Germany.
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Swans swim on a lake in Hamburg, northern Germany.
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Henry Moore's sculpture 'Double Oval' at The Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green, England
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People attend a gathering by French NGO 'Medecins du Monde' to demand the abrogation of the legislation that criminalized public solicitation in Paris
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The Cathedral bell tower is illuminated green to celebrate St Patrick's Day in Vilnius, Lithuania
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A sculpture of a man riding a tshukudu, wooden scooters used to transport goods, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma.
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A honey sucker bird in Harare enjoys the nectar from a bird of paradise flower after the rains.
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Civilian passengers of the Airbus A330 Zero-G, who are not astronauts nor scientists, enjoy the weightlessness, during the first zero gravity flight for paying passengers in Europe.