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Gallery: The Week In Pictures
18 December 2010
A selection of some of the most striking images from around the world this week.
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18 December 2010
A selection of some of the most striking images from around the world this week.
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- A 5,000 strong herd of reindeer is rounded up to be counted by Sami people in Kiruna, Sweden
- 2 A storm front approaches the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia
- 3 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange emerges from the High Court in London
- 4 A delicate sphere of gas photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
- 5 Students demonstrating against Silvio Berlusconi set fire to vehicles in Rome
- 6 Two polar bear mothers duke it out, watched by one of their cubs in Wapusk National Park, Canada
- 7 A village has been cut off for six months in China's Sichuan Province due to a dangerous bridge
- 8 Indian Shia Muslims take part in a self-flagellation ritual during the Ashura mourning period in New Delhi
- 9 Rough seas off Portnablagh, Donegal (Pic: Lee Downey)
- 10 Start of the annual red crab migration on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean
- 11 Choir boys from Winchester Cathedral on the artificial ice rink set up beside the cathedral
- 12 Munster's Paul O'Connell received a four-week ban after his sending off against the Ospreys
