Gallery: The Week in Pictures

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Saturday, 2 April 2011


A selection of the most striking images from around the world this week

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  1 Hot air balloons fly over the Hamilton lake in New Zealand
  

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  2 Shuttle is readied for its launch on 19 April in Cape Canaveral, Florida
  

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  3 Riot police in London move in front of a burning barricade during clashes with protesters after a march in protest against government cuts
  

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  4 People use their smartphones to photograph a performer from the Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey production in Washington
  

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  5 Exhibition Manager Paul Gallagher examines an animatronic Tarbosaurus dinosaur model
  

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  6 Kylie Palmer of Australia races in the final of the Women's 400m Freestyle in 2011 the Australian Swimming Championships
  

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  7 An anti-nuclear activist marched to demand Germany disband nuclear energy
  

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  8 Tunisian would-be immigrants await to be transferred out of the Italian island of Lampedusa
  

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  9 A Libyan rebel flashes a V-sign while resting at the gate of the city of Ras Lanuf
  

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  10 Police detain a man thought to be a Pro-Gaddafi supporter after an altercation with a demonstrator
  

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  11 A panda, leased from China, arrived at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo this week
  

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  12 Neighbours of Sally Villanueva, one of the three Filipinos scheduled to be executed in China, hold a light candle vigil
  

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  13 Britain's Prince Harry tries out an immersion suit on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway
  

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  14 A Yemeni anti-government protester holds an umbrella during a demonstration
  

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  15 Three two-week old warthogs and two adult ones walk through their enclosure at the Berlin zoo
  

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  16 Syrian labourers in Lebanon kneel to kiss pictures of their President Bashar al-Assad during a pro-government rally
  

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  17 The price of oil leapt to a 30-month high on Libya fears to close over $106 per barrel
  

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  18 The ISS Canary Wharf Squash Classic in London