Week In Photos
Week In Photos
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A white-breasted nuthatch rests next to an ornament on a tree during a snowstorm near Fredericton, New Brunswick. Most of Atlantic Canada continues to be blanketed by heavy snowfall
A Highland bovine feeds on the North Yorkshire moors of England.
Children enjoy a late afternoon skate on Scotland's Lake of Menteith.
A Sikh devotee drinks water from the holy pond after taking a dip in it on the eve of the birthday of the 17th century guru Gobind Singh, at The Golden Temple, Sikh's holiest shrine, in Amritsar, India.
Malaysian people watch fireworks during celebrations in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur.
A mountain goat made of ice stands in the sun in Arosa, Switzerland. Located at the end of the Schanfigg Valley, Arosa ski area has around 60kms of marked slopes
A worker pulls himself through a bed of 'Wishing Spheres' on which members of the public wrote their wishes, the spheres later being illuminated as part of the city-state's New Year celebrations
Visitors offer prayers in front of an enlarged offertory box at Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo on the first business day of the year
Finland's Janne Ahonen soars in front of visitors during his first competition jump of the third station of the four hills ski-jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria
A man is reflected in a puddle of water as he rides a bike through Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, U.S.
Vehicles in a parking area are all covered with heavy snow in Seoul. Thousands of workers in the South Korean capital are battling the city's heaviest snowfall in nine years
Up to 30cm (12 inches) of snow fell in China's capital Beijing and its neighbouring port city of Tianjin over the weekend. Authorities have mobilised thousands of people to help clear roads after the heaviest snowfall for nearly 60 years.
Here a worker shovels snow to clear a basketball court inside a school in Beijing, 4 January 2010.
A view combining infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory in the supernova remnant W49B.
Studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-U.S. Suzaku observatory have revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions.
After thousands of years gas within these stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface.
A person shovels snow near a Christmas tree in Moscow, 30 December 2009.
14 images...
A white-breasted nuthatch rests next to an ornament on a tree during a snowstorm near Fredericton, New Brunswick. Most of Atlantic Canada continues to be blanketed by heavy snowfall
A Highland bovine feeds on the North Yorkshire moors of England.
Children enjoy a late afternoon skate on Scotland's Lake of Menteith.
A Sikh devotee drinks water from the holy pond after taking a dip in it on the eve of the birthday of the 17th century guru Gobind Singh, at The Golden Temple, Sikh's holiest shrine, in Amritsar, India.
Malaysian people watch fireworks during celebrations in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur.
A mountain goat made of ice stands in the sun in Arosa, Switzerland. Located at the end of the Schanfigg Valley, Arosa ski area has around 60kms of marked slopes
A worker pulls himself through a bed of 'Wishing Spheres' on which members of the public wrote their wishes, the spheres later being illuminated as part of the city-state's New Year celebrations
Visitors offer prayers in front of an enlarged offertory box at Kanda Myojin shrine in Tokyo on the first business day of the year
Finland's Janne Ahonen soars in front of visitors during his first competition jump of the third station of the four hills ski-jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria
A man is reflected in a puddle of water as he rides a bike through Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, U.S.
Vehicles in a parking area are all covered with heavy snow in Seoul. Thousands of workers in the South Korean capital are battling the city's heaviest snowfall in nine years
Up to 30cm (12 inches) of snow fell in China's capital Beijing and its neighbouring port city of Tianjin over the weekend. Authorities have mobilised thousands of people to help clear roads after the heaviest snowfall for nearly 60 years.
Here a worker shovels snow to clear a basketball court inside a school in Beijing, 4 January 2010.
A view combining infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory in the supernova remnant W49B.
Studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-U.S. Suzaku observatory have revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions.
After thousands of years gas within these stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface.
A person shovels snow near a Christmas tree in Moscow, 30 December 2009.