Week in pictures: 20 - 26 January 2018 - BBC News

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An aerial view shows a car moving along a bank of the Yenisei River, outside Krasnoyarsk in Russia, where the air temperature was about minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit).




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The Philippines' most active volcano Mount Mayon erupts, forcing more than 40,000 residents to evacuate the area. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, which monitors the country's 22 active volcanoes, expects the explosions to continue.




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Britain's Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, visited the sensory room of the Mother and Baby Unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital in south London. The Duchess is expecting her third child, who will become the fifth in line to the throne behind Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.




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Bangladeshi Muslim devotees return home after attending concluding prayers on the third day of the Biswa Ijtema in Dhaka, Bangladesh. the second largest Muslim congregation after the Hajj.




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Two monkeys have been cloned using the technique that produced Dolly the sheep. Identical long-tailed macaques Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua were born at a laboratory in China. The scientists say they followed strict international guidelines for animal research.




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People gather opposite Downing Street on the first anniversary of the first Women's March in London. The event was inspired by the Time's Up movement against sexual abuse.




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Costumed revellers take part in the traditional Correfoc festival in Palma de Mallorca. The Correfoc is a night of revelry in which participants dress as demons and parade through the streets with fire.




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Italy's Federica Brignone competes during the FIS Alpine World Cup Women's Giant Slalom in Kronplatz in the Italian Alps. Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won the race ahead of Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel. Brignone came third.




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A portrait of Robert Burns is projected onto the front of Prestonfield House in Edinburgh to mark Burns Night. The life of Scotland's national poet is celebrated across the world every 25 January with recitations of his poetry, the eating of haggis and drinking of whisky.




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This impressive image of a starling murmuration was captured near the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev desert. A starling murmuration can be an amazing sight as thousands of birds swirl around the sky at sunset.