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 Friday, 10 January, 2003, 10:51 GMT
The week in pictures: Jan 5 - 11
Look to the skies
Stolen plane flying over Frankfurt
Thousands of people were evacuated from the centre of Frankfurt as a pilot threatened to fly into a skyscraper.

Rush hour blast

Israeli medics rush a wounded man to an ambulance.
A double suicide bomb in Tel Aviv left more than 20 people dead and many seriously injured.

Israel targets militants

A Palestinian man holds a piece of shrapnel as he chants anti-Israeli slogans outside of a metal workshop which was hit by Israeli missiles in Gaza City.
Palestinians protest after Israeli helicopters fired on a metalwork factory it claims was being used to make weapons.

Terror alert

Police on guard outside the flat in Wood green.
The lethal poison ricin was found by anti-terrorist police at an address in north London.

Snow sweeps across the UK

Big Ben in the snow.
Plunging temperatures brought ice and snow to the UK.

Airliner crashes in fog

Women at Diyarbakir Airport.
The Turkish authorities say 75 people were killed when an airliner crashed on landing in thick fog.

Hackney siege ends

A local resident at the scene.
A resident surveys the scene as one of the UK's longest armed sieges ends.

Keeping an eye on diabetes

Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott at St. Thomas Hospital.
UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott launching plans to improve diabetes care .

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