The week in pictures: 5-12 Feb

Four days on a plane

A boy is driven away after all passengers are let off the Afghan plane at London's Stansted airport

 Hijack saga in-depth

Assassinated minister laid to rest

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic at a memorial service for defence minister Pavle Bulatovic

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An eye in space

A satellite 420 miles from Earth looks down on the London Eye millennium wheel

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Race riots in Spain

Police and protesters clash in serious violence directed against African immigrants

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Recovering air crash wreckage

The landing gear of the ill-fated Kenya Airways plane is left on a beach

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Solar flare

The Sun erupts, ejecting billions of tonnes of super-hot gas

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New mission for polar explorer, 94

Colonel Norman Vaughan prepares to take to the ice again - after 60 years

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