Europe's week in pictures

Some of the more striking images from the past seven days across Europe.

Riot police are covered with foam in Lille, northern France, during a protest by firemen seeking better pay and conditions

Students wearing masks prepare for a demonstration in Madrid against the government's new immigration law

Two illegal immigrants rest on the fourth day of a hunger strike in a church near Barcelona, in protest at the same law

Workers prepare the Kandahar track at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, for the men's world downhill skiing race

The new cruise vessel Radiance of the Seas leaves the Meyer shipyard at Papenburg - it's the largest ever built in Germany

Antonio Todde, a Sardinian shepherd, listed by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, celebrates his 112th birthday

A contender in Turkey's largest camel-wrestling festival in the Aegean town of Selcuk

A Russian soldier carries a heavy machine gun in the Shatoi region of south Chechnya