Europe's week in pictures

The news in pictures - and some of the more striking images - from the past seven days across Europe.

The World Economic Forum in Davos was not as peaceful as usual, with cars set alight in nearby Zurich

... but quieter demonstrations also took place

Work began to clear a tunnel at Kaprun in Austrian, where a cable car fire killed 155 people in November

An earlier tragedy - the Lockerbie bombing - was remembered when a Libyan was convicted of the crime on 31 January

Youths and K-For peacekeepers clashed for three days in the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica

The hospitalised former Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, got a 70th birthday kiss form his wife, Naina, on 1 February

Wintry weather was much in evidence - even in the Mediterranean. Here Mount Vesuvius is seen capped with snow, and smoking

Amid attempts to clear snow from Red Square, Moscow, a worker took risks warming his lorry's fuel tank

Nature won the battle - Red Square was covered in thick snow by Friday evening

And in a suburb of Minsk, a young soldier kissed his wife, after taking the oath of allegiance with thousands of others