Week in pictures: 26 Jan - 1 Feb

Passengers come to blows as they fight to board a delayed train at a railway station in Guangzhou, in southern China's Guangdong province.

A man takes a photo of China's national aquatic centre, which has been built for this year's Olympics. Known as the Water Cube, it will host its first event on 31 January.

A woman looks at Damien Hirst's "Beautiful, Shattered, Mellow, Exploding, paint filled balloons painting", which went on sale in London this week.

Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security force throw snowballs at one another at the Muqataa, the Palestinian Authority headquarters in Ramallah.

India marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who led India to independence.

Up Helly Aa - Britain's biggest fire festival and torchlight procession took place in Lerwick, Shetland, to celebrate its Norse heritage.

A Palestinian man looks nervously at Egyptian security forces as he takes cheese snacks back to Gaza after a shopping trip across the breached border.

The Iraqi capital, Baghdad, saw one its deadliest days in months on Friday after two bombs killed more than 50 people and injured 70 others.

Chinese soldiers hold back passengers trying to get into the railway station in Guangzhou. Millions of travellers remain stranded as they try to get home for the Lunar New Year.

The ferry Riverdance lies stranded in the Irish Sea off the British resort of Blackpool. The ship ran aground after being hit by a freak wave on Thursday night.

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