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15:24 GMT, Friday, 5 December 2008

Week in pictures: 29 Nov-5 Dec

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during the state opening of Parliament in London.

St Marks Square in Venice.

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Duncan Zuur of the Netherlands rides on a wakeboard through a flooded St Mark's Square in Venice.

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Singer Liza Minnelli takes her curtain call at the opening night of Liza's At The Palace on Broadway, New York.

Lebanese schoolgirls during a demonstration about the Gaza Strip blockade organised by Hezbollah, 2 December 2008

Lebanese schoolgirls during a demonstration about the Gaza Strip blockade organised by Hezbollah, 2 December 2008

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In Beirut, Lebanese schoolgirls take part in a demonstration against Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.

Bicycle in Harrogate

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The north of England awoke to a blanket of snow as some areas experienced the onset of winter weather.

Demonstration in Mumbai

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Following last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, thousands took part in a demonstration, some chanting anti-Pakistan slogans.

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Actors Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes attend the premiere of their latest film, The Reader, at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City.

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British PM Gordon Brown speaks at a reception for the Teach First scheme in 10 Downing Street, which aims to get graduates to teach in disadvantaged areas for a year after they leave university.

Children receive biscuits at an aid station in Goma, eastern Congo.

Children receive biscuits at an aid station in Goma, eastern Congo.

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An aid worker hands out biscuits to children living in a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 250,000 people have fled their homes to escape fighting.

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Thousands of Muslim pilgrims pray inside the Grand Mosque, in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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