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DON'T MISS: Top images from the week gone by

January 12, 2015 08:07 IST

We bring you a collection of some of the best photographs taken this week by ace Reuters photogs.

A woman holds a placard reading "I am Charlie" to pay tribute to the victims following a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris in front of the French embassy in Rome. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

Sumatran tiger cubs and their parents walk around their enclosure at London Zoo in London. The annual stock take and animal count, a requirement of London Zoo's license, included additions to the international conservation breeding programme such as the three tiger cubs and Philippine crocodiles. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

 

Riot police officers watch as demonstrators hold umbrellas in a protest against the march of a grass-roots anti-Muslim movement in Berlin. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

 

Parts of AirAsia QZ8501, recovered from the Java Sea, are carried by Indonesian Airforce and Search and Rescue crew members after they were offloaded from a U.S. Navy helicopter at the airport in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan. Photograph: Darren Whiteside/Reuters

 

Charles Martinez looks over the partially frozen Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline. Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters

 

A rider rears up on his horse during the traditional Epiphany parade in Malaga, southern Spain. Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters

 

A protester, holding a Bahraini flag, confronts a riot police armoured personnel carrier in an attempt to stop it from entering the village of Bilad Al Qadeem south of Manama.. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

 

Men jump into the waters of a lake in an attempt to grab a wooden cross on Epiphany Day in Sofia. Photograph: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters

 

Iraqi officers react during their graduation ceremony during Iraqi Army Day anniversary celebration in Baghdad . Photograph: Ahmad Mousa/Reuters

 

Burning Yule logs and fireworks are seen in front of Sokolica church during the eve of the Orthodox Christmas, in Ravna Romanija. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters

 

A man squats next to a dead green turtle along Karachi's Clifton beach. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

 

People look at a loaded truck that got stuck in a sinkhole on a road in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Photograph: Reuters

An Afghan man kicks a poster of Pakistani religious leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman during a demonstration against his visit in Kabul. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters

A woman holding a pencil cries as she gathers in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Photograph: Jacky Naegelen/Reuters

 

Law enforcement officers stand, with some turning their backs, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks on a monitor outside the funeral for NYPD officer Wenjian Liu in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters