05 January 2013 21:45 | By Ian Jones, MSN UK news editor
Week in pictures: 4 January 2013

Happy new year

A woman celebrates the new year as she watches fireworks exploding above Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro (© REUTERS/Pilar Olivares)
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  • A woman celebrates the new year as she watches fireworks exploding above Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro (© REUTERS/Pilar Olivares)
  • Parents (right and second right) of a newly-married groom wear costumes and make-up, in accordance to a local custom, as they sit next to the parents of the bride in Liquan county of Xianyang city, Shaanxi province in China. (© REUTERS/Rooney Chen)
  • President Obama winks as he arrives with vice-president Joe Biden in the briefing room to make remarks after the House of Representatives acted on legislation intended to avoid the "fiscal cliff," at the White House in Washington (© REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
  • Shoes hang on power line at Letna park overlooking Prague (© REUTERS/Petr Josek)
  • Los Angeles police look over the scene where a celebrity photographer was struck and killed by a car on Sepulveda Boulevard and Getty Center Drive after stopping to take photographs of a Ferrari registered to pop star Justin Bieber (© REUTERS/Gene Blevins)
  • Students attend a winter military camp in Ansan, south of Seoul (© REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji)
  • Zookeeper Zuzana Matyasova poses with penguins during the annual stock take at London Zoo (© REUTERS/Luke MacGregor)
  • A woman walks with her child on the banks of the Yenisey River in air temperatures of about -30C during winter outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk (© REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin)
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A woman celebrates the new year as she watches fireworks exploding above Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. More than two million people gathered along Rio's most famous beach to witness the 20-minute display and celebrate the beginning of a new year.

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