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The week in photos: Fire and Ice

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THIS IS THE week that was, in photos…

The week in photos: Fire and Ice
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  • Lonely as a cloud

    The sun itself looks like an ice crystal in this glacial scene: the first pack of ice floe in this season is observed from Yomiuri's jet liner near the Notori Cape in the shores of Okhotsk, Hokkaid. (The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

  • Surfin' bird

    A swan negotiates its way on the frozen Marden Quarry in North Tyneside as a dusting of white frost covered fields, trees and rooftops. (AP)

  • A flame for the dead

    6,434 candles are lit to honour each of the victims of Japan’s Great Hanshin Earthquake on the disaster’s 17th anniversary. (The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

  • Skate's up

    A family skates across Mendenhall Lake, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP)

  • Misty mountain

    Mist shrouds the Yellow Mountain in east China’s Anhui province, 17 January. The mountains themselves were carved by glaciers during the Quaternary. (AP)

  • Frost and silk

    A frosty fence railing supports a spiderweb in Manette, Washington. The spider herself appears to have retreated from the icy morning.(AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)

  • Sky lantern

    The sun as it rises over South Shields in Tyne and Wear. (ap)

  • Cold boot attack

    L.L Bean employee Randy Reynolds, of Freeport, Maine takes a photo of the company’s Bootmobile outside the headquarters of the outdoor retailer in Freeport, Maine (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

  • Leap year

    A dog frolics in on a frosty morning in East London. (AP)

  • No smoke without fire

    A Cornwall firefighter mans an aerial apparatuses and continues to fight hot spots in the old factory buildings in Cornwall where multiple alarms were sounded to fight a fire. (AP)

  • The fire and the fury

    A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, in honour of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. The 'Luminarias' is a tradition dateing back 500 years which is meant to purify animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

  • Fields of cold

    Heavy frost covers the landscape of Dunkeld in Perthshire, Scotland, as cold weather and frost continued across parts of the UK this week. (AP)

  • Land of the rising sun

    The winter sun rises over the Upper Kennett Valley near Avebury in Wiltshire. (AP)

  • Icecream weather

    A dog licks ice from its face as extreme weather hits Alaska. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)

  • Sunburn

    The sun splashes colours against the sky as it sets behind Silbury, Wiltshire. (AP)

  • Ice, ice baby

    Randy Earheart shovels snow at the Rimrock Lake Resort near White Pass, Washington. (AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, Gordon King)
  • The sun itself looks like an ice crystal in this glacial scene: the first pack of ice floe in this season is observed from Yomiuri's jet liner near the Notori Cape in the shores of Okhotsk, Hokkaid. (The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
  • A swan negotiates its way on the frozen Marden Quarry in North Tyneside as a dusting of white frost covered fields, trees and rooftops. (AP)
  • 6,434 candles are lit to honour each of the victims of Japan’s Great Hanshin Earthquake on the disaster’s 17th anniversary. (The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )
  • A family skates across Mendenhall Lake, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP)
  • Mist shrouds the Yellow Mountain in east China’s Anhui province, 17 January. The mountains themselves were carved by glaciers during the Quaternary. (AP)
  • A frosty fence railing supports a spiderweb in Manette, Washington. The spider herself appears to have retreated from the icy morning.(AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)
  • The sun as it rises over South Shields in Tyne and Wear. (ap)
  • L.L Bean employee Randy Reynolds, of Freeport, Maine takes a photo of the company’s Bootmobile outside the headquarters of the outdoor retailer in Freeport, Maine (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
  • A dog frolics in on a frosty morning in East London. (AP)
  • A Cornwall firefighter mans an aerial apparatuses and continues to fight hot spots in the old factory buildings in Cornwall where multiple alarms were sounded to fight a fire. (AP)
  • A man rides a horse through a bonfire in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, in honour of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals. The 'Luminarias' is a tradition dateing back 500 years which is meant to purify animals with the smoke of the bonfires and protect them for the year to come. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
  • Heavy frost covers the landscape of Dunkeld in Perthshire, Scotland, as cold weather and frost continued across parts of the UK this week. (AP)
  • The winter sun rises over the Upper Kennett Valley near Avebury in Wiltshire. (AP)
  • A dog licks ice from its face as extreme weather hits Alaska. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)
  • The sun splashes colours against the sky as it sets behind Silbury, Wiltshire. (AP)
  • Randy Earheart shovels snow at the Rimrock Lake Resort near White Pass, Washington. (AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, Gordon King)

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