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The Week in Photos: Breaking through

Pushing out, gathering speed, breaking out.
6.30pm, 14 Dec 2013
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A CITY PEEPING through a heavy winter fog, fighting through the aftermath of the storm.

This is the week that was, in photographs.

The Week in Photos: Breaking through
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  • Clearing

    Westminster shrouded in fog, early morning in central London.Source: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/Press Association Images

  • For the man who pushed through

    Singing at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium near Johannesburg, South Africa.Source: Markus Schreiber/PA Images

  • Falling down

    Houses collapsed following a tidal surge along the cliff edge on Hemsby beach in Norfolk, England.Source: Chris Radburn/PA Images

  • Breakout

    Kim Yuna at the 46th Golden Spin of Zagreb, the oldest skating competition in the world.Source: Goran Stanzl/PIXSELL/PA Images

  • Peeping

    A model of Zagreb in the Croatian city - it is a bronze cast of city blocks with the centre of the sphere engraved with "welcome" word in 38 different languages.Source: Patrik Macek/PIXSELL/PA Images

  • Let me out!

    Donnacha Sheehan (3) from Templelogue in Dublin helps his family pick out their Christmas tree at the Killakee tree farm in Co Wicklow. Donnacha had his face painted as a Pirate earlier but didn't like the eye patch.Source: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

  • Light breaks

    Internally displaced people gather in the Don Bosco Centre outside Banghi, Central African Republic, fearing reprisal attacks from the Muslim ex-rebels who control the state.Source: Jerome Delay/AP/Press Association Images

  • Take a break

    People line up for an auction of distressed property in the RDS.Source: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

  • Emerging from the rubble

    Trying to break through the devastation wreaked by a typhoon in the Jaro Municipality on Leyte Island in the Philippines.Source: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

See previous installments of the Week in Photos>

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