WASHINGTON DC, MONDAY: Bao Bao, a five-month-old Giant Panda cub, makes his first media appearance at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.
LONDON, WEDNESDAY:
CHICAGO, MONDAY: Ice builds up along Lake Michigan at North Avenue Beach as temperatures dip well below zero. The city has experienced its coldest temperatures for around two decades this week.
CAIRO, WEDNESDAY: Supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi burn tyres to avoid the smell of tear gas used by security forces to disperse them. An Egyptian court adjourned the murder trial of deposed president to 1 February, citing “weather conditions” that prevented the Islamist's transport to court from prison.
KATHMANDU, THURSDAY: A Nepalese child feeds pigeons in Durbar Square.
NORFOLK, THURSDAY: Military personnel and emergency service workers carry out investigations after a US Air Force helicopter crashed on marshland in Cley-next-the-Sea. Four people were killed when the HH-60G Pave Hawk went down during a training exercise.
LONDON, MONDAY:
CHERTSEY, WEDNESDAY: A woman pulls her dog through flood water at the Abbey Fields caravan park after the River Thames flooded. Parts of the United Kingdom have suffered weeks of flooding as the heavy rain continues.
LONDON, THURSDAY: Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie and Leonardo DiCaprio arrive at Leicester Square for the UK premiere of The Wolf of Wall Street.
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