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Week in pictures: 28 Aug - 3 Sept

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Striking pictures from around the world this week.

Hindus celebrate

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Janmashtami marking the birth of the god Krishna.

Making shea butter

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Photos of how Ghanaians traditionally make shea butter - popular worldwide for use in cosmetics.

Blasts hit Shia procession

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The aftermath of a triple bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

Picture Editor Phil Coomes explores the world of news photography

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Your pictures on the theme open spaces

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Your pictures on the theme open spaces

Your pictures on the theme summer sun

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Your pictures on the theme summer sun

Your pictures on the theme the beach

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Your pictures on the theme the beach

Your pictures on the theme holidays

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Your pictures on the theme holidays

Still City

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Still City

Turning a passion into a career

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Turning a passion for photography into a career

Valued exposure: Home Guard

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Valued exposure: Home Guard

Your pictures on the theme of holes

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Your pictures of the week on the theme of holes

Photographers in the frame at Live Aid

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Photographers in the frame at Live Aid

A few shots from my Kodachrome project

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A few shots from my Kodachrome project

Steve McCurry - Retrospective

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Steve McCurry: Capturing the world in colour

World Cup in focus (5)

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Shooting through the viewfinder

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Shooting through the viewfinder

World Cup in focus (4)

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Valued exposure: Fort Knox

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Reality football: For the love of the game

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Reality football: For the love of the game

Tango World Championship

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2010 World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Open spaces

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This weeks' readers' photographs on a theme

Your news, your pictures

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News can happen anywhere at anytime - we want you to be our eyes. If you find yourself in the right place at the right time, if an event is unfolding before your eyes and you capture it on a camera or mobile phone, either as a photograph or video, then please send it to BBC News.

We set the theme; you take the pictures

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As part of our Viewfinder photo blog we are running weekly photo galleries of our readers' pictures on set themes.

Niger's disasters

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Floods and hunger - follow Radio 4 reporter Mike Thomson's journey through the stricken country.

Double helix

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Double helix - a look at the personal papers of France Crick, who co-discovered the spiral structure of DNA.

Englishman in NY

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Photographer Jason Bell's images of English men and women who have chosen to make The Big Apple their home.

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