Pictures of the week: From a dramatic eruption at Mount Etna to giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo

Here's our pick of the pictures from around the world this week

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  1. Red hot lava flows down Italian volcano Mount Etna as it erupts. The volcano erupted three times over 36 hours (Photo by Olycom SPA / Rex Features)
  2. An adorable snail takes cover from the rain under a makeshift flower umbrella. The photo was snapped by Vyacheslav Mischenko, who specialises in macro-photography (Caters)
  3. A violet and blood red sky is the backdrop for trees encased in ice - a result of violent storms which caused the lake to thrash the shore. This dramatic photo shows the effect of sub-zero temperature
  4. A woman is rescued from deadly floodwater by a man standing on top of her car during heavy rains in Athens, Greece. The storm is the worst to hit the Mediterranean country in fifty years (Reuters)
  5. This golden tortoise beetle can change colour by altering the reflectivity of its outer layer. The close-up snap was taken by photographer Chime Tsetan in Mundgod, India (Chime Tsetan/Caters)
  6. Traffic lights are covered in snow and ice in Yakutsk. The Oymyakon valley in the Republic of Sakha, northeast Russia is the coldest place in the northern hemisphere. Temperatures can tumble to lows o
  7. China now has two spectacular great walls. Josh Chalmon stands in front of a giant mosaic made from 85,794 Rubik's Cubes, Macau, China. The wall is 220ft long and 13ft tall and shows the skyline o
  8. 'Survivors' by GMB Akash in Bangladesh. The decrepit building houses eighty families of sweepers, the lowest in the caste system and regarded as 'untouchables'. This picture is one of
  9. The 'Shed of the Year 2013' competition has begun and nearly 2,000 entries have already been submitted. From Tardis outbuildings to Chinese pagoda sheds, British garden tinkerers have thought
  10. The canal at Diksmuide in Belgium, photographed soon after the end of World War One, circa March 1919. This image is from a rare series documenting the damage and devastation that was caused to towns
  11. Bungling workers made a terrible spelling error when they erected a sign for an historic Welsh bridge. The yellow sign for the Grade II listed "Whelsh" Bridge in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, was
  12. Yang Guang, a male giant panda, looks into the enclosure of female giant panda Tian Tian, at Edinburgh Zoo. Experts say the pair will mate in a matter of weeks as both bears have started to display co

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