Pictures of the Week: From letters to Santa to Mayan prophecies

From letters to Santa to Santas washing windows on skyscrapers and Mayan prophecies, here's our pick of pictures from around the world this week

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  1. People walk down the Southbank in the rain in London. Britain is once again bracing for more floods and heavy rain (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
  2. Three adorable dormice were nursed back to health by Secret World Wildlife Rescue in Somerset. They were found cold and starving in a garden hedge in Cornwall next to their dead mother (SWNS)
  3. NASA has said 'Merry Christmas' with this festive picture of a a nearby planetary nebula NGC 5189. Scientists used the Hubble space telescope to take the image that looks like a Christmas-tree
  4. An archaeological dig in the village of Onavas in Mexico unearthed alien-like skulls. The excavated burial site contained 25 individuals, 13 with elongated skulls reminiscent of the monster from Ridle
  5. The US President Barack Obama, recently named Time's magazine Person of the Year, was pictured goofing around with a young visitor dressed as Spiderman. The picture went viral, within an hour of t
  6. A bank robber walked into a NatWest branch in Salford, Manchester, and handed the cashier a scrawled note. Terrified, the cashier handed over more than £2,000 although there was no sign of a weapon. P

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