SOME of the best pictures from around the UK and world this week include people taking part in a demonstration for trans rights outside the UK Government Office at Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh; and of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne.
Also pictured are firefighters trying to douse a fire that broke out in a five-story commercial building in Hyderabad, India; and people bathing in water during a traditional Epiphany celebration as the temperature dropped to about -14 degrees near the Achairsky monastery outside the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia.
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