Week in pictures: 16-22 December

LAST UPDATED AT 10:00 ON Sat 22 Dec 2012
A young couple share a moment in the freezing outdoors
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Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images

MOSCOW, THURSDAY: Muscovites brave the freezing outdoors. This week temperatures in the Russian capital plummeted to -17C. 

A young couple share a moment in the freezing outdoors
Former Government chief whip Andrew Mitchell leaves home
Mourners hug at a memorial for the victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
People walk along the South Bank in the rain
A dancer performs during a ceremony marking the end of the Mayan age
Queen Elizabeth II sits next to David Cameron (left) and William Hague during a cabinet meeting
Police officers detain a protester during a march by Spanish public health workers
A labourer pulls a cart full of empty drums during a nationwide strike in Dhaka
Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, is crowned Miss Universe 2012
A police officer dressed in a blue Santa Claus costume stands on the top of the roof of a school in a Rio de Janeiro slum

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