This Week we said farewell to 2013 and welcomed 2014 with celebratory fireworks across the world.
Miley Cyrus took to the stage armed with her dancing dwarf to hand in matching spangly gold outfits.
UK weather seems to have gone from bad to worse as floods and heavy winds have damaged residents homes across the country.
But even through the gloom and doom of the weather the animals at London Zoo managed to make a special appearance for the annual Zoo count... all in our pictures of the week.
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Lightening streaks across the sky of Montevideo, Uruguay, near the city's World Trade Center (L), during a thunderstorm early on January 2, 2014. AFP PHOTO / MARIANA SUAREZ (Photo credit should read MARIANA SUAREZ/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Lebanese Army investigators inspect the site of a car bomb explosion, in a Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. An explosion tore through a crowded commercial street Thursday in a south Beirut neighborhood that is bastion of support for the Shiite group Hezbollah, killing several people, setting cars ablaze and sending a column of black smoke above the Beirut skyline. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Two-month-old Jack Hsi takes a nap sheltered in his baby carrier while snow falls in Boston, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. Up to 14 inches of snow is forecast for the Boston area. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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A woman walks through a park on the waterfront in Brooklyn near the Manhattan Bridge during a winter storm in New York, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. The storm is expected to bring snow, stiff winds and punishing cold into the Northeast. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
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Kumbuka, a male silverback gorilla inspects the keeper's chalk board in his enclosure at London Zoo, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014. Home to more than 850 different species, zoo keepers welcomed in the New Year armed with clipboards as they made a note of every single animal. The compulsory annual count is required as part of ZSL London ZooÂs zoo license, and every creature, from the tiny leaf cutter ants to the huge silverback gorilla is duly noted and accounted for. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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A Lebanese man carries an injured woman away from the site of a car bomb explosion in a Shiite area and stronghold of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah at the southern suburb of Beirut, Thursday Jan. 2, 2014. A large explosion has rocked a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Swimmers take part in the "loony dook" New Year's Day dip in the Firth of Forth at South Queensferry, as part of Edinburgh's three-day-long Hogmanay celebrations.Picture date: Wednesday January 1, 2014. See PA story SOCIAL New Year Hogmanay. Photo credit should read: David Cheskin/PA Wire
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Displaced people who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor, prepare to sleep in the open at night in the town of Awerial, South Sudan Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. The international Red Cross said Wednesday that the road from Bor to the nearby Awerial area "is lined with thousands of people" waiting for boats so they could cross the Nile River and that the gathering of displaced is "is the largest single identified concentration of displaced people in the country so far". (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Fireworks light up the sky over the London Eye in central London during the New Year celebrations.Picture date: Wednesday January 1, 2014. See PA story SOCIAL NYE. Photo credit should read: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
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People swing sparklers and shape the number 2014 in Molbergen, Germany, 01 January 2014. Photo: FRISOÂ GENTSCH/dpa
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A man watches Mount Sinabung as it spews clouds of gas during an eruption in Tiga Pancur, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. The 2,600-meter (8,530-foot) volcano has sporadically erupted since September. (AP Photo/Dedy Zulkifli)
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Fireworks explode above the central square of Rosa Khutor ski resort, a venue of the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, 60 kilometers (37.5 miles) east of Sochi, Russia during New Year's celebrations early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Lesya Polyakova)
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Pro-European Union activists hold light as they sing the Ukrainian national anthem, celebrating the New Year in the Ukrainian capital Kiev's main square early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014. At least 100,000 Ukrainians sang the country's national anthem together at the square on New Year's Eve in a sign of support for integration with Europe. Opposition leaders had called on Ukrainians to come to Kiev's Maidan on the New Year's Eve and sing the national anthem in an act of defiance and what they expected could be the record-breaking live singing of an anthem. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Fireworks explode over the financial district at midnight, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 in Singapore. Celebrations started on New Year's Eve where concerts were held and thousands gathered on the streets to usher in the Year 2014. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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United States President Barack Obama fist bumps Max Key, son of the Prime Minister John Key of New Zealand, on the 2nd green at Marine Corps Base Hawaii's Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course, Kaneohe, Hawaii, USA, 02 January 2014. Credit: Cory Lum / Pool via CNP
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A train passes through the coast at Saltcoats in Scotland, as Britain is braced for the worst as a combination of high tides, heavy rains and strong winds are expected to bring yet more severe flooding to parts of the country.Picture date: Friday January 3, 2014. See PA Story WEATHER Flood. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
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Fireworks light up the sky over Big Ben and the London Eye in central London during the New Year celebrations. (credit:PA)
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SOUTH QUEENSFERRY, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 01: Members of the public wearing fancy dress enter the water as they join around 1,000 New Year swimmers, many in costume, in front of the Forth Rail Bridge during the annual Loony Dook Swim in the River Forth on January 1, 2014 in South Queensferry, Scotland. An estimated eighty thousand people gathered last night in Edinburgh to see in the New Year at Hogmanay celebrations. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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Miley Cyrus performs as thousands of revelers gather in New York's Times Square to celebrate the ball drop at the annual New Year's Eve celebration on December 31, 2013 in New York City. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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General view of men participating in the Torchlight Procession during Edinburgh's Hogmanay on December 30, 2013 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
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Jay Z and Beyonce are seen in Wynwood Art District on December 30, 2013 in Miami, Florida
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Passers-by are splashed with water from an office in downtown Montevideo on December 31, 2013, as a way of celebrating the end of the year. Every last working day of the year, ripped pages from calendars and buckets of water are thrown out of office windows in the financial district of the Uruguayan capital in celebration of the end of the year. AFP PHOTO/Miguel ROJO . (Photo credit should read MIGUEL ROJO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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A child makes a snow angel in Times Square, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in New York. The snow storm is expected to bring snow, stiff winds and punishing cold into the Northeast. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (credit:AP)
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Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik gives the final touch to a sand sculpture of German Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher at Puri beach, some 65 kilometers away from Bhubaneswar on January 2, 2014. Schumacher remained 'stable' but was still in a critical condition after four nights in hospital battling severe brain injuries following a skiing accident in France. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty Images)
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If you are looking for a bright start to the new year, look no further. Wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein has captured a series of stunning rainbow images in his role as guide for Exodus travels. Wimbledon-based Paul leads tours to far flung places around the world and says he loves it in the wilderness when the weather turns bad. His amazing pictures range from a fogbow (a rainbow in fog) in Spitsbergen, Norway to the answer to what is actually at the end of a rainbow - a giraffe! He explains: "A bit of grey sky and annoying drizzle is no good, I like it when the heavens erupt, when they really get miffed and throw angry storms at me with foreboding inky skies. "Firstly it sends slack people scurrying indoors but also there is always the chance of a rainbow. "Whether it is in the Aractic, Antarctic, the plains of the Masai Mara or Iceland, I am always on the look out for them to photograph. Not only are they always arresting and beautiful, they are always different."
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An impala stands frozen to the spot as a cheetah teaches her young cubs how to hunt. Although cheetahs would normally make the kill in a matter of seconds, it took these youngsters five minutes to bring down the impala. The stationary impala - clearly paralysed in shock - cannot resist the attack and simply stands and waits for its demise. IT consultant Alison Buttigieg, 33, took the photos on a recent trip to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Alison, who lives in Helsinki, Finland, said: "It was very bizarre, I have never seen anything like this. "The impala was simply frozen to the spot, most probably in shock which rendered it paralyzed with fear and seemingly impervious to pain. "However, it had a look of defiance on its face which made the scene very disturbing."
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Squirrels and birds clearly weren't in fear of being exterminated as they tucked into this nut-covered Dalek! The unusual treat, on a bird table in Hampshire, was created by pensioner Victoria Baker. She used an old dalek toy of her grandson's, and painstakingly covered it with hundreds of peanuts and sunflower seeds. "I used melted brown sugar and peanut butter to act as glue," said Mrs Baker, 87, at her home in Lyndhurst, in the New Forest National Park. "It took several hours to complete, but I'm very happy with the result, as are the local squirrels and birds!" Mrs Baker and 10 year-old grandson Charlie sat at the window watching as the first grey squirrel confronted the foot-high dalek, complete with nut-packed plunger. "The animal was very nervous to start with, but soon realised one of his favourite foods was on offer," she said. "Once he knew the dalek was not going to exterminate him, he started tucking in.
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Ashley Roberts attending the launch of ITV's Dancing On Ice at the London Television Centre. (credit:PA)
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