The week in pictures: Nov 15-21

Carla Bruni in Qatar, floods in the Lake District and Algerian football fans riot

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Amanda Knox takes her place for a session of her murder trial as her lawyer looks on

Visitors taste Beaujolais Nouveau at an open air wine spa in Japan

A policeman has drowned after floods in Cumbria described as a ‘one in a 1,000 year event’

Oprah Winfrey is giving up her hugely influential daytime chat show after quarter of a century on air

Hannes Schmid's photographs of bands and singers of the 1970s and 80s

Marina Cicogna's portraits of her friends reveal the playful natures behind their public faces

Obama at Fort Hood, Berlin Wall celebrations and Taylor Swift cleans up

Fort Hood shooting, Mexico's Day of the Dead and Oxford Circus's new crossing

A newborn Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) walks into the sea after being realeased

A Palestinian man smuggles a sheep into the Gaza Strip through a tunnel

PIC OF THE DAY
All smiles at the Knox trial

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