Week in pictures: 27 January - 2 February 2018 - BBC News

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A young member of the "Jarl Squad" gets ready in his Viking outfit, before parading through the streets of Lerwick in the Shetland Isles as part of the Up Helly Aa Viking Festival.




ANGELA WEISS/ AFP
Singer Miley Cyrus bites a white rose at the Grammy Awards in Madison Square Garden, New York. Celebrities wore the roses in support of the recent Time's Up movement against sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood.




LUCY NICHOLSON/ REUTERS
A rare lunar event called the "super blue blood Moon" is seen behind the pier in Santa Monica, California. This red glow is produced by the same effect that gives us red sunsets. Sunlight skims through the Earth's atmosphere on its way to the Moon and gets refracted or bent.




MANDY CHENG/ AFP
A US-made helicopter launches flares during an annual drill at a military base in the eastern city of Hualien, Taiwan. Troops staged exercises to simulate fending off an attempted invasion, as China steps up pressure on President Tsai Ing-Wen.




MANUEL SILVESTRI/ REUTERS
Participants row during the masquerade parade on the Grand Canal during the Carnival in Venice, Italy.




ASIF HASSAN/ AFP
A Pakistani customs official smashes bottles of alcohol in Karachi. The officers destroyed hundreds of illicit bottles and drugs smuggled into the country.




TIAGO PETINGA/ EPA
A young Angola Giraffe is seen at Lisbon Zoo, Portugal. The calf was born on 16 November 2017, after a 15-month gestation, with a height of almost 1.9m (6ft).




HANNAH MCKAY/ REUTERS
Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, visit the Palace Gardens in Oslo, Norway, one of a series of trips seen as an attempt to strengthen UK ties with European nations ahead of Brexit.




PASCAL PAVANI/ AFP
Technicians reach out to catch a piece of a metal during the installation of a 12m (39ft) platform at the top of the Pic du Midi, one of France's tallest mountains.




DAI KUROKAWA/ EPA
Supporters of Kenya's main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, attend a controversial "swearing-in" ceremony in the capital, Nairobi, despite a government warning that it amounted to treason.