Week in pictures: 31 December 2016 - 6 January 2017 - BBC News

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DOMINIK EBENBICHLER / REUTERS
Germany's Severin Freund soars through the air above Innsbruck in Austria during the 65th four-hills ski-jumping tournament.





FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA / EPA
A zookeeper counts Humboldt penguins during London Zoo's annual stocktake. It is officially undertaken once a year but keepers also have an inventory which is continually updated.





MARK KAUZLARICH / REUTERS
In New York's Times Square confetti covered revellers as the clocked ticked over into 2017.





ODED BALILTY / AP
On New Year's Day, Israelis bathe in a hot water spring on the shore of the Dead Sea near the Israeli kibbutz of Ein Gedi.





DAN ISTITENE / GETTY IMAGES
The Peugeot 3008 DKR of Cyril Despres and David Castera competes in stage three of the Dakar Rally between San Miguel de Tucuman and San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina.





FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA / EPA
A woman looks at books in a decommissioned red telephone box in London. Sebastian Handley bought the disused red K2 model for just ￡1 from British Telecom on behalf of the Brockley Society, to becomes London's smallest library.





MARK RALSTON / AFP
Surfers ride the Eisbach canal wave during freezing conditions on the Isar River in Munich, Germany.





FRANCISCO VENEGAS / AFP
Hundreds of people were evacuated from the port city of Valparaiso, Chile, after forest fires set homes alight. The wildfires have been fanned by high temperatures and strong winds.





UESLEI MARCELINO / REUTERS
A man prepares graves for inmates who died during a prison riot in the city of Manaus in Brazil. The 17-hour uprising was the deadliest in Brazil in years and resulted in the deaths of 56 inmates.





HMED SAAD / REUTERS
At least 35 people were killed and more than 60 injured in a suicide car bomb attack in a busy square in the eastern district of Sadr City in Iraq's capital, Baghdad.