Week in pictures: 11-17 February 2017 - BBC News

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More than 200 pilot whales, stranded on a beach in New Zealand, refloated themselves and returned to sea. A high tide helped the animals get back into deeper water. Volunteers also managed to refloat around 100 of more than 400 pilot whales which had beached at Farewell Spit.





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Beyonce, who is pregnant with twins, gave an ambitious and logistically complex performance at the Grammy awards of the songs Love Drought and Sandcastles, themed around the ideas of rebirth, regeneration and healing. The singer won best urban contemporary album for Lemonade and best music video for her song Formation.





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Visitors and enthusiasts photographed the Tornado locomotive at Appleby station before it pulled the first timetabled main line steam-hauled service for half a century across the Ribblehead viaduct in North Yorkshire. The service was part of a celebration of the reopening of the Settle to Carlisle line in Cumbria which had been closed after landslides had damaged the railway line.





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An olive ridley turtle lays her eggs in the sand at Rushikulya beach, India, some 140 kilometres (88 miles) south-west of Bhubaneswar. Thousands of sea turtles have come ashore from the Bay of Bengal. The mouth of the Rushikulya river is one of three key nesting areas in Orissa.





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Buddhist monks rearrange their seats during evening prayers to mark Makha Bucha day at Wat Dhammakaya temple, just north of Bangkok in Thailand.





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A handler stands with a Dalmatian in the judging ring during day one of competition at the Westminster Kennel Club 141st annual dog show in New York.





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German Chancellor Angela Merkel allows Tunisian diplomats to take a selfie with her after she and the Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed laid flowers at a memorial to the December 2016 terror attack in Berlin, Germany.





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A model showcases designs on the runway during the Myer autumn 2017 fashion launch in Melbourne, Australia.





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Nelly Moenne Loccoz of France, Michela Moioli of Italy, Faye Gulini of the US and Charlotte Banke of France, compete in the women's small final during the Snowboard Cross world cup in Hinterzarten, Germany.





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Actors perform on a boat along the Cannaregio Canal for the opening of the Venice carnival in Italy.