SNAPSHOTS OF THE WEEK

Snapshots - Best images from the week of January 13, 2012.

This weekly collection includes eye-catching images from around the world...

Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri, second right, the calligrapher of the world's biggest copy of the holy Quran turns a page at a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Hussaini Khedri claims to have completed the writing of the world's biggest copy of Islam's holy Quran in 5 years along with his nine students with the financial support of a well- known figure Afghan Sayed Mansoor Nadri. See the most-visited sacred sites in Flickr. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq). [See also World's largest Holy Book of Islam on display in Kazan]
 

Ghorama is an island located in West Bengal, India, that is eroding into the ocean due to a dramatic increase in the sea level. The photographer posed locals on disappearing segments of the island. According to the artist, locals who still live on the larger segment of the island expect to be relocated within the next 25 years. (Photo: Daesung Lee/Sipa Press)

Snowdrops that are already in early bloom are seen at Rococo Gardens in Painswick on January 12, 2012 near Stroud, England. The unseasonably warm weather has seen wild flowers burst into bloom months ahead of schedule. However weather forecasters are warning of a return to colder temperatures later this week as a widespread frost is expected tonight. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Schoolchildren attend a yoga session during a camp in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 9, 2012. (Photo: REUTERS/Amit Dave)

Ahmad Sharif, 21, holding his balloons in hope of selling them, walks in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Debris floats around the remains of the stricken container ship Rena as it submerges, about 14 nautical miles (22 km) from Tauranga, on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island January 10, 2012. The stern section of the stricken cargo ship is slipping off a New Zealand reef where it has been stuck for three months and is in danger of sinking, authorities said, complicating salvage efforts in one of the nation's worst environmental disasters…

A man crosses the Magdalena bridge as low-lying cloud envelops the Arga River, near Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. See the world’s scariest bridges in Flickr. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

A full moon rises behind the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building over the skyline of Manhattan in New York, January 9, 2012. See supermoon photos in Flickr. (Photo: REUTERS/Gary Hershorn)

A giant light installation of the flag of Switzerland and a portrait of Adolf Guyer-Zeller, founder of the Jungfrau Railways, by Swiss artist Gerry Hofstetter, illuminates the north face of the Jungfrau mountain, in the Bernese Oberland January 11, 2012. The installation commemorates the 100-year anniversary of the Jungfrau railway, which first began operations in the year 1912. The light left of the installation is Europe's highest railway station, the Jungfraujoch station, at an altitude of 3,454 metres (11,332 feet). See more art by Gerry Hofstetter in Flickr. (Photo: REUTERS/Michael Buholzer)

 
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