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Pictures of the week: From a shy baby meerkat to a spectacular sunrise

Peekaboo: Four week old meerkat cub Monty is all cosy inside a Wellington Boot at Blair Drummond Safari Park in Stirling, Scotland (PA)

Prime real-estate: A small house built on a rock on the river Drina near Bajina Basta, Serbia (Reuters)

A damaged sign still stands among the wreckage outside the Plaza Towers elementary school, where seven children died in a huge tornado. Poignantly it was to have been "Super Kids Day" in Moore, Oklahoma, when the tornado struck. It tore through the suburb of Oklahoma City, flattening buildings and killing 24 people, including ten children (Reuters)

A spectacular skyline in this photograph taken near Bursa in Turkey. (Sky away from the Lights © Tunç Tezel, 2010)

Smoke billows from a burning car as firemen work to extinguish the flames in Rinkeby, a suburb of Stockholm. Swedish youths torched cars, schools and a police station on several nights of rioting this week (Reuters)

Don't forget your Oyster m'am: Queen Elizabeth and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrive in style during a visit to Cambridge

Three wolf cubs jostle for position in front of the camera at a zoo in Luoyang, China (HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride Hannah Batya Penet dances during her wedding ceremony in Jerusalem, Israel. Some 25,000 people joined to celebrate the wedding of Penet to Shalom Rokeach, the eldest grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Belz, Yissachar Dov Rokeach. The Belz Hasidic dynasty is one of the largest Hasidic groups in the world (Reuters)

The spectacular sunrise is reflected in the water as a fisherman casts his net into the Brisbane River, Australia (Jeff Camden/ Newspix/ Rex Features)