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The Best Pictures of the Week: Jan. 30 – Feb. 6

From New York’s deadly train crash and night surfing in the Mediterranean sea to China’s traditional eagle hunters and a Fifty Shades of Grey inspired “Fifty Shades of Cake” exhibition in England, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

APTOPIX Train Car Collision People sit inside a bus before the departure, as they flee due to the military conflict, in Debaltseve China's Kazakh Minority Preserve Culture Through Eagle Hunting in Western China Liberia Turns Towards Normalcy As Fight Continues To Eradicate Ebola A boy sleeps in a hammock while his mother works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Yangon TOPSHOTS-IRAQ-CONFLICT-IS-YAZIDIS TOPSHOTS-INDIA-ANIMAL-ELEPHANT PELICAN 41 rhinos killed for horns in 2015 Man gives medical assistance to an injured man as two wounded children wait nearby at a field hospital after what activists said was an air strike by forces of Syria's President Assad in Damascus An artificially triggered avalanche thunders down a mountain side at the Vallee de la Sionne in Anzere Winter Weather TOPSHOTS-FSKATE-SWE-EUR-GALA Liberia Turns Towards Normalcy As Fight Continues To Eradicate Ebola TOPSHOTS-TAIWAN-PLANE-ACCIDENT Tribute for French soldier killed in fighter jet accident KOBANE - SYRIA APTOPIX Mideast Israel Night Surfing China's Kazakh Minority Preserve Culture Through Eagle Hunting in Western China

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