The week in amazing pictures from The Telegraph

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Members of the media stand inside 'Big Air Package' - the latest work of art by Christo - inside a gasometer in Oberhausen, western Germany. The installation is 90 metres high, with a diameter of 50 metres and a volume of 177,000 cubic metres...



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Left: The gasometer in Oberhausen. Right: Christo's Big Air Package, which is made from 5.3 tons of translucent material, filling the interior of the former gas storage facility. The world's largest self-supporting sculpture will be on show to the public in Oberhausen, Germany, from March 16 until Dec. 30, 2013.

    

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Civilian passengers of the Airbus A330 Zero-G enjoy weightlessness, during the first zero gravity flight for paying passengers in Europe. All tickets, costing 6,000 euros, have been sold for the years 2013 and 2014. Zero gravity flights for paying passengers have already taken place in the United States and Russia. The zero-gravity of space is simulated by flying a series of parabolic flight maneuvers that counter the forces of gravity and allow astronauts and cosmonauts to learn how to accomplish tasks with no gravity.

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Lenticular clouds pass in sweeping layers over the port village of Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides. The high-altitude lens-shaped formations often have a smooth, saucer-like shape and have sometimes been mistaken for UFOs.

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A shocked driver could only watch when his £100,000 Aston Martin DBS was written off while he filled up with petrol. The motorist had pulled up to a pump at the Esso garage in Kingshill, Wiltshire, when the driver of a pink Vauxhall Corsa lost control on the roundabout and she collided with his vehicle on the forecourt. Nobody was injured in the incident but the driver of the Aston Martin said his car was beyond repair. That will be a write-off. They won't fix that, he said.

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A little boy who has never had his hair cut is getting his two foot long locks chopped off for the Little Princess Trust - to make a wig for children with cancer. Elijah Edney, 3, is donating his long golden mane to charity and hopes to raise enough money to pay for a wig to be made. His mum Amber, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, says she let Elijah grow his hair how he liked, but now people are starting to mistake him for a girl because of his tresses.

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Archaeologists examine carefully laid-out skeletons thought to be from a 14th century burial ground that have been discovered in London during work on the £14.8 billion Crossrail project.

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One World Trade Center emerges from the clouds in the night sky in a photo taken from a plane over New York.

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Five-year-old Erin inspects a sculpture titled 'Twin-Subjecter' by artist Thomas Hirschhorn in the newly refurbished Melrose Wing at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.

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People use smartphones and tablets to take photos of Pope Francis I as he speaks from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/theweekinpictures/9933756/The-week-in-pictures-15-March-2013.html