Trump presidency, Jallikattu protests, Iran’s oldest building ablaze: Week in review

US President Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, dance at the "Salute to Our Armed Forces" inaugural ball during inauguration festivities in Washington, U.S. (Rick Wilking/REUTERS)

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US President Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, dance at the "Salute to Our Armed Forces" inaugural ball during inauguration festivities in Washington, U.S. (Rick Wilking/REUTERS)

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American tennis player Serena Williams serves during her women's singles third round match against Nicole Gibbs. (Jason Reed/REUTERS)

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Indian civil defence personnel march during a full-dress rehearsal for India's Republic Day parade in Kolkata. (Rupak De Chowdhuri /REUTERS)

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Indian Air Force Jaguars fly over Rajpath during Republic Day rehearsals in New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)

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A view of illuminated South and North Block of the Secretariat building, in preparation for India’s 68th Republic Day. (Ravi Choudhary/HT PHOTO)

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Firefighters try to put out fire at the oldest high-rise building in Tehran, Iran. (REUTERS)

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Gulzar during the Suspected Poetry session at the Jaipur Literature Fest 2017 in Jaipur, India. (Saumya Khandelwal/HT PHOTO)

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Fog engulfs the area near Yamuna as North India braves cold waves. (Ravi Choudhary/HT PHOTO)

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Thousands of people staged demonstrations at the iconic Marina Beach on Wednesday as fresh waves of protest against the ban on the bull-taming sport Jallikattu gathered momentum. (V. Srinivasulu/HT photo)

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Baba Ramdev and Andrey Stadnik, Olympic Medalist in action during the Pro Wresting league-2 at K D Jadhav Stadium, I G Stadium in New Delhi. (Virendra Singh Gosain/HT PHOTO)

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Thick smoke rises from a fire which broke out at oil wells set ablaze by Islamic State militants before fleeing the oil-producing region of Qayyara, Iraq. (Girish Gupta/REUTERS)

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Wang Yulian, whose daughter was among passengers on-board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing in 2014, is comforted by others as relatives arrive for a meeting with the airline representatives in Beijing, China. (Damir Sagolj/REUTERS)

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Salman Khan at Jodhpur court after being acquitted in the Arms Act violation case. (Ramji Vyas/HT Photo)

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Women loyal to the Houthi movement participate in a parade to show support to the movement in Sanaa, Yemen. (/Khaled Abdullah/REUTERS)

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Palestinian man Nabeel Mussa, who keeps scorpions and snakes as a hobby and eats them, has his face surrounded by a snake at his house in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Faisal Al Nasser/REUTERS)

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Plane debris is seen at the crash site of a Turkish cargo jet near Kyrgyzstan's Manas airport outside Bishkek. (Vladimir Pirogov/REUTERS)

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People gather to march in the annual parade down MLK Boulevard to honor Martin Luther King, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, US. (Billy Weeks/REUTERS)

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Astronaut Gene Cernan is pictured in the Command Module during the outbound trip from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in this December 1972 file photo. (NASA/REUTERS)

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An aerial view of a snow covered city and Ridge after Shimla received a second spell of snow. (Deepak Sansta/HT Photo)

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A pair of buffalos take on each other during a traditional buffalo fight held as part of Magh Bihu festivities at Boidyabori village, east of Gwahati. Magh Bihu is the harvest festival of north eastern Assam state and is observed in the Assamese month of Magh, that coincides with January. (Anupam Nath/AP)

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A photographer is pictured during Stage 11 of the 2017 Dakar Rally between San Juan and Rio Cuarto, in Argentina. (Franck Fife/AFP)

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In this January 13, 2017 photo, Idris 3, from Mali, center, sleeps next to his mother Aicha Keita, right, on the deck of the Golfo Azzurro vessel after being rescued from the Mediterranean sea, about 20 miles north of Ra's Tajura, Libya. Spain's maritime rescue service says the bodies of seven African migrants have been found dead along the Strait of Gibraltar since Friday. (Olmo Calvo/AP)