Angela Bassett

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Our selection of some of The Most striking news photographs taken around The World This Week .

Angela Bassett , Lupita Nyong'o and Danai Gurira pose backstage with their Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award for the film Black Panther at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Award in Los Angeles . Mykh, a two-year-old Great Gray Owl, sits on The Head of ornithologist Daria Koshcheyeva during a training session to tame Wild Animals for further research and interaction with visitors. It is part of a project at a zoo in the Siberian Taiga forest in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. US Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at A House Democrats news conference to reintroduce the "Paycheck Fairness Act" on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Bill aims to close The Gap between how much men and women are paid. Children in a classroom during their lunch break at the Fruitful Rescue Centre, an orphanage in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Supporters of former "comfort woman" Kim Bok-dong are seen outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea , following her death. She was one of an estimated 200,000 women who were forced to become prostitutes by Japan during World War Two. Many of The Women came from China and South Korea , but also from the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan. People pray outside the Brumadinho Matriz Church during a service in honour of the Missing People and victims of a dam collapse at an iron-ore mine in south-eastern Brazil in the community of Parque das Cachoeiras. Pope Francis arrives to lead the Wednesday general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. Pedestrians in cities across parts of the US protect their faces from the extreme cold during one of the worst cold snaps to hit the US Midwest in decades. Ninety million People - a third of the US - have seen temperatures of -17C (0F) or below. Some 250 million Americans overall have experienced the "polar vortex" conditions. Sunrise over Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, after the coldest night of the year as parts of the UK experienced snow and icy conditions. A woman takes part in the Cold Water Swimming Championships at Tooting Bec Lido in South London .

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Source of news: bbc.com