A photo shows the work Eggs of Yodafoetus by French artist Alexandre Nicolas at the science fiction museum Maison d’Ailleurs (translated as “House of Elsewhere”) during the exhibition entitled “I Am Your Father!”, in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
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Members of the Philippines military brass band perform during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the military at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, Manila, attended by President Rodrigo Duterte.
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A police officer fires rubber bullets at demonstrators during a general strike against a pension reform measure in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Union leaders complain that the legislation, which already passed in the Senate, would cut pension and retirement payments as well as aid for some poor families.
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Cars from an Amtrak train lay spilled onto Interstate 5 alongside smashed vehicles as some train cars remain on the tracks above in DuPont, Washington. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass on Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing several people, authorities said. 78 passengers and five crew members were aboard when the train, moving at more than 80 miles per hour, derailed about 40 miles south of Seattle before 8 a.m., Amtrak said.
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President Donald Trump greets South Carolina Senator Tim Scott on stage during a bill passage event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. to acknowledge the final passage of tax cut legislation by Congress.
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A man dressed as Santa Claus rides a zipline towards Pigeon Rock “Rawshe” to light the Christmas tree in Beirut, Lebanon.
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A cow is transported by a helicopter after a mudslide in Villa Santa Lucia, Chile.
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Russia’s Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft, carrying members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 54/55, blasts off to the ISS from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome. NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and crewmates Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Norishege Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency lifted off.
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A man walks along a road on a smoggy winter morning in New Delhi, India.
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A Palestinian woman takes a picture of a member of the Israeli security forces as he also takes her picture in a street in Jerusalem as demonstrations continue to flare in the Middle East and elsewhere over the United States president’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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A strong wind blows embers during the Thomas Fire in Montecito, California. Improving weather conditions and firefighting efforts throughout the week allowed significant progress against monster wildfires in Southern California.
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A Bombardier 415 Superscooper makes a water drop on hot spots along the hillside east of Gibraltar Road in Santa Barbara, California.
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Prima Ballerina Deborah Ribeiro performs in front of Rio de Janeiro’s Municipal Theater during a protest demanding unpaid salaries and benefits for culture public servants in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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A small statue of baby Jesus lies in a bed of bullet shells in a nativity scene outside the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, Italy. The 445 shells represent the number of priests, nuns, monks, and religious teachers killed for their faith since 2000.
Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters
A woman looks at candles during the One Million Stars event by Swiss humanitarian organization Caritas as a sign of solidarity and cohesion with those who are infirm and poor, in front of the Swiss Federal Palace (Bundeshaus) in Bern, Switzerland.
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A Rohingya refugee girl has her face painted at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
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Nine-month-old Carlos Ramos cries as he is held by Santa Claus (David Prados Fernandez) at La Casa de Papa Noel (Santa Claus Home) at the Real Casa de Postas in central Madrid, Spain. Prados Fernandez, who never got the Santa Claus experience as a boy, has been working as Santa Claus in different venues for the past seven years.
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A crew member of MV Open Arms, the search and rescue ship of Proactiva Open Arms, carries a migrant baby before passing it to crew members of MV Aquarius, another search and rescue ship run in partnership between SOS Mediterranee and Medecins Sans Frontieres, during a mid-sea transfer of migrants in the central Mediterranean off the coast of Libya.
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A man compares a photo on his phone to a coffee depicting his image at The Tea Terrace in the House of Fraser department store in London, England. For £5.75 ($7.69 USD), customers can send a photo to the barista, who then applies the image to the foam of the coffee using edible food dye from a fine art printer.
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Kel sleeps in the spot where he lives in the subway next to Hyde Park Station in London, England.
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A tourist, wearing a hat with a Swiss flag, walks on the Peak Walk bridge at Glacier 3000 in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
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A man walks through a tunnel in the government district in Berlin, Germany.
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People take photos in front of a house lit up by Christmas light installations in Rizal, Manila, Philippines.
Dondi Tawatao / Reuters
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy lights candles during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood.
Ariel Schalit / AP
“Larry the Downing Street Cat” sits on the doorstep of Number 10 before Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions at Parliament in London.
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A window cleaner dressed as Santa Claus prepares to clean a glass window at an event to celebrate the upcoming Christmas at DECKS Tokyo Beach in Tokyo, Japan.
Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters
A surfer drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal.
Rafael Marchante / Reuters
Nikolai Vasilyev, 64, dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, water-skis along the Yenisei River outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Vasilyev, a former teacher at the Siberian State Aerospace University, constructed the water skis out of plastic foam and designed the sticks to propel him forward, while traveling on the water surface.
Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
A runner makes its way around the course during the King George Betting At 188Bet Novices Hurdle at Exeter Racecourse in Exeter, England.
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Slovenian opera singer Irena Yebuah Tiran performs during a live nativity scene in Postojna Cave in Postojna, Slovenia. The live nativity scene is staged along a 5-kilometer path through the Postojna Caves with 200 people performing and working.
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