Tibetan Buddhist monks perform a dance called ‘cham’ wearing traditional masks, at the Sherabling monastery, about 40 miles south of Dharmsala, India.
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The carcass of 35-year-old elephant Sidda is lifted by a crane for its autopsy after he died of his injuries which he, according to forest officials, sustained while being chased by villagers late August, at Dabbaguli village on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India.
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A winter swimmer swims after breaking the ice on a frozen lake at a park in Shenyang, China.
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Russian artist Maria Gasanova adjusts her make-up as she finishes “The Siberian Beauty” body art work from her “The Alive Painting” series before the opening ceremony of the Cultural Universiade as part of preparation for the 2019 Winter Universiade Krasnoyarsk in Russia.
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Japanese video game designer and producer Shigeru Miyamoto makes an appearance at the Apple SoHo store to promote Super Mario Run for iOS in New York.
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A burned vehicle sits in a heavily damaged neighborhood above Gatlinburg, Tenn.
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People walk through the city’s historical Eminonu district in Istanbul.
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People enjoy a carousel at the Porta Nuova business district in Milan, Italy.
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St Mary’s Cathedral is illuminated with a Christmas-themed projection in Sydney to celebrate the Christmas season.
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A man walks the stairway inside the Nobel Institute before a news conference of the 2016 Nobel Peace prize laureate in Oslo.
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Syrian pro-government forces walks past rubble in old Aleppo’s Jdeideh neighbourhood. Syria’s government has retaken at least 85 percent of east Aleppo, which fell to rebels in 2012, since beginning its operation on November 15.
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An unidentified relative cries as people look at the body of a woman, later identified by her husband as that of Nora Acielo, after she was shot by still unidentified men while about to bring her two children to school at a poor neighborhood in Manila, Philippines. Police said the killing of Acielo was the 13th recorded drug-related case in the past 24 hours in President Rodrigo Duterte’s unrelenting war on drugs.
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A general view shows haze covering the town of Bar Elias in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, east of Beirut.
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