A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 26, 2016
![Tributes pour in from the music world after British pop superstar George Michael, who rose to fame with the duo Wham! and a string of smash hits including "Last Christmas", died aged 53. Michael died of apparent heart failure on Christmas Day at his home in Goring, a village on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, west of London, after an award-winning career spanning more than three decades.](https://gdb.voanews.com/c3887386-6952-4d1a-aacb-8f42a6def4f2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Tributes pour in from the music world after British pop superstar George Michael, who rose to fame with the duo Wham! and a string of smash hits including "Last Christmas", died aged 53. Michael died of apparent heart failure on Christmas Day at his home in Goring, a village on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, west of London, after an award-winning career spanning more than three decades.
![Indian women throw flowers into the sea during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Marina Beach in Chennai.](https://gdb.voanews.com/0878f330-ecbd-4b75-8bd2-11de8f17cbae_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Indian women throw flowers into the sea during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Marina Beach in Chennai.
![Members of the Prizma Ensemble wearing bodysuits take part in a festival for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in Jerusalem.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3048f88a-ff5e-4663-8cdc-8551f55f336c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of the Prizma Ensemble wearing bodysuits take part in a festival for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in Jerusalem.
![Children with traditional hair style play at the monastery compound in Set-Set-Yo village near old Bagan, Nyaung U district, central Myanmar.](https://gdb.voanews.com/520f67d8-b93d-424b-8db2-394baa9ece35_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Children with traditional hair style play at the monastery compound in Set-Set-Yo village near old Bagan, Nyaung U district, central Myanmar.