A look at the best news photos from around the world.
1Ethnic Dong children wearing traditional costumes attend Duoye Festival, in Sanjiang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
2The Waterford crystal ball is shown atop One Times Square during a media preview, Dec. 27, 2015, in New York. Hundreds of thousands of people in Times Square are expected to watch the ball drop at midnight on Dec. 31 to welcome the New Year.
3Families of wounded Syrian opposition fighters wait for their release at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa. Syrian opposition fighters, some on wheelchairs, stretchers or crutches left the Syrian mountain resort of Zabadani toward the Lebanon border, where they will be flown to Turkey.
4Afghan shopkeeper watches from a broken window of his shop near the site of suicide car bomb attack in Kabul.