A look at the best news photos from around the world.
February 9, 2016
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Handout picture released by the European Space Agency of a photo composition taken by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite showing as the second largest lake in Bolivia gradually dried up. Lake Poopo was declared fully evaporated in 2015. The three 100-m resolution Proba-V images shown here were taken on 27 April 2014, 20 July 2015 and 22 January 2016 respectively.
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A man tries to extinguish a fire at an illegal garbage dump after residents decided to set fire to it to prevent the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in a slum of San Jose, Costa Rica, Feb. 8, 2016.
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A participant takes part in the annual Great Spitalfields Pancake Race to raise money for London's Air Ambulance.
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An Afghan laborer uses machinery to fluff raw cotton of a bale to make pillows and mattresses, at his traditional shop in Kabul.