A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 7, 2016
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The last of 17 Cargill salt miners emerge after being rescued from an elevator stuck 900 feet below the surface at the Cayuga Salt Mine in Lansing, New York. A rescue cage was lowered from a crane to bring them up four at a time.
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A mud flow skirts a house protected with sandbags in Monrovia, California, Jan. 6, 2016. A wildfire two years ago stripped away vegetation and loosened soil.
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Two armadillos are held by a zookeeper during the annual inventory at the zoo in Dresden, eastern Germany.
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Mongolian-born grand sumo champion Yokozuna Harumafuji (L) performs the New Year's ring-entering rite at the annual celebration for the New Year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.