The Day in Photos
Saturday 31 December 2016
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![People demonstrate a home-made "smog cannon" which fires cannonballs made of "water and tobacco tar" to remind people the importance of protecting environment, in Xiangyang, Hubei province, Dec. 27, 2016.]()
December 31, 2016Top Photos of the Year 2016 - Human Interest
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![A woman sells "Happy New Year 2017" headwear on a shopping street in Sydney, Australia.]()
December 30, 2016December 30, 2016
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![Pope Francis receives an balloon flower during a performance of the Golden Circus in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.]()
December 28, 2016December 28, 2016
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![People demonstrate a home-made "smog cannon" which fires cannonballs made of "water and tobacco tar" to remind people the importance of protecting environment, in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China.]()
December 27, 2016December 27, 2016
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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.]()
December 26, 2016December 26, 2016
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![A dancer performs on a tree in temperatures below minus 37 degrees Celsius in Mohe, Heilongjiang province, China.]()
December 23, 2016December 23, 2016
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![Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Krill, on podium, conducts a religious service for killed Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov inside the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. Karlov was fatally shot by a Turkish policeman in a gathering in Ankara.]()
December 22, 2016December 22, 2016
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![Visitors react at the prehistoric stones of the Stonehenge monument at dawn on Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, near Amesbury in southwest Britain.]()
December 21, 2016December 21, 2016
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![An Afghan officer reacts in front of a burning pile of seized narcotics and alcoholic drinks, in the outskirts of Kabul.]()
December 20, 2016December 20, 2016
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![Artist Liu Bolin wearing a vest with 24 mobile phones walks in smog as he live broadcasts air pollution in the city on the fourth day after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing, China.]()
December 19, 2016December 19, 2016
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![Palestinian youths from Gaza's Free Parkour team, practice their Parkour skills in Gaza City.]()
December 16, 2016December 16, 2016
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![A Bosnian Muslim woman cries as several thousands of protesters gather to raise their voice against the killing in eastern Aleppo, Syria, during a rally in Sarajevo.]()
December 14, 2016December 14, 2016
