A woman sells “Happy New Year 2017” headwear on a shopping street in Sydney.
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A sculpture of a rooster that local media say bears resemblance to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is seen outside a shopping mall in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China.
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Syrian Abu Khaled looks at the rubble of his destroyed house in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus.
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Dancers wearing costumes made of bearskins dance in the town of Comanesti, Romania. People from this region follow a pre-Christian rural tradition where they sing and dance to ward off evil.
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Iraqi soldiers inspect a tunnel used by Islamic State militants during a battle with Islamic State, north of Mosul, Iraq.
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A Nepalese Gurung community woman, wearing traditional attire, prepares to participate in a parade to mark their New Year known as “Tamu Loshar” in Kathmandu, Nepal. The indigenous Gurungs, also known as Tamu, are celebrating the advent of the year of the bird.
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An old man exercises with a large ring at the beach of the Baltic Sea on Timmendorfer Strand, Germany.
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Saima, who married an older man in her early teens, fixes her scarf during an interview in Jampur, Pakistan.
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Fern, the toucan that flew out of Courtney Chapman’s back yard aviary in Fullerton, Calif., in May, sits in a cage at Omar’s Exotic Birds in Brea, Calif.
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Oklahoma State players celebrate the team’s 38-8 win over Colorado in the Alamo Bowl NCAA college football game.
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In costume and carrying a sign reading, “Have u seen my significant otter?” Melanie Till welcomes her husband, P.O. 3rd Class David Till, home after the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Va.
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