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Whittlesea, UK The Straw Bear is paraded through the streets accompanied by attendant keepers, musicians and dancers during a festival in Cambridgeshire. The custom was revived in 1980 by the Whittlesea Society, after being stopped by the local constabulary in 1909, which forbid ‘Straw Bears’ as a form of cadging

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Rafah, Gaza Displaced Palestinian Muhammad Al-Durra speaks to one of his children at the destroyed house in which they took shelter. Muhammad said that he and his four children had been on the move, staying in different places, since 11 October when his home was hit by a strike which killed his wife

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Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo People cross flood water after heavy rain caused the Congo River to overflow

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Torgau, eastern Germany Farmers drive their tractors past Hartenfels Castle to protest against the federal government’s austerity plans

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Glenshee, Scotland Skier Cieran Marschal and his dog Kai enjoy the favourable weather conditions on snow-covered hills

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Pasto, Colombia A performer leaps during the Canto a la Tierra parade on 3 January, part of the Blancos y Negros carnival. This Unesco-recognised carnival takes place every January in the southern Andean city of Pasto. It has its origins in a mix of Amazonian, Andean and Pacific cultural expressions

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London, UK A worker counts Humboldt penguins during the London Zoo’s annual stocktake

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Dubliany, Ukraine A woman walks towards the damaged Lviv National University of Nature Management after a drone attack on the outskirts of Lviv

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Stalybridge, UK Damaged roofs on a row of terraced houses after Storm Gerrit hit the country

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Barranquilla, Colombia A 6.5-metre statue of Shakira on the Malecon in the port city where she grew up

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