A cat steals the spotlight in a nativity scene outside a church in Warsaw.
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A young girl sits squished among other Syrian refugees fleeing violence on a Jordanian army vehicle after her group crossed into Jordanian territory near the town of Ramtha.
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Chinese paramilitary police perform extreme-weather training in Nanjing.
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Murphy High School teacher Leland Howard tries to salvage items where his algebra classroom once stood in a temporary building at Murphy High School after a Christmas Day tornado smashed the area.
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A pair of Hamadryas baboons snack on peppers decorating a tree in their enclosure at Safaripark Beekse Bergen in Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands.
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Visitors observe a reproduction of the paintings of Rembrandt at the Magna Plaza shopping center in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The permanent exhibition “Rembrandt: All His Paintings,” contains reproductions of all the Dutch painter’s works.
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Lyubov Valiyeva, a member of the Cryophil winter swimming club, plays in the snow by the bank of the Yenisei River in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk (where it’s -13 degrees Farenheit).
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A Palestinian child signals for peace during a candlelight vigil in front of Red Cross offices in Gaza City. The vigil was held in solidarity with hunger-striking detainees held by Israel.
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Free Syrian Army fighters watch a plume of smoke rise in the distance as clashes in Aleppo continue between rebels and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Canadiens defenseman Josh Gorges chases down a puck during a pick-up hockey game in Montreal. Gorges used Twitter to organize a Boxing Day game with fans at a neighborhood rink.
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Workers walk through a plume of dust left in a building demolition in Haikou, China.
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Tottenham’s Gareth Bale celebrates his third goal against Aston Villa in Spurs’ 4-0 win at Villa Park in Birmingham, England.
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