Santa Claus (actually it’s ski teacher Alberto Ronchi) catches some air over the resort town of Madonna di Campiglio in northern Italy’s Dolomites.
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Destruction sits in the wake of a car bombing in the Pakistani town of Jamrud. Seventeen people were killed when the bomb exploded near a bus stop outside a local market.
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A Palestinian resident of the West Bank village of Madama argues with an Israeli soldier tasked with intervening in clashes between Palestinian farmers and Israeli settlers.
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Gong Shulin finishes a swim in the freezing waters of the Song Hua River in Harbin city, China. More than 500 winter swimmers belonging to a local club take a dip daily, believing the exercise is good for their health.
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FDNY firefighters battle a three-alarm fire at a junkyard on Tuckerton Street in Queens.
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A trumpeter plays from the Old Town tower over a traditional Christmas market in Prague’s Old Town Square.
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Indonesia’s Mount Lokon, which has erupted 800 times since July, spews volcanic ash during another eruption.
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A Georgian orthodox priest unceremoniously dunks one of about 900 babies welcomed to the faith at a mass baptism in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Bahraini civil rights activist Seyyed Yousif al-Muhafda is surrounded by police as they storm a market in Manama. Al-Muhafda was one of at least six opposition supporters nabbed.
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A city engineer monitors the seawall in Vancouver’s Stanley Park for damage as high tides and strong winds from a winter storm battered the Canadian city’s shores.
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A woman hawks figurines from her stand at a Christmas market in Nantes, France.
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Just some of about 20,000 “wishing spheres” float along the Singapore River carrying New Year wishes of people all over the country.
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