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Bibi, a 17-year old pregnant Nile Hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, swims in her enclosure, Wednesday, in Cincinnati.Credit:AP
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Prints of hands on a wall of the city of Morat Switzerland, are illuminated on the first day of the second Light's Festival.Credit:Cyril Zingaro/Keystone
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The Clavie King Dan Ralph and his squad hand out staves from the Clavie, which is a burning barrel packed with tar soaked sticks fixed on top of a pole, in Burghead, Scotland. People welcome in the New Year with the fire ceremony which has ancient roots dating back to the 1750s, when the Julian calendar was reformed in Britain. Credit:Getty Images
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Lorin Doeleman uses a kayak to check her flooded home, in Guerneville, California.Credit:Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle
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Ice covers vegetation at the main Kosovo power plant in the town of Obilic, as temperatures plummeted to -25c, there were power outages in many areas in what meteorologists said was the coldest weather since 1963, when it dropped to -32.5 Centigrade.Credit:AP
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Migrants queue for food in front of an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia. Hundreds of migrants are sleeping rough in parks and make-shift shelters in the Serbian capital in freezing temperatures waiting for a chance to move forward toward the European Union. Credit:AP
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Heavy machinery and an electricity post is surrounded by mud after a landslide triggered by a storm in the village of Volcan, Argentina.Credit:AP
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Singer Enrique Iglesias, center, and Cuban singer Descemer Bueno dance on top of a bus during the filming of their video in Old Havana, Cuba.Credit:AP
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A so-called wolf moon rises over Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, England. In some parts of the world, the January full moon is nicknamed the wolf moon, which dates back to the days when native American tribes gave names to each month's full moon to help keep track of the seasons.Credit:Getty Images
