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A baby Japanese Macaque, or snow monkey, eats during a snowfall at a wildlife zoo in Hefei, Anhui province, China.JIANAN YU/Reuters

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A bullet train passes over Yongdinghe Bridge in Beijing. China has opened the world's longest high-speed rail line, which runs 2,298 kilometers from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in the Pearl River delta in southern China.Jiao Hongtao/The Associated Press

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Paramilitary policemen practice during their winter training in extreme weather in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China.CHINA DAILY/Reuters

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An Amish man loads his wagon with his groceries in Ashland, Ohio.Tom E. Puskar/The Associated Press

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Canada's Jonathan Huberdeau scores past Germany's goalie Elmar Trautmann (R) in the second period of their preliminary round game during the 2013 IIHF U20 World Junior Hockey Championship in Ufa, Russia.MARK BLINCH/Reuters

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Firefighters use a crane to try to extinguish a fire after fireworks stored in a building exploded in a densely populated area of Lagos, Nigeria.AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/Reuters

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Members of the Old Surrey Burstow and West Kent Hunt depart from Chiddingstone Castle for the annual Boxing Day hunt in Chiddingstone, England.LUKE MACGREGOR/Reuters

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A city waste management truck drives on Broadway in Paducah, Kentucky. while collecting trash downtown during a winter storm.Stephen Lance Dennee/The Associated Press

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Shoppers beg sales assistants for perfume products at Selfridges during the Boxing Day sales in London.OLIVIA HARRIS/Reuters

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Shoppers enter an electronics store with the hope of finding a bargain on Boxing Day in Montreal.Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press

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Teacher Ryan Little looks around at the desks and other items from temporary classrooms demolished by a Christmas Day tornado at Murphy High School in Mobile, Alabama.G.M. Andrews/The Associated Press

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A Free Syrian Army fighter smiles in a bunker they use to take shelter from air strikes in Aleppo, Syria.AHMED JADALLAH/Reuters

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An inflatable snowman has toppled over in severe weather as well-wishers cross the street to visit a memorial in Sandy Hook Village, the site of the December 14 school shooting, in Newtown, Connecticut.ADREES LATIF/Reuters

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