Katmandu, Nepal: A man from the Gurung community shows his son soap bubbles during a parade to mark Tamu Loshar, or New YearPhotograph: Niranjan Shrestha/APJakarta, Indonesia: A paper trumpet vendor falls asleep ahead of New Year's Eve celebrationsPhotograph: Supri/ReutersCaracas, Venezuela: A plate of a burned-out car at the scene of an accident in which reportedly 14 people were killedPhotograph: Fernando Llano/AP
Bodhgaya, India: An Indian worker carries a pair of loudspeakers during preparations for the Kalachakra Buddhist festival Photograph: Altaf Qadri/APIsrael: Israeli Apache helicopters release flares during an air force pilots' graduation ceremony at Hatzerim air basePhotograph: Nir Elias/ReutersDetroit, Michigan, US: A man eats his lunch at the soup kitchen in the basement of the St Leo Catholic Church Photograph: Mark Blinch/ReutersCagayan De Oro City, Phillipines: Filipino children play at a school turned into a temporary evacuation centre at a village devastated by floodsPhotograph: Francis R Malasig/EPAWuppertal, Germany: Baby elephant Uli resists the weigh-in at the zoo's annual inventoryPhotograph: Frank Augstein/APOberhof, Germany: Exhausted athletes lay on the ground after competing in the FIS Tour de Ski Oberhof Men's Prologue at DKB Ski ArenaPhotograph: Dennis Grombkowski/Bongarts/Getty ImagesChangsha, China: People queue up to buy train tickets at Changsha railway station as they prepare to return home for the Chinese lunar new year on 23 JanuaryPhotograph: APChulmleigh, UK: Liberty the last ex-battery hen to be rehoused is fed. The small battery hen cage has been phased out and replaced by more spacious 'enriched cages'Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesRio de Janeiro, Brazil: People push a boat filled with flowers into the sea off Copacabana beach as an offering for Yemanja, the goddess of the seaPhotograph: Victor R Caivano/APLima, Peru: Peruvian shamans make a ritual of predictions for 2012, at San Cristobal hillPhotograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty ImagesHarbin, China: Children of migrant workers lie on the snow to form the number 2012 while celebrating the coming new year in front of a snow sculpture Photograph: AP
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