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Pictures of the day from The Huffington Post brings you the very best news and sports images from around the world, chosen and created by our own photo editors, Elliot Wagland and Tahira Mirza.
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Bangladeshi Muslim devotees offer prayers on a boat during the first day of a multiple day event, World Congregation of Muslims, on the banks of the River Turag in Tongi, 20 kilometers (13 miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. Thousands of Muslims attended the annual event, one of the worldâs largest congregation of Muslims. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Landlord of the Tan Hill pub in the North Yorkshire Dales, Steve Bailey, clears up after earlier snow. (credit:Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)
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The Flying Scotsman locomotive under steam at the East Lancashire Railway tracks in public for the first time after the successful completion of a decade-long £4.2m restoration project. (credit:Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
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SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 08: (CHINA OUT) A tourist poses with some of the 800 panda bins placed at Century Square near Nanjing Road to promote garbage classification on January 8, 2016 in Shanghai, China. The activity was held to promote the panada bins, which are used to collect used clothes for donation or recycling. The bins, introduced as part of a environmental protection campaign in 2012, can be found across the city in Schools and residential communities. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) (credit:ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Stephen Fry attend the announcement of the EE British Academy Film Awards nominations at BAFTA on January 8, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Dave Hogan/Getty Images) (credit:Dave J Hogan via Getty Images)
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An airplane flies past the crescent moon as it prepares to land at the airport in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on January 8, 2016. / AFP / dpa / Frank Rumpenhorst / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read FRANK RUMPENHORST/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:FRANK RUMPENHORST via Getty Images)
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Russia's Obmochaeva (8) has her leg stretched during the Women's European Olympic 2016 Qualification volleyball match Russia vs Belgium at the TVF Baskent Sports Hall in Ankara on January 7, 2016. / AFP / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:ADEM ALTAN via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 07: An Eifel Tower mantel clock by Japy Freres with a value of 8,450 GBP is displayed during the The Mayfair Antiques And Fine Arts Fair on January 7, 2016 in London, England. Now in its' fourth year The Mayfair Antiques and Fine Art Fair showcases a wide range of artefacts from around the world. (Photo by Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images) (credit:Ben Pruchnie via Getty Images)
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PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 07: Big Cats trainer Frederic Edelstein performs with lions during 'Handicirque' : 8Th Gala at Cirque Pinder Pelouse de Reuilly on January 7, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Foc Kan/WireImage) (credit:Foc Kan via Getty Images)
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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: Model Danielle Knudson watches Milos Raonic of Canada against Lucas Pouille of France during day six of the 2016 Brisbane International at Pat Rafter Arena on January 8, 2016 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images) (credit:Chris Hyde via Getty Images)
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 08: A general view inside St Andrew's Cathedral during a funeral service for Stevie Wright at St Andrew's Cathedral on January 8, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Wright was the lead singer of the 60s group The Easybeats and is widely regarded as Australia's first international pop star. Stevie Wright passed away in the NSW south coast town of Moruya on December 27 aged 68. (Photo by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images) (credit:Mark Metcalfe via Getty Images)
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Twenty-year-old female tour guides dressed in traditional kimonos pose for photographs as they visit Tokyo's Meiji shrine to attend a purification ceremony with a Shinto priest to celebrate Japan's Coming-of-Age Day on January 8, 2016. Since tour guides will be busy working on Japan's national holiday Coming-of-Age Day on January 11, the company held a ceremony. Young people turning 20 are officially recognised as adults in Japan. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO / AFP / YOSHIKAZU TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:YOSHIKAZU TSUNO via Getty Images)
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British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon (C) answers questions next to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (R) and Japanese Vice Defense Minister Kenji Wakamiya (L) following their inspection the Japanese Ship Izumo, a helicopter carrier, at the Yokosuka Base of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces in Kanagawa prefecture on January 8, 2016. Japan and Britain will hold ministerial talks in Tokyo, so-called 'two-plus-two' talks between the two nations' foreign and defense ministers. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:KAZUHIRO NOGI via Getty Images)
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A North Korean guard post in the border county of Kaepoong is seen from a South Korean observation post in Paju near the Demilitarized Zone dividing two Koreas on January 8, 2016. South Korea on January 8 resumed high-decibel propaganda broadcasts into North Korea as the United States ramped up pressure on China to bring Pyongyang to heel after its latest nuclear test. AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE / AFP / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JUNG YEON-JE via Getty Images)
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An Indian farmer stands on a cart pulled by a horse during foggy weather in Jalandhar on January 8, 2016. AFP PHOTO / SHAMMI MEHRA / AFP / SHAMMI MEHRA (Photo credit should read SHAMMI MEHRA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SHAMMI MEHRA via Getty Images)
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IZMIR, TURKEY - JANUARY 8: Railway officials inspects the site of the accident after a container toppled over a metro carriage, while it was traveling between Fahrettin Altay-Evka3 stops, in Izmir, Turkey on January 8, 2016. (Photo by Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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IZMIR, TURKEY - JANUARY 8: Railway officials inspects the site of the accident after a container toppled over a metro carriage, while it was traveling between Fahrettin Altay-Evka3 stops, in Izmir, Turkey on January 8, 2016. (Photo by Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Iraqi forces secure an area near the Grand Mosque in central Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, on January 8, 2016, after retaking the city from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists. Iraqi forces pushed out of central Ramadi on January 1, 2016 to extend their grip on the city, sweeping neighbourhoods for pockets of jihadists to flush out and trapped civilians to evacuate. AFP PHOTO / STR / AFP / - (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:- via Getty Images)
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Turkish riot police blocks the street as Turkish anti-teror police officers search pro kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Beyoglu headquarters, on January 8, 2015 in Istanbul. A Turkish court sentenced a co-mayor of a major city in the Kurdish-majority southeast to 15 years in jail on charges of membership of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:OZAN KOSE via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Gugu Mbatha-Raw attends the EE British Academy Film Awards nominations announcement at BAFTA Piccadilly on January 8, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images) (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 08: Gugu Mbatha-Raw (L) and Stephen Fry attend the EE British Academy Film Awards nominations announcement at BAFTA Piccadilly on January 8, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images) (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
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A Siberian tiger cub (Panthera tigris altaica) feeds on a chunk of meat in Nyiregyhaza Animal Park near Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. (Attila Balazs/MTI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Staying on a working visit in Hungary, British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, is shown the panorama by Hungarian President Janos Ader from the terrace of the presidential Alexander Palace in Budapest Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. At right the illuminated Parliament building on the bank of River Danube is seen. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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JANUARY 7: Turkish Coast Guards go on the board of suspected vessel from a helicopter during the operation, the Albatros Campaign, that Turkey has seized at least 13 tons of drugs in powdered form from a Bolivia-registered ship in its first-ever anti-narcotics operation in international waters, 55 nautical miles away from Tobruk Port of Libya on January 7, 2016. (Photo by Turkish Coast Guard Command/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Shown is a detail of the annual butter sculpture Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, at the Farm Show complex in Harrisburg, Pa. Starting Saturday, thousands of visitors are expected to descend on the state capital for the 100th Pennsylvania Farm Show, a weeklong celebration agriculture and rural life. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (credit:Matt Rourke/AP)
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 07: Victoria's Secret models Elsa Hosk (L) and Martha Hunt box it out wearing Victoria Secret Sport at Aerospace High Performance Center on January 7, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Victoria's Secret) (credit:Dimitrios Kambouris via Getty Images)
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CARDIFF, WALES - JANUARY 07: Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (R) inspects a cooling and imaging device designed for space exploration during his visit to the Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy prior to delivering a speech on January 7, 2016 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Ben Birchall - WPA Pool/Getty Images) (credit:WPA Pool via Getty Images)
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A banner with hands paintings is seen outside satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo former office, one year after the attacks on it, in Paris, France, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. It's a year to the day since an attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo launched a bloody year in the French capital. Tensions in France, under a state of emergency since a wave of attacks on Nov. 13, have been even higher this week as the anniversary of the January attacks approached. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (credit:Francois Mori/AP)
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Flagstaff resident Anthony Martinez pushes a motorist out of the snow in Flagstaff, Ariz., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016. A series of El Nino-related storms dumped heavy snow on the region. (AP Photo/Josh Biggs) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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A snowy owl was gloriously caught mid-flight by a traffic camera in Canada