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The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, swimmers take the polar bear plunge, sumo champions perform, and more

Picture of Lauren Hansen
by Lauren Hansen
January 8, 2016

Spectators await the start of play between Australia and the West Indies at Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney, Australia.

(Zak Kaczmarek/Getty Images)

Zebras arrive at a new location in the Wildlands Adventure Zoo in Emmen, Netherlands.

(BAS CZERWINSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Mongolian-born grand sumo champion Yokozuna Harumafuji (left) performs the New Year's ring-entering rite at the annual celebration for the New Year at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.

(REUTERS/Yuya Shino)

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People in costume wait to perform before the traditional Epiphany parade in Malaga, Spain.

(REUTERS/Jon Nazca)

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A stroller is pushed along a snow covered bank of the Spree river after heavy snowfall in Berlin, Germany.

(REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski)

A man dressed as one of the Three Wise Men kisses a child at Poniente Beach in Gijon, Spain.

(REUTERS/Eloy Alonso)

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An 120-foot statue, covered in golden paint, of Mao Zedong is under construction in Tongxu County, China.

(REUTERS/Stringer)

Water covers Las Posas Road near Camarillo, California, after heavy rain from the first in a series of El Nino storms passed over the area.

(AP Photo/Joel Angel Juárez)

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Swimmers participate in a New Year's Day polar bear plunge, called the Loony Dook swim, at South Queensferry in Scotland.

(REUTERS/Russell Cheyne)

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Shi'ite Muslims in New Delhi, India, try to cross a barricade during a protest against the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

(REUTERS/Adnan Abidi)

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Children wait to be sprinkled with holy water two days before the annual procession of the Black Nazarene in Manila, Philippines.

(REUTERS/Erik De Castro)

Australian batsman David Warner celebrates his score against the West Indies on the final day of their third cricket test match in Sydney, Australia.

(REUTERS/Jason Reed)**See the best photojournalism of 2015**

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