A dancer dressed as Ba Jia Jiang, a Chinese guardian of the gods, uses firecrackers for purification during a temple festival in Taiwan
A couple kisses at a bus stop in Buenos Aires, Argentina
A man watches as fire rips through hundreds of houses in Manila, Philippines
A purebred Spanish horse is seen at the Sicab 2024 International Horse Show in Seville, Spain
A missile moments before hitting a building in Beirut, Lebanon
A cattle herder and his horse at the Jeronimo-Santa Teresa border crossing on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Police charge supporters of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, a jailed Hindu monk, during a demonstration in Chittagong, Bangladesh
Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the side of a mountain during the 2024 Alpine Skiing World Cup in Gürgl, Austria
Visitors wearing traditional hanbok dresses are seen on the grounds of Gyeongbokgung Palace amid heavy snowfall in central Seoul, South Korea
Southern California's Kiki Iriafen (R) collides with Seton Hall's Yaya Lops during an NCAA women's college basketball game in Palm Desert, California
Workers inflate giant helium balloons in preparation for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York
A farm worker tends to flowers in a field in Hanoi
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