The passing of performers Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, and George Michael, waterfalls on Uluru in Australia, a humanoid manned robot in South Korea, the annual bear ritual gathering in Romania, a lightshow in Dubai, breakdancing for the Pope in the Vatican, and much more.
Photos of the Week: 12/24–12/30
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A drawing is left with flowers and tributes outside the Oxfordshire home of British pop singer George Michael on December 26, 2016 in Goring, England. Singer George Michael died on Christmas day in his country home in Oxfordshire at the age of 53 on December 25. #
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A woman walks through fog as the sun rises over Clapham Common on December 29, 2016 in London, England. Freezing temperatures have created a cold, foggy and frosty start for much of England and Wales for a second day. #
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Engineers test a four-meter-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Technology in Gunpo, south of Seoul, on December 27, 2016. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie "Avatar" and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company. #
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Young priests stand in St. Peter's Square as Pope Francis Delivers his Christmas Urbi Et Orbi Blessing from St. Peter's Basilica on December 25, 2016 in the Vatican City. #
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A fan sits in King Power Stadium with masks of player Jamie Vardy placed on seats before the Leicester City v Everton football match in in Leicester, England on December 26, 2016. #
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Two airliners pass in the sky above Malta as the drama of a hijacked Libyan Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A320 is played out on the runway beneath at Malta Airport on December 23, 2016. #
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A soldier from the Iraqi Army Special forces stands guard in front of a defaced Christian statue during the Christmas mass held at Mar Shimoni Church on December 24, 2016 in Bartella, Iraq. The predominantly Christian town of Bartella was recently liberated from ISIS as part of the Mosul offensive. The town's four churches were heavily damaged and defaced during the two year occupation. The Christmas mass marked the first official mass in Bartella since a mass was held on August 14, 2014 just hours before ISIS arrived. #
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In this December 27, 2016, photo, teenagers Zack Sowder, left, Jacob Sowder and Brent Shishido, of Orange County, California, sit on a capsized vessel offshore of Little Torch Key in the Florida Keys. The stranded teenage boys called 911 and calmly sat atop a capsized boat before being rescued, authorities said. #
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An Israeli Air Force F-15 plane performs during a graduation ceremony for new pilots in the Hatzerim air force base near the city of Beersheba, Israel, on December 29, 2016. #
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A child wearing a bear fur costume dances along with adults during the annual bear ritual gathering in Comanesti, Romania, on December 30, 2016. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil, in the present the tradition has moved to Romania's cities too, where dancers travel to perform the ritual for money. #
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A sculpture of a rooster that local media say bears resemblance to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is seen outside a shopping mall in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China, on December 30, 2016. #
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Rubi Ibarra dances during her quinceañera celebration in Villa Guadalupe, San Luis Potosi State, Mexico, on December 26, 2016. Rubi, a small-town Mexican teen, welcomed thousands of guests for her 15th birthday party after her parents' video invitation to the milestone event went viral online. #
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An Iraqi odontology student dressed in a Santa Claus outfit distributes gifts to impoverished children outside their shanty home in the Iraqi holy Shiite city of Najaf on December 25, 2016. #
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Journalists and police observe the destruction of about one ton of fireworks confiscated to illegal vendors before the Christmas and New Year holidays, in Lima, Peru, on December 23, 2016. #
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In this still image from video, a Russian Emergency Situations Ministry diver adjusts a rope on a fragment of a plane engine, to lift it outside in Sochi, Russia, on December 28, 2016. The Defense Ministry says search teams have recovered another flight recorder from a military plane that crashed in the Black Sea, killing all 92 aboard. #
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A Pakistani Christian girl clad in a fancy dress crosses a bridge in poor Christian neighborhood situated in the suburbs of Islamabad, Pakistan, on December 25, 2016. #
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A Syrian regime tank sits in front of heavily damaged and abandoned buildings in the former rebel-held Sukkari district in the northern city of Aleppo on December 23, 2016 after Syrian government forces retook control of the whole embattled city. Syrian troops cemented their hold on Aleppo after retaking full control of the city, as residents anxious to return to their homes moved through its ruined streets. #
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Akram Abu al-Foz takes a picture of a Christmas tree he decorated from empty shells which he collected and painted on, in the rebel held besieged city of Douma, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, on December 23, 2016. #
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Joint Master and Huntsman Stuart Radbourn, center, leads riders that have arrived for the Avon Vale Hunt's traditional Boxing Day meet in Lacock near Chippenham on December 26, 2016 in Wiltshire, England. Boxing Day is traditionally the biggest day in the hunt calendar, and despite the hunting ban that came into force in 2004, today is expected to see thousands of supporters drawn to meets across the country. #
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Pope Francis watches a performance by members of the Golden Circus in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican at the end of his weekly general audience on December 28, 2016. #
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Candles and flowers are placed on actress Carrie Fisher's makeshift star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame on December, 29 2016, in Hollywood, California. Fisher died on Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. She was 60 years old. #
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