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Photos of the day — January 18, 2017

Workers make a toffee-like sweet cake called "dodol," one of the traditional delicacies served during Chinese New Year celebrations in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia; a member of Iraqi rapid response forces fires a rocket launcher during a battle with Islamic State militants in the district of Yarimja in southern Mosul, Iraq; President Barack Obama prepares to speak at his final presidential news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington; Madame Tussauds' designers apply the final touches to the wax figure of President-elect Donald Trump, as they unveil the figure just days ahead of the American's Presidential Inauguration in Washington in London; The world's oldest giant panda "Basi" in captivity eats specially-made cake during its 37th birthday at Strait Panda World in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China; and a priest carries a picture of Christ on the cross as final preparations are made as Timkat celebrations get under way in Gondar, Ethiopia.

These are just a few of the photos of the day for January 18, 2017.

Photos: (from top) Tatan Syuflana/AP, Alaa Al-Marjani/Reuters, Carolyn Kaster/AP, Frank Augstein/AP, VCG via Getty Images, Carl Court/Getty Images

Photos of the day — January 23, 2017

Forty-three crosses sit in a vacant lot in the Englewood neighborhood on January 23, 2017 in Chicago, Ill.; a protestor supporting Jallikattu, a traditional bull-taming ritual tries to resist as police remove them from the Marina beach on the Bay of Bengal coast in Chennai, India; a photo taken with a multiple exposure shows Serena Williams of the USA in action against Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic during round four of the Women's Singles at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; fire trucks extinguish a fire at a TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK's oil refinery in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan; a model presents a creation from the Spring/Summer 2017 Haute Couture collection by Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France; and Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife Barbara pose for a photo at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston.

These are just a few of the photos of the day for January 23, 2017.

Photos: (from top) Scott Olson/Getty Images, AP, Tracey Nearmy/EPA, Kyodo via Reuters, Ian langsdon/EPA, Ian langsdon/EPA, Office of George H.W. Bush via AP

Photos of the day — January 3, 2017

Nunak, a Bornean orangutan, yawns in the enclosure at Usti nad Labem Zoo, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic; a mountain of bottles await processing at the glass recycling processing plant Van Tuijl, following the Christmas and New Year celebrations, in Gameren, Netherlands; people wearing masks dance at a square among heavy smog during a polluted day in Fuyang, Anhui province, China; newly recruited Shiite fighters, known as Houthis, hold their weapons as they ride on a vehicle during a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters into battlefronts to fight pro-government forces in several Yemeni cities, in Sanaa, Yemen; and a Thai nurse cares for babies, born in the Year of the Chicken, dressed in chicken suits at the nursery room of Paolo Chockchai 4 Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Photos: (from top) Remko De Waal/EPA, David W Cerny/Reuters, China Daily via Reuters, Hani Mohammed/AP, Narong Sangnak/EPA

Photos of the day — December 28, 2016

People walk along a seasonally decorated street with illuminations for Christmas and the New Year installed in Moscow, Russia; members of Hashid Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fire towards Islamic State militant positions in west of Mosul, Iraq; a female mantled guereza holds its four-day-old baby in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary; Southampton's Virgil van Dijk practices during the warm up before a game against Tottenham Hotspur at St. Mary's stadium in England; and a white-spectacled bulbul flies over a tree near the west bank city of Nablus City, West Bank on Dec. 28, 2016. These species live around fruit plantations, gardens, and cities.

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Photos of the day — December 20, 2016

Big-wave surfer Tom Butler of Britain drops in on a large wave during Nazare Challenge championship at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal; women mourn at the scene where a truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, Germany; a Cheetah mother licks one of her six cubs as they venture outside for the first time after the cubs birth at Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, eastern Netherlands; the wife of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov who was assassinated Monday, cries over her husband's coffin, draped in the Russian flag, during a ceremony at the airport in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday; and Chinese woman walks among Christmas lights decorations on a hazy day in Beijing, China

Photo: (From top) Rafael Marchante/Reuters, Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters, Peter Dejong/AP, Emrah Gurel/AP, How Hwee Young/EPA

Photos of the day - November 14, 2016

People release floating lanterns during the festival of Yee Peng in the northern capital of Chiang Mai, Thailand; a soldier from the Iraqi Special Forces 2nd division carrying a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) takes up a position to prepare for a suicide bomb vehicle that was reported to be moving towards their position as they engage with Islamic State (IS) group fighters in Mosul’s Karkukli neighbourhood in Iraq; 'Crying Girl' by Roy Lichtenstein (est. GBP 30,000-GBP 50,000) part of the Bonhams 'Prints & Multiples Sale' photocall in London, Britain; Julian Assange's cat sits at the window of Ecuador's embassy as prosecutor Ingrid Isgren from Sweden interviews Assange in London, Britain; a rag picker boy searches the waters of holy pond, Bindu Sagar, for coins and reusable items from ceremonial boats launched by devotees on the last day of the Kartik Purnima holy festival in the eastern Indian city Bhubaneswar, India; and a  child skips on a jumping rope during sunrise in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Photos: (from top) Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters, Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images, James Gourley/Rex Shutterstock via ZUMA Press, Peter Nicholls/Reuters, Str/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press, Raed Qutena/EPA

Photos of the day - November 7, 2016

A civil defense member sits at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held Douma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria; Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes the stage at a rally at the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pa.; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump looks at his watch while speaking at a rally in Leesburg, Va.; Barney Dwan, Paddy Brennan up, nearly falls when leading at the last fence but recovered to finish 2nd in The Weatherbys Racing Diaries Novices Steeple Chase at Kempton Park Racecourse, United Kingdom; Pupils attend a fire drill at Quanjiang Primary School in Suichuan County, Ji'an, east China's Jiangxi Province; and Felix, a male polar bear, holds the portrait of presidential nominee Donald Trump in his mouth as it predicts the result of U.S. presidential election at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia.

Photos: (from top) Bassam Khabieh/Reuters, AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Rex Shutterstock via ZUMA Press, SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire, Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Photos of the day - October 18, 2016

People are reflected in an art installation by Cuban artist Rachel Valdes Camejo titled 'The Beginning of the End' in Times Square in New York; a man reacts while clenching onto the coffin of Hezbollah fighter Jalal al-Effie, killed in Syria's Aleppo, during his funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon; and an Orthodox priest conducts a blessing in front of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft set on the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. (EPA/Reuters)

These are just a few of the photos of the day for October 18, 2016.

Photos: (from top) Justin Lane/EPA, Aziz Taher/Reuters, Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters, Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Holger Hollemann/DPA via ZUMA Pres