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Military Santa tracker live despite US government shutdown 25 Dec 2018 - 11:04 am
In this photo released by the US Airforce, volunteers work in the 2018 NORAD Tracks Santa Operation Center on Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado on December 24, 2018.  AFP PHOTO / US Airforce/ Staff Sgt. Alexandra M. Longfellow
France's Louvre planning Pierre Soulages retrospective next year 24 Dec 2018 - 02:18 pm
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 28, 2014, French painter, engraver and sculptor, Pierre Soulages poses in front of one of his paintings at the museum of the « Outrenoir » master (« ultra-black »), in the French southwestern city of Rodez. AFP / Pa
Humans are beating robots to the jobs on Japanese Farms 24 Dec 2018 - 11:54 am
Image of a combined harvester and rice transplanter. Kubota Corp.
Italian toy story: retired mechanic carves old favourites 24 Dec 2018 - 10:11 am
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After delays, Egypt's new mega-museum set to open in 2020 23 Dec 2018 - 04:00 pm
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Inside the elephant at the heart of 'Circus 1903' 23 Dec 2018 - 12:10 pm
Actors rehearse during a media photocall for the play 'Circus 1903', which includes puppet Elephants, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Britain December 19, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
South Korean grain silo transforms into world's largest mural 21 Dec 2018 - 05:58 pm
A mural listed by the Guinness World Records as the largest in the world is displayed on a grain silo in Incheon port, west of Seoul on December 19, 2018.  AFP / Ed Jones
Lithuania wraps tree in plastic to protest Christmas consumerism 21 Dec 2018 - 05:58 pm
A wrapped Christmas tree can be seen at the Independent Christmas Town located at the Vilnius Railway Station in Vilnius, Lithuania, on December 19, 2018.  AFP / Petras Malukas
Obama delights sick children as Santa in Washington 20 Dec 2018 - 10:16 am
This photograph, obtained courtesy of the Obama Foundation, shows former US President Barack Obama delivering gifts, greeting patients and their parents at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, December 19, 2018. AFP PHOTO / Courtesy of th
Kim shoots Trump dead in S. Korea art satire 20 Dec 2018 - 09:59 am
A visitor looks at an art installation by South Korean artist Lim Young-sun entitled 'The Show Must Go On' depicting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US president Donald Trump, at the Seoul Art Center on December 19, 2018. AFP / Ed JONES /
Bangladesh's most celebrated swimmer hangs up trunks at 67 18 Dec 2018 - 02:10 pm
In this photograph taken on October 4, 2018, Bangladeshi swimmer Kshitindra Baisya swims in a lake in Dhaka. AFP / Munir Uz Zaman
Commemorating Rumi on his 745th death anniversary 17 Dec 2018 - 07:01 pm
Members of Konya Turkish Sufi Music Ensemble perform Sema ceremony during an event to commemorate 745th death anniversary of Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, in Konya, Turkey on December 16, 2018 (Abdullah Co?kun/Anadolu Agency)
Weekly Standard, anti-Trump conservative journal, folds 14 Dec 2018 - 08:36 pm
The Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol leads a discussion on PayPal co-founder and former CEO Peter Thiel's National Review article,
Cubans welcome softer laws on business and art 12 Dec 2018 - 09:34 pm
Driver Giovani Bernati waits for tourists beside vintage cars used as taxi in Havana, Cuba, October 5, 2018. Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini
102-year-old great-granny becomes 'oldest' skydiver 12 Dec 2018 - 09:26 am
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Meghan presents fashion award to wedding dress designer Waight Keller 11 Dec 2018 - 09:07 am
Givency's British fashion designer Clare Waight Keller poses with her award for British designer of the year Womenswear during the British Fashion Awards 2018 in London on December 10, 2018.  AFP / Daniel Leal-Olivas
European Jews feel under threat, think of emigrating: EU survey 10 Dec 2018 - 05:04 pm
Guests attend the International Holocaust Survivors Night in Berlin on December 4, 2018. AFP / John Macdougall
Fossil fuel tax proposed to cover rising costs of wild weather 10 Dec 2018 - 02:59 pm
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