December 26, 2013
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The field of yachts head down Sydney Harbor at the start of the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race, Australia.
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Greenpeace International activist Mannes Ubels of Netherlands jumps holding his passport as he celebrates getting permission to leave Russia, near the Federal Migration Service in St. Petersburg.
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Indians offer milk during a prayer ceremony to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the 2004 Tsunami, on Marina beach, in Chennai. The Tsunami triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004 killed tens of thousands in 12 Indian Ocean nations.
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In this aerial photograph, dry river beds snake among the rugged terrain in eastern Afghanistan.