The Cold Moon — the last full moon of the year — rises behind the Hoad Monument in Ulverston, Cumbria. The 100ft tower commemorates Sir John Barrow, a 19th-century diplomat born in Ulverston who helped to found the Royal Geographic Society in 1830
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Migrating gulls reach their destination — the Yamuna river in Delhi — on a misty morning at the onset of the Indian winter. Thousands of the birds begin arriving from Siberia in october and leave to breed in February
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Dina Boluarte receives the presidential sash as she is sworn in as the Peruvian leader in the capital, Lima, on Wednesday. The 60-year-old former vice-president took over when Pedro Castillo was ousted hours after he tried to dissolve parliament
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Properties have been cut off from roads and turned into islands in the Barwon-Darling river system near Louth in New South Wales after high rainfall in western areas of the Australian state. Although the rains have eased recently, flooding has topped 1998 river levels
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White horses of the Camargue thunder through the shallow salt flats at sunset. Known as Horses of the Sea, the breed native to the wetlands in southern France is one of the oldest in the world
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Mounds of burnt fruit greet firefighters extinguishing hotspots at market stalls hit by shelling on Tuesday in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. The city, where some areas are still under Russian control, has been the scene of fierce clashes in recent days
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Malak Mahmoud Ibrahim Awad competes for Egypt in the martial art of wushu at the eighth world junior championships in Tangerang, Indonesia, on Wednesday. A Chinese sword or dao was the main element of routines in her girls’ event held just outside the capital, Jakarta
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The spotlight shines on Michelle Mulari, 15, centre, and Watiri Nduba, 18, right, who appeared in The Nutcracker at Kenya’s National Theatre in Nairobi last Sunday. The ballerinas from the Dance Centre Kenya were joined by the Nairobi Philharmonic Orchestra for the Christmas performance
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A winter swimming enthusiast takes a dip in a partly frozen lake in Shenyang in the Liaoning province in northeastern China
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The artist Sarah Arnett prepares to open her Brighton home to the public today for an Open House event. Visitors will be able to see the illustrator and designer’s vivid wallpapers, fabrics, cushions and prints
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Rowers brave near-zero temperatures on the Great Ouse in Ely, Cambridgeshire, at sunrise on Tuesday. It is expected to be similarly chilly on the water this week
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