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Indian Sikh devotees take a dip in the holy sarovar in the early morning on the occasion of the New Year at the Sikh shrine Golden Temple in Amritsar. AFP -
Robotic jockeys control camels during the Liwa 2019 Moreeb Dune Festival in the Liwa desert, some 250 kilometres west of Abu Dhabi. AFP -
A worker cleans up the area after New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square in New York. Reuters -
Nepalese mahout take an elephant for a ride at Chitwan National Park, Nepal. EPA -
A woman prays for health and fortune on the first day of the New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing. AP Photo -
Firefighters extinguish a burning car during New Year celebrations in Douai, northern France. Reuters -
New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern celebrating with school children at the exact moment that the New Horizons spacecraft made the closest approach of Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule, in Laurel, Maryland. EPA
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