REWIND: The best PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

Photographs: Omar Sobhani/Reuters

We bring you a presentation of the best photos in the last 24 hours from around the world

An Afghan artist paints graffiti on the wall of an industrial park in Kabul. A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolise cleanliness, while further down the factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on war-torn Kabul's appalling public transport.

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REWIND: The best PHOTOS in the last 24 hours

Photographs: Petar Kujundzic/Reuters

A swimmer dives into the icy water as the roof of a tower is reflected in the Houhai Lake during winter in central Beijing

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Photographs: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

An Iranian mendicant stands at a bazaar during preparations for Yalda night in northern Tehran. Yalda Night is an Iranian festival originally celebrated on the last night of autumn, the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere. Many Iranian families hold parties or visit traditional tea houses during the festival, where they eat dried nuts and fruit while reading poems by the revered Iranian poet Hafez.

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Photographs: Baz Ratner/Reuters

A vendor holds the head of a Santa Claus doll as he arranges a display outside a shop in Jerusalem's Old City

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Photographs: Amit Dave/Reuters

School children attend a yoga exercise session during a camp in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad

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Photographs: Reuters

Paramilitary police recruits stand in formation amidst a dust storm during a meeting at a military base in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China

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Photographs: Reuters

Inmates gather on a roof of the Antofagasta city prison during clashes with gendarmes some 1367 km (849 miles) north of Santiago, Chile. This is the same prison where a fire had claimed the lives of a dozen inmates two week ago

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Photographs: Toby Melville/Reuters

Passengers sleep on makeshift beds in Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in west London. Snow and freezing temperatures continued to ground flights to and from Britain on Tuesday, with travellers hoping to get away for Christmas likely to suffer delays and cancellations for several more days

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Photographs: Nikolay Korchekov/Reuters

A woman begs for money during heavy snowfall in central Moscow

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Photographs: Cynthia Karam/Reuters

Visitors look at thousands of teddy bears arranged in a shape of a tree hang from the ceiling of a shopping mall in Beirut, as part of Christmas decoration. The display is part of a charity campaign "Small Bear Big Heart" to sell 2,000 bears with the proceeds going to the Lebanese autism society.

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