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Prem Singh picks up a piece of fried fish with his bare hand from the hot oil, as his son Dipak looks on at their roadside restaurant in New Delhi, India. Dipping his hands into a vat of boiling fat to pluck out fried fish, this street chef is taking his profession to the extreme. Prem Singh, 65, has become famed in the backstreets of Old Delhi for his unique ability. He regularly plucks fried fish from the vat - which is heated up to 190 degree celsius - using his bare hands. But incredibly, the veteran fryer says he has never suffered any burns, blisters or ill affects
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A 25-story building has caught fire in Guangzhou city in south China's Guangdong province. The unfinished high-rise building caught fire on Sunday evening with about 350 firefighters and 58 fire engines rushing to the blaze. No casualties have been reported
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Russian artist Vasily Slonov and an assistant carry a giant axe decorated with a portrait of Russian businessman and politician Mikhail Prokhorov from his workshop as he prepares for an exhibition of his new art project in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. The artist has chemically engraved portraits of Soviet and Russian political figures on a series of butchers' axes
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A skater skates on rain covered ice on lake Orlangen, south of Stockholm. The ice is now between 60 and 100mm (3-4 inches) thick and can easily hold the weight of the skaters
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Andreas Matt of Austria (right) on his way to win the final of the men's ski cross World Cup event of Val Thorens, French Alps
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Fans take a picture at the FirstEnergy Stadium before the Cleveland Browns host the Chicago Bears in Cleveland, Ohio
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Athletes shoot during the IBU Biathlon World Cup Men's Pursuit in Annecy-Le Grand Bornand, France
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Members of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club warm up before swimming at the beach at Coney Island in New York
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China landed an unmanned spacecraft on the moon on Saturday, state media reported, in the first such soft-landing since 1976, joining the United States and the former Soviet Union in managing to accomplish such a feat...
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A girl poses for a photograph next to a 3D painting of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong at an exhibition in Binzhou, Shandong province. December 26 marks the 120th anniversary of Mao's birth
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Great Briton: Andy Murray was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Sunday night
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Volunteers prepare to form a large flag of Bangladesh as the nation celebrates National Victory Day at the National Parade ground in Dhaka
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Firefighters watch the search and rescue mission for the five students who are missing after being dragged out to sea by strong waves, at Meco beach, in Sesimbra, Portugal. Seven students were dragged out to sea, with one surviving and another being found dead
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Artist George Vlosich has created this portrait of Muhammad Ali using just one line on an Etch-a-sketch child's toy
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A street artist amazes Christmas shoppers in Oxford's High Street by appearing to levitate
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Dressed as a Christmas elf, Brandon Touchet, 34, was caught driving at excessive speed while under the influence of alcohol by Louisiana police officers at 3am on Sunday morning. Santa's helper was freed from custody after posting $1500 bond
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Palestinian rescuers paddle inhabitants of the Gaza Strip along a flooded street after evacuating them from their water-ridden home
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French highliner Julien Millot performs on the 380m high (1246 feet 8⅝ inches) Paradiski cable way, designed by French creator Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, in front of Mont Blanc
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Authorities investigate the scene of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-800 jet that slid off a runway in the snow after arriving at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin. No one was injured in the incident
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Jiraphan Pongkam of Thailand gets a last minute touch up to his fake tan before competing in the 55kg category of the bodybuilding contest, part of the 2013 SEA Games at the Myanmar Convention Centre, Burma
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The flow of material inside and outside a crater called Aelia on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta is seen in this composite handout image from NASA's Dawn mission provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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People walk around a piece of art by Gino de Dominicis called Time, Error, Space (1969) representing the skeleton of a man walking with his dog as part of the exhibition Anni 70 Arte a Roma (70's Art in Rome)
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Ouch! Oystein Braten suffers a heavy landing during the Ski Slopestyle Final at the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships, Breckenridge, Colorado
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North Korean girls carry firewood on their backs as they walk on the banks of Yalu River, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong
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An activist struggles with riot police during a demonstration near the Museu do Indio (Indian Museum) Aldea Maracana (Maracana Village) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The demonstrators, among whom there were some 30 Amazon natives, seized the museum protesting against its scheduled demolition to continue the works in the Mario Filho Maracana stadium ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Brazil 2014
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A pair of 10-day-old sibling lion cubs are seen in their play area at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park animal care center in San Diego, California
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Chip shop Mister Eaters is serving up battered Ferrero Rocher as a Christmas treat. Chippy owner and creator, John Clackson said: "They seem to be going down a treat, and everyone is loving them
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Keith Malloy reaches out underwater to touch a barrel wave at Teahupoo in Tahiti, an area known for being dangerous for board surfers riding the powerful water
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A miniature winter wonderland that has been created entirely out of cake. Preparations for the edible artwork began back in August. The Hotel Captain Cook, in Anchorage in Alaska, USA, has constructed a cake-based village every winter for the past 35 years
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A Kim Jong Un impersonator, who identified himself as Howard, poses with a defaced poster of North Korean leader Kim as he takes part in an anti-North Korea protest organized by the Hong Kong-based group North Korean Defectors Concern outside the Office of the Commissioner of China's Foreign Affairs Ministry in Hong Kong
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Pro-European integration protesters stand on a statue with Ukranian flags during a rally in Independence Square in Kiev
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Edouard Martinet is creating a buzz with his artistic creations, using old bicycle chains, cutlery and clock parts. And as a twist, he does all the creative work without any soldering or welding. Martinet spends hours each day in the scrapyard to find the best possible 'raw'material for his sculptures. He then uses small screws to fix them, spending months and even years finalizing sculptures. Martinet started assembling sculptures at the age of 10. Forty years on, he has carved out a niche for his work
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These ruthless Assassin bugs hid from potential predators using a camouflage cloak - made from the bodies of ants they had killed. The deadly insects paralysed the ants by injecting them with a toxic enzyme before sucking them dry.They then piled the dried-out corpses on their sticky backs to act as a defence against other predators, such as jumping spiders
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French President Francois Hollande pays his respect in front of the flag-draped coffin of one of the two French soldiers killed in the Central African Republic last week, during a ceremony in the courtyard of the Invalides monument in Paris.
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Protesters guard opposition barricades on Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Anti-government demonstrators are calling for the president's resignation, after the EU abruptly suspended partnership talks.
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The grave of former South African President Nelson Mandela, who was buried on Sunday, is covered with flowers at his home village of Qunu, South Africa.
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Firefighters try to extinguish fire in a warehouse in St. Louis, Missouri, US
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A view of the hand growing on the leg of a patient in a hospital in Changsha, China
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Supporters of Michelle Bachelet celebrate in Santiago, Chile, after the runoff presidential election. Bachelet was swept back into office as Chile's next president, reaffirming her main campaign promises which include a new constitution and education reforms
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A man examines the wreckage after a bus fell off an elevated expressway and crashed on to a van below in Taguig city in the Philippines. At least 21 people were killed in the incident
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A giant sinkhole has opened up in Guangyun, China, swallowing up at least 12 buildings
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Austrian politicians Werner Faymann, right, and Michael Spindelegger share a tiny toast in front of the Chancellery in Vienna after being sworn in. Austria's mainstream pro-European parties have agreed to extend their coalition government for a second five-year term
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The British prime minister, David Cameron, and former England footballer Michael Owen meet soldiers on a Christmas visit to soldiers at Camp Bastion in Helmand province
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People wait outside a closed bank in Bangui, Central African Republic. 600 people have been killed in the country in the last 11 days and France has sent 1,600 troops to support an African-led mission trying to restore order
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Midwives confront French gendarmes during a demonstration in Paris as part of a nationwide strike to obtain an improvement in their status
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About 300 firefighters have been deployed to battle a blaze in Big Sur, California.
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Members of the media try to protect themselves from dust blown up by a British forces transport helicopter as it lands at the forward operating base Sterga II in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Prime Minister David Cameron was visiting soldiers there.
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A North Korean soldier points his rifle at a Chinese tourist boat as he and other soldiers stand guard on the banks of Yalu River.
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Australia have regained the Ashes after sealing a 150-run win over England in Perth to take a 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
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Actress Joan Fontaine, one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the 1940s, has died at the age of 96. Born in Japan to British parents, she was originally called Joan de Havilland but took the name of her stepfather when she started her career to avoid being confused with her sister Olivia, who was already an established actress.
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Fontaine's career waned in the 1950s but she continued to take smaller parts, TV appearances and stage roles into the 1980s before retiring in California. Her autobiography No Bed of Roses was published in 1978.
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Peter O'Toole - RIP
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He was nominated for an Academy Award on eight occasions, most recently for Venus in 2007. But O'Toole did not take home an Oscar until 2003 - when the actress Meryl Streep presented him with an honorary lifetime achievement award.
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In his final years, O'Toole bowed out of acting, announcing in the summer of 2012 that "it was time to chuck in the sponge".
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At least five people were killed and hundreds injured in Argentina as criminals took advantage of a police strike to rob shops and homes.
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Karl Lagerfeld walks the runway after the Chanel Metiers d'Art Show at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas.
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A Cuban pilgrim crawls to St. Lazarus church in El Rincon, 25 km from Havana while celebrating one of the island's most important religious rites, the pilgrimage to pay homage to Saint Lazarus
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A Cuban pilgrim crawls to St. Lazarus church in El Rincon, 25 km from Havana while celebrating one of the island's most important religious rites, the pilgrimage to pay homage to Saint Lazarus
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The deal is sealed: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich (L) gives a wink to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a signing ceremony after a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian Interstate Commission at the Kremlin in Moscow. Russia is planning to buy $15 billion worth of Ukraine's upcoming eurobonds using money from a sovereign wealth fund this year and next, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said
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Several pages of the so-called 'Rosenberg Diary' are on display to the media during a ceremony to transfer the documents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to officials at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, United States. The diary contains notes written by Alfred Rosenberg, an influential member of the Third Reich and a confident of Adolf Hitler
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Employees, wearing slippers to protect the glass floor, stand in the 'Step into the Void' installation at the Aiguille du Midi mountain peak above Chamonix, in the French Alps
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His date is a bit frosty. Sculptor Jonathan Bouchard of Canada poses near a sculpture at the ice bar of the Brussels Ice Magic Festival. 20 artists from all over the world made sculptures out of 420 tonnes of ice depicting characters from comic strips. The festival will open on 20 December
