Pictures of the day: December 30, 2016

We look at 13 pictures from events around the world

Children play with bicycle tires at a rice-processing mill in Muktarpur, on the outskirt of Dhaka, Bangladesh. PHOTO: REUTERS

A small-particle haze hangs above the skyline as workers clean the windows of the Montparnasse tower in Paris, France. PHOTO: REUTERS


A picture shows a duck on a pond at the LIPU Stork Centre in Racconigi, near Cuneo, northwestern Italy. PHOTO: AFP


An Emirati man stands next to a camel during the Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in the desert near the city of Madinat Zayed, 150 kilometres west of Abu Dhabi. PHOTO: AFP


A Pakistani shopkeeper adjusts shoes at his shoe stall in Lahore. PHOTO: AFP


France's Jeremy Nzeulie jumps to score during the dunk contest of an All Star Game basketball match of the French Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB) between a selection of the best international players from the Pro A league against a selection of the best French players, at the Accor Hotels Arena, in Paris. PHOTO: AFP


The silhouetted shapes of passengers are seen in the windows on the upper deck of a London bus on Blackheath at sunrise in south east London. PHOTO: AFP



Yemeni children attend a class at a school that was damaged in a recent Saudi-led air strike in the country's third-city of Taez. PHOTO: AFP


Norwegian Daniel Andre Tande soars through the air during his qualification jump of the ski jumping event in Oberstdorf, southern Germany, which is the first station of the Four-Hills Ski Jumping tournament (Vierschanzentournee). PHOTO: AFP


A man is ice-fishing at midday on the frozen Bothnia Sea in Vaasa, Western Finland. PHOTO: AFP


This picture shows the Beipanjiang Bridge, near Bijie in southwest China's Guizhou province. The world's highest bridge has opened to traffic in China, connecting two southwestern provinces and reducing travel time by three quarters, local authorities said. PHOTO: AFP


Tools and an American flag are seen at Video Amusements and Pinball Repairs in Suitland, Maryland. PHOTO: AFP


A Palestinian woman lies on the ground after she was shot and wounded by Israeli security forces while approaching the Qalandia checkpoint with a knife, between Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. PHOTO: AFP


A golfer and his caddie walk on a driving range amid fog during a cold winter morning in Chandigarh, India. PHOTO: REUTERS

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