Dec. 7 Photo Brief: Swimsuit-clad Australians strut the streets, small town doomsday survivalists, a sailing Santa and a baby hippo
Sydneysiders take part in the ‘AIME Strut the Streets’ in an attempt to break the Guiness record for the world’s largest swimwear parade and to raise money charity, a two week old baby hippo in Berlin, a family in Virginia arms its young’ins for the impending “Doomsday,” a Siberian Santa officially ends sailing season and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Members of the Dancing Devils perform during a demonstration in the Venezuelan village of Yare, Miranda State. On December 6, the UNESCO declared the Dancing Devils as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A young member of the Dancing Devils performs during a demonstration in the Venezuelan village of Yare, Miranda State. On December 6, the UNESCO declared the Dancing Devils as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Every Corpus Christi day, the Dancing Devils, in colourful costumes and wearing grotesque masks, perform their ritual during the Dancing Devils of Yare folkloric festivity. (Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia perform during the pairs’ short programme at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Sochi. Picture taken using multiple exposures. (Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters)
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- A detailed view of the Heineken Light Installation at Heineken Experience in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Created from 5,000 iconic Heineken bottles the LED-lit exhibit will stand tall outside the Heineken Experience in the centre of Amsterdam, December 7th 2012- January 3rd 2013 as one of the Amsterdam Light Festival’s highlights. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images for Heineken)
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- A general view of the Heineken Light Installation at Heineken Experience in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Heineken marks its 140-year anniversary by inviting people to be part of the celebration in a major light installation on the wall of its spiritual home, brought to life through social media. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images for Heineken)
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- Valery Kokoulin, 47, dressed as Santa Claus, rings a bell on his self-made yacht to mark the ending of the sailboat season, as the air temperature dropped to minus 23 degrees of Celsius (minus 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit), on the Yenisei River, outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- Valery Kokoulin, 47, dressed as Santa Claus, sails his self-made yacht to mark the ending of the sailboat season, as the air temperature dropped to minus 23 degrees of Celsius (minus 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit), on the Yenisei River, outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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- Residents search for their missing relatives among debris swept by floodwaters at the height of Typhoon Bopha, in New Bataan town in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines. Residents in the southern Philippines buried their dead on Friday even as rescue workers continued scouring remote areas for survivors of Typhoon Bopha, the nation’s strongest storm this year, which killed 418 people and left nearly as many missing. (Erik De Castro/Reuters)
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- A resident carrying a bag full of relief goods walks amongst typhoon debris as she heads for her home in New Bataan, Compostela Valley province. President Benigno Aquino vowed action on the Philippines’ typhoon disasters as bruised and grieving survivors tried to recover from the latest that left nearly 500 people dead. (Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Laborers separate bottles by colour at a plastic recycling factory in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
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- A laborer sorts out coloured recyclable shreds from plastic bottles at a plastic recycling factory in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
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- Supporters of India’s ruling Congress party listen to a speech by party chief Sonia Gandhi during an election campaign rally ahead of the state assembly elections, in Godsamba village, about 270 km (168 miles) from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Amit Dave/Reuters)
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- A cadet lies on the grass after collapsing during a promotion ceremony at a police school in Bogota, Colombia. (John Vizcaino/Reuters)
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- Sydneysiders take part in the ‘AIME Strut the Streets’ in an attempt to break the Guiness record for the world’s largest swimwear parade in Sydney, Australia. The event was organised to raise funds and awareness for the not for profit charity organisation, the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
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- Participants of ‘Strut the Streets,’ an annual swimwear parade, look at a man pole dancing in central Sydney. ‘Strut the Streets’ raises money to help aboriginal Australians to finish school at the same rate as every Australian child. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)
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- Dancer Travis De Vries chats to a young fan prior to the ‘AIME Strut the Streets’ an attempt to break the Guiness record for the world’s largest swimwear parade on Sydney, Australia. (Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
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- A German Bundeswehr army soldier (R) with the Alpha company of the Quick Reaction Unit (QRU) scans the area as a local commander of the Afghan police gestures at a checkpoint in the village of Qeysar Kheyl, during a mission near Baghlan, northern Afghanistan. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)
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- A new born hippo baby walks in front of its zoo keeper in Szeged Zoo, near Budapest, Hungary during his first press presentation. The small animal was born three weeks ago, on November 17, 2012 with 5925 grams (13.0624 lbs). (Csaba Segesvari/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A baby hippopotamus born November 23 swims with its mother at Zoo Berlin in Berlin, Germany. The baby hippo is a boy and has two sisters. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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- A two weeks old baby hippopotamus is pictured in its outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Berlin. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A rabbit jumps over hurdles at the 27th EE Europe Show in Leipzig, eastern Germany. This weekend, small animal breeders from all over the world present an overall 95,000 animals, among them bantams, chicken, pigeons and rabbits. According to the organizers, it is the largest European show ever. (Ajan Woitas/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Jay Blevins and his wife Holly Blevins and their children Samuel Benjamin Blevins, 7, Elliana Grace Blevins, 9, and Evangeline Joy Blevins, 4, pose beneath one of their apple trees with survival gear including a buyout bag, an AR-15 rifle and a hunting bow December 5, 2012 in Berryville, Virginia. Jay Blevins and his wife Holly Blevins have been preparing with a group of others for a possible doomsday scenario where the group will have to be self-sufficient due to catastrophe or civil unrest. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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- Edge weapons and tools, including knifes and hatchets, are seen in the Blevins ‘s garage December 5, 2012 in Berryville, Virginia. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A fallow deer is seen at a outdoor enclosure in Niendorf, Hamburg, northern Germany. (Angelika Warmuth/AFP/Getty Images)
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- A spectator falls onto the field of play as he attempts to catch the ball during the Big Bash League match between the Melbourne Renegades and the Melbourne Stars at Etihad Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
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- Japanese macaque, commonly referred to as ‘snow monkeys,’ take an open-air hot spring bath, or ‘onsen’ at the Jigokudani (Hell’s Valley) Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano prefecture. Some 160 of the monkeys inhabit the area and are a popular tourist draw. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
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