Most AMAZING photographs of the month: January

We present some of the best photographs clicked across the globe in the month of January, 2014.

A woman strikes a pose as she is photographed by friends amid police and confetti after New Year celebrations in Times Square, Midtown, New York on January 1, 2014. 

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United States President Barack Obama walks onto the 18th green during a round of golf at the Mid Pacific Country Club in Kailua, Hawaii, on January 1, 2014.

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Travelers leave the Back Bay train and subway station during a winter nor'easter snow storm in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 3, 2014.

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A security guard chases away Buddhist monks from a camp occupied by anti-government demonstrators in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on January 4. Cambodian security guards and city workers, watched over by riot police, dismantled a camp occupied by anti-government demonstrators a day after a bloody crackdown on garment factory workers allied with the protest movement.  

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A plane is pictured after an emergency landing at Medina airport, on January 5. Twenty nine people were injured when a Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) Boeing 767-300ER made an emergency landing at Medina airport in the west of the country. 

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A large wave crashes over the promenade at high tide in Aberystwyth, mid Wales, on January 6.

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A man carries a baby who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, on January 7.

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Participants arrange sushi to create the largest sushi mosaic in an attempt to break the Guinness World Records during the 10th anniversary of a sushi chain store in Hong Kong, on January 8.

A total of 20,647 sushi pieces were used for a 37-square-metre space to break the record which was verified and announced by the Guinness World Records at the end of the event.

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Students cheer as thousands of anti-government protesters march past their school in Bangkok, on January 9.

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A schoolteacher attempts to catch snowflakes while leading her students to a library from school in the Harlem neighbourhood, located in the Manhattan borough of New York, on January 10.

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A woman is reflected in a puddle formed of rain and melted ice as she walks her dog during winter in Toronto, Canada, on January 11, 2014. The frigid air and "polar vortex" that affected about 240 million people in the U.S. and southern Canada departed during the second half of the week.

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Palestinian policemen stand near burning tyres set ablaze by demonstrators outside Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, on January 12. At least 50 people were hurt in the clash between Palestinian police and residents of the refugee camp protesting against a strike in a U.N. aid agency that paralysed services, police and an ambulance service said.

The demonstration was the most violent in a series of protests stemming from a strike for higher pay by local employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

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A man looks at Mount Sinabung spewing ash from Jraya village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province, on January 13.

More than 25,000 villagers were evacuated since authorities raised the alert status for the volcano to the highest level in November 2013.

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People walk past a tent city erected for masses of pilgrims on the banks of river Ganga on the occasion of the Makar Sankranti festival in Allahabad, on January 14.

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A visitor looks at "Divide" by Australian sculptor Sam Jinks, made of resin, silicon and horse hair, during a preview of the Art Stage Singapore at Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Center in Singapore, on January 15. The fourth edition of the international art fair, with 130 galleries from 28 countries participating, was opened to the public from January 16 to 19. 

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The Colby fire burns in the hills above Glendora, California, on January 16.

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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is helped up by his bodyguard at the All India Congress Committee meeting in New Delhi, on January 17.

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A protester holds a sign near others during an anti-government rally in central Bangkok, on January 18.

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Opposition leader Vitaly Klitschko (C) reacts after he was sprayed with a powder fire extinguisher during a pro-European integration rally in Kiev, Ukraine, on January 19.

Protesters attacked riot police with sticks and tried to overturn a bus blocking their path to parliament, as up to 100,000 Ukrainians massed in defiance of sweeping new laws that were aimed at stamping out anti-government demonstrations. 

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French President Francois Hollande and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (R) talk after a meeting with business CEOs in Amsterdam, on January 20.

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A man tries to retrieve items that remain after a fire in a cotton warehouse in Dhaka, on January 21.

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A pro-European protester throws a burning tyre during clashes with riot policemen in Kiev, Ukraine, on January 22.

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A firefighter looks on at the seniors residence Residence du Havre after a fire in L'Isle Verte, Quebec, Canada, on January 23. Police spent the night sifting through the frozen ruins of a wooden, three-story residence for the elderly that burned down in the Eastern Canadian province of Quebec, killing at least three people.

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A North Korean soldier gestures as he holds a goat in a field on the Hwanggumpyong Island, located in the middle of the Yalu River, near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, on January 23.

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A priest prays in front of riot police during clashes with anti-government protesters in Kiev, Ukraine, on January 25.

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Indian Army soldiers march during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, on January 26.

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A rocket fired by the SPLA Government forces cruises over a hut burnt by debris created by a previous rocket fired shortly before along the frontline at Mathiang near Bor, South Sudan, on January 26. The violence has driven half a million people from their homes.

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A fisherman rows his dinghy past oil refineries near port terminals in Singapore.

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A nun takes a picture of a large drawing of Pope Francis depicting him as a superhero on a wall near the Vatican, on January 29.

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People rush to plant the first joss stick of the Chinese New Year at the stroke of midnight at a temple in Singapore early on January 31. The Lunar New Year, which welcomes the year of the horse, was celebrated on Friday. 

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