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REWIND: The best PHOTOS in the last 72 hours

Last updated on: December 15, 2010 11:26 IST

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We bring you a presentation of the best photos in the last 72 hours from around the world

A paramilitary police recruit shed tears before heading to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to start his service, at a railway station in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China

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Photographs: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

A baby boy looks on as women wait for the distribution of food by German humanitarian organization 'KinderBerg International' to Afghan local residents in downtown Kunduz

Photographs: Babu/Reuters

People dressed as Santa Claus ride on a motorbike ahead of Christmas celebrations in Chennai

Photographs: Ahmad Masood/Reuters

Afghan Shi'ite Muslim men weep as they pray during a Muharram procession to mark Ashura in Kabul. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the 7th century battle of Kerbala

Photographs: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

An activist from the Ukrainian female rights organization 'Femen' reacts, as she stands near Interior Ministry officers during a rally near the Ukrainian government's headquarters to protest against the absence of female ministers in the Ukrainian Cabinet in Kiev

Photographs: Ali Hashisho/Reuters

A man rides his bicycle through a flooded street after a storm in Sidon port city in south Lebanon

Photographs: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

Members of a local winter swimmers' club get out of the Yenisei River after a short swim amid air temperature measuring at about -36 degrees Celsius (-32.8 degree Fahrenheit) in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

Photographs: R Marsh Starks/Reuters

Marcos Maidana of Argentina (R) lands a punch to Amir Khan of Britain during their WBA light welterweight title fight at the Mandalay Bay Events Centre in Las Vegas, Nevada

Photographs: Mohsin Raza/Reuters

An elderly man takes cover from cold weather while begging in front of Lohari Gate in Lahore

Photographs: Reuters

A girl eats lunch in her classroom at Jiaxing Lantian School in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China. The primary and middle school which opened in 1997 has over 2000 students, most of them who are children of migrant workers who came from the poorer areas in western China to the city to work as labourers.