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Bruno Menager, head of the pediatric department, plays citole for a newborn baby during a music-therapy session at the Notre-Dame de la Miséricorde hospital in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on May 6, 2025.
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Joycelyn Early, a 75-year-old participant of Moms on Board, rides a wave during a weekly training session at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, on October 1, 2025.
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Nathali Barrios embraces Zeus at an animal shelter at Delia Zapata Olivella High School, where students care for abandoned animals and help them find adoptive homes, in Bogotá, Colombia, on July 17, 2025.
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A couple pose for their wedding photos in Central Park during heavy snowfall in New York City on January 6, 2025.
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Three seals shuffle into the water at the eastern end of the island of Juist during their reintroduction on August 7, 2025, in Lower Saxony, Germany. After being successfully reared at the Norddeich seal sanctuary, Hubi, Steve, and Scotty were released into the wild.
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A soldier who goes by the call sign “Kipish” hugs a horse during an equine-assisted therapy session organized for military personnel of the 13th Khartiia Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard, Kharkiv region, on June 4, 2025.
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People wave American flags to celebrate becoming U.S. citizens after taking the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony in the jury assembly room at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on January 8, 2025. In total, 102 immigrants from 40 countries became U.S. citizens during the ceremony.
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A woman dances beneath cherry blossoms at the start of cherry-blossom season in the old town of Bonn, Germany, on April, 6, 2025.
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Annie Goldsmith is assisted in the surf during the 2025 Australian Para Surfing Titles in Byron Bay, Australia, on March 25, 2025.
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Fin the Boston terrier plays soccer with one of his favorite humans, Simon Harris, who is a jockey valet, in the backstretch barn area at the Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, on July 24, 2025.
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Sheriff Knight (center), the Dancing Cowboy, leads a line dance during International Cowboy Day at Ngong Racecourse in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 26, 2025. Country music has a loyal fan base in Kenya, and the popularity of the music continues to grow. This event was celebrated by hundreds of attendees with a collective of country artists performing, headlined by Sir Elvis, Kenya’s biggest country star.
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Dani Sebastian Agudelo, a rescued miner, kisses a relative near the site where a gold mine collapsed with 23 miners trapped, in Segovia, Antioquia department, Colombia, on September 24, 2025. All 23 miners, who were trapped for more than 24 hours in the collapsed shaft, were brought out alive, authorities said.
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A cheerleader entertains the crowds during the annual Moomba Festival in Melbourne, Australia, on March 9, 2025.
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People in traditional Ukrainian clothes perform folk dances during celebrations of Orthodox Easter at the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, in Lviv, Ukraine, on April 20, 2025.
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Girls scream as they ride the Tempest at the Rand Show in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 19, 2025.
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Matthias Rier’s daughter plays with a cow that has just arrived in an alpine pasture after wintering at low altitude, on May 3, 2025, in Alpe di Siusi, Castelrotto, Italy. Matthias Rier is the third in the lineage of the Rier family; together with his wife and their children, he runs a herd of alpine cows for milk production on the Seiser Alm.
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Local residents enjoy fireworks as they celebrate the New Year at Ancol Beach in Jakarta on January 1, 2025.
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A golden-retriever owner sits with his dog on his lap during an attempt to set a new world record for the largest-ever gathering of golden retrievers, at Plaza Berlin in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 8, 2025. The event attracted 2,397 dogs, reportedly breaking the unofficial world record.
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Yu Xiaofeng leaps into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua River in Harbin, in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, on January 7, 2025.
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A woman smiles while holding a bouquet of flowers outside the Tajrish Bazaar in Tehran, Iran, on March 17, 2025, as people prepared for Nowruz, the Persian New Year.
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A shepherd carries a lamb on his shoulders as he walks in a mustard field in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on April 8, 2025.
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The Brazilian dancer Luis Fernando Rego poses for photographs on a rooftop in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood in Manhattan on September 2, 2025. Rego grew up in the Complexo do Alemão favela in Rio de Janeiro and discovered dance at the age of 12 through the ViDançar social project. He overcame prejudice and bullying to earn a place at the Bolshoi School in Joinville, Brazil. Now, at 24, he dances with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.
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A man and a child pose beneath Christmas lights in Medellin, Colombia, on November 27, 2025.
