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China . three-year-old Yang Yang kisses a beluga whale during a publicity photo call at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World Reuters year in pictures. Netherlands . naked volunteers pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on an invisible bridge constructed for the photoshoot in Amsterdam, South Africa . surfers in an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the highest number of riders on a single wave at Muizenberg in Cape Town. Austria . women dressed as clowns in front of a work by British artist Damien Hirst titled Iodomethane - 13C at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz Indonesia . all that can be seen of a passenger on board a train at a station in Jakarta. USA . the space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Belgium . a young member of the folkloric brotherhood of Blancs Moussis adjusts his mask during a carnival celebrating its 60th anniversary in Stavelot, Poland . kayakers in the Rospuda nature reserve near Augustow. China . a worker cleans the windows of an apartment block in Beijings central buisiness district, South Korea . members of the South Korean Marine Corps scrub their bodies with snow during an annual winter season drill in Pyongchang China . paramilitary recruits practice goose-stepping in Nanjing, USA . students hold their candles aloft during a vigil after a gunman killed 32 people at Virginia Tech Indonesia . children play on a railway track in a slum area in Jakarta, United Kingdom . a reveller slides in the mud during the Glastonbury music festival in Somerset, Guatemala . a giant sinkhole that swallowed several homes in Guatemala City. USA . boots representing Corporal Timothy D. Ross sit among more than