Lunar new year preparations and a rage room: photos of the weekend

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  • Gaza City, Gaza

    Forcibly displaced Palestinians wait on the Salah al-Din Road, the main highway through the Gaza Strip, close to the Netzarim Corridor zone to return to their homes in the north after the completion of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement

    A group of people including children sit in the street around a small fire and lie under blankets; cars, heavily laden with mattresses and bedding, and a motorbike-based cart carrying containers of water and other items, are parked in the background.
  • Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Visitors to a ‘rage room’ relieve stress by smashing things with a sledgehammer or baseball bat to vent their anger

    Three people in yellow protective jackets and overtrousers, also wearing white plastic helmets, goggles, masks and blue covers over their shoes, wield hammers and baseball bats to smash glassware and office equipment
  • Kataragama, Sri Lanka

    Devotees visit the Kiri Vehera Buddhist temple

    A line of men and women dressed in white, the women in long dresses or skirts, hold white or yellow umbrellas as they walk down a path in the dark with tall, green trees in the background
  • Kibati, Democratic Republic of Congo

    A woman and her baby flee from Kibati, where fighting has intensified, towards the city of Goma

    A woman carries a rolled-up foam mattress and a bag of possessions on her head, a baby in a sling to her front, and holds a large plastic water canister as she walks down a street; she wears patterned cloth wrapped around herself
  • Sydney, Australia

    Cameron Leon plays the didgeridoo for the Dawn Reflection at the Sydney Opera House on Australia Day

    Musician wearing a black shirt with traditional Aboriginal patterns blows into a didgeridoo; he stands at the waterfront at sunrise with the Sydney Opera House illuminated in the background
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Costumed divers perform a traditional Chinese lion dance at the Aquaria KLCC oceanarium, ahead of the lunar new year, which falls on 29 January

    People including children are silhouetted in front of an illuminated aquarium tank in which a diver in red traditional costume and mask is swimming in front of rocks
  • Pernik, Bulgaria

    Participants at the Surva folk festival celebrating Bulgarian and Balkan traditions take part in parades and competitions as part of the International Festival of Masquerade Games

    two men carrying many large metal containers, which may be bells, on harnesses around their bodies and sheepskin jackets talk; one has a sheepskin and bright red, blue and green wool headdress
  • Ramallah, West Bank

    Palestinian prisoners released by Israel wave and cheer to people below, having arrived at a sports centre on an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) bus

    Men in grey sweatshirts, of varying ages but all with beards and closely-shaven heads, hold up their hands with their fingers in V for victory signs; some are wearing blue surgical-style gloves.
  • Chennai, India

    Members of the dog squad of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) demonstrate their skills during India’s Republic Day celebrations

    An alsatian-type dog holds a gun in his mouth as he runs alongside a man who wears camouflage trousers and khaki green army-style boots
  • Shantou, China

    Yingge dancers wait at an ancestral temple before a performance. Their traditional dance of ‘heroes’, a mix of martial arts and Chinese opera, takes place before the lunar new year

    Four dancers in elaborately decorated traditional robes, headdresses and facepaint sit on a carved wooden bench and in chairs looking at their smartphones
  • Santiago, Chile

    Street performers in Mo y la Cinta Roja, by Compañía l’Homme Debout, take part in the Teatro a Mil international theatre festival

    A giant, illuminated wooden puppet with a large bundle of coloured balloons floating above its head walks between buildings in a dark street
  • Taipei, Taiwan

    The Japanese Art Aquarium exhibition is said to be a modern interpretation of the traditional art of goldfish appreciation, which dates back to the Edo period (1603-1868)

    A woman stands in the dark between illuminated and mirrored tanks of goldfish which are repeated in red around her
  • Basra, Iraq

    Shiite Muslims carry a portrait of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib as they attend a symbolic funeral to commemorate the death of Imam Musa al-Kadhim. Pilgrims from various Iraqi provinces undertake a yearly march on foot to reach the shrine of al-Kadhim in Baghdad

    A crowd of people raise their hands above their heads, which are not seen, as they walk through a street carrying a portrait of a 7th-century imam
  • Taicang, China

    Folk dancers perform a dragon dance before the lunar new year celebrations

    Overhead view over tiled grey roofs shows dancers dressed in red carrying a long, golden dragon in a colourful stripe along the narrow gap between buildings
  • Gaza City, Gaza

    Palestinians wait on al-Rashid Street close to the Netzarim Corridor zone to return to their homes in the north after the completion of the second phase of the ceasefire agreement

    overhead view shows large crowd of people clustered in an area at edge of the city and on the sandy beach
  • Petah Tikva, Israel

    A newly released Israeli hostage, Liri Albag, gestures from the window of a military helicopter as it prepares to land at the Schneider children’s medical centre

    Hands gesture a heart shape at the helicopter's window
  • Los Angeles, US

    Incarcerated firefighters from the Growlersburg crew hike up the mountain to create a containment fire line to control the Hughes fire in Castaic, a north-western neighbourhood of Los Angeles

    Firefighters in orange overalls hike in a line up the mountain in a rocky landscape with blue sky behind them
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