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A group of lemurs prepare to open a Christmas package filled with food on December 23, 2015 at the zoo in La Fleche, northwestern France. Photo: AFP
Indian Christians pay their respects at the illuminated St Mary's Catholic Church in Amritsar on December 23, 2015. Despite Christians forming a little over two percent of the billion plus population in India, with Hindus comprising the majority, Christmas is celebrated with fanfare and zeal throughout the country. Photo: AFP
Youths dressed as "moshoi" and wearing horrible masks to drive away evil spirits pose in the courtyard of a home in Luncavita village on December 16, 2015. Organized in groups of twenty people, they go from house to house, performing songs and dances which combines pagan and Christian elements before Christmas. Photo: AFP
A delegation of dancers from Nuku Hiva island perform on the Upeke tohua in the valley of Taaoa during the 10th Marquesas Art Festival near the village of Atuona on Hiva Oa island in French Polynesia on December 18, 2015. The festival is organized every four years on a different island of the archipelago. Photo: AFP
Women lay on feather-covered ground while taking part in a pillow fight at the Old Town Square on December 22, 2015 in Prague. About one hundred young Czechs and foreign tourists participated in the pillow fight. Photo: AFP
Activists dressed as polar bears are pictured as activists gather for a demonstration to form a giant red line at the Avenue de la Grande armee boulevard in Paris on December 12, 2015, as a proposed 195-nation accord to curb emissions of the heat-trapping gases that threaten to wreak havoc on Earth's climate system is to be presented at the United Nations conference on climate change COP21 in Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris. Photo: AFP
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