A couple kisses near Christmas lights strung over El Guaire river in Caracas, Venezuela, on December 18
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An owl nestles in a Christmas tree in Newnan, Georgia. The bird was first spotted on the tree on December 12
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Boeing Starliner crew capsule on an Orbital Flight Test to the ISS lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force station on December 20. Boeing's new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on the first test flight
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The members of the Notre Dame cathedral choir in Paris on December 16. An accidental fire stopped the Paris cathedral from celebrating Midnight Mass this year for the first time in over two centuries
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An old Belarusian flag flies over demonstrators during a rally to protest closer integration with Russia which the protesters fear could erode the post-Soviet independence of Belarus at Independent Square in Minsk, Belarus, on December 20
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