A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 29, 2015
![Against a gray winter sky, volunteers use shovels atop a pile of sand as they help fill sandbags in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.](https://gdb.voanews.com/8573dae0-b1f2-4723-ada2-35dccfd09d4c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Against a gray winter sky, volunteers use shovels atop a pile of sand as they help fill sandbags in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
![A jogger makes his way along a snow-covered street in the Hudson Park neighborhood in Albany, New York.](https://gdb.voanews.com/81e61a69-5ad5-45c1-b451-ae0c38e0bed0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A jogger makes his way along a snow-covered street in the Hudson Park neighborhood in Albany, New York.
![Members of Iraq's elite counterterrorism service flash the "V" for victory sign in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, after recapturing it from the Islamic State jihadist group.](https://gdb.voanews.com/fc94ed9d-e761-4189-ab6f-7745ac836a84_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Members of Iraq's elite counterterrorism service flash the "V" for victory sign in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, after recapturing it from the Islamic State jihadist group.
![Rescue workers are seen by a damaged building after an earthquake hit Hualien, Taiwan.](https://gdb.voanews.com/a45fd3fd-65ef-476f-a265-c2d3a8a90576_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Rescue workers are seen by a damaged building after an earthquake hit Hualien, Taiwan.