A look at the best news photos from around the world.
May 17, 2016
![A handout photograph made available by the police in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, shows two endangered common marmosets seized from a South Korean smuggler.](https://gdb.voanews.com/eee7dec8-0dd2-4193-8ee5-486853314591_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A handout photograph made available by the police in Goyang, northwest of Seoul, shows two endangered common marmosets seized from a South Korean smuggler.
![A NASA super-pressure balloon is prepared for launch at Wanaka Airport on New Zealand's South Island in this image provided by NASA.](https://gdb.voanews.com/eabd730d-7899-4389-a0a5-6ddbf5ab8106_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A NASA super-pressure balloon is prepared for launch at Wanaka Airport on New Zealand's South Island in this image provided by NASA.
![Revellers put grease on their bodies as they take part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain, September 6, 2018. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the town of Baza and Guadix over the possession of an icon of the Virgin of Piedad. The Cascamorras refers to representatives from Guadix, who were sent to Baza to recover the statue. As the Cascamorras had to stay perfectly clean to gain possession of the statue, Baza residents attempt to make them as 'dirty' as possible.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e5cf381c-5c47-4d68-8f24-2200898797c4_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Revellers put grease on their bodies as they take part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain, September 6, 2018. The festival was inspired by a dispute between the town of Baza and Guadix over the possession of an icon of the Virgin of Piedad. The Cascamorras refers to representatives from Guadix, who were sent to Baza to recover the statue. As the Cascamorras had to stay perfectly clean to gain possession of the statue, Baza residents attempt to make them as 'dirty' as possible.
![People play on a flooded road after they were forced out of their homes in Biyagama, Sri Lanka.](https://gdb.voanews.com/077c62f1-f205-437c-bbd2-39a26ec8ebb9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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People play on a flooded road after they were forced out of their homes in Biyagama, Sri Lanka.