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Worshippers at a Tokyo shrine welcome the new year with an ice-cold bath in an annual tradition that dates back about 70 years Participants warm up through stretches and chants before plunging into a pool filled with huge ice blocks. IMAGES
Several dozen Muslim worshippers pray for the first day of the holy month of ramadan in front of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site in the Grand Mosque of Mecca, amid unprecedented bans on family gatherings and mass prayers du to the novel coronavirus epidemic. IMAGES
As part of a traditional method to prevent influenza, Siberian schoolchildren often pour buckets of water over their heads outside in the winter, when temperatures hover right around 0 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course, the children sit in a piping ho Russian sauna first. This traditional remedy was practiced for hundreds of years and Siberians swear it works. At the beginning of the academic year, parents have to confirm whether they permit their children to join such cool outdoor activities.
Fans of Santos, the football club where Brazilian legend Pele played, pray during a vigil outside the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital entrance, where the 82-year-old is hospitalized in Sao Paulo. IMAGES
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, and Rwandan and African officials inaugurate the start of construction of BioNTech's messenger RNA vaccine production facility in Kigali, Rwanda. IMAGES
Police fire a water cannon against protesters in The Hague after Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte unveiled the new measures to curb a record spike in coronavirus infections. IMAGES
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