A look at the best news photos from around the world.
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A participant falls during the fancy dress Great Spitalfields Pancake Race, off Brick Lane in east London.

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Children wearing traditional costumes are seen during preparations for Chinese lunar new year celebrations in Hong Kong. The Chinese "year of the sheep" begins on Feb. 19.

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A model swings her purse at photographers as she gets into a limo following the Tory Burch Fall/Winter 2015 collection show during New York Fashion Week.

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Clown-like performers known as Gilles take part in a carnival parade on Shrove in the streets of Binche, Belgium. The Binche Carnival tradition is one of the most ancient and representative of Wallonia and inscribed in 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.