Children and families enjoy the houses on Franklin Road lit with Christmas lights on December 1st, 2017, in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the 24th year Franklin Road residents have decorated their houses with lights for the Christmas season.
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African Heritage Dancers dance to the African Heritage Drummers during a Kwanzaa celebration at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C.
Bystanders admire a Christmas display along the Meguro River in Tokyo, Japan, on December 17th, 2017.
An orthodox Jewish Israeli walks past an inflatable figure of Santa Claus in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem on December 20th, 2017.
Runners dressed in Father Christmas costumes arrive to take part in the annual five kilometer Santa Dash in Liverpool, England, on December 3rd, 2017.
Performers dance during the Lagos Street Carnival on December 3rd, 2017, in Lagos.
A Polar Bear Club swimmer carries an American flag as the group makes its annual icy plunge into the Atlantic Ocean on January 1st, 2018, on Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.
