Pictures of the Year 2016

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This collection of images is taken from Agence France Presse. Every year AFP, which has photographers around the globe, chooses a selection of their most powerful, moving, shocking or fascinating images, offering a look back at the highlights - and lowlights - of the last 12 months.

The pictures span the worlds of news, politics, entertainment, and sport, covering events ranging from David Cameron's resignation to the Olympics and the Euro 2016 football final.

A biker shows off his 12-year-old cat named Chiquinho,

which always rides with him on his motorbike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The pair were pictured together on June 19.

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People watch the Euro 2016 final match between Portugal and France on a giant screen near the Eiffel Tower,

while Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo is evacuated on a stretcher after being injured, on July 10.

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David Cameron, pictured with his family,

addresses the media outside 10 Downing Street on July 13,

before going to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to The Queen.

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Jamaica's Usain Bolt jokes with Canada's Andre De Grasse

after they crossed the finish line in the Men's 200m Semifinal

at the Rio Olympic Games on August 17.

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A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu,

as she waits for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint village of Shaqouli,

about 22 miles east of Mosul, on November 10.

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Indian bystanders watch as a wild elephant with a tranquillizer dart in its back side walks along a street in Siliguri on February 10.

The adult male was tranqulised, captured and transported to a nearby forest.

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A specialist fumigates the Nueva Esperanza graveyard,

the largest cemetary in Peru and the second largest in the world,

on the outskirts of Lima on January 15 to prevent Chikunguya and Zika virus,

which affect several South American countries.