Photos of the day — December 13, 2016

A member of the Shenyang Beiling Winter Swimming team swims in a frozen lake in minus 20 degrees Celsius temperatures at Beiling park in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China; a member of forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad attempts to erect the Syrian national flag inside the Umayyad mosque, in the government-controlled area of Aleppo, during a media tour; and Real Madrid’s forward Cristiano Ronaldo controls the ball during the team’s training session for the FIFA Club World Cup 2016 in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan.

These are just some of the photos of the day for December 13, 2016.

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