Today in Pictures, Dec 17, 2020

Singapore's hawker culture added to Unesco heritage list, Robinsons store at The Heeren closes, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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December 17, 2020 at 9:13 AM

Customers at Chomp Chomp Food Centre in Serangoon Gardens on Dec 16, 2020. Singapore's hawker culture has been officially added to the Unesco Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/GAVIN FOO

Shoppers leaving the Robinsons store at The Heeren on Dec 16, 2020. The flagship outlet of the 162-year-old retail institution finally closed for good.
PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/TIMOTHY DAVID

People cross North Bridge Road amid a heavy afternoon downpour on Dec 15, 2020.
PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/SHINTARO TAY

A worker clears snow as it falls in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., Dec 16, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A South Korean soldier undergoes a coronavirus disease swab at a testing site temporarily set up at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, Dec 15, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

An Ethiopian man who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, holds on to jerrycans used as a floater for his goat as they cross the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in the Hamdayet village, in eastern Kassala state, Sudan Dec 15, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A zookeeper feeds a pair of giraffes at a zoo in Peshawar, Pakistan Dec 16, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A photo issued on Dec 16, 2020, shows French artist Pascal Boyart aka PBoy painting the "Sistine chapel underground" fresco, in an abandoned warehouse in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, on Dec 6, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Darragh Foley falls out of the ring in his fight with opponent Ty Telford during the Sydney Super Fight boxing event at Bankwest Stadium in Sydney, Australia, Dec 16, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A photo issed on Dec 15, 2020, shows French windsurfer Antoine Albeau standing on his board as he performs tests in a wind tunnel to study aerodynamic phenomena at high speed in Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole, near Paris, on Dec 7, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

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