Today in Pictures, Dec 18, 2020

Preview of a new exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore, release of N-level results, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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December 18, 2020 at 12:45 PM

Madam Jenny Ho (right), 67, and Madam Molly Tan, 82, seen in a photo taken on Dec 17, 2020, at a preview of Home, Truly, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Singapore which explores what living and growing up in Singapore has been like for people across different generations. The exhibition opens to the public on Dec 19.
PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/DESMOND WEE

A student reactis after collecting his N-Level results in the classroom at Yuying Secondary School on Dec 17, 2020.

PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/LIM YAOHUI

Tourists walk amongst beach foam in the wake of cyclonic conditions at Currumbin Beach on Dec 15, 2020, after wild weather lashed Australia's Northern New South Wales and South East Queensland with heavy rain, strong winds and king tides. PHOTO: AFP

Vehicles are stranded on the snow-covered Kanetsu expressway in Minamiuonuma in Niigata Prefecture, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on Dec 18, 2020
PHOTO: HANDOUT VIA REUTERS

Two girls sit inside a flooded tent at the flooded "Mukhayyam al-Khair" camp near the village of Kafr Uruq in the north of Idlib province on Dec 17, 2020, housing Syrians displaced from Saraqib and Maaret al-Numan, following heavy rain in the previous days. PHOTO: AFP

A firefighter stands on a water tank during fire in a scrap metal recycling plant of Deacero company in Guadalupe, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico Dec 16, 2020. PHOTO: REUTERS

A photo issued on Dec 18, 2020, shows people taking photos of a traditional wooden tourist junk (L) boat "Dukling" sailing in the waters of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Nov 27, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

A photo issued on Dec 18, 2020, shows two men playing table tennis at a park opposite the central business district in Beijing on Nov 19, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

Palestinian girls stand under an umbrella during a rainy day in Gaza City, on Dec 16, 2020. PHOTO: AFP

J.P. Camel, 9, left, and Keane Chiuten-Black, 8, sled together in Ithaca, N.Y., on Dec. 17, 2020.
PHOTO: THE NEW YORK TIMES

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