A look at the best news photos from around the world.
January 11, 2018
![Elvis Presley impersonator Sean Wright poses next to the Elvis Express train at Sydney's Central station before it departs for the 26th annual Elvis Festival being held in the New South Wales town of Parkes in Australia.](https://gdb.voanews.com/4f6f6723-773a-441a-913b-d7f3e078463c_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Elvis Presley impersonator Sean Wright poses next to the Elvis Express train at Sydney's Central station before it departs for the 26th annual Elvis Festival being held in the New South Wales town of Parkes in Australia.
![Excavators remove the snow on the site of an avalanche that covered the railway of the Brig Visp Zermatt Bahn company between Visp and Taesch near Sankt Niklaus, Swiss Alps.](https://gdb.voanews.com/234fdd89-bf81-4b73-8aeb-0b1bc1b1c188_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Excavators remove the snow on the site of an avalanche that covered the railway of the Brig Visp Zermatt Bahn company between Visp and Taesch near Sankt Niklaus, Swiss Alps.
![Artists wearing Japanese traditional clown masks march during the First Konpira Festival at Kotohiragu shrine in Tokyo.](https://gdb.voanews.com/d8a60a72-20dd-44c6-a7dd-cbb5e5c4c0cc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Artists wearing Japanese traditional clown masks march during the First Konpira Festival at Kotohiragu shrine in Tokyo.