Youths play in a fountain at Mexico City's Monument to the Revolution. EDGARD GARRIDO/REUTERS
Reverend Billy performs to celebrate the End of the World in Times Square, New York. ANDREW KELLY/REUTERS
Anti-riot policemen stand guard outside a supermarket in San Fernando. MARCOS BRINDICCI/REUTERS
A boy reacts near the body of his sister, whom activists say was killed
after a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to Syrian President al-Assad
fired missiles, during her funeral in Jerjanz. HANDOUT/REUTERS
Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Qandil shows his ink-stained finger after
casting his vote in the final stage of a referendum on Egypt's new
constitution in El Dokki district of greater Giza, south of Cairo. AMR
ABDALLAH DALSH/REUTERS
Demonstrators shout slogans as police use water cannons to disperse them
near the presidential palace during a protest rally in New Delhi. ADNAN
ABIDI/REUTERS
People dressed as Santa Claus row boats through the fog on the Venice canal. STRINGER/ITALY/REUTERS
A horse carriage carrying tourists travels past ice sculptures during
the lights testing period of the 14th Harbin Ice and Snow World in
Harbin. CHINA DAILY/REUTERS
Guatemalan Firefighter Chacon, dressed as Santa Claus, rappels down from
Belize bridge to give toys to children living in the area under the
bridge. JORGE DAN LOPEZ/REUTERS
A man dressed as Saint Nicholas and people in traditional Bavarian
attire known as Buttenmandl and Krampusse march in the southern German
town of Maria Gern. MICHAEL DALDER/REUTERS
Passengers ride a double decker bus past Christmas lights on Oxford Street, in London. ANDREW WINNING/REUTERS
CRH380 Harmony bullet trains are seen at a high-speed train maintenance base in Wuhan. DARLEY SHEN/REUTERS
Pope Benedict XVI blesses the crowd as he makes his Urbi et Orbi address
from a balcony in St. Peter's Square in Vatican. ALESSANDRO
BIANCHI/REUTERS
Abdlhamid Haj Omar, 70, a father who lost three sons and two grandsons
in the ongoing Syrian crisis, prays as he visits their graves at the
Martyrs' cemetery in Azaz city, North Aleppo. AHMED JADALLAH/REUTERS
Shoppers beg sales assistants for perfume products Selfridges on the
morning of the Boxing Day sales in London. OLIVIA HARRIS/REUTERS
Free Syrian Army fighters aim their weapons during a gunfight with
forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad near Aleppo's airport.
MUZAFFAR SALMAN/REUTERS
People in Santa Claus costumes take part in the annual race in downtown Belgrade. MARKO DJURICA/REUTERS
