People dressed as Santa Claus and his elves stand on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a map featuring Australian homes at which to deliver gifts on Christmas Day. BridgeClimb Sydney / Handout via Reuters
Migrating cranes flock to the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel. About 42,500 cranes are in Hula Lake conservation area today. More than half a billion birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. Ariel Schalit / AP Photo
The Christmas tree in Vilnius, Lithuania. Ints Kalnins / Reuters
Members of Japan’s Self-Defence Force’s honour guard prepare for a ceremony for US defense secretary Ash Carter at the defense ministry in Tokyo, Japan. Toru Hanai / Reuters
Santa Claus waves to the crowd from a flying sleigh drawn by reindeer on a cable suspended over Lake Geneva in front of the Swiss and French alps, on the first day of the 22nd Christmas Markets in Montreux, Switzerland. The cable is suspended 385 metres above the lake. EPA
A school pupil kicks a ball during a sports lesson at a school in Mogadishu, Somalia. AFP
A worker inspects stacks of pipes weighing several tons each which will be used for the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Sassnitz-Mukran harbour in northeastern Germany. The first sections of the 1,200 kilometre pipeline were delivered in late October. Around 2,000 of a total 90,000 steal pipe components are currently being stored on the island of Ruegen. According to the Gazprom subsidiary Nord Stream 2 AG, the assembly works will begin in mid-2017. So far the political controversial pipeline, which will have a total capacity of some 55 billion cubic metres, has not received building permission. EPA
Kansas State forward Dean Wade, number 32, rebounds against Prairie View A&M forward Shay’rone Jett, back, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Manhattan, Kansas. No foul was called on the play. Orlin Wagner / AP Photo
People dressed as Santa Claus and his elves stand on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a map featuring Australian homes at which to deliver gifts on Christmas Day. BridgeClimb Sydney / Handout via Reuters
Migrating cranes flock to the Hula Lake conservation area, north of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel. About 42,500 cranes are in Hula Lake conservation area today. More than half a billion birds of some 400 different species pass through the Jordan Valley to Africa and go back to Europe during the year. Ariel Schalit / AP Photo
The Christmas tree in Vilnius, Lithuania. Ints Kalnins / Reuters
Members of Japan’s Self-Defence Force’s honour guard prepare for a ceremony for US defense secretary Ash Carter at the defense ministry in Tokyo, Japan. Toru Hanai / Reuters
Santa Claus waves to the crowd from a flying sleigh drawn by reindeer on a cable suspended over Lake Geneva in front of the Swiss and French alps, on the first day of the 22nd Christmas Markets in Montreux, Switzerland. The cable is suspended 385 metres above the lake. EPA
A school pupil kicks a ball during a sports lesson at a school in Mogadishu, Somalia. AFP
A worker inspects stacks of pipes weighing several tons each which will be used for the construction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Sassnitz-Mukran harbour in northeastern Germany. The first sections of the 1,200 kilometre pipeline were delivered in late October. Around 2,000 of a total 90,000 steal pipe components are currently being stored on the island of Ruegen. According to the Gazprom subsidiary Nord Stream 2 AG, the assembly works will begin in mid-2017. So far the political controversial pipeline, which will have a total capacity of some 55 billion cubic metres, has not received building permission. EPA
Kansas State forward Dean Wade, number 32, rebounds against Prairie View A&M forward Shay’rone Jett, back, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Manhattan, Kansas. No foul was called on the play. Orlin Wagner / AP Photo
People dressed as Santa Claus and his elves stand on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with a map featuring Australian homes at which to deliver gifts on Christmas Day. BridgeClimb Sydney / Handout via Reuters
