A worker decorates a 46-metre-high (151 feet) artificial Christmas tree in the centre of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk
A street performer dressed as Darth Vader stands in front of the Brandenburg Gate during snowfall in Berlin
FC Red Bull Salzburg's midfielder David Mendes da Silva is hit in the face with the ball during the UEFA Europa League group A football match against Manchester City at The City of Manchester stadium
A monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin is covered with snow in Murmansk. Heavy snow has been fallling for several days in the Russian Arctic.
Central Moscow is seen as temperatures plummet below -23C. Christ the Saviour Cathedral, left, and the Kremlin are pictured in the background
Highland cattle search for feed in a snow-covered field in Perthshire, Scotland
Mont Saint-Michel, a rocky tidal island in Normandy, France, is seen amidst a snowy landscape
A worker de-ices a Lufthansa plane in Munich
Children wait for a portion of the world's longest Yule log at a Christmas market in La Defense, outside Paris
Volunteers dressed in Santa Claus outfits wave at a charity event in Seoul, South Korea
Actors dressed as devils perform during the "gathering of the devils" ahead of Saint Nicholas Day in Podkoren, Slovenia
This satellite image shows a snow-covered Britain on 2 December 2010. The image was taken by NASA's Terra satellite and released by the University of Dundee.
The London Eye turns (RED) on World AIDS Day. More than 80 landmarks across 13 countries joined (RED) to promote awareness of the ongoing fight against the AIDS epidemic, by turning red to mark World AIDS Day.
Table Mountain turns (RED) to mark World AIDS Day 2010
Aung San Suu Kyi comforts HIV-positive people during a visit to the National League for Democracy party headquarters to mark World AIDS Day in Yangon
A pigeon flies in front of the camera as police destroy the bunker of a drug lord at the Vila Cruzeiro shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, using a controlled explosion
An ant is seen walking over a snake at Ostional National Wildlife Refuge in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica
Dai Haifei, 24, from China's Hunan province, looks out from his egg-shaped mobile house where he has been living for the last two months, near his office in Beijing. The house is just over 2m high, 3m long and 2m wide. The outside wall is made of bamboo splints and sacks filled with sawdust and grass seeds for insulation. There is a solar panel on the roof and an inner storage battery. It has wheels and a pressure water tank for washing. The house cost him 6400 yuan (about £615) to purchase the materials and took almost two months to build.
Contestants in the Miss Sevilla pageant are seen during a presentation in the Andalusian capital of Seville
Tourists rest near the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Cuzco. In July 2011, Peru will celebrate the centenary of the discovery of Machu Picchu with a huge exhibition after an agreement with Yale University to return thousands of artifacts taken from the archaeological site in the early 1900s.
US Staff Sergent Josh Tucker from Ashland, Kentucky, shaves his head in Lakokhel camp in the Zari district of Kandahar, Afghanistan
A gharial - a type of crocodile - basks in the sun at a farm in Kashara Chitwan National Park, some 200kms south-west of Kathmandu, Nepal
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