Ring-tailed Lemurs dine on a pre-Christmas surprise of dried fruits served à la Santa Claus boot at an animal park in Hamburg.
A woman and child ride the metro past the nearly completed Barj Dubai, the world's tallest building, which resides in the United Arab Emirates.
A girl walks on a road covered with oil and soot in an industrial area of Mumbai.
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A Marine walks toward a LAV fighting vehicle in Khan Nashin, in the volatile Helmand Province of Afghanistan.
Four wooden crosses and four Forza coffee cups are among the items making up a still-growing memorial at the Forza Coffee Company in Parkland, Washington, where four local police officers were killed as they sat in the shop Sunday morning.
A child poses for a photo in front of a Christmas decoration outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China.
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Pope Benedict XVI leads weekly papal audience in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
An American Army soldier runs during a game of mud football at a base in Khan Neshin, Helmand province, Afghanistan.
A boy looks for recyclable items in the polluted waters of the Yamuna river in New Delhi.
A surfer takes a spill down the face of a large wave in the second heat of The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau surf contest at Waimea Bay on the island of Oahu.
People collect scattered watermelons in a flooded fruit market in Sao Paulo. Heavy rains in Brazil blocked roads and caused mudslides that killed at least six people.
An Iraqi man surveys the damage after one of five bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed at least 112 people in all.
A swimmer jumps into the icy waters of a river on a snowy winter day in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China.
The mother of Liliya Kalashnikova, a victim of a night club fire that killed more than 100 people, cries at her daughter's funeral in Perm, Russia.
A woman gathers lotus flowers in An Giang Province, Vietnam. The plant is highly valued as its petals can be used in both salads and tea, while the seeds are used in desserts.
An eviction team removes furniture from an apartment in Colorado Springs, USA. The tenants had fallen two months behind in their rent payments, 9 December 2009.
A couple look in the window of a mobile phone outlet in Beijing, China, 8 December 2009. China had nearly 720 million mobile phone users at the end of September, according to government data.
Workers sort pomegranates at the Omaid Bahar Fruit Processing Company, Afghanistan's first fruit processing and juicing facility, in Kabul.
Coal briquettes pounded from soft coal sit on a bicycle cart ready for sale and distribution at a coal depot in Beijing.
A soldier belonging to a route clearance team stands atop a vehicle as day breaks at Forward Operating Base Airborne, near the town of Maidan Shar, Wardak province, Afghanistan.
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