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
Swimmers enjoy the warm weather on a beach on the outskirts of Athens. While northern Europe is experiencing an unusually harsh start to winter, Greece is unseasonably warm, with temperatures reaching 24C Celsius
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.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men look at a forest fire that broke out near kibbutz Beit Oren in the north of Israel. The huge forest fire swept an area of northern Israel, killing at least 41 people. Police and medical officials warned the number of dead could still rise.
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