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Christmas revellers have been enjoying a spectacular light installation in Seville, Spain

People in traditional Mongolian costumes attend a horse race on a snowy grassland in Hulun Buir, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

An elephant dressed as Santa Claus entertains pupils at a school in the city of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, Thailand

Pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong have found a novel way of showing their displeasure with Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying

Bomb squad officers in Malang, on the Indonesian island of Java, are carefully searching churches ahead of Christmas services

The Aurora Borealis was clearly visible behind Bamburgh Lighthouse in Northumberland, England. The aurora happens when the Earth's magnetic field is battered by storms of charged particles from the Sun

These children enjoyed a game of football in a field in a village on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan

Residents of Moscow brave icy conditions as they cross a bridge over the Moskva River near Christ the Saviour Cathedral

This Iraqi Christian boy, whose family fled Islamic State militants in Mosul, poses for a picture at a Catholic church in Irbil, Kurdish northern Ira