December 19, 2013

Pro-European integration protesters form the Ukranian word "Lustration" at Independence Square in Kyiv.

A general view of Christmas decorations and lights at the home of the Duszenko family in Polkowice, southwestern Poland. Since 1999, the Duszenko family from Lower Silesia has always decorated their house and garden before Christmas, Dec. 18, 2013.

High school students wearing Guy Fawkes masks take part in a protest against the education policies of the ruling AK Party as a tram drives by in Istanbul, Turkey. Education is the latest flashpoint between the administration of President Tayyip Erdogan, and secularist Turks who accuse him of overseeing creeping 'Islamization' in the NATO member state.

Protestors wearing masks depicting pictures of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso take part in a demonstration against austerity on the first day of a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium.

A passenger plane flies past the moon on its final descent to Heathrow Airport in London, Britain.

An employee of DHL, a division of German postal service Deutsche Post, unloads parcels from a transport vehicle at the company's logistics center in Gross Schwass near Rostock. During the pre-Christmas period, around 12,000 parcels per day are handled at the center, which is the double amount of pieces than usual, Dec. 18, 2013.

Young Indian Gujjar nomads walk with their flock through thick fog on the outskirts of Jammu, India.

A handout picture taken during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay shows Russian torchbearers carrying the torch ahead of Winter Games in Sochi in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 18, 2013.

A view of old cannons near the entrance to the Queen Palace, also called Manjakamiadana Rova in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo. The Manjakamiadana Queen's Palace is the landmark of Antananarivo located at the top of Analamanga hill and stands out in the skyline of the city. 

North Korean employees work at a factory of a South Korean-owned company at the Joint Industrial Park in Kaesong.

Internally displaced boys stand next to barbed wire inside a United Nations Missions in Sudan (UNMIS) compound in Juba.

Bangladeshi police baton charge an activist to stop him from marching towards the Pakistani Embassy in Dhaka.

People enjoy the eco-friendly Christmas tree set up at the Basilica de San Francisco explanade in La Paz, Bolivia. The tree of 14 meters high was made with some 50,000 plastic bottles, Dec. 18, 2013.

Bolivian squirrel monkeys gets a special treat from their keepers of sultanas and wax worms that were set out on a Christmas tree at London Zoo in London, Dec.18, 2013.

A man ice fishes at Lake Michigan Water Trail Launch Site in Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 18, 2013.