Posted December 22nd, 2011 at 2:32 pm (UTC-4)
Artists perform during Cirque du Soleil's Alegria show in Lisbon's Atlantic pavilion, Spain. (Reuters)
Revelers dance as the sun rises at Stonehenge on Salisbury plain in southern England. (Reuters)
A soldier's boot and blood stains are seen on the ground after a deadly bomb attack in central Baghdad's Alawi district, Iraq. (Reuters)
An Egyptian boy walks in front of anti-Parliamentary elections graffiti at Tahrir Square in Cairo. (AP)
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev walks in before making his annual state of the nation address at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Reuters)
Typhoon Washi survivors pray before humanitarian agency World Vision's volunteers start a trauma counseling session outside an evacuation center in the southern Philippines city of Cagayan de Oro. (Reuters)
A Pakistani horse owner tries to control his horse while he waits for customers at Clifton beach in Karachi. (AP)
A man cleans the floor at The Strikers, Afghanistan's first bowling center, Kabul. (Reuters)
An American alligator hatchling (R) peers out of a Christmas boot at the Australian Reptile Park near Sydney. (AFP)
A squirrel sits on a snow covered branch in a park during heavy snow fall in Sofia, Bulgaria. (AFP)