People walk past a Christmas tree in Red Square, with the GUM State Department Store at right, in Moscow, Russia. (AP)

A general fisheye view of the Louvre Museum in Lens, northern France. The museum, to open on December 12, is part of a strategy to spread art beyond the traditional bastions of culture in Paris to new audiences in the provinces. (AP)

An illuminated pyramid is the design for Christmas lights in Nice, southeastern France.(AP)

A woman asks a protester if he feels the cold during a demonstration against social services cuts, in front of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. (Reuters)

Egyptian security lay out barbed wire along a street leading to the Itihadiya presidential palace in the neighborhood of Heliopolis in Cairo, ahead of a march by opponents of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. (AFP)

Supporters wait in Nairobi for Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and Trade Minister Moses Wetangula after they announced a powerful alliance as running mates in presidential elections due in March 2013. (AFP)

Keyrings of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) hang on display prior to the start of the CDU’s annual party meeting in Hanover. Delegates are expected to elect party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as top candidate for Germany’s 2013 general elections during the convention. (Reuters)

Indian Bollywood film director Sunil Anand poses during the unveiling of the brass statue of his father, Bollywood film actor Dev Anand, on the occasion of his first death anniversary, during a tribute by UTV stars in Mumbai. (AFP)

Members of Vinh in Ha Noi Catholic Community Pray in Hanoi, Vietnam, December 3, 2012. (Apolong Lap )

A visitor poses with a 3D art work during a Japanese Trick Art exhibition at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP)

Swiss Shepherd dog, Talli, feeds orphaned tiger cubs and her own cubs in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. The tigers, two male cubs named Olymp and Dar and one female cub, Talli, named after the adoptive mother, were born last month in Sochi’s Oktyabrsky Zoo but were abandoned by their birth mother, tigress Bagira. (AFP)