This picture taken by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows army soldiers celebrating the successful launch of the Unha-3 rocket, carrying the satellite Kwangmyongsong-3, at Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang. (AFP / KCNA via KNS)

A meteor streaks past stars in the night sky over the village of Pesevici, near Zenica, 80 km from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Reuters)

Anti-Morsi protesters hold a copy of the Koran and an Egyptian flag as they chant anti-government slogans at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Flag-waving supporters of the president staged a final rally before a divisive referendum on a new constitution to be held Saturday. (Reuters)

Tourists climb the Great Wall after a snow in Luanping, in northern China’s Hebei province. (AP)

A supporter of Mam Sonando, owner of a local independent radio station, cries during a protest near the Appeals Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The court denied a bail request for the 71-year-old radio broadcaster and land-rights campaigner who was sentenced to 20 years in jail. (Reuters)

A female swimmer jumps into Houhai Lake, that is partially covered with ice during winter in central Beijing, China. (Reuters)

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (R) attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Russia. (Reuters)

A visitor walks near a sculpture by Fornelli called ‘Dressed to Kill’ at an exhibition of works by U.S. war veterans at the State Museum of Political History of Russia in St.Petersburg. (Reuters)

Skaters take advantage of the giant ice rink set up under the famous glass roof of the Grand Palais, in Paris. The skating rink is the largest temporary ice rink ever created in France and will remain open until Jan. 6, 2013. (AP)

Art collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos poses for photographers under an artwork called ‘It happens when the body is the anatomy of time, 2000’ during an exhibition preview at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. (Reuters)

A white-tailed black cockatoo feeds on Christmas treats at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Some of the zoo resident animals receive early Christmas-themed environmental enrichment activities from food-filled maracas to tasty Christmas trees. (AP)