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The $11 million Christmas tree, standing at 13 meters tall and decorated with necklaces, watches, and bracelets with more than 180 diamonds, pearls, emeralds, sapphires, and other precious stones, stands in the lobby of the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 16. The Emirates Palace, a high-end hotel in the United Arab Emirates, has issued an apology for its over-the-top bejeweled conifer just a few days after it was boasting about having the world's most expensive Christmas tree. Fahad Shadeed/Reuters
Visitors look at thousands of teddy bears arranged in a shape of a tree hanging from the ceiling of a shopping mall in Beirut as a Christmas decoration on Dec. 20. The display is part of a charity campaign 'Small Bear Big Heart' to sell 2,000 bears with the proceeds going to the Lebanese autism society. Cynthia Karam/Reuters
German Bundeswehr soldiers with the 2nd Paratroop Company 373 decorate a fir tree imported from Germany for Christmas eve in the Army camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, on Dec. 16. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
People skate round a Christmas tree at a rink in Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 18. Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Two Emirate men look at a Christmas tree which has been decked out with $11 million dollars worth of gold, at the Emirates Palace hotel, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 16. Hussein Malla/AP
A decorated Christmas tree is seen next to the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, before the annual tree-lighting ceremony at Manger Square in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Dec. 15. Ammar Awad/Reuters
A stray dog stands in a public square as municipal workers decorate a Christmas tree in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok on Dec. 11. Yuri Maltsev/Reuters
A gallery employee poses for a photograph with artist Giorgio Sadotti's Norwegian spruce undecorated Christmas tree titled Flower Snake 2010 at London's Tate Britain on Dec. 9. Each year the Tate invites an artist to create a Christmas tree for the gallery. Luke MacGregor/Reuters
The 21-foot tall Christmas tree stands aglow in the Rotunda at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Dec. 8. The tree was donated by the Pennsylvania Christmas Tree Growers Association from a farm in Carbon County. There are 600 energy efficient LED light bulbs used to decorate the tree. Daniel Shanken/AP
A Spanish UN peacekeeper decorates a Christmas tree in the hall of the newly opened Institute Cervantes for Spanish language teaching in the southern village of Qlaia, Lebanon, on Dec. 20.
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An 80-foot tall Norway spruce was decked out with 30,000 lights in New York City's Rockefeller Center. The Christmas tree-lighting ceremony goes back to 1933.
An 80-foot Norway spruce that made it through Superstorm Sandy was transformed into a beacon of shimmering glory Wednesday when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others turned its lights on at Rockefeller Center.
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