

Walker, an 800 lb polar bear eats a salmon on his third birthday at the Highland Wildlife Park in Kincraig, Scotland. Russell Cheyne/Reuters
Thousands of South African youths form a giant lion's head on the beach calling for urgent action on climate change in Durban. Shayne Robinson/Reuters
A sculptor works on statues of angels in an outdoor workshop in the town of Dangcheng in Quyang county, 155 miles southwest of Beijing, China. David Gray/Reuters
A Tibetan woman prays as she listens to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during a teaching at the Gyurmey Tantric Monastery in Gurupura, Karnataka state, India. Mahesh Kumar A./AP
Pakistani girls work in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A man walks past an index board indicating stock prices displayed inside the Athens Stock Exchange in Athens. Greece's coalition government on Wednesday passed an austerity 2012 budget aimed at shrinking its debt mountain with tax hikes and spending cuts, hours after protesters clashed with police outside parliament. John Kolesidis/Reuters
Visitors skate at the Tower of London ice rink in London. Toby Melville/Reuters
A man welds an oil tanker at a truck terminal in Karachi, Pakistan. Athar Hussain/Reuters
Lookalikes of Britain's Prince Harry and his sister-in-law Pippa Middleton pose on a park bench during a media event to promote a new book by photographer Alison Jackson, in London. Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
Supporters of the United Russia Party gather together with the symbol of the Party Polar Bear to celebrate their party victory in the parliament election in Moscow, Russia. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
Britain's Queen Elizabeth meets High Court judges as she officially opens the Rolls Building, the latest addition to the Royal Courts of Justice, in central London. Adrian Dennis/Reuters
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys use binoculars as they attend the wedding ceremony of Chananya Yom Tov Lipe Hager and his bride Etel Tverski in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv. Thousands gathered at the wedding of the great-grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Vizhnitzer in Bnei Brak, Moshe Yehoshua Hager, who is a spiritual leader from the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty. Amir Cohen/Reuters
Bob Harrison of Winchester, Va. adjusts the hood of his granddaughter, Alyssa, as they walk on a rainy morning. Jeff Taylor/The Winchester Star/AP
Dutch artist Marjon Katerberg works on her Hanuman sand sculpture to illustrate the Ramayana epic story, during the Indonesia Sand Sculpture Festival at Sentul City in Bogor, West Java province. The festival, where 2,400 tonnes of sand will be used, features creations by 22 international artists from 11 countries. Beawiharta/Reuters
Students from Nepal Tarun Dal, the youth wing of Nepali Congress Party, rally with flame torches in Kathmandu. The students protested against the Chitwan prison brawl where five people, including the district president of Tarun Dal, were injured. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, a diver shows a banner, reading 'Merry Christmas' to a little visitor at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in South Korea, where over half of the population are Christians. Lee Jin-man/AP
Waves race in from the North Sea, to crash onto the beach at Tynemouth, northeast England. Owen Humphreys/AP