An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lights a candle for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the southern city of Ashdod, Israel. Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is one of the most important Jewish holidays and is celebrated by Jews worldwide. Amir Cohen/Reuters
A hearse with the remains of Vaclav Havel, the first president of Czech Republic and the last president of Czechoslovakia, followed by a procession of mourners, crosses the Charles Bridge in Prague. Havel's coffin will be displayed at Prague Castle until the funeral ceremony on Friday. Martin Sterba/CTK/AP
A Georgian holds a portrait of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin during a rally marking Stalin's 132nd birthday anniversary in his home town of Gori, Georgia. Shakh Aivazov/AP
Republican presidential candidate and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney waves to patrons through a window while campaigning at Village Pizza in Newport, N.H. Charles Krupa/AP
Public workers shout slogans during a protest against spending cuts in Catalonia's public services in front of the Catalonia parliament in Barcelona, Spain. Spain's Parliament voted in Conservative Mariano Rajoy as the new prime minister. The country also saw its borrowing costs plummet in a debt auction. Spain's jobless rate stands at a 15-year high of 21.5 percent, the highest in the eurozone. Emilio Morenatti/AP
A day-old white lion cub lies next to his mother, Sumba, in their enclosure at Belgrade's Zoo in Serbia. Sumba's four white lion cubs, an extremely rare subspecies of the African lion, have become the zoo's greatest attraction. Another four white lion cubs were born in April earlier this year. Ivan Milutinovic/Reuters
A Palestinian Muslim woman visits the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity, believed by many to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Bernat Armangue/AP
A man and a woman take shelter on the rooftop of a house following a flash flood in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. According to an official, at least 8 people were killed and many others are still missing after the city was hit by the worst floods in decades. Khalfan Said/AP
Romanian honor guard soldiers are reflected in a puddle during a religious service at the Hero's Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania. Romanians commemorated 22 years since the toppling of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, ending his 25-year rule. More than a thousand people are reported to have lost their lives during the Romanian revolution. Vadim Ghirda/AP
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping receives flowers from a Vietnamese girl during a welcome ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam. Luong Thai Linh/Pool/AP
Gao Hua, a paramilitary policeman, holds his bride, Li Lin, as their friends and relatives attend their wedding at a recycling center in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China. Gao's parents make a living by collecting waste, therefore the couple decided to hold their wedding at this recycling center. China Daily/Reuters
A young woman rings her keys during a funeral procession with the remains of Vaclav Havel, the first president of Czech Republic and the last president of Czechoslovakia, at Prague's Castle. The jingling of keys was symbolic during the Velvet Revolution. Ivan Babej/CTK/AP
A worker makes kites with images of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare inside a workshop in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. The kite makers said they have made about 300,000 kites this year with Hazare's image. Hazare caught the imagination of a swelling middle class in India who are angry at the government's inability to crack down on rampant corruption. Amit Dave/Reuters
Pyongyang citizens grieve as they visit a portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on display in the plaza of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in North Korea. Kyodo News/AP
Flamingos rest on a frozen pond in their enclosure at the zoo in Zurich, Switzerland. Alessandro Della Bella/Keystone/AP
Fine Arts students sketch still lives while sitting on the steps of a temple in Katmandu, Nepal. Niranjan Shrestha/AP
An electoral worker waits for voters at a polling station during the second round of parliamentary run-off elections at Imbaba in Giza on the outskirts of Cairo. Five days of violence in Cairo has cast a pall over the transition to democracy and drawn a US rebuke of Egypt's security forces. Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters
Giant pandas Qiqi (l.) and Zhizhi eat at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. China will begin sending pandas bred in captivity into a controlled wilderness area in southwestern Sichuan province next month. The first six pandas will be released to a protected natural area covering more than 2,000 acres. China Daily/Reuters
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