Women in costumes adorned with old lottery tickets attend the draw for Spain's Christmas Lottery 'El Gordo' in Madrid. The total prize money of $3.29 billion is split into thousands of cash prizes between hundreds of winning numbers, Andrea Comas/Reuters
New York Police Department recruits salute as a medley of armed forces anthems is played during graduation ceremonies in New York's Madison Square Garden. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly presided over the ceremony for 1,519 new police officers. The graduates have completed more than six months of training at New York City's Police Academy. Richard Drew/AP
Children enjoy jumping on a trampoline, placed in a Christian neighborhood in preparation for the upcoming Christmas holiday, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/AP
A woman wearing a burqa enters the Hazrat Ali, or Blue Mosque, in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. Thomas Peter/Reuters
Fatma Mrisho waits for food at a temporary shelter for flood victims in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Government officials put the death toll at 25 but more than 4,000 are still missing. Khalfan Said/AP
Men sit in their boat as they wait for customers on a cold morning at Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir. Mukhtar Khan/AP
Eight-week-old gray seal Nikolaus looks through wet glass in his enclosure in a seal station in Friedrichskoog, northern Germany. Axel Heimken/dapd/AP
On a street in New Delhi, a man stands near his belongings as they are burned by police who evicted him from squatting. Kevin Frayer/AP
Stacianna Huston helps Ernie Weir operate his 1958 Ford tractor after a storm dropped several inches of snow in Longmont, Colo. Lewis Geyer/Longmont Times-Call/AP
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev enters a hall to deliver his last state-of-the-nation address in Moscow's Kremlin. Medvedev's statement follows massive rallies against fraud in the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections in which the main Kremlin party, United Russia, lost a quarter of seats and barely retained its majority. A rally in Moscow drew tens of thousands in the largest show of discontent since the 1991 Soviet collapse. Another massive rally is set for this weekend. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AP
A druid recites incantations at Stonehenge on Salisbury plain in southern England. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and the longest night of the year. Kieran Doherty/Reuters
Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, sleep in their seats while flying on a charter flight from Kuwait that will take them back to Fort Hood in the United States. Their unit was the last US military unit to depart Iraq. Lucas Jackson/Reuters
North Korean traffic control women react as they make a condolence call for deceased leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang. Kyodo/Reuters
Firemen spray foam near Belgium's pensions minister's office during a public sector strike in Brussels. Belgian workers in public transport, schools, hospitals and government buildings went on strike in protest of pension reforms in the new government's austerity plan to reduce the budget deficit. Thierry Roge/Reuters
A dancer performs 'Kali Mati,' Dead River, part of Jakarta Biennale 2011 art festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. The performance represents a major clean up of polluted rivers in the city. Dita Alangkara/AP
Pope Benedict XVI attends an audience with the Roman Curia for Christmas greetings in the Sala Clementina of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. Claudio Peri/Pool/Reuters
A girl lights a candle in remembrance of Czech statesman Vaclav Havel at St. Wenceslas in Prague, Czech Republic. Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia, become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War. He died Sunday. Petr David Josek/AP
Nancy Collins drapes magnolia leaves on the pulpit at Christ Episcopal Church in Nacogdoches, Texas. Collins was part of a volunteer crew of church members decorating the sanctuary for upcoming Christmas Eve services. Andrew D. Brosig/The Daily Sentinel/AP
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Greece is rolling out the red carpet for Chinese investors as a means of stabilizing its shaky economy.
Officials in Brussels and Washington may view China’s global shopping spree with alarm, as the Asian power house continues to buy up companies, sovereign debt, ports, and bridges around the world. But the Greeks are already dusting off the red carpet.
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