A boy dances to celebrate government army FARDC soldiers return to Goma. Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
A Naga sadhu, or naked Hindu holy man, reflected on a mirror, ties his turban after taking a holy dip in the River Ganges during preparations for the upcoming over-a-month-long Mahakumbh fair in Allahabad, India. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the largest religious congregation on the banks of Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, during the festival in January 2013, which falls every twelfth year. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
A labourer works inside a steel factory on the outskirts of Jammu. India's sovereign rating could be cut if the government loosens fiscal policy in the run-up to elections due by 2014 or sees a prolonged slowdown in economic growth, ratings agency Fitch said. Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
A moon bear is seen during a visit of actress Ali MacGraw at the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao National Park, north of Hanoi. MacGraw is in Vietnam on a campaign to raise awareness for the protection of the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre, a home for 103 rescued moon bears, which is now under pressure to close for a tourist project, according to Animals Asia's founder and Chief Executive Officer Jill Robinson. Reuters
A giant sign that reads SOS is seen in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary near the ArcelorMittal Florange-Hayange blast furnace in Hayange, Eastern France. The ArcelorMittal blast furnaces will not be halted before April 2013 according to the French CFDT labour union head who reported having received guarantees from the government. Vincent Kessler/Reuters
Supreme Court Judge Richard Wagner arrives to his public swearing-in ceremony at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. Sean Kilpatrick/Reuters
Relatives of Lebanese who had gone missing in Syria on Friday chant slogans during a protest to enquire about their relatives' fate, in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. At least 12 Lebanese gunmen were killed in a Syrian army ambush in the central Syrian province of Homs, a security source and people close the men's families said, a sign that Lebanon is getting further tangled in Syria's war. Omar Ibrahim/Reuters
Sister Jezabelle of the Enraptured Sling (l.), a member of the group The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, wears a dress designed by Chloe Rose (r.) during a charity fashion show where designers are paired with Sisters to create fashions from recycled materials, in San Francisco, December 2, 2012. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) is a charity and street performance organization founded in 1979 which uses religious imagery to raise money for AIDS, LGBT-related causes, and mainstream community service organizations. Jana Asenbrennerova /Reuters
A workman walks on the the roof of the Le Louvre Lens Museum, by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, on the eve of the inauguration of the museum in Lens, northern France, December 3, 2012. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Palestinians wait for the return of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement activists at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. The Islamist Hamas group allowed the 10 activists, who fled Gaza into Egypt in 2007 during internal fighting between the two political rivals, to return home in what the group said was a sign of rapprochement, according to a Hamas official. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
A man carries a dog as he walks under a snowfall in Kiev, Ukraine. Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters
A boy somersaults at Marina beach in Chennai, India. Babu/Reuters
Afghan National Police (ANP) officers practice an arrest at a training centre near the German Bundeswehr army camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. German and Dutch police are mentoring the training program for ANP, as part of an ongoing International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
A man sits in the main hall of the stock exchange at Kuwait Bourse. Kuwait's ruler accepted the government's resignation on Monday, the state news agency KUNA said, a step designed to make way for a new cabinet in the Gulf Arab state after parliamentary elections were boycotted by the opposition. Jamal Saidi/Reuters
Syrians cross the border from Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar after an air strike. Laszlo Balogh/Reuters
Actress Meryl Streep uses her iPhone to get a photo of her and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton following the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at the State Department in Washington. Kevin Wolf/AP
A silhouetted man is reflected in the glass of 'L'Ete,' a painting by Arcimboldo Giuseppe in the Louvre Museum in Lens, northern France. The museum in Lens, to open the 12 Dec, is part of a strategy to spread art beyond the traditional bastions of culture in Paris. Michel Spingler/AP
Socialite Paris Hilton wears a 'tilak,' the Hindu traditional mark, on her forehead and a saffron-coloured scarf as she leaves after a visit to the Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai. Hilton is attending a fashion event as a DJ in western India. Vivek Prakash/Reuters
A disabled girl smiles as she is photographed after taking part in a fashion show in Minsk, Belarus. Children's model school 'Kids Podium' organized, for the first time in Belarus, a charitable fashion show with disabled children, after they had trained several months to overcome fear and uncertainty to go to the podium. The event was organized during the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A Congolese FARDC government soldier looks out of the window of the clubhouse of the base, after they arrived in Goma, eastern Congo. Several hundred Congo army soldiers returned to the key eastern city of Goma, as rebels remained poised nearby and a possible fight loomed for the city of 1 million. Jerome Delay/AP
Residents play cards and socialize at a neighborhood pavilion in Beijing. Elderly neighborhoods in the Chinese capital are noted for the buzz of activities in morning as retirees gather for communal exercises, group dancing or a quick card game before dinner time. Ng Han Guan/AP
People walk with umbrellas during heavy snowfall in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
A demonstrator takes part in a protest against the construction of a trans-Alpine high-speed train tunnel link (TGV or TAV) in Lyon during a Franco-Italian summit. Jacky Naegelen/Reuters
Female Afghan National Police (ANP) officers line up during a patrol training session, at a training centre near the German Bundeswehr army camp in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. German and Dutch police are mentoring the training program for ANP, as part of an ongoing International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission. Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters
Snow covers the fields in County Durham, northeast England, after overnight snow. Following a recent bout of very heavy rainfall which led to widespread flooding in England parts of the country are now covered in snow. Owen Humphreys/PA/AP
People are silhouetted against Christmas decorations lighted up along the Medellin river December 2, 2012. Albeiro Lopera//Reuters
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of his cheering supporters in Istanbul saying, 'My patience has run out' with anti-government protests.
Turkey’s largest city was divided on Sunday by competing shows of force, between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who staged a mammoth rally of loyalists, and anti-government demonstrators, who clashed with police on Istanbul's streets once again to protest his rule.
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