A dog covered with hoarfrost and snow looks on during a snowfall outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A woman asks a protester if he feels the cold during a demonstration against social services cuts, in front of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Members of the Berri-Otxoak collective marched from the Lanbide job center to the museum dressed in mock 'barrels' carrying signs reading 'Lanbide Robs Us, Abuses Us' and 'No to Social Cuts.' Vincent West/Reuters
A visitor poses with a 3D painting during a Japanese Trick Art exhibition at a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dita Alangkara/AP
Egypt's riot police sit behind a barbed-wire fence closing off the road before a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo. Egypt's opposition called for mass protests against the Islamist-led government's drive to hold a snap referendum on a new constitution after sweeping aside judicial obstacles. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Air traffic controllers work at the newly opened control tower at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria. The new tower, which took a year to build and will have its official opening on Wednesday morning, is part of a project featuring an expansion of the Sofia Airport that includes a new passenger terminal and a runway. Stoyan Nenov/Reuters
Figurines of Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine are painted in a shop at San Gregorio Armeno street in Naples. A day after breaking the news that they are expecting their first child, the couple popularly known as 'Wills and Kate' received advice from the world's media and public on what to call their offspring, what he, she, or they will look like, what to wear during pregnancy, and even what the child was thinking inside the womb. Ciro De Luca/Reuters
South Korea's presidential candidate Lee Jung-hee (c.) of opposition Unified Progressive Party, talks with a staff member of a TV station before a televised debate in Seoul. The debate over security policy among presidential candidates was held as North Korea readied a rocket launch that is timed to coincide with South Korea's December 19 presidential election. Lee Jae-Won/Reuters
Fishermen from India stand behind bars in a police station in Karachi after being detained in Pakistan waters. Pakistani maritime authorities apprehended two boats and arrested 19 Indian fishermen for illegally venturing into Pakistan's territorial waters, an official at the police station said. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
Residents and Free Syrian Army fighters stand among rubble as smoke rises from buildings damaged by what activists said were missiles fired by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, in the Akraba suburb of Damascus December 1, 2012. Thair Al-Damashqi/Shaam News Network/Reuters
A woman and her horse leave Centennial Park at sunset in Sydney, Australia. Daniel Munoz/Reuters
A man walks by an advertisement poster of a cosmetic company in Tokyo, Japan. Koji Sasahara/AP
Family members wait for a group of soldiers to get off their buses during a welcome home ceremony in Fort Stewart, Ga. About 200 soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Battalion, 64th Armor Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team returned home from their nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. Stephen Morton/AP
Chalets are pictured in Barboleuse near the alpine ski resort of Villars-sur-Ollon. In March 2011, Switzerland accepted an initiative to limit the number of holiday homes to a 20 percent cap in every village in the country. The law will be enforced, beginning January 1, 2013. Denis Balibous/Reuters
Silhouettes of NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen are seen during a news conference ahead of a two-day NATO foreign ministers meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels. NATO foreign ministers agreed to send Patriot missiles to beef up Turkey's air defenses and calm Turkey's fears that it could come under missile attack, possibly with chemical weapons, from Syria, diplomats said. Yves Herman/Reuters
Kashmiri schoolgirls sit by the banks of the Dal Lake as they wait for the start of the second leg of the Tour de India cycle race in Srinagar, India. According to local media some 80 participants from 54 nations participated in the race. Dar Yasin/AP
A teddy bear is seen on a track at the outskirts in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
A laborer smiles as he takes a break from shoveling coal at a coal dump site outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Omar Sobhani/Reuters
A Haitian child skips with a rope at an orphanage outside of Port-au-Prince December 3, 2012. Haiti's adoption authority, Institut du Bien Etre Social et de Recherches (IBESR), has revamped its adoption procedures as a part of the government's efforts to become a Hague Adoption Convention partner. These procedures may prohibit prospective adoptive parents - except in cases of intra-family adoptions - from establishing contact with the child they are seeking to adopt before they are officially matched to that child. Swoan Parker/Reuters
A woman stands in front of a doll display in a traditional Christmas market in Rome. Tony Gentile/Reuters
A man crosses a canal on a rope bridge on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
Indian sadhus, or Hindu holy men, walk on a pontoon bridge constructed for the upcoming Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to take part in the large religious congregation at the Triveni Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the 'invisible' mythical Saraswati River, during a festival in January 2013. The festival falls every twelfth year. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP
A girl from the Guarani Kaiowa Indian tribe watches during a meeting by the Human Rights Commission of the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia, Brazil. Indians attended the meeting to present a petition of 20,000 signatures demanding the demarcation of their ancestral lands. The Indians are also asking the Supreme Court to rule on all outstanding cases involving indigenous peoples' rights. Eraldo Peres/AP
US Army Sgt. Aaron Brewster is welcomed home by his parents Steve Brewster, right, and Sharon Brewster during a welcome home ceremony in Fort Stewart, Ga. Stephen Morton/AP
A woman handles laundry from a window in a poor area of Bucharest, Romania. Romania will hold parliamentary elections on Dec. 9, 2012. Vadim Ghirda/AP
Sagario Urena reacts next to a policeman during her eviction in Madrid, Spain. Urena, a former phone operator for a taxi company, lived as a tenant in a house from 1992 to 2010 with her parents and two sisters, but the family was kicked out when Urena became unemployed and stopped making the monthly rent payments two years ago. Juan Medina/Reuters
A BG 40 drill rig breaks ground for a new neighborhood called Hudson Yards in New York. The ambitious development is meant to transform the largest undeveloped property in Manhattan from an isolated rail yard into a sleek new neighborhood of spiky high-rises and graceful parks. Mary Altaffer/AP
A general view of the Louvre Museum in Lens, northern France. The museum in Lens, to open on Dec. 12, is part of a strategy to spread art beyond the traditional bastions of culture in Paris to new audiences in the provinces. Michel Spingler/AP
A worker holds oyster, or Veshenka, mushrooms at a private farm, workshops of which are located inside hangars of a former Soviet missile military base, in the village of Minoity, some 100 miles west of Minsk, Belarus. The farm cultivates and sells about 10 tons of oyster mushrooms each month in Belarus and neighboring countries. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A winter sun is seen through clouds behind the dome of the city hall in Belfast. At least five police officers were wounded during a riot at Belfast city hall in Northern Ireland on Monday after Irish nationalist councillors voted to remove the British flag from the building on all but 17 days of the year. Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
While the German economy is being held up as the model for ailing Europe to follow, some Germans say that the benefits of the boom aren't reaching them.
When President Obama stood in Berlin today and said that budget balancing must not trump the priority of improving lives, some saw a dig at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has led the call for austerity across Europe.
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