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Shoppers make their way as Christmas lights illuminate Regent Street in London, Britain

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Participants prepare themselves before a Christmas Ball in Minsk, Belarus.

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People watch the lighting of The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York City

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Just in time for Christmas, a mural appeared in Sydney criticising Prime Minister Scott Morrison for taking a Hawaiian holiday as the country suffered extreme bushfires.

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A general view shows Rome's ancient Colosseum in Rome, Italy

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The Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, Germany

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Also at Cali, a lion ate from its gift box (above) and a capuchin monkey inspected a festive package (below)

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Salisbury Cathedral celebrates the beginning of Advent with a candle-lit service and procession, From Darkness to Light in Salisbury, Britain

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The Swarovski Star is seen atop the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree during the Christmas tree lighting show at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York

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People stroll among Christmas light installations formed as elks at the Raoul Wallenberg Square in central Stockholm, Sweden

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Seals are seen at the site where a barge carrying 600 gallons of diesel sank at the La Predial dock of San Cristobal, the easternmost island of the Galapagos archipelago, in Ecuador.

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The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, harvested from the Carson National Forest in New Mexico, is lit on Capitol Hill in Washington

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The graceful Maldivian Dhoni has undergone centuries of perfection. With an elegantly crafted prow, a white triangular sail and powered by a Perkins Sabre 360 HP engine

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Since the beginning of tourism in the Maldives, each island was awarded to a single developer, and the concept of ‘one island

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Shoppers make their way as lights of the Carnaby Project Zero illuminate Carnaby Street in the Soho district in London, Britain

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Puppeteers rehearse Christmas nativity show at the Royal Toone Theatre in central Brussels, Belgium

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People are seen on a pier in front of a giant illuminated Christmas ball in Larnaca, Cyprus

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People are seen around the debris of buildings after air raids carried out by Syrian government forces in Idlib

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Some curious squirrel monkeys explored their food-filled Christmas package at the Zoo de Pescheray in le Breil-sur-Merize, near Le Mans, north-western France (above and below)

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Fireworks explode around Rio's Christmas tree during its lighting ceremony at Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil