Amazing Events In Pictures

A worker de-ices a Lufthansa plane in Munich






Children wait for a portion of the world's longest Yule log at a Christmas market in La Defense, outside Paris





Volunteers dressed in Santa Claus outfits wave at a charity event in Seoul, South Korea





Actors dressed as devils perform during the "gathering of the devils" ahead of Saint Nicholas Day in Podkoren, Slovenia





This satellite image shows a snow-covered Britain on 2 December 2010. The image was taken by NASA's Terra satellite and released by the University of Dundee.





The London Eye turns (RED) on World AIDS Day. More than 80 landmarks across 13 countries joined (RED) to promote awareness of the ongoing fight against the AIDS epidemic, by turning red to mark World AIDS Day.






Table Mountain turns (RED) to mark World AIDS Day 2010





Aung San Suu Kyi comforts HIV-positive people during a visit to the National League for Democracy party headquarters to mark World AIDS Day in Yangon





Swimmers enjoy the warm weather on a beach on the outskirts of Athens. While northern Europe is experiencing an unusually harsh start to winter, Greece is unseasonably warm, with temperatures reaching 24C Celsius






A pigeon flies in front of the camera as police destroy the bunker of a drug lord at the Vila Cruzeiro shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, using a controlled explosion





An ant is seen walking over a snake at Ostional National Wildlife Refuge in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica





Dai Haifei, 24, from China's Hunan province, looks out from his egg-shaped mobile house where he has been living for the last two months, near his office in Beijing. The house is just over 2m high, 3m long and 2m wide. The outside wall is made of bamboo splints and sacks filled with sawdust and grass seeds for insulation. There is a solar panel on the roof and an inner storage battery. It has wheels and a pressure water tank for washing. The house cost him 6400 yuan (about £615) to purchase the materials and took almost two months to build.





Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men look at a forest fire that broke out near kibbutz Beit Oren in the north of Israel. The huge forest fire swept an area of northern Israel, killing at least 41 people. Police and medical officials warned the number of dead could still rise.
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Contestants in the Miss Sevilla pageant are seen during a presentation in the Andalusian capital of Seville





Tourists rest near the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Cuzco. In July 2011, Peru will celebrate the centenary of the discovery of Machu Picchu with a huge exhibition after an agreement with Yale University to return thousands of artifacts taken from the archaeological site in the early 1900s.





US Staff Sergent Josh Tucker from Ashland, Kentucky, shaves his head in Lakokhel camp in the Zari district of Kandahar, Afghanistan





A gharial - a type of crocodile - basks in the sun at a farm in Kashara Chitwan National Park, some 200kms south-west of Kathmandu, Nepal
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Volunteers sweep migrating red crabs off a road on Christmas Island. The migrating crabs face numerous hazards, such as traffic and predators, on their journeys, and many do not reach their destination.

Rescued cats wait for a ferry to the mainland at a port on Yeonpyeong island. The animals were abandoned after residents fled the island in the wake of the November 23 shelling by North Korea

People take part in "AIME Strut the Streets", an attempt to break the Guinness record for the world's largest swimwear parade, in Sydney, Australia. The event was organised to raise funds and awareness for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. Organisers attempted to break the record in 2009 but fell short by just 22 participants.

Finalists in this year's Miss Great Britain beauty pagent brave temperatures of -2C as they gather for a photocall on the beach in front of Weston-Super-Mare's Grand Pier

Jean Massa, of Nice, southern France points out details in his scale model of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, which is displayed in a church in Nice. His model is 1.45m long and 0.7m high and took him about 5,000 hours to build.

Deer gather and forage for food in the snow at Petworth in West Sussex

A woman and her baby make their way through trees covered by snow near Emsworth in Hampshire

A worker decorates a 46-metre-high (151 feet) artificial Christmas tree in the centre of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

A street performer dressed as Darth Vader stands in front of the Brandenburg Gate during snowfall in Berlin

Six mothers launch Lidl's luxury Christmas range by recreating the Calendar Girls pose at Winter Wonderland in London's Hyde Park

FC Red Bull Salzburg's midfielder David Mendes da Silva is hit in the face with the ball during the UEFA Europa League group A football match against Manchester City at The City of Manchester stadium

A monument to Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin is covered with snow in Murmansk. Heavy snow has been fallling for several days in the Russian Arctic.

Central Moscow is seen as temperatures plummet below -23C. Christ the Saviour Cathedral, left, and the Kremlin are pictured in the background

Highland cattle search for feed in a snow-covered field in Perthshire, Scotland

Mont Saint-Michel, a rocky tidal island in Normandy, France, is seen amidst a snowy landscape




































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Firefighters prepare to rescue a horse that fell into a swimming pool in Byfang, Essen, Germany. The rescue mission was a complete success and the horse was led away to a neighbour's indoor solarium to warm up

Introducing the iphone 4 Diamond Queen edition, created by Liverpool-based creator Stuart Hughes. The surrounding frame is encrusted with over 8.5cts of individually set flawless diamonds, while the rear section houses a solid Platinum and Diamond Apple logo. The iphone 4 Diamond Queen edition is available for a mere £18,995.

Employees at a car dealership in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, were left with the headache after a customer purchased a new 40,000 Yuan (£4,000) vehicle using a huge pile of small change. Together the payment weighed in at 100kg.​