UP IN THE AIR: Members of Hanyang technical high school mountaineering club, wearing Santa Claus costumes, reached the summit of Dobong mountain near Seoul.
HOLD ON: Women competed in a tug of war challenge during the concluding ceremony of Khel Mahakumbh, a sports event organized by the Gujarat government in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad . More than 200,000 people ages 4 to 75 participated, according to organizers.
FROZEN SPORT: People in Santa Claus costumes played soccer on a frozen lake in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China. 
O HOLY NIGHT: A nativity scene was set up inside the Colosseum in Rome.
AWAY IN THE MANGER: A worshiper prayed in the Grotto, where Christians believe Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, during a visit to the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
ELEPHANT CLAUS: A child gave fruit to an elephant dressed as Santa Claus on a street in Ayutthaya, Thailand.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Soldiers arrived at Pope Army Airfield in North Carolina Thursday after returning from deployment in Iraq.
DESTROYED: A resident sitting amid the remains of his home waited for help after an explosion in a suburb of Dosquebradas, Colombia. Authorities said they suspected the explosion, which killed 11 people, was set off by thieves who may have tapped a pipeline to steal fuel.
WINDOW WASHER: A window cleaner dressed as Santa Claus posed for photographers during an event to celebrate the holiday season at a shopping mall in Tokyo.
SO LONG, SANTA: Police arrested a demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus during protests in Santiago, Chile. Protesters demanded changes in education funding.
SUNRISE AT STONEHENGE: People watched the sun rise during a winter solstice celebration at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
HIGH KICKS: AZ Alkmaar goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado kicked an Ajax fan who tried to attack him during a soccer match at the Amsterdam Arena . Mr. Alvarado was given a red card, which was later rescinded. His team left the field; the game might have to be replayed.
GRIEVING: A woman held a picture of victims of a 2005 Helios Airways crash at a demonstration outside the attorney general's office in Nicosia, Cyprus. A court found four former officials at the defunct airline not guilty of manslaughter in the crash that killed 121 people.
SUBWAY MISSTEP: A video still released Thursday shows a woman who exited a train and stumbled backward, falling under the train on the tracks at a subway station in South Yorkshire, England. Police said the woman, who was inebriated, sustained minor injuries.
AMID DEBRIS: A man searched for salvageable materials amid the debris of houses destroyed by Typhoon Washi in Iligan, Philippines. The death toll from the weekend disaster, which swept away shanty towns built near major rivers, exceeds 1,000.
A PRAYER: A worshiper prayed in the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, in Bethlehem, West Bank.
FIGHT CLUB: Boys fought during Musangwe, a tradition where males display their fighting skills, in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
FIGHTING FIRE: A firefighter sprayed water over smoldering debris in a shanty town in São Paulo, Brazil. At least three people were evacuated in ambulances.
IN MOURNING: Dagmar Havlova, seen through the window of a hearse, and thousands of Czechs paid their respects to her husband, Vaclav Havel, in Prague Wednesday. Mr. Havel, whose 'Velvet Revolution' toppled communist rule, died Sunday at age 75 after a respiratory illness.
MANY OPTIONS: A vendor sat near displays of cellphone numbers of Kuwait's Zain and South Africa's MTN carriers in Khartoum, Sudan.
SOLDIERS STRETCH: Soldiers rehearsed on Rajpath Boulevard in New Delhi for India's upcoming Republic Day celebrations.
DIGGING OUT: A boy shoveled mud from his home in Iligan, Philippines. Flash flooding from Typhoon Washi left hundreds of people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands.
HELPING HANDS: Soldiers carried Zeinab al-Shogery, whose leg is injured, from a polling station in Giza, Egypt. The country is holding staggered parliamentary elections. Recent clashes between the military and pro-democracy activists have left at least 14 people dead.
WHACKING WICKER: Kashmiri Abdul Rashid cut wicker on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
SORTING POTATOES: A worker sorted through potatoes in Deesa, India.
KICKING UP DUST: Boys played soccer in a field in Kabul, Afgahnistan.
DEFENSE: Qatar's Ahmed Ragab Morgan, right, tried to score as Egypt's Eslam Ibrahim blocked him during the men's final handball game at the Arab Games in Doha, Qatar.
WARMING UP: Homeless youths sought warmth by a fire in New Delhi. Temperatures fall sharply for a few weeks in December and January and poor people are the worst hit.
SHOE MANIA: A boy waited for customers at his roadside shoe stall in Quetta, Pakistan.
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