A regularly-updated gallery showcasing the best seasonal photos
from around the world.
People dressed as Father Frost, the central figure in Russia's New Year festival
and the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus,
walk along the street during a contest in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
A man is made-up as Black Pete (or Zwarte Piet) prior to a
celebration at a primary school in Soest, the Netherlands.
The feast of Sinterklaas, held on December 5, celebrates the name day of Saint
Nicholas, patron saint of children and sailors.
A Christmas tree is installed on Red Square in Moscow, with St Basil's Cathedral in the background.
A worker decorates a 46-metre-high (151 feet) artificial Christmas tree in the centre of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
An illumination resembling a giant Christmas tree is set up on the monument to St George at Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Workers erect a 30-metre-high Christmas tree on St Peter's Square
at the Vatican. This year the tree,
which is donated from a different part of Europe each year, came from the forests
of south Tyrol in Italy.
Children play in fake snow around a giant Ferrero edible Christmas
tree in Covent Garden, London.
The tree contains over 10,000 Ferrero chocolates, weighs 200 kg, and stands
11 ft high.
The Christmas Tree donated by Norway is seen in Trafalgar Square, behind frozen fountains.
A Christmas tree is erected in Downing Street, outside the official London residence of the Prime Minister.
The scene in Edinburgh's Princess Street Gardens with the Castle as a backdrop as the Edinburgh Christmas tree is illuminated.
Christmas-mad Paul Toole of Wells, Somerset, poses in front of his house which
has nearly 40,000 Christmas lights on it.
The lights have cost him nearly £15,000 since he bought his first ones in 1998.
He has raised over £10,000 for charity
in that time.
Two children look around a house which is decorated and lit up with Christmas
lights to help raise money for
Macmillan Cancer Support in the village of Poynton near Stockport
People gather to look at 250,000 LED lights displayed in a field in Tokyo, Japan.
A long exposure shows a revolving ferris wheel at the Alexanderplatz Christmas
market, in Berlin.
People ride a merry-go-round at a Christmas market, in front of the television
tower in Berlin.
Kylie Minogue performs at the tree lighting party at Rockefeller Centre in New
York City.
Santa Clauses and angels are briefed by a more experienced Santa
before heading out to Christmas parties
and people's homes in Dresden, Germany.
A Santa has his beard trimmed during a visit to the hairdressers at the Cutting
Room, Leicester.
More than 1,000 people dressed up as Santa Claus sit together
on the steps of the Sydney Opera House
after finishing the annual "Santa Fun Run" for charity.
Ann Widdecombe poses for a photograph with Dove the donkey in Newton Abbot at
the launch of a
Christmas campaign to save donkeys. The Strictly Come Dancing contestant is
a supporter of Safe Haven
for Donkeys in the Holy Land (SHADAH) which rescues injured, neglected and abused
donkeys in Israel
and the Palestinian territories.
Six mothers launch Lidl's luxury Christmas range by recreating
the Calendar Girls pose at Winter Wonderland
in London's Hyde Park.
A diver dressed as Santa Claus feeds fish in an aquarium in Toenning, Germany.
Ally Oop, a three-year-old female North American alligator,
wears a Santa hat at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
in Vallejo, California.
A giant illuminated Santa Claus stands on the side of a road in Berlin, Germany.
Children wait for a portion of the world's longest Yule log at a Christmas market
in La Defense, outside Paris.
A photographer with an umbrella is reflected in a Christmas bubble in the snow
in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany.
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