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Christmas pictures from around the world


US President Barack Obama assists children dressed like elves, at the National Building Museum

St Albans Cathedral Choristers have a snowball fight after morning rehearsals

Choristers - aged between 10 and 13 - proceed from the nearby King's College School to the chapel at King's College, Cambridge to take part in final rehearsals for the annual Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

Soldiers from the Irish Guards perform a special nativity play, adapted to include references to the war in Afghanistan, at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan,

People dressed as Santa row boats on the Grand Canal in Venice

A tree kangaroo - a marsupial similar to kangaroos and wallabies, found in the forests of New Guinea and Australia's Cape York - feasts on a watermelon cut in the shape of a Christmas tree at Taronga Zoo in Sydney

A man dressed as Santa Claus feeds a turtle during the show 'Something Fishy about Christmas' at Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

A pet rabbit is dressed as Santa Claus at an event to celebrate Christmas and the Year of the Rabbit at a pet shop in Yokohama, Japan

People view a live screening of a Christmas Carol Service outside St Paul's Cathedral

Competitors set off on the annual 5k Pudding Santa Dash along Weymouth Promenade and Beach in Dorset

Major Alastair Macartney and Warrant Officer Class One Spencer Hogg - members of Jump4Heroes, The Royal British Legion Extreme Human Flight Team - leap from the 216m Bloukrans bridge in the Western Cape of South Africa to raise awareness for the troops that won't be able to spend Christmas with their families.

A man dressed as Santa Claus on a boat waves to members of the audience, also dressed as Santa, during an event to celebrate Christmas in Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province

Workers try to install a Christmas tree inside Holy Trinity church in Bratislava, Slovakia

Visitors look at thousands of teddy bears arranged in a shape of a Christmas tree hanging from the ceiling of a shopping mall in Beirut

Santa goes for a swim at the start of the festive season at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia

A bungee jumper dressed as Santa Claus leaps from a platform above a beach in in Kuta, Bali

Mountaineers wear Santa Claus costumes while rock-climbing on Ansan mountain near Seoul, South Korea

Jean-Guy Laquerre of Boucherville, Quebec shows off some of his world record Santa Claus memorabilia. As part of a Guinness World Record promotion, Laquerre was honoured as having the largest collection of Santa Claus memorabilia - he has collected 25,189 items from 33 countries over the past 22 years.

A Ferris wheel is pictured at a Christmas market near the television tower in Berlin

A man looks up at Christmas lights in Madrid

Nearly 800 people in Bridgend, south Wales, set a new world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as Christmas elves. The previous world record of 607 was set in New York City in December 2009.

A traffic police officer dances with a driver as another traffic police officer dressed as Father Frost looks on in Minsk, Belarus

A dog dressed as an elf takes part in the annual charity Santa Claus run in Loughborough

Chris Snell, a plant health and seeds Inspector for FERA, checks thousands of poinsettia plants in the hothouses of Ravensworth Nursery, Richmond, North Yorkshire, before they are dispatched to shops ahead of Christmas

A Santa with a sack on his shoulder trudges through the snow near the Brandenburg Mellensee, Germany

People take part in a half-naked Santa run in Budapest, Hungary

South Korean postmen dressed as Santa Claus on delivery bikes leave the post office headquarters to deliver Christmas gifts to poor people for their charity campaign in Seoul

Actress Lacey Turner poses with a 1st class stamp featuring Wallace and Gromit, from this year's Christmas stamp issue, to promote the Royal Mail's latest recommended posting dates of 18th December for 2nd Class Mail, and 21st December for 1st Class Mail

Royal Mail staff at the St. Rollox sorting office in Glasgow sort out mail in what is their busiest week of the year

A giant Christmas tree made out of up of 58,000 empty plastic water bottles in a shopping mall in Jakarta, Indonesia

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