Celebrating Christmas on January 7, 2012
Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar celebrated Christmas today on January 7, 2012. In the photo below, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin participates in a Russia Orthodox Christmas Eve service at Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In the second photo, pedestrians mill around the Anichkov Bridge with its horse sculptures on the Fontanka River in Saint Petersburg, Russia.


I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present PART 2
The kid who got the sponge for Christmas appeared to be traumatized.
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The Berlin Seals take a Christmas day swim
The Berlin Seals, a polar bear club based in Berlin, Germany, take a swim in the freezing waters of Oranke Lake on December 25, 2011. The temperatures in the lake reached 3 degrees Celsius on Christmas Day.

Starlings swarm behind Christmas tree
An eruption of starlings fill the sky behind an illuminated Christmas tree in Rome, Italy, on Christmas Eve.

Christmas in Bogota, Colombia
Festive lights and illuminated decorations transform a park in northern Bogota, Colombia, into a Christmas wonderland, on December 22, 2011.
Photo credit: Fernando Vergara
Christmas tiger cubs suckle from sow
A trio of tiger cubs decked out in Christmas-themed costumes feed from a sleeping sow on Christmas Eve. The unusual suckling scene took place at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo located in Pattaya, Chonburi Province, Thailand.
Photo credit: Sukree Sukplang
Going to a Christmas party in New Delhi
Children dressed up in Christmas-themed clothing are ferried to a kindergarten Christmas party in New Delhi, India, on Friday, December 23, 2001. Today was the last day before school holidays in New Delhi and Christmas is celebrated as a national holiday across India.
Photo credit: Kevin Frayer / AP
Christmas lights illuminate the Gendarmenmarkt
The silhouette of a statue on the roof of the Gendarmenmarkt concert hall in Berlin, Germany, appears like an eerie apparition when seen through a curtain of Christmas lights.
