Friday: The day in photos
Bundled-up children compete with penguins in Santa suits for most-adorable honors at Everland, South Korea’s largest amusement park, in Yongin. Christmas has become increasingly popular in South Korea, the only East Asian country to recognize it as a national holiday. (Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images)
Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria soars through a training jump during qualifiying for the ski jumping World Cup in Engelberg, Switzerland. The training later was canceled because of bad weather. (Urs Flueeler / Associated Press)
A likeness of Anne Frank is introduced at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in Berlin. The wax figure, originally produced for the Amsterdam Tussaud’s in 1981, will be on display in the German capital for two months. (John MacDougall / AFP/Getty Images)
Grain farmers line up their tractors in front of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral during a protest in the Bulgarian capital Sofia at which they called for agricultural subsidies to be paid for last year. (Petar Petrov / Associated Press)
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Coal miners in traditional clothes walk to a meeting in Gelsenkirchen in western Germany on the day of the mine’s final shift. All hard-coal mines in Germany are to be closed by 2018. (Volker Hartmann / AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian protester dressed as Santa Claus throws candy to children, as Israeli soldiers stand guard behind razor wire during a demonstration against the construction of Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village of Maasarah, near Bethlehem. (Kevin Frayer / Associated Press)
An Iraqi loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr prays during a service in the Sadr City district of Baghdad. Protesters there burned American flags and chanted anti-American and anti-Iraqi-government slogans, demanding the release of Muntather Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush. (Wathiq Khuzaie / Getty Image)
President Robert Mugabe addresses suppporters at his party’s annual conference in the northwestern mining town on Bindura, Zimbabwe. He declared that “Zimbabwe is mine” and vowed never to surrender to calls to step down, as his political rival threatened to quit stalled unity government talks. (Desmond Kwande / AFP/Getty Images)
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A newly set-up Christmas tree graces a spot near China’s National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest, in Beijing. (Alexander F. Yuan / Associated Press)
