Soham, UK
A Christmas lights display at the home of Helen and John Attlesey in Cambridgeshire, who decorate their house every year to raise money for three charities that supported their grandson Jacob, who was diagnosed with epilepsy
Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA
Essen, Germany
People skate on an ice rink in what was once the hottest place in the city, the former coking plant
Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP
Dunbar, Scotland
Workers at W&R Logan pick some of the 250m sprouts they harvest for the Christmas period. They are the third generation vegetable farm’s main crop, raising more than 210 hectares’ worth of sprouts each year
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
A worker arranges a figurine of the Virgin Mary at a workshop producing items to be sold locally and for export before Christmas
Photograph: Devi Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Newhaven, UK
Waves crash into the harbour wall and lighthouse as the Met Office forecast gales across parts of England and Wales
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Damascus, Syria
People take photos as they look at the view over the city. The fall of the Assad regime marks a new chapter for Syria
Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Mamoudzou, Mayotte
Damaged housing in a slum after Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory destroying homes and leaving many dead across the islands
Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip
A Palestinian girl holds glasses in her hands as she stands amid the damage at a tent camp sheltering displaced people, following an Israeli strike
Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters
Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip
A Palestinian man tries to extinguish a fire at a house near Kamal Adwan hospital, during the ongoing Israeli military operation
Photograph: Reuters
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A woman cries outside her house after armed gangs set it on fire in the Post Marchand neighbourhood
Photograph: Clarens Siffroy/AFP/Getty Images
Damascus, Syria
Rescuers search for missing prisoners at Sednaya prison
Photograph: Dia Images/Getty Images
Metro Manila, Philippines
Mary Jane Veloso is kissed by her sons as she arrives at the correctional institution for women, after nearly 15 years on death row in Indonesia for drug smuggling, which she always denied
Photograph: Lisa Marie David/Reuters
Srinagar, India
Trainee artisans prepare a gabba, a traditional Kashmiri winter rug, at a training centre where the embroidery technique is passed down through generations
Photograph: Farooq Khan/EPA
Stourhead, UK
Visitors walk under illuminated feathers, part of the Christmas at Stourhead seasonal lights trail
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Prague, Czech Republic
People watch as Jan Tater lights one of the historic gas lamps on the city’s Charles Bridge. During Advent all 46 lanterns are manually lit daily, a tradition started in 1847
Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA
Prayagraj, India
A vendor arranges trinkets after opening her stall on a cold morning, before the Hindu Maha Kumbh Mela festival
Photograph: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images
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