World Pictures/Videos of the Day

A young male cub plays with its mother in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
Picture: Great Stock / Barcroft Media



A bald eagle sits perched on a tree near the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska
Picture: AP Photo/Becky Bohrer



People push a car stuck on the A93 Braemar to Glenshee road as winter well and truly sets in in Scotland
Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images



An Eiffel Tower replica made from hundreds of macaroons by luxury baker and sweet producer Laduree is displayed as part of the Christmas decorations in the Grand Hotel in Paris
Picture: Charles Platiau/Reuters



Men drink beer during a local annual beer festival in Hanoi. Thousands of local beer lovers visited the event where they could enjoy for free the popular 'Bia Hoi', a local cheap draft beer that is sold on streets of Vietnam's big cities. Some published surveys said Vietnam is the top beer-drinking nation among Southeast Asian nations.
Picture: HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images



Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais Camille Cerf (C) is congratulated by Miss Ile de France 2014 Margaux Savary (L) and Miss Auvergne 2014 Morgane Laporte after Cerf won the Miss France 2015 beauty contest in Orleans
Picture: GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP/Getty Images



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A pelican is caught between a humpback whale's jaws in Monteray Bay, California. The brown-feathered bird had been feasting on anchovies among a group of eight humpback whales when the whale burst out of the sea...
Picture: Kate Cummings/Barcroft Media



This is the moment two voles were spotted squabbling for shelter. Unwilling to share the space between them, the enraged rodents were seen tumbling in the snow entwined in bitter dispute over territory. After struggling to find warmth in the frozen fields of Hokkaido Island, Japan, both mouse-like creatures were on the lookout for a dry place to stay.
Picture: MASASUGU OHASI / CATERS NEWS



A company is offering a funeral service which is out of this world - by sending the ashes of loved ones into space. Ashes travel up on a weather balloon, with GoPro cameras attached so people can watch, before being scattered at the edge of space. The particles will hang around in the atmosphere for a while before falling back to Earth as part of rain or snowfall. The wacky idea is the brainchild of US company Mesoloft, who launch from sites in Indiana, Colorado and New Mexico.
Picture: MESOLOFT/ CATERS NEWS




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A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume swims with fish at the Sunshine Aquarium in Tokyo. The Santa Claus attraction will be held until Christmas Day.
Picture: REUTERS/Toru Hanai



An inverted Christmas tree stands at the centre of Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris
Picture: AP Photo/Jacques Brinon



Hohenzollern castle, Baden, Germany
Picture: Roland Beck/dpa/Corbis



View of a carousel during the annual Christmas fair on Red Square in Moscow
Picture: AFP/Getty Images


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A great white shark breaches out of the water and flips upside down while attacking a plastic seal decoy off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa
Picture: Atlantic Edge Films / Barcroft



Photographer Harfian Herdi shot these tree frogs clambering onto a branch while out walking in the forest next to his home in the Sambas region of Indonesian Borneo
Picture: HARFIAN HERDI / MEDIA DRUM



Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan, puts her hands to her face as she sits during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, NorwayPicture: AP Photo/Matt Dunham


A gust of wind blows Pope Francis' skullcap away during the weekly Wednesday General Audience in St.Peter's Square, Vatican CityPicture: EPA/ANGELO CARCONI


A severe thunderstorm rolls into Queensland's Gold Coast, Australia
Picture: Luke Marsden/Newspix/RE



A man sits with his falcon during the International Festival of Falconry in Hameem, 150km west of Abu Dhabi
Picture: KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images



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Huge waves batter the sea wall at Aberystwyth, West Wales
Picture: LNP



A nano Bible is displayed at TowerJazz Semiconductor in Migdal Haemek in northern Israel. The nano sized New Testament developed by an Israeli company has been nominated for the Guinness Book of Records as the World's Smallest Bible, the company said. Jerusalem nano Bible company said it developed a chip smaller than five by five millimetres, which contains the original Greek version of the New Testament (Textus Receptus, or 'received text' in Latin).
Picture: REUTERS/Amir Cohen



French president Francois Hollande walks past a horse as he visits the Quartier des Celestins, the barracks housing the French Republican Guard, in ParisPicture: IAN LANGSDON/AFP/Getty Images


Abbas Alizada, who calls himself the Afghan Bruce Lee, poses for the media in front of the destroyed Darul Aman Palace in KabulPicture: REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail


Orangutan in The Rain' - Andrew Suryono, Indonesia. "I was taking pictures of some Orangutans in Bali and then it started to rain. Just before I put my camera away, I saw this Orangutan took a banana leaf and put it on top on his head to protect himself from the rain! I immediately used my DSLR and telephoto lens to preserve this magic moment"
Picture: ANDREW SURYONO



'Holi' - Ioulia Chvetsova, France.Hindu devotees throw vivid colour at each other to celebrate the start of spring during Lathmar Holi Festival. Hindu brahmans from the village of Nandgaon are covered in coloured powder as they sit and sing on the floor during prayers.
Picture: IOULIA CHVETSOVA




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Finally! She truly deserved that Nobel Peace Prize.

I watched her on tv before. Her maturity was beyond her years. Pakistan can be proud to have such a genius.

A Father holds his three-day old baby before saying goodbye to him.

A jay hops through the snow
Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA



Large waves batter the harbour wall during stormy weather in Ballintoy in Northern Ireland
Picture: PAUL FAITH/AFP/GETTY



A wave crashes behind the 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California
Picture: REUTERS/Michael Fiala



An SUV that went airborne and sailed into the roof of a home in Escondido, California. Police said the driver lost control while turning and went off the road and plunged through the garage roof of a home that sits about 20 feet below the road. Neither he nor his wife, or the driver of the car, were hurt.
Picture: AP Photo/George Strother



Bullrider Chuck Swisher (top) gets tossed into the air by bull Cajun Smurf while Swisher was protecting Bull rider Trey Benton III during the seventh go-round of the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas
Picture: AP Photo/John Locher



Argentina's River Plate's supporters cheer for their team during the Copa Sudamericana 2014 second leg final football match against Colombia's Atletico Nacional at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Picture: JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images



Weedy seadragons swim in an aquarium at the commercial breeding and research facility Seahorse World, in Beauty Point, Tasmania. Found only in temperate Australian waters, the weedy seadragon is listed as near threatened and as such protected and cannot be taken from its environment without permits.
Picture: EPA/BARBARA WALTON



Carabiniers of Monaco's Prince Albert II fire canons to announce the birth of twins of Prince Albert II of Monoco and Charlene, in front of the Monaco Palace
Picture: REUTERS



A 30-feet statue of Father Christmas with cyclist gloves and a bicycle in front of the City Hall of Sao Paulo
Picture: Tiago Mazza Chiaravalloti



A giant Christmas tree and a light show decorate the Grand Place in Brussels
Picture: AP



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A photo of a southern stingray taken just below the surface of the water by photographer Ellen Cuylaerts in Grand Cayman. Ellen's image is one of the thirteen images from British shark and marine conservation charity Bite-Back's 2015 calendar which can be bought from website.
Picture: Ellen Cuylaerts / Barcroft Media



This little wood mouse leaps through the air as he collects some seeds for winter. The mouse was photographed by retired farmer Chris Robbins, after he spotted the tiny creature stealing some bird seed from the shed in the back garden of his house in Launceston, Cornwall.
Picture: Chris Robbins/HotSpot Media



Visitors to Mather Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, in Arizona, view a rare weather phenomenon - a sea of thick clouds filling the canyon just below the rim.
Picture: AP Photo/National Park Service, Michael Quin



The total cloud inversion is expected to hang inside the canyon for a couple of days. Cory Mottice of the National Weather Service said the weather event happens about once every several years, though the landmark was treated to one last year.
Picture: AP Photo/National Park Service, Maci MacPherson



A surfer rides a huge wave off Praia do Norte in Nazare, central Portugal
Picture: FRANCISCO LEONG/AFP/Getty Images



A surfer drops in on a large wave at Praia do Norte in Nazare, Portugal
Picture: REUTERS/Rafael Marchante



Miyu Nakashio of Japan performs during the Junior Ladies Short Program Final during day one of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final at Barcelona International Convention Centre in Barcelona, Spain
Picture: David Ramos/Getty Images



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