Snapshots from the world: It is the season to be jolly

Hotel chef and world ice carving champion Yoshihito Kosaka shaves ice to make a 1.8-metre Santa Claus and reindeer at a hotel in Tokyo. (AFP)

Updated on: Dec 24, 2015 5:09 PM IST

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Hotel chef and world ice carving champion Yoshihito Kosaka shaves ice to make a 1.8-metre Santa Claus and reindeer at a hotel in Tokyo. (AFP)

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Eight years old Maia laughs walking away with presents received from a man dressed as Santa Claus during a Christmas party for children affected by the Down Syndrome, organized by the Angels Down Friends association in Bucharest, Romania. (AP)

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An Indonesian child poses for a picture outside a cathedral ahead of a mass service on Christmas eve in Jakarta. (AFP)

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A woman decorates a marzipan figure at the manufacturing site of premium desserts maker Szamos Marcipan in Pilisvorosvar, Hungary. (REUTERS)

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Trainers wearing Santa Claus costumes gather a dog (L), a goat and a black bear around a Christmas tree during a circus performance to celebrate Christmas, in Changsha, Hunan province, China. (REUTERS)