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Soldiers head to the USO facility after arriving by bus at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, NC. Nearly 2,300 soldiers headed home for the holidays passing through the airport. AP/The Charlotte Observer, Davie Hinshaw
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A group of office workers dressed as Santa Claus wave as they walk on a street at the Sydney central business district. AP/Rob Griffith
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Antonio Martinez, 78, stands in the shade dressed in an old Santa Claus costume while waiting for buses on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez. Martinez boards the buses and asks for money in return for some candy. Martinez is trying to get enough money so he can buy a toy truck for his grandson for Christmas, according to a local newspaper. Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez
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A diver wearing a Santa Claus costume swims with fish at Sunshrie Aquarium in Tokyo. The aquarium is holding the Christmas show twice daily until December 25 to attract visitors. AFP/Toru Yamanaka
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Students and staff celebrate Christmas at Patna Women's College in Patna. UNI
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Sailors aboard the USS John S McCain, a destroyer with the US Navy's 7th Fleet based in Yokosuka, Japan, light up a Christmas tree in the ship's mess to celebrate the holidays in Yokosuka. AP/Eric Talmadge
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A worker shows fir trees to customers as they select trees ahead of Christmas and New Year celebrations in a street market in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Reuters/Ilya Naymushin
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Bosnian children talk to Santa Claus at a Christmas market in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. With its religiously mixed, but predominantly Muslim and atheist population, Sarajevo does not have a tradition of Christmas markets. But for the second year running, Sarajevo authorities have decided to set up a holiday market in the city centre to cheer up the atmosphere ahead of the New Year, one holiday nearly everyone in the country celebrates. AP/Amel Emric
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An unidentified man buys Christmas tree decorations at Munich's Christmas market. Reuters/Michaela Rehle
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People visit a shop selling illuminated window stars in different colours at Munich's Christmas market. Reuters/Michaela Rehle
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People visit a traditional Christmas market in the city centre of Stuttgart. Reuters/Lisi Niesner
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A visually impaired child performs during Christmas celebrations at Devnar School for the Blind in Hyderabad. AP/Mahesh Kumar A
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Pope Benedict XVI attends Christmas greetings with the Roman curia at the Clementine hall at the Vatican. Reuters/Alessandra Tarantino/Pool
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Spaniards queue in long lines to buy tickets for the cash-strapped country's famed Christmas lottery, in Madrid. Many players say they're hoping to win so they can pay off debt or help relatives facing heavy economic burdens. Known as El Gordo (The Fat One) and billed as the world's richest lottery, the drawing will hand out about 2.5 billion euro ($3.3 billion) on Saturday. AP/Daniel Ochoa de Olza
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