Thursday: The day in photos
Performers in Santa guise showed up at Leicester Square in London for a screening at an Odeon cinema of “Santa School: The Film.” (Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images)
The sun rises on the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour at
Former Russian banker Alexei Frenkel sits in the bullet-proof-glass defendant’s cage in a Moscow court. He has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for masterminding the murder of the deputy head of Russia’s Central Bank, Andrei Kozlov, in 2006, according to the BBC. (Sergei Kiselev / AFP / Getty Images)
Relatives mourn for Hamas militants killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Saber / EPA)
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Bienfait Mutabazi from Save the Children speaks to Zawadi Banzigiye, 6, in a camp for displaced people in eastern Congo. Zawadi was separated from her parents during fighting between the army and rebels loyal to leader Laurent Nkunda. The violence has displaced at least 250,000 people, despite the presence of the largest U.N. peacekeeping force in the world. (Karel Prinsloo / Associated Press)
Bulgarian steel workers protest in the center of Sofia. More than 1,000 workers at Bulgaria’s biggest steelmaker brought parts of the capital to a standstill as they demanded government action to help save their closure-threatened plant and back pay. (Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Images)
The Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, begins today, and 2,160 chess players from 152 nations are competing in the event. (Ralf Hirschberger / EPA)
Guinness World Record breakers ride an escalator at St. Pancras International station in London. The group of 116 people made history for the most people gathered together wearing their underwear in public. (Andy Rain / EPA)
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Tourists admire tree leaves that turned red at Nanzenji Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital. (Katsumi Kasahara / Associated Press)
