BEACON FOR CHRISTMAS: A person holds a candle during the Candles Day celebration, a tradition that opens the Christmas season in Bogota. Photo: AP
PLEASURE TRIP TO SPACE: SpaceShipTwo, a spacecraft designed to rocket wealthy tourists into space as early as 2011, is unveiled in Mojave, California. Photo: AP
LONG TERM RELATIONS: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow on Monday night. Photo: PTI
WARMING UP: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, speaks during the opening ceremony of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo: AP
JUST A PHASE: Security personnel frisks a voter as he arrives to cast his votes during the 3rd phase of assembly elections, in Giridih, Jharkhand. Photo: PTI
STARVED FOR NEWS: Vasantha Nageswara Rao, a pro-Andhra leader is mobbed bt TRS activists at NIMS in Hyderabad after he came to visit the critically ill TRS leader K. Chandrasekhara Rao. Photo: P.V.Sivakumar
ANOTHER BLACK MORNING: Local residents look on burnt motorcycles at the site of Monday's bomb blasts in Moon Market in Lahore, Pakistan. Photo: AP
CRUSHED BY NEGLIGENCE: An injured Yucai Middle School student rests in a hospital in Xiangxiang, in south China's Hunan province, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. Eight youths were killed and 26 injured when students descending a crowded staircase. Photo: AP
STUDENT TOOLS: Pro-government Iranian students burning a representation of the US flag, during their demonstration, at the Tehran University campus in Tehran. Such hard-line students are often used to crush pro-reform rallies on campus. Photo: AP
LIFT TO THE PODIUM: Li Ping of China lifts during the Clean and Jerk of 53 kg Women Weightlifting Final of the Hong Kong East Asian Games. Photo: AP