Day in pictures

Children enjoy an annual traditional kite-flying event in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

A woman admires a New Zealand Maori Tekoteko, or house gable apex figure, at an exhibition in Sydney, Australia.

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims preparing for the annual Haj pilgrimage circle the Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

In Moscow a lone Russian Orthodox believer attends a church service.

With Christmas fast approaching, workers erect the festive tree outside London's 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister.

An Indonesian scavenger collects valuable items from a polluted river in north Jakarta.

Muslim children in India shout anti-Pakistan slogans as they burn an effigy of Pakistan's spy service, the ISI, during a protest against last week’s Mumbai attacks.