Best pictures from December 13
People skate on the ice rink at Robson Square under a fogged up canopy in Vancouver, B.C.. The rink is open daily for free skating with skate rentals available for a fee.DARRYL DYCK/The Globe and Mail
A man stands as pigeons fly during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nanjing Massacre at the Nanjing Massacre Museum, Jiangsu province. China marked 75 years since Japan's Nanjing massacre, also known as the "Rape of Nanking", when Japanese troops killed more than 300,000 people, local media reported.CARLOS BARRIA/Reuters
Paramilitary policemen wait in line at the trains station in downtown Nanjing, Jiangsu province.CARLOS BARRIA/Reuters
A cat sits on a net stored inside a store house at the fishing port of Barcelona, Spain.Emilio Morenatti/The Associated Press
Pavo Lahti plays shinny hockey on an outdoor rink in Feild British Columbia.JASON FRANSON/The Globe and Mail
An Albanian boy cleans snow from his window near the city of Kukes, some 160 km north of capital Tirana.ARBEN CELI/Reuters
Britain's Queen Elizabeth tours a gold vault during a visit to the Bank of England in the City of London.Eddie Mulholland/Pool/Reuters
A snow covered landscape is pictured near Starnberg, southern Germany. Weather forecasts predict changeable weather with rising temperatures for Germany during the coming days.Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press
FSA fighters pray after an attack on a Military Academy in Tal Sheer village, north of Aleppo province, Syria.Manu Brabo/The Associated Press
A house on the Raritan Bay in Union Beach N.J. that was torn in half by Superstorm Sandy has become one of the defining images of the destructive storm. An artificial Christmas tree fished from the gutter after the storm has become a rallying point in a depressing holiday season like no other for Union Beach, whose residents have decorated it.Wayne Parry/The Associated Press