The best images from around the world for Dec. 24
A Pakistani Sufi stands on a foggy street in Lahore on December 24, 2014. The ongoing spell of dense fog and freezing weather conditions has continued to disturb the scheduled arrival and departure of flights and trains in Pakistan's Punjab province.Arif Ali/AFP / Getty Images
Workers in Santa Claus (R) and reindeer (L) costumes clean windows outside a shopping mall along Tokyo's waterfront on December 24, 2014. The costumes were worn as part of a Christmas promotional event to attract shoppers.Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP / Getty Images
This picture taken on December 23, 2014 shows women in Santa Claus-themed bikinis skiing at a ski resort in Xuchang, central China's Henan province. Ten women wore Santa Claus-themed bikinis to welcome the coming Christmas in temperatures below zero Celsius.Stringer/AFP / Getty Images
Children dressed as angels take part in a mass on the eve of Christmas at the South Cathedral official Catholic church in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Estimates for the number of Christians in China range from the conservative official figure of 23 million to as many as 100 million by independent scholars, raising the possibility that Christians may rival in size the 85 million members of the ruling Communist Party.Ng Han Guan/The Associated Press
Indian commuters make their way in dense fog, over a railroad crossing in Amritsar on December 24, 2014. Heavy fog has disrupted road, rail and air traffic across northern India.Narinder Nanu/AFP / Getty Images
Butchers sell their remaining produce of the year at discount price during the Christmas Eve auction at Smithfield Market in central London December 24, 2014.Neil Hall
U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Cavalry Regiment fire a 120mm mortar during an exercise on forward operating base Gamberi in the Laghman province of Afghanistan December 24, 2014.Lucas Jackson/Reuters
A woman carries her baby as she looks out of her house window in a Christian slum in Islamabad on Christmas eve December 24, 2014.Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
Seagulls fly around the boats at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna, in Allahabad, India,Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. The migratory gulls arrive in the month of October and stay till the month of March.Rajesh Kumar Singh/The Associated Press
Toni Martin, front center, cries out on Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, as she talks to police at the scene where she says her son was fatally shot Tuesday at a gas station in Berkeley, Mo. Authorities did not immediately identify the man who was shot. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Toni Martin, said he was her son, Antonio Martin.David Carson/The Associated Press