Rakeem Christmas #25 of the Syracuse Orange looks on during the game against the Temple Owls during the Gotham Classic at Madison Square Garden on December 22, 2012 in New York City. Temple Owls defeated the Syracuse Orange 83-79.
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Workers in a Santa Claus (R) and reindeer (L) costumes clean windowpanes outside a 31-metre-high building at a shopping mall in Tokyo's waterfront on December 23, 2012.
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Shoppers pack a market to do their Christmas shopping in Manila on December 23, 2012. About 90 percent of the Philippines population is Christian and the country has earned the distinction of celebrating the longest and merriest festivity in the world.
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A Palestinian man dressed-up as Santa Claus carries a Christmas tree as he walks along the wall of Jerusalem's Old City, on December 23 2012, as Christians around the world prepare for Christmas celebrations.
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A surfer wearing a Santa Claus hat surfs at Patos Beach, near Vigo, northwestern Spain, on December 23, 2012.
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A Romanian child wearing a real bear skin coming from the Bacau region (some 340 km northeast from Bucharest) performs the bears' dance, an ancient tradition before Christmas celebration, in Bucharest, December 23, 2012. Such ceremonies are still popular in the Balkans and Romania, especially during the days from Christmas Eve to Epiphany. Originally, they were ceremonies in connection with periodic return of the dead, with people wearing all sorts of masks and behaving like animals such as horses, goats or bears. It is believed that bears banish demons from houses and farmyards and wish a happy year.
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A woman walks in front of collage street art showing a 'Lady Christmas', in Paris, on December 23, 2012.
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Lebanese people gather around a Christmas tree decorated at Martyrs' Square near the Mohammed al-Amin mosque in downtown Beirut on December 23, 2012.
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This picture taken on December 23, 2012 from the Whispering Gallery shows the choir performing at St Paul's Cathedral in central London during the Christmas carol service.
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Iranians look at the window of a shop selling Christmas ornaments in Tehran on December 23, 2012, as Christians around the world prepare for Christmas celebrations.
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