NOV. 26: Members of the Sport Saber League pose with their light sabers in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris. Three "Star Wars" fans opened the French Academy of the Sport Saber League in September 2015 in response to the increased interest for light saber fighting and the upcoming movie "The Force Awakens," which will premier in Paris on Dec. 16th, two days before its worldwide official release. Reuters
NOV. 27: Salisbury Cathedral celebrates the beginning of Advent with a candlelight service and procession in Salisbury, Britain. The picture taken with slow shutter speed.
NOV. 28: A religious symbol dangles down the scarred back of a devotee paying homage at the shrine of the Muslim Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif, popularly known as Bhitai, in Bhit Shah, Pakistan. Thousands of devotees and performers from all over Pakistan gathered for the three-day Urs festival and its open-air food stalls, singing, dancing, poetry and competitive sports.
NOV. 28: Ecuadorean spontaneous bullfighters participate in a popular bull festival called Las Canteras del Antisana at Pinantura village on the base of the Antisana volcano in Quito.
NOV. 28: A green vine snake feeds on an Indian forest skink in the Silent Valley National Park in Kerala, India.
NOV. 30: A woman swims in a partially frozen lake at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China.
NOV. 30: A Japanese macaque – or snow monkey – soaks in a hot spring at a valley in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano prefecture, Japan.
DEC. 1-2: Visitors pose for photographs in front of Tiananmen Gate and the giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on a smoggy day, top, and the next day after a cold front cleared the smog that blanketed Beijing.
DEC. 1: A security guard tries to stop a man from swimming in the West Lake, which is a violation of the resort's regulations, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China.
DEC. 1: A Palestinian girl holds her doll near her family's dwelling in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
DEC. 2: People walk outside an upside-down house in a tourist complex near the village of Dukora, Belarus. Inside the house all objects are set up upside-down in order to create a special perspective for the visitors.
DEC. 2: Cranes and residential buildings under construction poke out of thick fog in Anyang, Henan province, China,
DEC. 2: A squirrel stretches out on a heap of sacks filled with paddy – or harvested rice – at a grain market in Chandigarh, India.
DEC. 2: Low-lying clouds cover valleys between peaks in the Austrian Alps as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flies over the country to meet with Kosovo's Prime Minister Isa Mustafa in Pristina, Kosovo. Kerry began the day at NATO talks in Brussels and ended it in Belgrade, Serbia.
DEC. 3: Swimmers warm up during the U.S. Winter Nationals swimming event in Federal Way, Wash.
DEC. 3: Protesting firefighters wearing fire-resistant suits light themselves on fire in front of a regional government building to demand more work safety measures and against what they say is a covert privatization of their sector, in Oviedo, northern Spain.
DEC. 3: An aerial view of a partially submerged airplane is pictured in a flooded area in Chennai, India. At least 269 people died in catastrophic flooding that paralyzed the city and turned thousands from their homes during the past week. Meteorologists blamed El Nino for the excessive rain that began Nov. 12, with 14 inches falling in 24 hours at one point. But urban planners and environmentalists in India say that Chennai's flood woes were manmade, citing years of rampant development and poor storm water management.
DEC. 3: A man carries a dog as he wades through a flooded street in Chennai, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India.
DEC. 3: Former President George W. Bush, left, and former Vice President Dick Cheney, listen as the national anthem is played during a ceremony marking the unveiling of Cheney’s marble bust in the Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill. The Associated Press
DEC. 3: The face of a woman attending a candlelight vigil reflects the tragedy of Wednesday's attack in San Bernardino, California. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were killed in a shootout with police after the couple opened fire at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, killing 14 people.
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