Day in pictures

Somali refugees displaced by flooding in Kenya cross a swollen river - the UN estimates 1.8 million people have been affected by the floods.

Indian police douse the flames after a Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in front of Chinese President Hu Jintao 's hotel in Mumbai.

A white whale wears a Christmas hat at an aquarium-amusement park in Japan.

British soldiers on patrol in Basra offer cash incentives for information in a new campaign against insurgent attacks.

A 555-seater Airbus A380 plane lands at Beijing Airport in final test flights to gain air-worthiness certification.

Police officers in southern Thailand arrest a Muslim suspect for allegedly firing guns as demonstrators carried the body of Muslim man shot dead by a defence volunteer.

Workmen unveil a poster of model Anna Torkarska on the tallest poster site in the UK, near the M4 motorway in west London.

Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams pray in the Papal Palace after a meeting to seek closer ties between the Catholic and Anglican Churches.

Indian and Pakistani border guards perform the Beating the Retreat ceremony - both sides have agreed to tone down the aggressive marching drill as a gesture of conciliation.

The Sesame Street Big Bird makes an appearance at Philadelphia's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Somali Islamic militia men burn confiscated cannabis - Islamic forces in Somalia have already outlawed the narcotic khat.

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