Week in pictures: 22-28 December

Thailand conducted its first general election since the September 2006 coup which ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

Pilgrims marked Christmas Eve in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, reputed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ.

Christians around the world marked Christmas Day, the traditional day of Jesus Christ's birth.

Local people and rescue teams desperately searched for people buried by landslides in central Java, Indonesia.

Polls opened across Kenya after a vigorous, and occasionally violent, campaign.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated during a rally in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.

Ms Bhutto, 54, was leaving an election rally in Rawalpindi, standing in the open sunroof of a car, when a gunman shot her in the neck and chest.

Seconds later, the attacker blew himself up, killing at least 20 people.

The journey of Bhutto's body to the family's ancestral graveyard in Ghari Khuda Baksh, Larkana began in a simple wooden coffin.

A century after Sir Ernest Shackleton abandoned an attempt on the South Pole, descendants of the explorer and his team are hoping to achieve what he could not.

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