Day in pictures

Juan Fernandez celebrates winning Spain's famous Christmas lottery. This year's winning number of 32365 can be on up to 1,950 tickets, each of which wins 300,000 euro ($418,000, £283,000).

Squirrel monkeys in Israel play with dreidels - spinning tops used by Jewish children during Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights that started on Sunday.

An expectant mother shows off a puzzle painted on her pregnant tummy by professional face painter Glyn Goodwin from Hertfordshire, UK, who has expanded her services to offer "gestational painting".

There are pretty scenes in Sokcho, in north-east South Korea, after heavy snowfall overnight.

While in Beijing, the plummeting temperatures allows ice hockey to be played on a frozen lake.

And in a shopping mall in Thailand, Nong Na sets a new world record by holding a scorpion in her mouth for over two minutes.

There is some frantic last-minute Christmas shopping going on in Manila, capital of the Philippines.

While the view is altogether more peaceful from a window of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India, newly reopened following November's attacks.

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