18:15 GMT, Monday, 22 December 2008

Day in pictures

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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).


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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.


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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".


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


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


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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.


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


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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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