Day in Photos, December 21, 2011

That ended the shortest day of the year. Now the sun is every minute more and more. And it can not but rejoice. Very positive and impressive was leaving Wednesday. See all her paint and wait for Thursday :)

The tail of a comet in the sky over the Australian suburb of Perth a few minutes before sunrise sun.





Spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-03M" leaves a trail in the night sky over Baikonur, Kazakhstan.



And this ball diameter of 1, 1 meter and weighing about 6 pounds fell on one of the pastures in rural Namibia. The subject will be given by NASA and the European Space Agency to clarify the circumstances.



Seven-month baby koalas playing with her toy copy of the zoo in Duisburg, Germany.



Mother of seven puppies feeds and even small monkeys, village Bishvanatpur, Bangladesh.



Three out of four newborn cubs white bask in the zoo in Belgrade, Serbia.



Villagers Dhimalbasti chase wild elephant in the jungle. The poor animal accidentally wandered into the village and destroyed several houses, India.



Afghan boys play soccer on the outskirts of Kabul. Football is very popular in the country, but often have to play on clay than on grass.



A worker makes a kite shop with a picture of the main Indian antikorruptsionera - Anna Hazar, Ahmedabad, India. At a price of Rs 4, manufacturers sold more than 300 thousand kites this year.



Pakistani railroad come with washing rolling station Rawalpindi.



Rory McIlroy from Northern Ireland plays golf on the helipad at the "Burj Al Arab" in Dubai, UAE.



Filipino boy decided to rest after endless house cleaning from dirt, Iligan, Philippines.



School children dressed as Santa Claus celebrate the beginning of the Christmas holidays, Chandigarh, India.



American students at Emory University in Atlanta learn from books Yiddish. Early in the century bookstores in great demand, and store e-books was seen as an alternative. It's only been 10 years, and all has changed dramatically.



Beggar begging in downtown Milan, Italy.



Classic set in a classic barber barbershop, Athens, Greece.



Despite the tragedy in the country today in Quezon City, a military parade to mark the 76th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.



In Bucharest Romanian parade was dedicated to the 22 anniversary of the overthrow of the communist regime of Ceausescu.



Russian communists today celebrated the 132 th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin, Moscow.



And near the building of the State Duma today detained regular demonstrators.



The soldiers are 58-year-old Zainab Shogher the polling station where she voted in the second round of parliamentary elections, Giza, Egypt.



General view of the arena in Doha, where the final handball match between the men's national team of Qatar and Egypt, in the framework of the Arab Games, Qatar.



Frenchman Anthony Ben speaks at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Meribel, France.



Player "Wigan" Antolin Alcaraz blocks the path of the ball and Luis Suarez from the "Liverpool" in a match of the English Premier League.



Traditional "breathing fire" at the time of Chinese opera in Xian, China.



Hungarian sculptor Erno He presented to the public today, Steve Jobs statue in Budapest, Hungary.



Photo: AP, Getty Images, Reuters