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Christmas 2014 around the world: How are people celebrating Christmas around the world?
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Christmas weather is different in the Northern Hemisphere. In New York, people are having festive fun on ice. (Pic: AAP/ Dennis Van Tine/ABACAUSA.COM)
For some, Christmas is time for politics. In Bethlehem Palestinian activists decorate a tree with empty tear gas canisters.
At Christmas in Johannesburg, a South African casino puts on a lights display and rides for holiday makers.
Santa Claus waves to people on a reindeer-drawn sleigh at Geneva Lake, Switzerland.
Trees have been lit up in celebration of Christmas at the Royal Botanical Gardens in London.
People take photos of a giant illuminated Santa Claus in Marseille, southern France.
Christmas weather is different in the Northern Hemisphere. In New York, people are having festive fun on ice.
A boy from northern Romania performs a Christmas tradition - wearing a bear suit to run from house to house, performing dances and singing, to ward off evil.
In Australia, the Sydney Fish Market is having its busiest time of the year until 5pm this afternoon, in a mammoth 36 hour trading period.
In Tokyo, people watch Christmas lights at the Meguro River.