Best from December 13
180 children, 4th and 6th grade students from the Adolf Fredrik music school, take part in an evening Lucia concert that drew 1200 spectators at the Cathedral in Stockholm, Sweden. On December 13, Finland and Sweden celebrate Saint Lucia, a celebration of light that sees every school and day care picking a Lucia.JONATHAN NACKSTRAND
Picture released on Monday by Tierpark Schoenbrunn in Vienna, Austria, shows young panda Fu Hu (Happy Tiger). Austria's panda cub has snubbed a celebration in his honor, preferring to remain in the cozy hideaway where he was born instead of basking in the limelight.Daniel Zupanc
People wait for food rations at a World Food Program distribution centre in the Dharkenley District of Mogadishu, Somalia. The camp feeds several hundred families a day.ABDURASHID ABIKAR
A French Foreign Legion soldier dressed in camouflage participates in training at the Surinamese army's OP Savanna military base during a six-day infantry shooting exercise in Para District. Some 70 soldiers, from at least 15 different nationalities within the French Foreign Legion who are based in neighboring French Guiana, are training in Suriname with anti-tank, sniper, and mortar weapons.RANU ABHELAKH
A Sainsbury's employee moves boxes of Roses chocolates across the warehouse floor at Sainsbury's Waltham Point Depot in Waltham Abbey, England. The 700,000 sq ft fulfillment factory is the largest Sainsbury's distribution centre in the UK supplying around 90 stores across London and the South East of England. The depot is gearing up for the last two weeks before Christmas, which is the busiest time of the year.Dan Kitwood
Ice clings to trees and grass along the lakefront after wind gusts upwards of 40 miles per hour blew waves onto the shore and temperatures in the low teens quickly turned the spray to ice in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson
Officials survey the damage done by a large sinkhole that developed Sunday on Marine Drive in Vancouver, Monday. They are still trying to determine the exact cause of the sinkhole that will take several days to repair.RICHARD LAM
A motorist receives assistance after spinning out in the middle of the road in Waterford, Mich. The storm that dumped upward of 20 inches in some areas of the state left slick roads and ice-covered freeways in its wake.Charles V. Tines
The Minnesota Vikings mascot holds a sign during the first quarter of an NFL football game against the New York Giants at Ford Field in Detroit. The game is being played in Detroit after being cancelled due to snow that caused the collapse of the Metrodome in Minneapolis on Sunday.Carlos Osorio/The Globe and Mail