December 25 2011

Australia

 On board a yacht during the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 2002

(© Christophe Mauney/Aurora Photos)

United Kingdom

Central Arcade shopping area, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

(© John Freeman/Corbis)

New Zealand, United States

Fire in fireplace

(© Tetra Images/SuperStock)

 

Canada, China, Germany, France, Japan

 

 Arctic fox sleeping in snow

(© Richard Hamilton Smith/Corbis)