World of Photos
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The Botanical Gardens are illuminated for the opening of the 'Christmas Garden' in Berlin. Photo: JENS KALAENE/ap -
A tourist shoots a picture of the skyline from the terrace of a restaurant in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo: MICHAEL PROBST -
Buildings line the river Arno in Pisa, Italy. Photo: Alberto Bernasconi -
A hot air balloon attached with a bunch of firecrackers flies during a hot air balloon competitionin Taunggyi, eastern state of Myanmar. Photo: Thein Zaw -
Contestants hang paper lanterns on a hot air balloon before its launch during a hot air balloon competition, in Taunggyi, eastern state of Myanmar. Photo: Thein Zaw -
A photographer stops to capture the early morning ground fog on the National Mall in Washington. Photo: J. DAVID AKE -
Carolyn Spray holds up one of her many Poinsettia plants ready to be dispatched for the Christmas season at the Pentland Plants garden centre in Loanhead, Scotland. Photo: JEFF J MITCHELL/getty -
Fiete, a two year-old male polar bear from Rostock Zoo is seen in his new enclosure at the Nyiregyhaza Zoo in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. Photo: Attila Balazs/ap -
A tree stands in a harvested cornfield near Hagen, northern Germany. Photo: Ingo Wagner -
A woman photographs the Brandenburg Gate and the statue 'The Crier' by Gerhard Marcks on a foggy morning in Berlin. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/ap -
This photo provided by United Launch Alliance shows a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying GOES-R spacecraft for NASA and NOAA lifting off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 6:42 p.m. EST at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo: AP
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