Dec. 5 Photo Brief: Typhoon Bopha, Tripoli clashes, snowstorms in Sweden and Korea

An FC Shakhtar fan reacts during the UEFA Champions League, Group E, football match between FC Shakhtar and Juventus, in Donetsk. Juventus won 1-0. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

A man makes soap bubbles on the beach in Nice, southeastern France. (Jean Christophe Magnenet/AFP/Getty Images)

Dannii Minogue poses with Santa Claus as she attends the Women In Media Christmas Luncheon held at Breezes restaurant, Crown Towers on December 6, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. (Graham Denholm/Getty Images)

Jimmy Rider delivers an eight-foot tall Christmas tree on a trailer attached to his bicycle, as part of his Ever-Green Delivery service, in Somerville, Massachusetts. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

A man kisses the Bible that is put on the body of Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and the whole East Ignatius Hazim IV as the body lies in state at Saint Nicolas Church in Ashrafieh district, East Beirut. Hazim died at age 91 on December 5, 2012 at a hospital in Lebanon after suffering a stroke, Lebanese National News Agency reported. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)

A child reacts to a reveler dressed as a devil at the Old Town Square in Prague, on the eve of Saint Nicholas Day. Revelers dressed as Saint Nicholas and a devil approached children on the streets as part of a tradition to determine if they had behaved well during the past year and depending on their answers, would receive presents, sweets or coal accordingly. (David W Cerny/Reuters)

A reveler performs during a clown parade in Rio de Janeiro. The clown parade is part of a week-long international clown festival taking place in Rio de Janeiro between 3-9 December. (Sergio Moraes/Reuters)

A NASA handout image of the continental United States at night shows a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The image was made possible by the satellite’s “day-night band” of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and reflected moonlight. (NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA/Department of Defense)

Lights in North, Central and South America are seen in this April 18, 2012 satellite image courtesy of NASA. (NASA/Earth Observatory)

Circus Maximus is seen as the sun breaks through a cloudy sky in Rome. (Alberto Pizzoli/Getty Images)

People take a sunbath on the beach in Nice, southeastern France. (Jean Christophe Magnenet/Getty Images)

Maksim Bordachev (L) of Borisov is challenged by Rafinha of Muenchen during the UEFA Champions League Group F match between FC Bayern Muenchen and FC BATE Borisov at Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. (Alex Grimm/Bongarts/Getty Images)

Police and protestors clash outside Government Buildings following the unveiling of the 2013 Irish Budget in Dublin. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

Passengers ride in a subway car two days after a man was pushed to his death in front of a train in New York City. The incident was caught by a photographer and has since raised questions as to why someone didn’t help the man before the train struck him. The New York City subway system, with 468 stations in operation, is the most extensive public transportation system in the world. It is also one of the world’s oldest public transit systems, with the first underground line of the subway opening on October 27, 1904. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Ice Sculptures are displayed at the Snow and Ice Sculpture Festivalin Brugge, Belgium. (Mark Renders/Getty Images)

Thai monks light a lantern and release it to the night sky during celebrations to pay respect to Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej on his 85th birthday in Bangkok, Thailand. King Bhumibol took the throne in 1946, making him the world’s longest reigning monarch and the world’s longest serving head of state. Yellow represents Monday, the birthday of the King. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Soldiers from 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment warm themselves on the radiators of York Minster during a homecoming service in York, England. Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment marched through the City of York before attending a thanksgiving and remembrance service at York Minster. The soldiers have recently completed a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan where they lost seven comrades including six in one Taliban attack. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A parked car seen covered with snow during a blizzard in Stockholm, Sweden . (Jonathan Nackstrand/Getty Images)

People struggle against wind and drifting snow in Stockholm. Forecasters have issued a class 2 storm warning for central and southern Sweden, saying that Stockholm may face up to 30 centimeters of snow in the next 24 hours. (Anders Wiklund/Getty Images)

Public officials clear snow at the Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul. It was the first fall of snow this year in the capital. (Kim Jae-Hwan/Getty Images)

Angus Galloway and Tim Hannah sail through the waves in the 470 Men’s class at the ISAF Sailing World Cup event in Melbourne. (William West/Getty Images)

Residents clean their sofa next to their damaged house in New Bataan town, Compostela Valley province, a day after Typhoon Bopha hit the province. At least 274 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing in the Philippines from the deadliest typhoon to hit the country this year, the civil defense chief said December 5. (Ted Aljibe/Getty Images)

Residents cross a damaged road destroyed at the height of Typhoon Bopha in the village of Andap,New Bataan town, Compostela Valley province. (Ted Aljibe/Getty Images)

Children look at the a damaged road destroyed by flash floods at the height of Typhoon Bopha in the village of Andap, New Bataan town, Compostela Valley province. (Ted Aljibe/Getty Images)

A victims body is covered as relatives try to identify bodies in the aftermath of Typhoon Bopha in New Bataan, Compostela Valley in the southern Philippines. The death toll from a typhoon that ravaged the Philippines jumped to 238 on December 5 with hundreds missing, as rescuers battled to reach areas cut off by floods and mudslides, officials said. (Karlos Manlupig/Getty Images)

A man looks through a pair of disposable binoculars during a gathering for Satmar Hasidic Jews in New York. Thousands attended to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the rescue of their founder, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, from the clutches of the Nazis at the mass gathering. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

A civilian runs to take cover as Lebanese soldiers on their military vehicles patrol the Sunni Muslim Bab al-Tebbaneh neighborhood, in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, during clashes between Sunni Muslims and Alawites. A man was killed and 11 wounded in a second day of sectarian clashes in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli on Wednesday between gunmen loyal to opposing sides in neighboring Syria’s civil war, residents said. (Reuters)

Lebanese soldiers ride in their armored vehicle as they patrol the streets of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the day after snipers shot dead two men as sectarian clashes linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria broke out, a security official said. The men, both civilians, died in separate shootings in two different districts of Tripoli â one in the Jabal Mohsen district populated by Alawites, the same religious community to which Syrian President Bashar al-Assad belongs, and the other in Bab al-Tebbaneh populated by mainly Sunni Muslims, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. (Getty Images)

A man walks past a protest against the level of homicide in Brazil by the non-governmental group Rio de Paz in Rio de Janeiro. Some 500,000 beans were placed over red sheets by the group to represent the number of people killed over the last 10 years in Brazil, according to Rio de Paz. (Ricardo Moraes/Reuters)

A worker sorts semi-finished valenki, traditional footwear made of raw wool, at a factory in the village of Smilovichi, some 35 km (22 miles) east of Minsk. Valenki, specifically designed for extreme frost typical of severe winter, remain popular in rural areas. The factory, established in 1928, produces 17,000 pairs of boots a month, according to its director. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

A monkey is silhouetted against the setting sun as it sits on stone slabs earmarked at Karsevak Puram workshop for the construction of a Hindu Temple in Ayodhya, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. India risked being torn apart by sectarian conflict 20 years ago when Hindu zealots demolished a mosque, triggering deadly riots, but analysts say economic growth has proved a quiet balm on tensions. (Sanjay Kanojia/Getty Images)

Demonstrators run away from tear gas as they remove barrier from outside the Egyptian Presidential Palace’s main gate during a demonstration in Cairo. Tens of thousands of demonstrators encircled the presidential palace after riot police failed to keep them at bay with tear gas, in a growing crisis over President Mohamed Morsi’s decree widening his powers. (Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images)

People stand in front of the Eugene Delacroix masterpiece “La Liberte guidant le Peuple” (Liberty leading the people) at the Louvre Museum on the first day of its opening to the public in Lens, northern France. The Louvre museum opened a new satellite branch among the slag heaps of a former mining town Tuesday in a bid to bring high culture and visitors to one of France’s poorest areas. Greeted by a group of former miners in overalls and hardhats, President Francois Hollande inaugurated today the Japanese-designed glass and polished-aluminum branch of the Louvre in the northern city of Lens. The 150 million euro ($196 million) project was 60 percent financed by regional authorities in the Nord-Pas-De-Calais region, on the English Channel and the border with Belgium. (Phillippe Huguen/Getty Images)

Indian rescue workers attempt to control a major fire that erupted along the Indian Oil Corporation’s Crude Oil Pipeline from Salaya to Mathura, at the level of the Rutadal village, some 90 kms from Ahmedabad. Three persons were injured due to the fire and were later shifted to a hospital in Ahmedabad. Investigations are under way to determine the exact cause of the fire. (Sam Panthaky/Getty Images)

Thousands of workers from West Java march to foreign embassies, such as Japan and South Korea, in Jakarta during a protest against the out sourcing of work by multi-national companies. Indonesian workers are increasingly demanding higher wages and better conditions as Indonesia’s economy grows, expanding 6.5 percent last year and forecast to stay above six percent for the next two years.(Bay Ismoyo/Getty Images)

Dec. 5 Photo Brief: Typhoon Bopha, Tripoli clashes, snowstorms in Sweden and Korea

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