Category: Face Of The Day

Choristers from the Salisbury Cathedral Choir light candles as they leave the vestry to practice ahead of the midnight service that will be held in the Cathedral marking Christmas Eve on December 23, 2008 in Salisbury, England. It will be the 750th year that Christmas has been celebrated in the cathedral after it was dedicated in 1258. It is thought that the foundation of the choir stretches back even further with evidence of the foundation of a song school in Salisbury as early as the 11th century. By Matt Cardy/Getty.

A riot police officer guards the Athens’ christmas tree at Syntagma squre during a protest on December 20, 2008. After two weeks of clashes, as the government faced growing pressure over its handling of the crisis sparked by the December 6 police killing of a teenager. By Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images.

A woman in a knit cap waits to walk across a street during a snowstorm December 19, 2008 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. New York’s first snowstorm of the season was expected to bring up to six inches of accumulation. By Chris Hondros/Getty.

Kashmiri Muslim women stand in a queue as they wait to cast their votes during the sixth phase of state assembly elections in Shangus Anantnag south of Srinagar on December 17, 2008. Separatist politicians and rebels have called for a poll boycott, arguing elections strengthen New Delhi’s hold over the disputed Muslim-majority region. However, voters still turned up at polling booths. The Islamic militant group blamed for last month’s attacks in Mumbai has vowed to continue its armed struggle against India’s hold over a part of the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir. By Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty.

A worker stands in one of the storage rooms at Smithfield Market, in central London, on December 16, 2008. Activity at this market, one of the oldest in the United Kingdom, increases during the Christmas period as the demand grows for turkeys, geese and chickens. By Leon Neal/AFP/Getty.

A girl with her face painted with the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe prays inside the Virgin’s sanctuary in Guatemala City on December 12, 2008. The worshipping of the Virgin of Guadalupe started in Guatemala during the second half of the XVIII Century. By Eitan Abramovich/Getty.

A Muslim pilgrim from Egypt washes his arms in preparation for a night prayer at Namira mosque, Mount Arafat, southeast of the Saudi holy city of Mecca, on December 6, 2008. Around two million Muslim pilgrims have flocked to the holy city of Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage. Khaled Desouki/Getty.

Two children are pictured on December 5, 2008 at an internally displaced people (IDP) camp near Kibati in Nord-Kivu. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and a rebel movement are to meet on December 8, in Kenya to formalise a ceasefire, Kinshasa’s foreign minister said Friday, raising hopes of an end to months of fighting in the east of the country. At the same time Congolese and Rwandan armed forces are to launch operations against Rwandan Hutu rebels operating in the same region following two days of talks, a statement said. The UN refugee agency said Friday that more than 90,000 people were missing in the conflict-hit eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after three makeshift camps in rebel-held areas were found emptied. Photo by Pascal Guyot/Getty.

An art installation titled ‘Dance of/with the Devil’ by German artist Ottmar Horl, featuring hundreds of Nazi-saluting garden gnomes, forms part of the the Flanders Expo – LineArt Exhibition on December 5, 2008 in Ghent, Belgium. The international ‘fusion’ art fair runs from Dec 5-9. By Mark Renders/Getty.

Ultra Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Arieh Levish Teitelbaum, one of the Israeli victims of the Mumbai attacks, on December 2, 2008 in the religious Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Wailing and chanting psalms, thousands of people bid a final farewell today to the six Jews killed in last week’s bloody Mumbai attacks and whose bodies were flown to Israel for burial. By Menham Kahana/AFP/Getty Images.