RUSSIA Relatives of the victims killed in a fire inside a nightclub in the Russian Ural city of Perm mourn their loved ones near a morgue on December 5. More than 100 people were killed overnight when fireworks set the nightspot ablaze (XINHUA/AFP)

IRAQ Iraqis stand in the Finance Ministry building in Baghdad following a bomb blast on December 8. Five massive vehicle-borne bombs rocked Baghdad, killing at least 127 people (XINHUA/AFP)

MEXICO Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova is inoculated against the A/H1N1 flu in Mexico City on December 7. The Mexican Government announced that it would distribute 865,000 doses of the vaccine nationwide (XINHUA/AFP)

FRANCE Malika Menard waves to the audience after being crowned Miss France 2010 on December 5 in Nancy, in south France (XINHUA/AFP)

ISRAEL Right-wingers and settlers demonstrate in the center of Jerusalem on December 9 against the Israeli Government’s decision to freeze construction of new houses in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank (XINHUA/AFP)

DENMARK Artists cut an ice sculpture to form a polar bear to draw public attention to global warming in Copenhagen on December 5, two days before the opening of the UN climate change conference (XINHUA/AFP)