In pictures: World celebrates Christmas
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People across the world are celebrating Christmas - one of the holiest times in the Christian calendar.
Two men in festive dress check the water before a charity swim in Bournemouth, England
A woman attends a Christmas Day service at the St John's Cathedral in Peshawar, Pakistan
A woman adjusts her festive headband at a Christmas market in Shanghai, China
Candle lighting takes place in St Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria
A church choir member sings Christmas carols at All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya
Worshippers attend a Christmas midnight Mass at Saint Catherine's Church in Bethlehem in the West Bank
Catholic nuns from the Sisters of Bethlehem hold candles as they take part in Mass at the Beit Jamal Monastery near Beit Shemesh, Israel
Men cover themselves in mud to attend a Christmas Day procession near Ugunja, in Siaya County, Kenya
A bishop conducts Christmas Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres in Chartres, north-central France
Worshippers join in at the Christmas morning Mass at the Syriac Orthodox Church of Virgin Mary in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province
Fener-Greek Patriarch Bartholomew I leads the Christmas Mass at Hagia Yorgi Church in Istanbul, Turkey
A diver dressed in Santa costume feeds the fish at the Sea World Ancol aquarium during Christmas Day celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia
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