A baker prepares cakes inside a century-old traditional bakery ahead of Christmas celebrations in Kolkata (Photo by DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP)

A Christmas tree and decorations are on display in the Red Room of the White House (Pic credits/AFP)

Visitors walk in the polar dream installation at Gric Tunnel under Zagrebs's centre, during the Christmas Market and Advent, in Zagreb. Zagreb's advent is one of the popular tourist destinations during the Christmas season in this part of Europe (Photo by DENIS LOVROVIC/AFP)

Public worker Ari Queiroz, 60, dressed as Santa Claus, talks to a patient during a Christmas party at the Herculano Pinheiro Maternity Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Queiroz, who distributes vaccines and medicines for the Health Department of Rio de Janeiro, has been turning into Santa Claus every Christmas and visiting hospitals for the past two decades (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP)

Performers wearing angel costumes walk on stilts during a Christmas angels' parade in Prague, Czech Republic (Photo by Michal Cizek/AFP)

A little girl plays in the yard of the local Catholic church on the eve of the Christmas celebrations in the village of Petrushan, near the town of Gjakova. (Photo by Armend NIMANI/AFP)