A firefighter stands outside a smoldering house where a small plane crashed in Gaithersburg (AP)
Syrian refugee children sit near clothes hanging on a line outside a tent at a makeshift settlement in Qab Elias in the Bekaa valley (Reuters)
Fire crews work on smoldering hot spots of a large fire that consumed an apartment building that was under construction in Los Angeles, California (Reuters)
Indian commuters move through a dusty road at an industrial area in Ahmadabad, India (AP)
Participants hold up their mobile phones and wave a German national flag during a demonstration called by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West", in Dresden (Reuters)
Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims walk to the holy city of Kerbala, ahead of the holy Shi'ite ritual of Arbaeen, in Najaf (Reuter)
Iraqi security forces and Shiite fighters are deployed during a military operation to regain control of the university of Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq (AP)
Participants in the procession of Faugni gather around a night-long bonfire revived with the tall bundles of reeds they have carried burning through the lanes of the old city in Atri, central Italy, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 (Photo: AP)
A cleaner clears snow from a street in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, December 8, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)
Snow drifts over a farm in Teesdale, County Durham after an overnight downfall, as blustery and wintry weather will sweep across Britain this week bringing fears of disruption and travel chaos, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 (Photo: AP)
People walk with dogs in a park, Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 (Photo: AP)
A demonstrator takes a photograph while holding an upside down U.S. flag during a demonstration against the New York City grand jury decision to not indict in the death of Eric Garner in Berkeley, California December 8, 2014 (Photo: Reuters)