Photos of the Day (12/3):
Images from around the globe.
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University of Nevada student Katrina Avila tastes first snow fall of the season while walking between classes on the UNR campus on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Reno, Nev. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is reflected in the Hudson River on Tuesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A jogger passes a large menorah on Independence Mall on the seventh night of Hanukkah, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, in Philadelphia. Hanukkah is the Jewish Festival of Lights, an eight-day commemoration of rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees after their victory over the Syrians. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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:A volunteer for SANCCOB, the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, feeds a baby penguin that was abandoned by its parents on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. During the Christmas time SANCCOB receives hundreds of African penguin chicks abandoned by molting parents. Over Christmas one can adopt a African penguin chick for $50, with the money paying for its rehabilitation and release back into the wild that can take three to six months. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Survivors and their supporters sit next to photographs of the Bhopal gas disaster displayed during a protest on the anniversary of the tragedy near the Indian parliament in New Delhi, India. On this day in 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal in central India. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A woman holds up a child in a park in Beijing, China. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Two wild geese fly over trees during sunrise near Harkenbleck, northern Germany. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Dutchman Reinier Sijpkens plays an organ and one of his trumpets on his boat called ‘Notedop’ or the ‘Nutshell’, to entertain tourists near the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A car is seen crushed between two trucks during a pileup on a main motorway in Zonnebeke, Belgium. Nearly 100 cars and trucks were involved in three pile-ups at a highway in western Belgium in a dense morning fog Thursday, leaving at least one dead and 54 injured. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photos of the Day (12/3):
Survivors and their supporters sit next to photographs of the Bhopal gas disaster displayed during a protest on the anniversary of the tragedy near the Indian parliament in New Delhi, India. On this day in 1984, thousands of people died after a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal in central India. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS