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Bộ ảnh ngày Noël năm 2014.
Caroline Thanh Hương

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Dec 22, 2014 |

With only a few days left until Christmas, lighted displays, colorful markets, and Santa's helpers are out in force. From Europe to the Americas and Asia, gathered here as an early gift to you, is a collection of holiday cheer and light wrapped up in 30 photographs. [30 photos]

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Ông Già Noel

Cho tôi xin 1 nụ cười

Ông già nón đỏ thật tươi

Ông làm sáng ngời mắt cháu

Khi cháu bắt gắp ông tôi.

Thanh Hương

A girl kisses Santa Claus at the Intercontinental hotel of Beijing, China, on December 19, 2014. (Fred DuFour/AFP/Getty Images)

Chèo Chống

Chèo thuyền lướt sóng

Mũ áo hóa trang.

Tay chèo, tay chống

Đón chúa ra đời.

Thanh Hương

People dressed as Santa Claus ride gondolas in the Venice Lagoon on December 20, 2014. (Reuters/Manuel Silvestri) #

Ấm

Lập loè ánh sáng

Những bóng đèn màu

Sapin lấp lánh

Mừng vui biết bao.

Trên cao dòm xuống

Sưởi ấm lòng nhau.

Thanh Hương

Michael Grant, 28, "Philly Jesus," adjusts Christmas ornaments with his walking staff at Rittenhouse Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 14, 2014. Nearly every day for the last 8 months, Grant has dressed as Jesus Christ and walked the streets of Philadelphia to share the Christian gospel by example. He quickly acquired the nickname of "Philly Jesus," which he has gone by ever since. (Reuters/Mark Makela) #

Noel, Noel.

Tóc bạc, râu bạc

Nhưng không bạc tình.

Hiện trong xe bus

Có người không tin.

Ông già Noel

Cho tôi làm quen

Chụp ông tấm ảnh

Xin chữ ký tên.

Noel, Noel.

Thanh Hương

Santa Claus rides a crowded subway train in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on December 5, 2014. This Santa says he'll ride the city's subway trains all month to celebrate the Christmas season. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) #

Tian Tian, a giant panda prepares to eat a special Christmas panda cake crafted in the shape of a Christmas tree in the outdoor enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland, on December 17, 2014. (Reuters/Russell Cheyne) #

Thousands of runners in Father Christmas suits pose for a group photo after completing an annual Santa fun run from Darling Harbour to the Sydney Opera House on December 7, 2014. The annual event is held each year as a fundraiser to assist disadvantaged children with equipment and programs to help them live a fuller life. (Reuters/Jason Reed) #

The Batista do Meier Church choir performs during the 4th edition of Christmas Choir in windows of their church building in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 19, 2014. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) #

An Aymara indigenous woman carries her pet to a Christmas costume contest for dogs in El Alto, Bolivia, on December 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) #

People take pictures inside a giant Christmas ball, part of New Year and Christmas holiday season decorations, in central Moscow, on December 15, 2014. The 11.5-meter (38-foot) high ball claims a spot in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest Christmas toy in the world, according to local media. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev) #

Townspeople and a giant Santa Claus created by local artist Ed Terrell, attend a ceremony to decorate a scraggly Christmas tree in Reading, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 2014. A ceremony to decorate the scraggly Christmas tree in Reading with a single red bulb, much like Charlie Brown's tree in the animated holiday classic, was postponed because of rain and cold temperatures, officials said. (Reuters/Mark Makela) #

An inverted Christmas tree stands at the center of the department store Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France on December 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) #

A worker heats a cat-shaped glass ornament at the Silverado manufacturer of hand-blown Christmas ornaments in town of Jozefow outside Warsaw on December 2, 2014. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel) #

A minority Pakistani Christian woman lights candles before a pre-Christmas Sunday service where they prayed for the victims of the Peshawar school massacre, in Lahore on December 21, 2014. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images) #

Children ride on a merry-go-round at a Christmas market in Berlin on November 29, 2014. (Reuters/Hannibal Hanschke) #

The Doric columns of the floodlit, 5th Century BC Parthenon Temple on the Acropolis appear behind strings of Christmas street lights in Athens on December 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) #

A member of the Amigos do Papai Noel (Friends of Santa Claus group) dressed as Santa Claus talks to children before giving out gifts to them at the community Sao Jose in Careiro da Varzea of Amazonas State, located along the Amazon River bank where the Ribeirinhos (forest dwellers) live, on December 20, 2014. The volunteers of Friends of Santa Claus group have been distributing Christmas gifts to people living in the area since 1998. (Reuters/Bruno Kelly) #

Worshippers take part in a Christmas service at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) #

Inmates dressed as reindeer perform during an event ahead of Christmas celebrations at Santa Monica female prison in Lima on December 19, 2014. (Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil) #

Vitor Martins displays one of his Christmas tattoos inside his house, before a performance with children in Sao Caetano do Sul's town square, near Sao Paulo, on December 7, 2014. Martins has dressed as Santa Claus, working at shopping centers and various events, for fifteen years, and has 94 percent of his body covered in tattoos, with several in reference to Christmas. (Reuters/Nacho Doce) #

A house in the town of Stolberg near the western German city of Aachen, decorated for Christmas with some 200,000 LED lights on December 16, 2014. (Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay) #

Thousands of runners dressed in Santa outfits compete in the annual Carrera de Papa Noel (Santa Claus Run), in Madrid on December 13, 2014. (Reuters/Juan Medina) #

A man dressed as Santa Claus talks to a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy in the Cancer Institute in Sao Paulo on December 19, 2014. (Reuters/Paulo Whitaker) #

Alex Little (right) and Miranda Jenatka pose as they view a light installation at Kew Gardens in west London, on November 25, 2014. (Reuters/Toby Melville) #

A Christmas banner of Santa Claus, displayed on a house in the Coroa favela in Rio de Janeiro on December 9, 2014. (Reuters/Ricardo Moraes) #

Women take selfies in a fake snowfall of foam at a Christmas tree outside a mall near Orchard Road in Singapore on December 18, 2014. (Reuters/Edgar Su) #

Guatemalan firefighter Hector Chacon, wearing a Santa Claus outfit, rappels down the Belize bridge to give toys to children living under the bridge, in Guatemala City, on December 21, 2014. (Reuters/Josue Decavele) #

Visitors look at Christmas ornaments at a Christmas market in Vienna, Austria, on December 14, 2014. The center of the old Habsburg empire treats locals and visitors to quaint Christmas markets featuring crafts and decorations, hot punch and baked goods in all the city's main squares. (Reuters/Leonhard Foeger) #

Christmas decorations light up the Medellin river in Medellin, Colombia, on December 10, 2014. (Reuters/Fredy Builes) #

Santa Claus waves as he takes part in a parade during the annual illumination of Christmas lights in Warsaw on December 6, 2014. (Reuters/Bartosz Bobkowski/Agencja Gazeta) #