<?xml version="1.0"?> <img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8098462.jpg"><h2>Hong Kong lights</h2><strong>Saturday, 5 December</strong><br/><br/>Boats sail across Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour during the opening ceremony of the East Asian Games.<br/><br/>Credit: AP Photo/Vincent Yu<br/><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8102015.jpg"><h2>Somali coastguard</h2><strong>Sunday, 6 December</strong><br/><br/>Somali government coastguards patrol the coast off Mogadishu, Somalia. The country's weak government struggles to control even the small area of the capital it holds. <br/><br/>Credit: AP photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh<br/><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8104942.jpg"><h2>Skiing Santa</h2><strong>Sunday, 6 December</strong><br/><br/>Rene Konrad, dressed as Santa Claus, has some fun on the water near Hamburg, Germany.<br/><br/>Credit: Malte Christians/DPA/Press Association Images<br/><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8109299.jpg"><h2>RNLI memorial</h2><strong>Tuesday, 8 December</strong><br/><br/>Memorial wreaths are taken out to sea on board the <em>Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma</em> lifeboat, to mark 50 years since the deaths of eight RNLI rescuers who went to help the distressed North Carr lightship off St Andrews Bay. See <a href="http://www.mbmclub.com/news/434130/mona-rnli-lifeboat-disaster-remembered">news story</a>.<br/><br/>Credit: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2009/12/PA_8113180.jpg"><h2>Underwater glider</h2><strong>Wednesday, 9 December</strong><br/><br/>Children look at the RU-27 probe, an undersea glider, during a symbolic hand-over ceremony between Spanish and US authorities at the port of Baiona, Spain. The glider was successfully recovered early this month following a seven-month voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to the Spanish coast. Its mission was to provide data on ocean conditions, including temperature, salinity and currents.<br/><br/>Credit: AP/Photo Lalo R Villar<br/>
