Photos of the Day: A Christmas Market and Tourists

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

The family of a reindeer herder gather snow in buckets to melt in the village of Gornoknyazevsk

Photograph: Donat Sorokin/TASS via Getty Images

Strasbourg, France

A soldier guards a Christmas market next to Strasbourg Cathedral, as security forces continue their hunt for a gunman who killed at least three people and wounded 13 others on Tuesday night

Photograph: Patrick Hertzog/AFP/Getty Images

Jilin, China

Tourists gather on the banks of Songhuajiang River to take in the rime-clad scene. Rime forms on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapor in cloud or fog

Photograph: Zhang Nan/Xinhua/Barcroft Images