ՕՐՎԱ ԼՈՒՍԱՆԿԱՐՆԵՐ 9 դեկտեմբերի, 2016

The sun rises as small-particle haze hangs above the skyline in Paris, France, as the City of Light experienced the worst air pollution in a decade.

A protester reacts after the South Korean parliament's successful impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye as crowds gather outside the National Assembly in Seoul. Lawmakers began voting on an impeachment motion to strip the president of her sweeping executive powers over a corruption scandal that has paralyzed her administration and triggered massive street protests.

A man walks the stairway inside the Nobel Institute before a news conference in Oslo, Norway. The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony will be held Saturday, Dec. 10.

Tourists gather near a tribute to former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, at the National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C. Glenn, who passed away Dec. 8, was the first American to orbit the earth.

Iraqi Christians come to visit the heavily damaged Church of the Immaculate Conception after Iraqi forces recaptured it from Islamic State in Qaraqosh, near Mosul, Iraq.

Survivors perform Friday prayer at a mosque badly damaged by Wednesday's earthquake in Pidie, Aceh province, Indonesia. Over 100 people were killed in the quake that hit the northeast of the province on Sumatra before dawn Wednesday.

Choristers from St Paul's Cathedral choir rehearse at the cathedral in London, Britain.

(From L) Switzerland's Alex Fiva, France's Jonathan Midol, Austria's Anton Grimus and Russia's Semen Denshchikov compete during the FIS Men's 1/8 final Skicross World Cup, at the Val-Thorens ski resort in the French Alps.

Tibetan Buddhist monks perform a dance called 'cham' wearing traditional masks, at the Sherabling monastery, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) south of Dharmsala, India. The dances are performed to celebrate the life of the 8th century Indian seer Padmasambhava, who is revered by Tibetans for his role in spreading Buddhism in Tibet.

Russian artist Maria Gasanova adjusts her make-up as she finishes "The Siberian Beauty" body art work from her "The Alive Painting" series before the opening ceremony of the Cultural Universiade as part of preparation for the 2019 Winter Universiade Krasnoyarsk, in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarska.

Pakistani vendors sell garlands at a flower market in Peshawar, Pakistan.

The Vatican Christmas tree is lit up during a ceremony in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, in Rome.

A man dressed as Father Frost, the equivalent of Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, takes part in a contest "Yolka-fest-2016" (Fir-festival-2016) in Minsk, Belarus.

The sun sets over the Sanguinaires islands on the northern point of the Gulf of Ajaccio on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.