Galleries for December 2011

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Galleries for Monday, December 26

President Barack Obama's motorcade makes its way back to his rental vacation home following a morning workout in Kailua, Hawaii, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. The President and his family are visiting Hawaii through New Year's Day. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Obama family wraps up Hawaii vacation

The First Family said goodbye to Hawaii and their New Year's holiday on Monday.

London subway strike delays Boxing Day shoppers

Galleries for Sunday, December 25

The boat with Gen. George Washington in it, nears New Jersey during the 59th reenactment of Washington crossing the Delaware River Christmas Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011, in Washington Crossing, Pa. Over 168 re-enactors participated in the event. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Hundreds gather for Washington's annual river trek

George Washington has made his annual Christmas Day ride across the Delaware River. The 59th annual re-enactment of Washington's daring Christmas 1776 crossing of the river — the trek that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War — was staged Sunday on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey border.

A beach goer poses with a life guard for a photo in front of a Christmas tree at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Christmas from around the world

Christmas was celebrated around the world. Here's a sampling of the festivities.

Galleries for Saturday, December 24

A street performer who poses for pictures in exchange for tips dressed like the Grinch beckons customers in front of a billboard announcing last-minute gifts at a store in New York's Times Square, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. As the clock counts down to Christmas Day, retailers have begun a big push to snare procrastinating shoppers searching frantically for last-minute gifts and hoping for final-weekend deals. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Last-minute Christmas shopping

'Twas the day before Christmas and shoppers everywhere, Were looking for the best gifts they could find to share

Soldiers with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and service members attend in a ceremony on the eve of Christmas in side a church at the ISAF's head quarter in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Christmas in Afghanistan

Service members with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) listens to a Chaplain, unseen, during a ceremony on the eve of Christmas inside a church at the ISAF's headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011.

The family of Pfc. Frank R. Cabiness arrive at the USS Arizona Memorial for a ceremony to inter his remains inside the USS Arizona, Friday, Dec. 23, 2011 in Honolulu. Cabiness, who was aboard the USS Arizona when the Japanese attacked, narrowly avoided getting hit by machine gun fire, and luckily his only injury was from friction burns suffered when he slid down a ladder while rushing to abandon ship. Cabiness, who died in 2002, is the second Marine to be interred within the USS Arizona. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Pearl Harbor survivor takes place with fallen shipmates

A Marine who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor has returned to the USS Arizona — divers placed the urn holding Frank Cabiness' cremated remains inside the battleship sunk by the Japanese 70 years ago.

Galleries for Friday, December 23

Family builds Haiti orphanage to honor daughter

After a 19-year-old college sophomore died in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, her family devoted themselves to the wish she expressed in her last text message home.

With snow scarce, northern US has brown Christmas

From New England to the Dakotas and even parts of the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest, snowfall has been well below normal this holiday season.