Today In Pictures: Dec. 23, 2011

Workers in a Santa Claus and a reindeer costume clean windows outside of a 31-meter-high building at the Odaiba shopping mall in Tokyo's waterfront, Dec. 23, 2011. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

Indian artist Jasuben Shilpi, known as the Bronze Woman of India, adjusts the glasses on a bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi at her workshop near Adalaj, India, Dec. 23, 2011. The Mahatma Gandhi bronze statue will be installed at Trimurti LLC in Calif. (Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images)

The Comet Lovejoy is visible near Earth's horizon in this nighttime image photographed by NASA astronaut Dan Burbank, Expedition 30 commander, on board the International Space Station, Dec. 21, 2011. (Dan Burbank/NASA/AP Photo )

Widow Dagmar Havlova attends the state funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel in the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, Czech Republic, Dec. 23, 2011. Havel was the leader of the peaceful anti-communist "Velvet Revolution." He died Sunday, Dec. 18, at age 75. (Petr David Josek/AP Photo)

Christmas shoppers search for presents along Regent Street in central London, as millions hit the stores in what is being seen as a frenzy of last-minute buying, Dec. 23, 2011. (Ian Nicholson/PA/AP)