WHOLE NEW BALL GAME: Recording artists Chris Brown and Rihanna at the NBA game between the New York Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles on Tuesday (December 25 2012). Picture: Danny Moloshok/Reuters

MASS PROTEST: Indian people wear black bands on Tuesday (December 25 2012) to protest against the brutal gang rape of a woman on a moving bus in New Delhi, India. Authorities shut down roads in the heart of India’s capital for the second consecutive day on Tuesday to put an end to a week of demonstrations against the gang rape. Picture: Saurabh Das/AP

PAPAL DUTY: Pope Benedict XVI holds the book of the Gospels as he leads the Christmas night mass at Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Monday (December 24 2012). Picture: Max Rossi/Reuters

CHRISTMAS BELLE: Helin Myo Ko, winner of the Miss Christmas Beauty Contest, receives her crown at a hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday (December 24 2012). Khin Maung Win/AP

WINDFALL: Carmen (right) hugs her daughter Azahara after winning part of Spain’s famed main Christmas lottery prize, El Gordo (‘The Fat One’) in Alcala de Henares, just outside of Madrid on Saturday (December 22 2012). Winners of the cherished Christmas lottery, the world’s richest, celebrated winning El Gordo in more than a dozen locations across the country where winning tickets had been sold. Initial reports said there were winners of the maximum prize of €400 000 (R4 538 680) in 15 towns or cities including Madrid and Barcelona. Unlike lotteries that generate a few big winners, Spain’s version, now celebrating its 200th anniversary, has always shared the wealth more evenly instead of concentrating on vast jackpots, so thousands of tickets yield some kind of return. Picture: Paul White/AP

READY: A woman dressed in costume arrives to watch Spanish Christmas lottery draw known as El Gordo (‘The Fat One’) in Madrid on Saturday (December 22 2012). After another brutal year of economic hardship, Spaniards across the country were hoping for relief when the country's famed Christmas lottery took place on Saturday.Picture: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP

ONE FOR THE FANS: Supporters of Berlin’s second division soccer club 1. FC Union hold candles as they attend the annual Christmas singing at the club's home Alte Foersterei stadium a day before Christmas Eve in Berlin on Sunday (December 23 2012). Picture: Markus Schreiber/AP

SAD REMINDER: Christmas stockings with the names of shooting victims hang from railing near a makeshift memorial near the town Christmas tree in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, where in this Wednesday (December 19 2012) file photo. In the wake of the shooting, the grieving town is trying to find meaning in Christmas. Picture: Julio Cortez/AP

ROYAL MESSAGE: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth watches a preview of her Christmas message with a pair of blinged up 3D glasses, studded with Swarovski crystals in the form of a ’Q’, at Buckingham Palace in central London in a photo released on Monday (December 24 2012). The queen will use her traditional Christmas Day message, filmed in 3D for the first time, to pay tribute to the world's athletes for delivering a ’splendid summer of sport’ at the London Olympics. Picture: John Stillwell/Reuters

ELEPHANT SANTA: An elephant dressed in a Santa Claus costume distributes a doll to students during Christmas celebrations at Jirasart school in Ayutthaya province, 70km north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday (December 24 2012). Picture: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

NATIVITY SCENE: A Palestinian woman dressed in traditional costume watches a Christmas parade outside the Church of Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday (December 24 2012). Picture: Darren Whiteside/Reuters

BRIGHT LIGHTS: People walk in a shopping mall that is decorated with Christmas lights in Berlin on Sunday (December 23 2012). Picture: Thomas Peter/Reuters

GIMMICK? A worker in a Santa Claus costume joins visitors observing various fish, as part of a Christmas presentation inside Ocean Park in Manila, Philippines on Monday (December 242012). The Philippines, a mainly Roman Catholic country, celebrates one of the longest Christmas holidays in the world, playing Christmas carols in shopping malls in September and putting up lanterns and fireworks early in December. Picture: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

SPREADING THE CHEER: A homeless man eats free food during an event held to celebrate Christmas with the homeless in San Jose on Friday (December 21 2012). The event was organised by the Association of the Holy Spirit Works, which distributed free food for 150 homeless people. Picture: Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters

HO HO HO: People wearing Santa Claus costume attend an event before they visit underprivileged children to give gifts ahead of Christmas holidays in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday (December 23 2012). Picture: Jin Sung-chul/Yonhap/Reuters

WINDFALL: Carmen (right) hugs her daughter Azahara after winning part of Spain’s famed main Christmas lottery prize, El Gordo (‘The Fat One’) in Alcala de Henares, just outside of Madrid on Saturday (December 22 2012). Winners of the cherished Christmas lottery, the world’s richest, celebrated winning El Gordo in more than a dozen locations across the country where winning tickets had been sold. Initial reports said there were winners of the maximum prize of €400 000 (R4 538 680) in 15 towns or cities including Madrid and Barcelona. Unlike lotteries that generate a few big winners, Spain’s version, now celebrating its 200th anniversary, has always shared the wealth more evenly instead of concentrating on vast jackpots, so thousands of tickets yield some kind of return. Picture: Paul White/AP

READY: A woman dressed in costume arrives to watch Spanish Christmas lottery draw known as El Gordo (‘The Fat One’) in Madrid on Saturday (December 22 2012). After another brutal year of economic hardship, Spaniards across the country were hoping for relief when the country's famed Christmas lottery took place on Saturday.Picture: Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP

ONE FOR THE FANS: Supporters of Berlin’s second division soccer club 1. FC Union hold candles as they attend the annual Christmas singing at the club's home Alte Foersterei stadium a day before Christmas Eve in Berlin on Sunday (December 23 2012). Picture: Markus Schreiber/AP

SAD REMINDER: Christmas stockings with the names of shooting victims hang from railing near a makeshift memorial near the town Christmas tree in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, where in this Wednesday (December 19 2012) file photo. In the wake of the shooting, the grieving town is trying to find meaning in Christmas. Picture: Julio Cortez/AP

ROYAL MESSAGE: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth watches a preview of her Christmas message with a pair of blinged up 3D glasses, studded with Swarovski crystals in the form of a ’Q’, at Buckingham Palace in central London in a photo released on Monday (December 24 2012). The queen will use her traditional Christmas Day message, filmed in 3D for the first time, to pay tribute to the world's athletes for delivering a ’splendid summer of sport’ at the London Olympics. Picture: John Stillwell/Reuters

SPREADING THE CHEER: A homeless man eats free food during an event held to celebrate Christmas with the homeless in San Jose on Friday (December 21 2012). The event was organised by the Association of the Holy Spirit Works, which distributed free food for 150 homeless people. Picture: Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters

NATIVITY SCENE: A Palestinian woman dressed in traditional costume watches a Christmas parade outside the Church of Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday (December 24 2012). Picture: Darren Whiteside/Reuters

ELEPHANT SANTA: An elephant dressed in a Santa Claus costume distributes a doll to students during Christmas celebrations at Jirasart school in Ayutthaya province, 70km north of Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday (December 24 2012). Picture: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters

GIMMICK? A worker in a Santa Claus costume joins visitors observing various fish, as part of a Christmas presentation inside Ocean Park in Manila, Philippines on Monday (December 242012). The Philippines, a mainly Roman Catholic country, celebrates one of the longest Christmas holidays in the world, playing Christmas carols in shopping malls in September and putting up lanterns and fireworks early in December. Picture: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

BRIGHT LIGHTS: People walk in a shopping mall that is decorated with Christmas lights in Berlin on Sunday (December 23 2012). Picture: Thomas Peter/Reuters

HO HO HO: People wearing Santa Claus costume attend an event before they visit underprivileged children to give gifts ahead of Christmas holidays in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday (December 23 2012). Picture: Jin Sung-chul/Yonhap/Reuters