Monday: The day in photos

As anti-government protests continued in Bangkok, shuttering two Thai airports, flights were diverted to the U-Tapao military airport. A makeshift check-in terminal was opened Monday at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre in the district of Bang Na to alleviate some of the pressure on the military airport. A passenger at the exhibition center gets a little shut-eye.  (Photo Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

In front of the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, actor Romulo Augusto performs inside a plastic bubble to represent AIDS-infected people isolated from society. The performance was part of the Worlds AIDS Day 2008. The bubble reads “Preconception isolates.”  (Joedson Alves / AFP / Getty Images)

A barber and his client stop to watch a community-awareness campaign in Kibera, Africa’s most populous slum, in Nairobi, Kenya, to mark Worlds Aids Day. A recent survey shows that two-thirds of Kenyan adults infected with HIV are legally married or cohabiting and that in one of every 10 marital unions, at least one partner is living with HIV.  (Stephen Morrison / EPA)

Residents of Mumbai light candles of mourning outside India’s Taj Mahal hotel. Soldiers removed the remaining bodies from the shattered hotel on Monday, searching each room in the building and defusing booby traps and bombs left by the gunmen who killed 172 people during three days of terror.  (Rajanish Kakade / Associated Press)

Russia’s version of Santa Claus is Ded Moroz, or Grandfather Frost. In Moscow on Monday, the jolly Russian met with children, kicking off the month of celebration leading up to the New Year’s holiday, the biggest holiday of the year in Russia.  (Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press)

On Monday, the sea level in Venice, Italy, topped 61 inches, according to city officials, submerging most of the city’s streets. With water in Venice at its highest level in more than 20 years, residents and tourists have been forced to wade through knee-high water.  (Luigi Costantini / Associated Press)

Service personnel line up for the National Day military parade in Bucharest. Romanians were marking 90 years since the unification of Transylvania, Walachia and Moldova into one state in 1918.  (Vadim Ghirda / Associated Press)

A Palestinian farmer works his land at sunset Monday in Gaza City, where residents are experiencing shortages and hardships due to an Israeli blockade.  (Mahmud Hams / AFP / Getty Images)