Creative Christmas trees from around the world

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A Christmas tree made of notes from visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum is displayed in London, the UK on November 28, 2017. Photo: VCG
A woman displays one of the gold coins used to create a 3-meter-tall Christmas tree on display in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on November 9, 2017. The tree uses a total of 73 kilograms in gold coins worth 350 million yen ($3 million). Photo: VCG

An 8-meter-tall Christmas tree made from 300,000 LEGO bricks is displayed at LEGOLAND Windsor Resort in Berkshire, Britain on December 3, 2014. The tree took four weeks to complete. Photo: VCG

A Christmas tree made of 8,000 beer bottles stands in Lagos, Nigeria on December 17, 2014. Photo: VCG

A 7.6-meter-tall Christmas tree made of 12,000 macaroons stands in a hotel lobby in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province on December 16, 2013. Photo: VCG

A Christmas tree made of books is displayed in a library in Sejong, South Korea on December 12, 2014. Photo: VCG

Yiwu: Santa’s workshop in the East: Streets all over the world are lit up with colorful lights, buildings decorated with artificial trees and Santa hats are seen everywhere as people celebrate Christmas. Where do the decorations come from? Yiwu, a city in east China'sZhejiang Province, accounts for 60 percent of the world's decorations.In the first 11 months of this year, Yiwu exported Christmas decorations worth 1.41

Spending Christmas in China: Lona Manning poses with her husband in front of a Christmas tree in China. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]I have read some melancholy Twitter posts from some young expats in China who are feeling the pain of being far from loved ones and familiar haunts at Christmastime. For some, it's their first Christmas away from home, family and every familiar tradition,

Irish coastal village hosts annual beach horse races: Runners and riders participate in the Christmas Ballyheigue beach horse races in the County Kerry village of Ballyheigue, Ireland, December 27, 2017. Photo: REUTERS/Clodagh KilcoyneOn a rugged stretch of beach in Ireland’s southwest, the residents of Ballyheigue braved the wild winds from the Atlantic coast on Wednesday for the annual Christmas horse races.The winds halted proceedings briefly on a bitterly

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