Images of the day- Dec 17

Ri Sul-joo (L), the wife of DPRK's leader Kim Jong-un (2nd L), is seen during the inaugural ceremony of the Kumsusan Palace Of The Sun in Pyongyang wearing a black Korean traditional dress and appearing to be heavily pregnant, as they attend the ceremony on the first anniversary of Kim Jong-il's death, in this still image taken from video Dec 17, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]

The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft is lifted to its launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome Dec 17, 2012. The Soyuz spacecraft with US astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Dec 19. [Photo/Agencies]