Images of the day - Dec 18

Britain's Queen Elizabeth poses with members of the cabinet in the Pillarded Room of Number 10 Downing Street in London, Dec 18, 2012. The Queen attended cabinet on Tuesday to mark her Diamond Jubilee, the first monarch to do so since Queen Victoria. [Photo/Agencies]

Israel Antiquities Authority Director Shuka Dorfman (L) and Yossi Matias, Managing Director of Google's research and development center in Israel, hold a replica of a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls during a news conference in Jerusalem, Dec 18, 2012. Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, and Google Israel launched on Tuesday a website featuring an online archive of high-resolution images of the 2,000-year-old scrolls. [Photo/Agencies]