An activist stants in front of his treehouse while police are clearing tree houses of the last activists who protested against deforestation and the continued construction of the A49 highway in the Dannenroder forest on December 04, 2020 at Dannenrod near Homberg, Germany. Activists in the forest have attempted to defend their positions in an elaborate network of treehouses during clashing with police for the last several weeks. Large sections of the forest are to make way for the A49 extension. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)





A police officer tries to detain demonstrators during a rally demanding the resignation of the country's prime minister over his handling of the conflict with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh in Yerevan, Armenia, Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Armenian opposition politicians and their supporters have been calling for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to step down ever since he signed a peace deal that halted 44 days of deadly fighting over the separatist region, but called for territorial concessions to Azerbaijan. (Photo by Hrant Khachatryan/AP Photo)





Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray arrive with their motorcycle on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, December 1, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Demonstrators celebrate with green headscarves - the symbol of abortion rights activists – outside the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires on December 11, 2020, after legislators passed a bill to legalize abortion. (Photo by Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP Photo)





A papier mache model of the coronavirus shows the inscription reading “Do not be afraid” inside the Roman Catholic Church of St. Martinus in Renningen near Stuttgart, Germany, December 11, 2020. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Reuters)





People play on swings at a playground in Mostar, Bosnia, Sunday, December 20, 2020. Divided between Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats, who fought fiercely for control over the city during the 1990s conflict, Mostar has not held a local poll since 2008, when Bosnia's constitutional court declared its election rules to be discriminatory and ordered that they be changed. (Photo by Kemal Softic/AP Photo)





Kyzgyz horse riders compete during a kok boru, also called ulak tartysh, a traditional game in which players on horseback manoeuvre with a goat's carcass and score by putting it into the opponents' goal outside Tash-Dobo village, 15 kilometers (9,4 Miles) south of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Saturday, December 12, 2020. The game has its origins in the distant past, when men went to hunt wolves that attacked their livestock, picking up running wolves from the ground and throwing them between each other almost playfully. The game today requires teams to throw a dead sheep or goat into their opponent's well on the playing field. (Photo by Vladimir Voronin/AP Photo)





In this Wednesday, December 9, 2020 file photo European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, welcomes British Prime Minister Boris Johnson prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels. (Photo by Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP Photo)





In this China National Space Administration (CNSA) photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a simulated image of the ascender of Chang'e-5 spacecraft blasting off from the lunar surface at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) in Beijing on December 3, 2020. The Chinese lunar probe lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a cargo of lunar samples on the first stage of its return to Earth, state media reported. (Photo by China National Space Administration/Xinhua via AP Photo)





DR Congo MPs celebrate on December 10, 2020, as legislators remove the Assembly's speaker, in the latest round of a bitter dispute between the current President and supporters of his predecessor. (Photo by Arsene Mpiana/AFP Photo)





Margaret Keenan, 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at the start of the largest ever immunisation programme in the UK's history, at University Hospital, Coventry, Britain, 08 December 2020. (Photo by Jacob King/EPA/EFE/Pool)





Pianist Igor Levit plays the piano during a protest action against the extension of the A49 motorway, near Dannenrod, Germany, December 4, 2020. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)





People soak up the sun at an oceanside swimming pool by Bondi Beach on the first day of summer in Sydney, Australia, December 1, 2020. (Photo by Loren Elliott/Reuters)





A fashion model gets the final touches done to her outfit during Dakar Fashion Week in Dakar, Senegal on December 12, 2020. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Kuwaiti astrophotographers follow the great conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn in al-Salmi district, a desert area 120 kms west of Kuwait City, on December 21, 2020. The great conjunction refers to the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn. (Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP Photo)





Muhammed Bello, a rescued student, is carried by his father as his relatives celebrate after he retuned home in Kankara, Nigeria, December 19, 2020. (Photo by Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)





The famous trulli, or limestone, buildings of Alberobello, a World Heritage Site, are lit up with Christmas animations, as Italy goes back to a complete lockdown during Christmas season as part of efforts put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Alberobello, Italy, December 23, 2020. (Photo by Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters)





A car drives between snow covered trees in the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, December 8, 2020. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





US President Donald Trump joins West Point cadets during the Army-Navy football game at Michie Stadium on December 12, 2020 in West Point, New York. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP Photo)





This photograph taken in December 11, 2020 shows a health worker statute placed in front of Basilica of St Francis in Assisi. Each evening during the Christmas in addition a statue of a nurse will be placed in a crib in front of the Basilica, homage to Italy's health workers for their heroic efforts during the Covid-19 emergency. (Photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP Photo)