People dressed as Santa Claus row during a Christmas regatta along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)





A woman and a child experience a digital installation that features projection of flowers titled “Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers”, at the newly opened “teamLab Massless” museum in Beijing, Monday, December 26, 2022. The “teamLab Massless” by Tokyo-based art collective teamLab create the digital art museum showcasing various interactive artworks inside a shopping mall in the capital city of Beijing. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A Brazil fan holds a replica World Cup trophy in front of a banner of former Brazil player Pele before the match between Brazil and Cameroon, Cameroon at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar on December 02 , 2022. Brazil won Group G in the 2022 World Cup on Friday despite losing to Cameroon. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)





U.S. Navy divers attach winch cables to NASA's Orion capsule after being successfully secured by a NASA and U.S. Navy team, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, 11 December 2022. The Orion capsule returns back to earth after a 25.5-day mission obiting the moon and back to Earth in a recovery operation involving the US Navy and NASA. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/EPA/EFE)





Public worker Ari Queiroz, 59, dressed as Santa Claus, greets a mother and her child during a visit to give gifts to patients and celebrate Christmas at the ICU Pediatric ward of the Souza Aguiar Municipal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 22, 2022. Queiroz, who distributes vaccines and medicines for the Health Department of Rio de Janeiro, has been turning into Santa Claus every Christmas and visiting hospitals for the past two decades. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP Photo)





Two people in masks join a Christmas lottery tickets queue in downtown Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Spain's bumper Christmas lottery draw known as El Gordo, or The Fat One will be held on Dec. 22. (Photo by Paul White/AP Photo)





President Joe Biden shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he welcomes him to the White House, Wednesday, December 21, 2022, in Washington. First lady Jill Biden is at right. (Photo by Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)





Stephen Arnold, the president of the International Brotherhood of Real Bearded Santas, during an appearance at Overton Square in Memphis, December 17, 2022. Like other in-person workers, Santa took a hit the first two years of the pandemic. But he’s back in a big way. (Photo by Andrea Morales/The New York Times)





A man dressed as Santa Claus plays the saxophone on the Paseo de la Sexta in Guatemala City on December 12, 2022. (Photo by Johan Ordonez/AFP Photo)





A woman takes a photo of the image of late soccer player Pele, reproduced on the building of the Federation of Industries of Sao Paulo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, December 29, 2022. Pele, who played most of his career with Santos FC, has died in Sao Paulo. (Photo by Marcelo Chello/AP Photo)





People wearing protective suits wait at a waiting hall of a railway station, after the government eased curbs on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) control, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on December 11, 2022. (Photo by Martin Pollard/Reuters)





Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, reacts after he failed to score during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Morocco and Portugal, at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, December 10, 2022. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)





Participants during the Whitby Krampus Run street parade in Whitby, Yorkshire on Saturday, December 3, 2022, which celebrates the Krampus, a horned creature which accompanies Saint Nicholas on his rounds. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images/Profimedia)





Boats with sails showing the flags of the nations Argentina and France who will play in the final match sail in-front of the Doha skyline on The Corniche during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 on December 15, 2022 in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images)





People explore the ice covered pier in Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada, on December 27, 2022. The ice formations were created by a large winter storm which hit the region on over the Christmas weekend. Temperatures were expected to moderate across the eastern and midwest US on December 27, after days of freezing weather from “the blizzard of the century” left at least 49 dead and caused Christmas travel chaos. (Photo by Geoff Robins/AFP Photo)





A woman takes a photo of a house illuminated with Christmas outdoor decoration in Buecken, northern Germany on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Axel Heimken/AFP Photo)





Revellers wearing bearskin costumes march during the Bearskin Parade in Comanesti, Romania, on December 30, 2022. More than two hundred 'bears' and dozens of musicians, surrounded by police and tourists, took part in the end-of-the-year parade. Young men and women dressed in real bearskin and traditional costumes paraded to chase away the evil spirits of the coming year. In all regions of Romania similar events exist but it is in this historical region of Moldova that they are the most developed. Comanesti has become the centre, attracting more and more troupes of dancers every year. (Photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP Photo)





Christian Parker of Buffalo, N.Y., shovels out his car in the Elmwood Village neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y. Monday, December 26, 2022, after a massive snow storm blanketed the city. Along with drifts and travel bans, many streets were impassible due to abandoned vehicles. (Photo by Craig Ruttle/AP Photo)





A wax sculpture of Brazilian soccer legend Pele stands in Pele Museum as people mourn his death, in Santos, Brazil on December 30, 2022. (Photo by Amanda Perobelli/Reuters)