Aerial view showing the wreckage of a Douglas DC-6 aircraft turned into a hotel in San Gil, Santader departament, Colombia, on December 1, 2023. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)





A Christmas shopper carries a soft toy on Oxford Street in London, Britain on December 20, 2023. (Photo by Isabel Infantes/Reuters)





People walk outside the Tambaram Government Hospital flooded following heavy rains along the Bay of Bengal coast in Chennai, India, Monday, December 4, 2023. Authorities issued warnings for tropical storm Michuang, which is likely to hit the southern coast on Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of 90-100 kilometers (56-62 miles) per hour with gusts up to 110 kph (68 mph), the Indian Meteorological Department said. (Photo by AP Photo)





A military cadet refreshes her lipstick before the National Day parade in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, December 1, 2023. Tens of thousands of people turned out in Romania's capital on Friday to watch a military parade that included troops from NATO allies to mark the country's National Day. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





Japan's Kaori Sakamoto competes in the women's free skating during the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Beijing on December 9, 2023. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Members of a traditional bear pack take part in a parade before performing in a festival in Moinesti, northern Romania, Wednesday, December 27, 2023. Centuries ago, people in what is now northeastern Romania would don bear fur and dance to fend off evil spirits. Nowadays, the unique custom thrives, with popular festivals drawing large crowds of locals and tourists. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





A person watches Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, light up the night sky with eruptions, as seen from Piazzale Funivia dell'Etna, Italy on December 1, 2023. (Photo by Etna Walk, Giuseppe Distefano/Reuters)





Artists participate in the traditional Parade of Myths, Legends, Carnivals and Ancestral Manifestations of Colombia, in Medellin, Colombia 08 December 2023. The parade highlights local legends like El Dorado, typical Colombian celebrations such as the Barranquilla Carnival, and recalls beliefs about ancient pre-Hispanic gods, in a colorful and cultural route that remembers and exalts the folklore and cosmogony of Colombia. (Photo by Luis Eduardo Noriega Arboleda/EPA)





Thailand’s Phakpong Dejaroen returns the ball against Brazil’s Vania Moraes De Cruz and Leonardo Lindoso De Almeida during the mixed doubles final match of the World Teqball Championships at the Bangkok Arena in Bangkok on December 3, 2023. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Children react following an Israeli air strike on Palestinian houses, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023. (Photo by Fadi Shana/Reuters)





Kiana Rahmani, daughter to 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, speaks on stage during the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at the Oslo City Hall on December 10, 2023. 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi is imprisoned and is therefore represented by her 17-year-old twin children with their father, who live in exile in Paris. Mohammadi receives the peace prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and the fight for human rights and freedom for all. (Photo by Javad Parsa/NTB via AFP Photo)





Musician and artist Jeje wears his costume made out of 1900 of his make shift plastic waste bottle trumpets in Kinshasa on December 24, 2023. The city of Kinshasa is littered with Musicians, dancers and bars with live music playing until the early hours of the morning. Congolese rumba is heard through out these bars, whether it’s the old traditional rumba or the new generations of Congolese musicians using it as a base to make new sounds, and creating new instruments using waste collected along the streets. (Photo by John Wessels/AFP Photo)





Rescue workers extinguish a fire at a residential house after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, December 13, 2023. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Girls, wearing Ukrainian traditional clothes, take part in Christmas celebrations in the village of Pyrogove, near Kyiv on December 25, 2023, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Ukraine celebrates Christmas on December 25, 2023 for the first time, after the government changed the date from January 7, when most Orthodox believers celebrate, in a snub to Russia. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on December 23, 2023 shows employees working on a snow sculpture in Harbin in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his year-end press conference at Gostiny Dvor exhibition hall in central Moscow on December 14, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via AFP Photo)





An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) artillery unit, using a self-propelled artillery howitzer, fires towards Gaza near the border on December 11, 2023 in Southern Israel. It has been more than two months since the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas that left more than 1,200 killed and 240 kidnapped, of which 138 are still being held hostage, which has prompted Israel's retaliatory air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)





Citizens and Ukrainian soldiers spend time at cafe as the citizens try to continue their daily lives in a town of 60,000 people as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in Donbas near the frontline Avdiivka, Pokrovsk, Ukraine on December 02, 2023. (Photo by Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)





People place candles and flowers at a makeshift memorial for the the victims of the Charles University's shooting, outside the Charles University in central Prague, on December 23, 2023, during a national mourning day. Flags on public buildings flew at half mast December 23, 2023 and masses were scheduled across the Czech Republic for a day of national mourning after a deadly shooting at Prague's Charles University – the worst in the country in decades A 24-year-old student opened fire at the Faculty of Arts on December 21, 2023, killing 13 people and then himself. Another person died in hospital later on. (Photo by Michal Cizek/AFP Photo)