An Emirati child presses his face in onto a camel' s, during the Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival in the desert near the city of Madinat Zayed, 150 kms west of Abu Dhabi, on December 23, 2017. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a camel beauty contest, a display of UAE handcrafts and other activities aimed at promoting the country' s folklore. (Photo by Karim Sahib/AFP Photo)





A biker dressed as Santa Claus drives to a biker's meeting near Lake Hengstey in Hagen, western Germany, on December 24, 2017. The bikers always meet on Christmas Eve for coffee, cocoa and a chat. (Photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP Photo/DPA)





Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami take part in an anti-American rally to condemn U.S. President Donald Trump for declaring Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, December 22, 2017. (Photo by Mohammad Sajjad/AP Photo)





A man smiles during an event held to celebrate Christmas for homeless people organized by the Association of the Holy Spirit, in San Jose, Costa Rica December 22, 2017. (Photo by Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters)





A Palestinian dressed as Santa Claus stands in front of Israeli troops during a protest in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 23, 2017. (Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters)





A horse drawn carriage is seen during a costume show, as a part of the upcoming New Year and Christmas celebrations, in front of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia December 24, 2017. (Photo by Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters)





Journalists interview a girl, member of the Cryophile amateurs winter swimmers club, after bathing in the ice waters of the Yenisei River, during the celebrations for the upcoming Christmas and New Year, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, December 23, 2017. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





A woman plays a violin on the street, decorated with festive lights prior to the New Year and Christmas holidays, in central Moscow, Russia December 23, 2017. (Photo by Grigory Dukor/Reuters)





North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes a closing remark at 5th Conference of Cell Chairpersons of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) on December 23 in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang December 24, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/KCNA)





A man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit waves to people from a fisherman’s boat on Christmas Eve along the coast of Valparaiso, Chile on December 24, 2017. (Photo by Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters)





China's domestically developed AG600, the world's largest amphibious aircraft, is seen during its maiden flight in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, China December 24, 2017. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)





Indonesia Catholic congregation light candles to celebrate the Christmas Eve at the Hati Kudus Catholic Church in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 24 December 2017. According to media reports, Indonesia deployed more than 90 thousand police personnel for the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays in order to secure churches, tourist areas, and main roads around the country. (Photo by Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA/EFE)





A man dressed as Santa Claus gestures as the convoy of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa arrives through an Israeli checkpoint to attend Christmas celebrations, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem December 24, 2017. (Photo by Mussa Qawasma/Reuters)





A Rohingya refugee and Sabura Khatun's daughter stand barefooted next to firewood near the Palongkhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh December 24, 2017. Three months ago, Sabura a mother of six, arrived to Bangladesh from Myanmar's town of Maungdaw. Twice per week, while her husband awaits with the youngest baby, Sabura and five of her daughters walk barefooted four kilometres from the refugee camp to a forest to bring firewood to cook rice. Every month she receives 25 kilograms of rice which is not enough to sustain her family. “Whenever I walk to the forest I am afraid of local peasants who are attacking Rohingyas as they are cutting down firewood”, Sabura said. “My husband is sick, he can barely walk, I have no other choice, I have to take care of my family”. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)





Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking during his supporters' meeting that nominated him for the presidential election race in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, December 24, 2017. His wife Yulia is on the left. The 41-year-old anti-corruption crusader has run a yearlong grass-roots campaign and staged waves of rallies to push the Kremlin to let him run. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





People attend Christmas celebrations outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem December 24, 2017. (Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters)





A dog dressed as Santa Claus takes part in the annual city race in Skopje, Macedonia December 24, 2017. (Photo by Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters)





A priest attends Christmas Mass at Saint Antuan Church in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul, Republic of Turkey on December 24, 2017. (Photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP Photo)





An aerial view shows people dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, and Snow Maiden with members of the Cryophile winter swimming club forming with their bodies a 2018 sign on the bank of the Yenisei River to mark the upcoming New Year and Christmas season in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia December 24, 2017. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)





U.S. President Donald Trump participates in NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) Santa Tracker phone calls with children at Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 24, 2017. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)





A surf lifesaver wearing a Christmas hat uses binoculours to watch swimmers on Christmas Day at Sydney's Bondi Beach in Australia, December 25, 2017.. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)





Pope Francis holds the book of the Gospel as he celebrates the Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, December 24, 2017. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)





People greet former president Amadou Toumani Toure (3rd L) as he disembarks from a plane in Bamako on December 24, 2017, as he returns for the first time to Mali from living in exile in Senegal since a coup deposed him in 2012. Toure flew into the capital, Bamako, the scene of his downfall on March 22, 2012, when mutinous soldiers overthrew the government and detained him. The coup led by army captain Amadou Sanogo toppled what had been heralded as one of the region's most stable democracies, before the country's northern territory was overrun by Islamist rebels allied with Al-Qaeda. (Photo by Michele Cattani/AFP Photo)





A bride and a groom perform rituals during a mass wedding in Surat, India, Sunday, December 24, 2017. 251 young couples, including five Muslim couple and one Christian couple tied the knot at the mass wedding hosted by Indian diamond trader Mahesh Savani, who has been funding the weddings of fatherless women in the city of Surat for several years. Weddings in India are expensive affairs with the bride's family traditionally expected to pay the groom a large dowry of cash and gifts. Hundreds of people, mostly family members and neighbors of the couple, are hosted at lavish meals over a number of days adding to the costs. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Chinese residents take part in a “Pillow Fight Night” during an event to mark Christmas eve in Shanghai, China on December 24, 2017. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP Photo)





A man dressed as Santa Claus eats on West Point Bridge in Monrovia, Liberia on December 24, 2017. (Photo by Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters)





Mourners carry the body of 19-year-old Mohamed Sami al-Dahdouh, a Palestinian youth from Jabalia who was killed in clashes with Israeli forces east of Gaza City, during his funeral in Gaza City on December 24, 2017. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP Photo)





Syrian youths dressed in Christmas outfits and other costumes play trumpets and other musical instruments while roaming the streets of the capital Damascus, as they celebrate Christmas eve on December 24, 2017. (Photo by Louai Beshara/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on December 23, 2017 shows a firefighter standing in front of a burning shopping mall in Davao City on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Thirty-seven people were believed killed in a fire that engulfed a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, local authorities said on December 24. (Photo by Manman Dejeto/AFP Photo)





A man dressed as Santa Claus swaves from a sidecar of a motorbike on Christmas Eve in Jerusalem Old City Sunday, December 24, 2017. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)





People gather on a bridge which was damaged by the onslaught of the flooding brought about by tropical storm Tembin, Sunday, December 24, 2017 in Zamboanga Del Sur in southern Philippines. Tropical Storm Tembin unleashed flash floods that swept away people and houses and set off landslides in the southern Philippines. (Photo by Daisy Barimbao/AP Photo)





A woman dressed as a snow maiden takes a selfie with children during a festive parade in Ryazan, Russia on December 23, 2017. (Photo by Alexander Ryumin/TASS/Barcroft Images)