A woman traverses a bridge in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, November 27, 2024. (Photo by Juan Karita/AP Photo)





A Spiderman balloon passes through a street during a Christmas festival in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, December 1, 2024. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)





This aerial view taken on November 26, 2024 shows a single property on a large piece of land amid a densely developed area with many homes in Sydney. (Photo by Brook Mitchell/AFP Photo)





An aerial photo shows the destroyed buildings at the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Damascus on December 10, 2024. The fall of president Bashar al-Assad has put Syria at a crossroads, after nearly 14 years of civil war sparked by his deadly crackdown on democracy protests. (Photo by Mohammed Al-Rifai/AFP Photo)





This aerial view shows Muslim worshippers attending the first weekly Friday prayers since the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad at the 8th-century Umayyad mosque in the old city of Damascus on December 13, 2024. Islamist-led rebels took Damascus in a lightning offensive on December 8, ousting president Bashar al-Assad and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Photo by Bakr Alkasem/AFP Photo)





An aerial view shows Umayyad Square illuminated by headlights, as people gather in their cars to celebrate the fall of the Assad regime, on December 12, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Rebel forces in Syria have retaken the capital from longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who has fled the country for Moscow. The fall of the Assad regime marks a new chapter for Syria, which has been mired in a multi-party civil war since 2011, sparked by the Arab Spring uprisings. (Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images)





A drone image shows vehicles parked on a mountain road as small-scale miners halt traffic to demand the extension of a program that allows them to operate temporarily, but which authorities say has expanded illegal mining, in Ocona, Peru on November 27, 2024. (Photo by Oswald Charca/Reuters)





A retired elderly man braved the cold weather to swim in the frozen lake in the park on December 12, 2024 in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China. The benefits of winter swimming to the body are believed to be, the enhancement of the bodies immune system and benefit to the cardiovascular function aswell as too the mental health and stress levels. (Photo by Weitao Tian/Getty Images)





A camel caravan moves along the dunes at the Erg Chebbi sand dunes in the Sahara desert outside Merzouga, Morocco on December 5, 2024. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)





An aerial view shows a packed parking lot at Citadel Outlets in Commerce, Calif., Thursday, November 28, 2024, as early Black Friday shoppers arrive at the mall. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP Photo)





A drone view shows vehicles driving on flooded roads following heavy rains in Lytton, California on November 22, 2024. (Photo by Fred Greaves/Reuters)





In Hohhot, China, on December 5, 2024, a photo shows migrating birds at Qiandao Lake in Inner Mongolia, China. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This aerial view shows a boat arriving on the polluted shore of the James Town Fishing Harbour in Accra, Ghana on December 12, 2024. (Photo by Olympia de Maismont/AFP Photo)





Seized Syrian Air Force planes are seen in the aftermath of the opposition's takeover of the city at the Hama military airport, Syria, Friday, December 6, 2024. (Photo by Ghaith Alsayed/AP Photo)





This aerial view shows traffic at Damascus' central Umayyad Square on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Bakr Alkasem/AFP Photo)