A woman poses for pictures next to a Christmas tree in a shop selling Russian products in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on December 22, 2024, ahead of the fifth anniversary of China confirming its first death from the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)

Tourists wearing hats pose for a photo next to a Christmas tree on Christmas Day at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 25, 2024. (Photo by David Gray/AFP Photo)

Participants take part in a Christmas day swim in the sea at Brighton beach, southern England on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Photo)

Children enjoy skating at the ice rink built at the Christmas market outside of the Schoenbrunn imperial palace just few days before Christmas in Vienna, Austria on December 20, 2024. Schoenbrunn Palace was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP Photo)

This photograph shows French street artist James Colomina's Santa Claus work, depicting a Santa Claus lying on the ground, his head and torso crushed by a huge white gift box adorned with a red ribbon on the Place de la Republique in Paris, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Julien de Rosa/AFP Photo)

Fireworks illuminate the St. Nicholas church after the Christmas mass in the Croatian minority town, in Janjevo, Kosovo, on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Valdrin Xhemaj/Reuters)

A man waves a flare during a celebratory demonstration following the first Friday prayers since Bashar Assad's ouster, in the central square of Damascus, Syria, December 13, 2024. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)

Giant pandas play in a snow group at Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China, on December 14, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)