A man dressed as Santa Claus visits a community along the jungle shoreline to give out presents to children in the Amazon basin, near Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas state, Brazil, Saturday, December 18, 2021. (Photo by Edmar Barros/AP Photo)





The coffin of Ava White is carried into Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral for her funeral on Thursday, December 23, 2021. Ava, 12, was fatally stabbed in Liverpool city centre on November 25. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





Red Cross volunteers run towards an armored vehicle of the United Nations mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) to protect themselves from bullets during an attack by Codeco militiamen as they attempted to bury the bodies of people killed in Dhedja on December 19, 2021, 60 kilometers from Bunia, the provincial capital of Ituri in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since late November, at least 100 people have been killed by militiamen in this area. Because of the insecurity and the presence of the militiamen, no one has been able to go and bury the bodies in Dhedja. (Photo by Alexis Huguet/AFP Photo)





Indigenous Embera Panamanians dance during the opening ceremony of the third ancestral indigenous games in Chiriqui Grande port province of Bocas del Toro, Panama on December 16, 2021. At least 250 indigenous from Panama's seven ethnic groups are fighting not only to win a medal in the Ancestral Indigenous Games, but also to rescue and perpetuate the customs and traditions of their communities. (Photo by Luis Acosta/AFP Photo)





A group of young university students between the ages of 17 and 21 practice an extreme sport called longboarding, which consists of descending on skating boards on roads full of trucks and cars, in the municipality of Facatativa, Cundinamarca, Colombia on December 16, 2021. In their dangerous descents they reach speeds of up to 100 km per hour, every week they train and dream of competing for one day in the European or American leagues because in Colombia it is practiced informally. (Photo by Yair Suarez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





It has become tradition in Wigan in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom for residents to go out on the town in fancy dress for Boxing Day on Sunday, December 26, 2021. Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide. (Photo by Joel Goodman/London News Pictures)





A man clothed as Santa Claus paraglides near Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on December 19, 2021. (Photo by Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP Photo)





Men use an inflatable mattress to navigate during a flood caused by heavy rains, in Itapetinga, Bahia State, Brazil, on December 26, 2021. The death toll from heavy rains that have battered the Brazilian state of Bahia since November rose to 18 on Sunday, amid incessant torrents that have displaced 35,000 people, authorities said. Two people are also missing, while 19,580 have been displaced and another 16,001 forced to seek shelter, bringing the number of people driven from their homes to 35,000, the Bahia civil protection agency Sudec said. (Photo by Manuella Luana/AFP Photo)





A woman holds a handmade doll depicting Covid-19 Omicron variant in Managua, on December 27, 2021. The dolls are burned at midnight on December 31 as a tradition of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new. (Photo by Oswaldo Rivas/AFP Photo)





Residents shoot carbide shots on New Year's Eve in the Overijssel municipality of Wierden, The Netherlands, 31 December 2021. Because carbide shooting does not fall under fireworks, it also does not fall under the one-off national fireworks ban that has been announced as a measure against the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. (Photo by Vincent Jannink/EPA/EFE)





Acrobats dressed as Super heroes come down from the roofs to make a surprise greeting at the windows of the rooms of the little patients in Pediatrics and of all the patients, at the San Paolo hospital in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, December 15, 2021. (Photo by Luca Bruno/AP Photo)





“World of Banksy”, reproductions of provocative works by the British street artist exhibited in Milan, Italy . “Robot and Barcode” is seen inside the exhibition on December 10, 2021. (Photo by Ervin Shulku/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A military member cleans ash of the Cumbre Vieja volcano outside a house in Las Manchas neighbourhood, on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, December 16, 2021. (Photo by Marco Trujillo/Reuters)





Competitors steer their Stand Up Paddle boards during a race on the Seine river in Paris, Sunday, December 5, 2021. More than 1000 people took part to the competition though the French capital. (Photo by Adrienne Surprenant/AP Photo)





Competitors in fancy dress run across the Pennine tops near Haworth, West Yorkshire on Friday, December 31, 2021, in the annual Auld Lang Syne Fell race which attracts hundreds of runners every year. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





The moon rises beyond the Lee's Summit Magic Tree on Wednesday, December 22, 2021, in Lee's Summit, Mo. The lone modest tree in a field next to a freeway is covered with more than 12,000 lights and attracts thousands of visitors every Christmas season. (Photo by Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)





Participants prepare kimchi, a traditional Korean dish of spicy fermented cabbage and radish, during a kimchi making festival at the Jogyesa Buddhist temple in Seoul on December 2, 2021, before it is distributed among the less privileged from the local neighbourhood. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)





NASA spacewalker Kayla Barron is pictured during a six-hour and 32 minute spacewalk to replace a failed antenna system on the International Space Station’s Port-1 truss structure in December 2021. (Photo by Mark Garcia/NASA)





People kick flaming balls at each other during the “Flaming balls” festival as part of the yearly commemoration of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, at the central plaza in San Cristobal Verapaz, Guatemala on December 8, 2021. (Photo by Luis Echeverria/Reuters)