U.S. actor Mark Schneider, dressed as French Emperor Napoleon I, rides his horse during the re-enactment of Napoleon's famous battle of Austerlitz near the southern Moravian town of Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic on December 2, 2023. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)





Elvis Presley impersonator Michael Conti sings as he officiates a wedding for Phoebe Kim and Colton Sorensen of California as they dance at the Little White Wedding Chapel on December 31, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In what could be a record-breaking date for weddings in the city, thousands of couples are expected to get married on the specialty date with the repeating 1-2-3 1-2-3 pattern that also coincides with the New Year's Eve holiday and a weekend. The most popular date for Las Vegas weddings was in 2007, when 4,492 couples exchanged vows on July 7, or 7/7/07. Since 1953, more than five million weddings have been held in the city, when the Daily Herald in London published an article referring to Las Vegas as the “Wedding Capital of the World”. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)





A luminous drone hovers near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Tuesday, December 12, 2023. (Photo by Christophe Ena/AP Photo)





The first quarter moon setting over skyscrapers in London on Tuesday night, December 19, 2023. The next full moon, known as the Cold Moon, will be on December 27. (Photo by Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News)





People use their mobile phones to take photos on the beach as the sun sets at the Kerobokan district in Indonesia's resort island of Bali on December 30, 2023. (Photo by David Gannon/AFP Photo)





A demonstrator with a keffiyeh wrapped around her head and carrying a Palestinian flag chants into a megaphone in London on December 9, 2023. Thousands of people come together to call for a full ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. Even though there was a pause in hostility in Gaza recently aid agencies say it was not long enough for them to reach the 1.1 million children in urgent need of help. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Gaza and Israel since October 7 2023 after a war was sparked after Hamas killed over 1000 Israelis and took 220 hostages. (Photo by Martin Pope/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Flamur Noka, lawmaker of the Democratic Party points a smoke flare into the face of a bodyguard during a parliament meeting in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, December 21, 2023. Albania's parliament has voted to lift the legal immunity of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition Democratic Party and is accused of corruption. (Photo by Armando Babani/AP Photo)





A lively cat image created by Thunyapong Jaikum, a thai farmer and artist, is seen in rice fields in Chiang Rai province, north of Thailand on December 16, 2023. (Photo by Napat Wesshasartar/Reuters)





Larry the cat is seen outside the door of number 10, Downing Street on December 05, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)





An Indigenous man performs the Flying Pole outside Santo Tomas church in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, on December 20, 2023. Palo Volador (flying pole) is an indigenous-pre-Hispanic tradition in Guatemala in which people climb to the top of a 30-meter trunk to thank for the crops and welcome the winter solstice. (Photo by Emmanuel Andres/AFP Photo)





Visitors walk past an installation as they go to the interactive Christmas exhibition “The Star Is Rising” at the Central Railway Station in Kyiv, Ukraine, 21 December 2023, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. The exhibition showcases the Christmas traditions of various regions in Ukraine and foreign countries. This year, Ukraine will be celebrating Christmas on 25 December, along with other European countries, unlike in previous years when Ukraine celebrated Christmas on 07 January, along with other post-Soviet nations. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February 2022, starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA)





A person mourns on a grave of another victim of deadly October 7 attack, as she attends the funeral of Alon Lulu Shamriz, one of three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly killed by the Israeli military while being held hostage in Gaza by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Shefayim, Israel on December 17, 2023. (Photo by Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)





American actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney pose for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film The Boys In The Boat, Sunday, December 3, 2023, in London. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/Invision/AP Photo)





A reveller wearing 2024 glasses looks on in Times Square during the celebrations of New Year's Eve, in New York City, New York, U.S., December 31, 2023. (Photo by Jeenah Moon/Reuters)





Contestants perform on stage during the Miss France 2024 beauty pageant in Dijon, central-eastern France, on December 16, 2023. (Photo by Arnaud Finistre/AFP Photo)





A dog dressed as Santa Claus looks at the camera after participating in the “Sanperrestre”, an annual festive dog walk version of the traditional year-end San Silvestre race, to make a stand against animal abuse and abandonment while also raising awareness about adoption over the purchase of dogs and cats, in Madrid, Spain on December 30, 2023. (Photo by Ana Beltran/Reuters)





An inflatable doll as part of an installation in a public space of the festival Hecho en Casa (“Made at home”) is pictured in Santiago, Chile on December 5, 2023. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





A rubber duck floats in floodwater in the flood-stricken city of Verden in northwestern Germany on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Fabian Bimmer/Reuters)





Vehicles drive down a street adorned with Christmas decorations in central Tbilisi, Georgia late on December 24, 2019. (Photo by Vano Shlamov/AFP Photo)