Red shoes placed on the ground as a symbol against the violence on women, during a rally marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in Berlin, Germany, November 25, 2024. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)




A man watches houses on fire at Tondo in Manila on November 24, 2024. Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky, as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)




Thousands of spectators attend the Red Bull “Crazy Cars” race in Lima, Peru on November 23, 2024. The iconic Red Bull “Crazy Cars” race made its return to Lima after a 10-year absence. During the event, 29 teams of creative drivers raced through a track filled with twists and slopes aboard their custom-designed, non-motorized vehicles. The 3-hour competition became a celebration of ingenuity and fun, attracting thousands of spectators and solidifying its status as an iconic event in Red Bull's global circuit. (Photo by Klebher Vasquez/Anadolu via Getty Images)




Mohamed Adow, director of the think tank Power Shift Africa, is visible on a camera as he speaks to the media during the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, November 23, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Peter Dejong/AP Photo)




Supporters of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) celebrate the victory of candidate Yamandú Orsi in the presidential run-off election in Montevideo, Uruguay, Sunday, November 24, 2024. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)




A fir tree from Ledro, Italy's Trento region is brought to St. Peter's Square to serve as a Christmas tree, Vatican, 22 November 2024. Before the cutting of the fir tree, there were protests by environmentalist associations at a local level with appeals addressed to Pope Francis himself. There was also a torchlight procession to defend the “Green Giant”, as activists in the area called it, from being demolished. (Photo by Massimo Percossi/EPA/EFE)




People dressed as the horned evil spirit known as the Krampus in Germany and Austria, and as the Parkeljni in Slovenia, parade through the small Slovenian town of Goricane, Slovenia on November 23, 2024. (Photo by Borut Zivulovic/Reuters)




“Ona” delivery robot goes past a flower shop in the center of Barcelona during a pilot test on November 22, 2024. Researches of the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI) are testing these days “Ona” robot, an autonomous electric vehicle for last mile delivery services, developed to reduce the acoustic, environmental and traffic congestion impact associated with traditional freight transport vehicles. (Photo by Josep Lago/AFP Photo)




British actress Jodie Turner-Smith poses on the red carpet for the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards at Manchester Co-op Live in Manchester, Britain, on November 10, 2024. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)




A couple waits for a rescue crew after their car got stuck in deep floodwaters on November 22, 2024 in Windsor, California. A powerful atmospheric river is bringing heavy rains and wind to the San Francisco Bay Area for the third straight day and is expected to rain through the weekend. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)




People attend “Color Festival” where they dance and throw color powders to each other in Nariobi, Kenya on November 23i 2024. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)




A supporter of Uruguay's presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio party, Yamandu Orsi, waits for the results of the presidential runoff election at la Rambla in Montevideo on November 24, 2024. Uruguayans voted on Sunday to elect their next president in an open-ended ballot that could mark the return to power of the left of the iconic former president José Mujica or the continuity of the center-right coalition after five years in power. (Photo by Santiago Mazzarovich/AFP Photo)




People in costumes walk in a bar area during Halloween evening, in Monterrey Mexico on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)




A bird flies off from a statue in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, November 22, 2024. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)




Police try to detain a protester in a street during a rally against the results of the parliamentary elections amid allegations that the vote was rigged in Tbilisi, Georgia, Monday, November 18, 2024. (Photo by Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo)




A woman walks beside remains of homes, Monday, November 25, 2024, one day after a fire broke out leaving about 2,000 families homeless at a slum area in Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)




The traditional 45 meter high Dortmund Christmas tree, one of the world's largest, is illuminated for the first time this year at the Christmas market in Dortmund, Germany, Monday, November 25, 2024. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)




A protester reacts outside New Zealand's parliament during a demonstration against a proposed law that would redefine the country's founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown, in Wellington Tuesday, November 19, 2024. (Photo by Mark Tantrum/AP Photo)




In this image released on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, Aether (2024), a performative artwork composed of 1,500 drones, is exhibited on the preview day of Noor Riyadh 2024 on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 in Riyadh. The festival features more than 60 large-scale artworks that explore the relationship between the physical and the metaphysical. (Photo by Naif Alquba/AP Content Services for Noor Riyadh)