Demonstrators use firecrackers against police during a rally against the government's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union for four years, outside the parliament's building in Tbilisi, Georgia, early Sunday, December 1, 2024. (Phoot by Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo)




Stilt walker Andile Sohe (32) and Miss Preteen Orange Farm, Thando Mbatha (7), prepare for the annual Orange Farm Carnival, in Johannesburg, South Africa, 01 December 2024. The annual festival aims to bring the community of the township south of Johannesburg together in a spirit of “Ubuntu”, or togetherness. Organized by the Project of Nkosana Ngobese Foundation in Association with the Stretford CHC Clinic, the carnival also raises awareness to the subject of HIV/AIDS and the 16 days of activism highlighting gender-based violence in the community. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)




A reclining Buddha statue is seen surrounded by floodwaters at Wat Phothivihan (Sleeping Buddha temple) after heavy rain in Tumpat in Malaysia's Kelantan state on December 1, 2024. More than 122,000 people have been forced out of their homes as massive floods caused by relentless rains swept through Malaysia's northern states, disaster management officials said on November 30. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP Photo)




Protesters light a fire at the base of a makeshift barricade erected in a street in Tbilisi during demonstrations against the government's decision to delay European Union membership talks amid a post-election crisis, early on December 1, 2024. The Black Sea nation has been rocked by turmoil since the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed victory in an October 26 parliamentary election that the pro-European opposition said was fraudulent. (Photo by Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP Photo)




Ballerino Osiel Gouneo and his wife, the Mexican dancer Maria Gonzalez, dance a modern pas de deux to the music of John Zorn (title: Kol Nidre) and the choreography of Julian Nicosia at Theaterhaus on December 01, 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany. It is the first time in five years and the birth of their son Ocean that the couple have been on stage together again. The Cuban Star Ballerino Osiel Gouneo published his autobiography “Black Romeo” in March 2024, in which he tells of his life as one of the very few black first soloists in the major ballet companies in Europe. The 31-year-old principal dancer of the Bavarian State Ballet Munich danced in Stuttgart excerpts from the defining roles of his career, including Spartacus, La Bayadere and Don Quixote. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)




A demonstrator draped in a Georgian national flag sits in front of police rallying outside the parliament's building to continue protests against the government's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Monday, December 2, 2024. (Photo by Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo)




People wade through flood waters in Tumpat, outskirts of Kota Bahru, Malaysia, Tuesday, December 3, 2024. (Photo by Vincent Thian/AP Photo)




A demonstator uses fireworks during a protest against the new government's decision to suspend the European Union accession talks and refuse budgetary grants until 2028, in Tbilisi, Georgia, on December 1, 2024. (Photo by Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters)




People wearing costumes perform a ritual dance before the speech of George Simion, leader of the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR) shortly before polls closed in the country's parliamentary elections, in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, December 1, 2024. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)




An ice-cold artwork, depicting Rio de Janeiro, is seen at an ice and snow sculpture exhibition made by 35 international artists, who worked 4 months at minus eight degrees Celsius in Oberhausen, Germany, on the 1st of Advent, Sunday, December 1, 2024. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)




Participants runs as they take part in a game based on Netflix's South Korean TV show “Squid Game” ahead of the launch of Season 2, on the Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris on December 1, 2024. (Photo by Alain Jocard/AFP Photo)




A Palestinian woman carries her cat as displaced people from Beit Lahia arrive in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on December 4, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP Photo)




A christmas tree stands in the mud during the cleaning works in a house of Paiporta, Valencia province, Spain, 26 November 2024. Floods triggered by the DANA (high-altitude isolated depression) weather phenomenon hit the east of the country on 29 October 2024, devastating Valencia and neighboring provinces and leaving at least 229 people dead. (Photo by Miguel Angel Polo/EPA/EFE)




Thai Royal Guards take part in a rehearsal for “Trooping the Colour” and oath-giving ceremony to mark the 72nd birthday celebrations of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn at Dusit Palace in Bangkok on November 30, 2024. The December 3 ceremony is set to be the first “Trooping the Colour” parade and oath-giving in 16 years, and the first of such ceremonies to be held during the reign of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)




Hundreds of people watch the inauguration of the lighting of the traditional Christmas tree in the center of Porto, which included a video mapping show on the facade of the city hall building and also a pyrotechnic show, November 30, 2024. (Photo by Estela Silva/LUSA)




South Korean girl group Le Sserafim performs at the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards at Manchester Co-op Live in Manchester, Britain, on November 10, 2024. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)




A statue is covered in snow in Herrsching at lake Ammersee, southern Germany, on November 20, 2024. (Photo by Michaela Stache/AFP Photo)




Barsika, a fan who travelled from North East India to attend the Dua Lipa concert, poses for a picture in Mumbai, India on November 30, 2024. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)




Performers participate at the 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on November 28, 2024. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)