People dressed as Santa take part in the London Santacon Christmas parade at the Floating Pocket Park in London on Saturday, December 14, 2024. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images)




People play with soap suds simulating snowfall at Zocalo Square as part of Christmas celebrations in Mexico City on December 18, 2024. (Photo by Raquel Cunha/Reuters)




A cyclist rides past a portrait of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad with a shoe attached to it as a sign of disdain, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, December 23, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)




Women dressed in typical costumes face each other at the annual Takanakuy festival, which means to “hit each other” in Quechua, and is celebrated to resolve conflicts and strengthen relationships, in Llique, Chumbivilcas province, Peru on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Oswald Charca/Reuters)




People interact by an outdoor chess board, after finding refuge at the Lycée des Lumières after losing their homes, in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Thursday, December 19, 2024. (Photo by Adrienne Surprenant/AP Photo)




Members of the theatre company Paris Benares perform during a demonstration in Nantes, western France, on December 19, 2024, where the 2025 budget review began, to protest against the drastic cuts to culture and sport announced by the President of the Pays de la Loire region. The 2025 budget provides for drastic cuts in subsidies for culture, sport, community life and the economy, with a target savings of ß100 million. It also provides for the non-renewal of 100 posts within the Region's departments. (Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP Photo)




Shoppers attend a pre-Christmas meat auction held by G Lawrence butchers at Smithfield Market in London, Britain, on December 24, 2024. (Photo by Hannah McKay/Reuters)




A Muslim woman prays at the remains of the Meuraxa hospital building that was hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, next to Ulee Lheue mass grave, during the 20-years anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, in Banda Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia, on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Willy Kurniawan/Reuters)




Kate Princess of Wales smiles as holds a bouquet of flowers gives to her by well-wishers after she attended the Christmas day service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham in Norfolk, England, Wednesday, December 25, 2024. (Photo by Jon Super/AP Photo)




A woman bends to place a tribute with flowers and candles left near the 'Alter Markt' Christmas market, where a man drove a car into the crowd through an emergency exit route on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, on December 22, 2024. (Photo by Annegret Hilse/Reuters)




Swiss Guards march in front of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, December 25, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)




People wear traditional Ukrainian clothes as they mark Christmas Day with a carol singing event outside St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)




People dressed as Santa Claus row during a Christmas regatta along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, on December 22, 2024. (Photo by Manuel Silvestri/Reuters)




People visit the Christmas market in Debrecen, Hungary, 22 December 2024. Security measures were strengthened around the Christmas markets in Hungary after a man drove his car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on 20 December. (Photo by Zsolt Czegledi/EPA/EFE)




Pope Francis opens the Holy Door to mark the opening of the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, or Jubilee, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, December 24, 2024. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Pool Photo via AP Photo)




Swimmers participate in the 115th edition of the popular swimming race Nadal Cup at the port of Barcelona, Spain, 25 December 2025. (Photo by Enric Fontcuberta/EPA/EFE)




People covered in flour celebrate the traditional fest called “The floured ones” (Els Enfarinats) in Ibi, Alicante, Valencia, Spain, 28 December 2024. The fest is celebrated during the “Dia de los Santos Inocentes” (Saint Innocents Day), the Spanish version of April Fools' Day, and people battle among themselves with fireworks, flour and eggs. (Photo by Pablo Miranzo/EPA/EFE)




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)