A girl stands next to a child sitting by a cooking pot outside a tent at a camp for those displaced by conflict in the countryside near Syria's northern city of Raqa on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Delil Souleiman/AFP Photo)





Children wearing bear fur costumes dance during a parade in Comanesti, Romania, Friday, December 30, 2022. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





Sulochana Madushani, right, eats Okara curry from a pot at Mahadamana village in Dimbulagala, about 200 kilometres northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, December 11, 2022. Due to Sri Lanka's current economic crisis families across the nation have been forced to cut back on food and other vital items because of shortages of money and high inflation. Many families say that they can barely manage one or two meals a day. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)





Young artists perform as people gather at the Christmas tree decorated for Christmas and the New Year festivities in Luhansk, the capital of Russian-controlled Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, December 23, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A boy reacts while riding in a stroller with his mother during the Santa Run 10-kilometre race, in Caracas, Venezuela on December 18, 2022. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)





The choristers of St Paul's Cathedral sing at a launch event ahead of their programme of Advent and Christmas services at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Britain on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)





A girl smiles at a car in the destroyed village of Bohorodychne, eastern Ukraine on December 20, 2022. Bohorodychne is a village in Donetsk region that came under heavy attack by Russian forces in June 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On August 17, 2022 the Russian forces captured the village. The Armed Forces of Ukraine announced on September 12, 2022 that they took back the control over the village. A few resident came back to restore their destroyed houses and live in the village. (Photo by Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP Photo)





Afghan boys play in a cemetery during snowfall in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday, December 29, 2022. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)





Children play with decorations on a Christmas tree at the entrance to the Rosebank Shopping Mall in Johannesburg Saturday, December 23, 2022. South Africa's Christmas 2022 is a start/stop affair because the country's daily power cuts are hitting just about every aspect of the holiday with businesses and families coping with rolling outages of electricity lasting from seven to 10 hours per day. (Photo by Denis Farrell/AP Photo)





A girl lights a sparkler in Sophia Square before curfew on New Year's Eve in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, December 31, 2022. Multiple blasts rocked the capital and other areas of Ukraine on Saturday. (Photo by Felipe Dana/AP Photo)





Bosnian children carry holiday presents for Ukrainian children at Safvet Beg Basagic elementary school in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, December 20, 2022. In homes and schools around Bosnia, youngsters have been preparing gift boxes they hope will put a smile on the faces of their peers living through war in Ukraine. For parents and educators helping the kids select what to send, the experience has awakened a rare found memory of the time when they were on the receiving end of the kindness of strangers while growing up and living in constant fear of death. (Photo by Armin Durgut/AP Photo)





A young Santos fan poses in front of a banner of Brazilian soccer legend Pele, hung near his former club Santos' Vila Belmiro stadium, as his body lies in state on the pitch before the funeral in Santos, Brazil on January 2, 2023. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)





Megan Ireland, age 8 and her brother James Ireland age 6, from Oban, view some of the 63 trees during the annual Christmas Tree Festival, at Saint Conan's Kirk, Lochawe in Argyll on Sunday, December 4, 2022. Members of the community, school groups and charities donate, create and decorate trees for the event so that people can share in the heritage of the kirk. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





Candles are lit in preparation for the annual Candlelight Christmas Concert at Wells Cathedral in Somerset on December 20, 2022. The highly popular concert contains 3,500 candles, over 3 nights, a total of 10,500 candles will be used. The Candles are 1.5 inches long and last for 6 hours, Team of 16 taking 3 hours to light them each night. (Photo by Jason Bryant/Apex News)





8 yr old Kirsty Brown explores the Winter Sculpture exhibition at RHS Garden Rosemoor in Devon, UK on December 21, 2022, pictured with a bronze resin called “Serenity Mask” by artist Brendon Murless. The exhibition features 120 sculptures throughout the gardens and woodland and runs until the end of January. (Photo by Guy Harrop/RHS)





Young boy Dima plays with his mother Aleksya (R) and auntie Svetlana (L) inside an evacuation train from Kherson to Khmelnytskyi at Kherson station, on Sunday, December 18, 2022. Five weeks after liberation, the city of Kherson and the surrounding villages are bombarded daily by Russian troops from the left bank of the Dnieper. More and more innocent people are dying and become injured. Many homes and local infrastructure are also damaged or destroyed. For the past three weeks, a special humanitarian train has been available to assist in the evacuation of civilians leaving the city. The destination city after more than 15 hours of travel is Khmelnytskyi, located in western Ukraine. On Monday, December 12, 2022, in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





A man dressed as Santa Claus performs for visitors inside a fish tank at the Guadalajara Zoo aquarium days before the Christmas holidays in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz/AFP Photo)





A Kosovar child dressed as an angel attends the Christmas eve mass, marking the birth of Jesus Christ, at the Mother Teresa Cathedral in Pristina on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Armend Nimani/AFP Photo)





A Palestinian child wearing a Santa Claus under heavy rain during Christmas eve service at the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)





Young fans are seen outside the Association of Argentinian Football Headquarters ahead of the Argentina team bus arrival in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 19, 2022. (Photo by Mariana Nedelcu/Reuters)