An airplane prepares to land at Haneda Tokyo International Airport Tuesday, January 10, 2023, in Tokyo as Mount Fuji is lit by the sunset sky in the background. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo)





Visitors to the Christmas market on a fairground ride at the VDNH exhibition complex in Kyiv, Ukraine, 02 January 2023, the day that several waves of Russian drones targeted critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital and surrounding areas, as Moscow extended its constant bombardment. Russian troops entered Ukraine on 24 February resulting in fighting and destruction in the country and triggering a series of severe economic sanctions on Russia by Western countries. (Photo by Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA/EFE)





Members of a traditional firefighting preservation group perform ladder stunts during the annual New Year's Fire Brigade Review Friday, January 6, 2023, in Tokyo. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





View from the mountain “Bussen” to Upper Swabia in Uttenweiler, Germany, Saturday, January7, 2023. Due to the foehn weather the Alps, more than one hundred kilometers away, can be seen. (Photo by Thomas Warnack/dpa via AP Photo)





People make a heart shaped gesture as they look at the first sunrise of the year during New Year's celebrations at a park on January 1, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul's New Years celebrations returns this year after it was cancelled during the Covid Pandemic. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)





Pigeons fly as people walk on the beach in the Paleo Faliro suburb of southern Athens, Wednesday, December 28, 2022. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo)





Two climate protection activists sit on a monopod on the edge of the lignite village of Lützerath in North Rhine-Westphalia on January 7, 2023. Lützerath is to be mined for the expansion of the Garzweiler II opencast lignite mine. (Photo by David Young/dpa via AP Photo)





A man celebrates the start of the New Year, as he watches fireworks explode over Santos Bay, in Santos, Brazil, early Sunday, January 1, 2023. (Photo by Matias Delacroix/AP Photo)





A city worker installs a light to illuminate a Moai one day before International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui or Easter Island, Thursday, November 24, 2022. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)





A commercial aircraft approaches the runway as the sun sets for the last time in 2022, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, December 31, 2022. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)





An Orthodox Christian prays during Christmas service at the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Philip The Apostle in Gulf emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 07 January 2023. The Russian Orthodox church celebrates Christmas on 07 January according to the Julian calendar. (Photo by Ali Haider/EPA/EFE)





A spectator holds a smartphone as fireworks explode next to the Arc de Triomphe, at the Avenue des Champs-Elysees during New Year celebrations in Paris, early on January 1, 2023. (Photo by Julien De Rosa/AFP Photo)





A photo shows statues on a colonnade, seen in silhouette, on St Peter's square in the Vatican, during the lying in state of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, on January 4, 2023. Benedict, a conservative intellectual who in 2013 became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign, died on December 31, 2022, at the age of 95. Thousands of Catholics began paying their respects on January 2, 2023 to former pope Benedict XVI at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, at the start of three days of lying-in-state before his funeral. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP Photo)





Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan in action during a trial round for the first stage of the 71st Four Hills Ski Jumping Tournament in Oberstdorf, Germany, 28 December 2022. (Photo by Christian Bruna/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A walker takes a rest on a bench looking out over the London skyline from Hampstead Heath, early in the morning on December 29, 2022. (Photo by Justin Tallis/AFP Photo)