An aerial view shows a Syrian man waving the independence-era Syrian flag at Damascus' central Umayyad Square on December 11, 2024. (Photo by Bakr Alkasem/AFP Photo)





An aerial view of traffic and parked cars during heavy snowfall in Alipasino Polje neighborhood of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Monday, December 23, 2024. (Photo by Armin Durgut/AP Photo)





An aerial view of Ko Panyi, a fishing village located in the Phang Nga Bay in southern Thailand on December 1, 2024. Established in the 18th century by Muslim fishermen who migrated from Malaysia, the village is built entirely on water. Situated in the Andaman Sea, Ko Panyi continues the fishing traditions passed down through generations. The local community lives in harmony with the sea, maintaining a lifestyle deeply intertwined with water. Known for its natural beauty and cultural heritage, Ko Panyi attracts the attention of visitors. (Photo by Nurettin Boydak/Anadolu via Getty Images)





An aerial view of Bascarsija, the old part of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, December 24, 2024. (Photo by Armin Durgut/AP Photo)





An aerial view of the football field, constructed on wooden piers above the water in Ko Panyi, a fishing village located in the Phang Nga Bay in southern Thailand on December 1, 2024. Established in the 18th century by Muslim fishermen who migrated from Malaysia, the village is built entirely on water. Situated in the Andaman Sea, Ko Panyi continues the fishing traditions passed down through generations. The local community lives in harmony with the sea, maintaining a lifestyle deeply intertwined with water. Known for its natural beauty and cultural heritage, Ko Panyi attracts the attention of visitors. (Photo by Nurettin Boydak/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A Christmas light display on the home of the Grange family on Pettits Lane in Romford, Greater London on Friday, December 13, 2024. (Photo by Jordan Pettitt/PA Images via Getty Images)





The 13th-century Hever Castle in Kent, UK, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, gets a modern blast of technicolour with its Christmas lights trail on December 20, 2024. (Photo by Oliver Dixon/The Times)





Claire Eason's design of Santa Claus on his sleigh at Beadnell Bay, Northumberland on December 20, 2024. A retired GP turned artist has marked Christmas with a giant sand drawing of Santa Claus on his sleigh. Claire Eason, 59, and her artist son Andrew, 27, spent four hours carving the festive image into a beach. (Photo by Claire Eason/South West News Service)





An aerial view of parked trolley buses during heavy snowfall in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Tuesday, December 24, 2024. (Photo by Armin Durgut/AP Photo)





A drone view shows the Folkestone White Horse with a red nose that has been placed to make the landmark overlooking the town look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ahead of Christmas, in Folkestone, Britain, on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Chris J. Ratcliffe/Reuters)





A view of the destruction after end the 61-year rule of the Baath regime at Harasta and Cobar districts in Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, Syria on December 21, 2024. In the neighborhoods of Damascus that have been devastated by the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its allies, Syrians are trying to hold on to life amidst the destruction, experiencing a mix of sorrow and joy while hoping for a better future. (Photo by Emin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Handout picture released by NGO Coast 2 Coast Movement showing an aerial view of workers cleaning up Las Capullanas beach, after an oil spill in the Lobitos district in Piura, northern Peru on December 22, 2024. Peru's Attorney General's Office announced an investigation against state-owned company Petroperu for the alleged crime of environmental pollution, following reports of an oil spill on the country's northern coast. (Photo by Nicolas Landa Tami/Coast to Coast Movement via AFP Photo)





Hindu devotees climb stairs to reach on top of a mud volcano to start Hindu pilgrims religious' rituals for an annual festival in an ancient cave temple of Hinglaj Mata in Hinglaj in Lasbela district in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Friday, April 26, 2024. More than 100,000 Hindus are expected to climb mud volcanoes and steep rocks in southwestern Pakistan as part of a three-day pilgrimage to one of the faith's holiest sites. (Photo by Mohammad Farooq/AP Photo)





A drone view of the Christmas market in Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania on December 18, 2024. (Photo by Florion Goga/Reuters)





Workers at W&R Logan pick some of the 250 million sprouts they harvest for the Christmas period on December 17, 2024 in Dunbar, Scotland. Brussels sprouts, a Christmas dinner menu staple in the UK, are the third generation vegetable farm's main crop, raising over 210 hectares' worth of sprouts each year. (Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)