An ambulance with emergency lights on makes its way through snowfall in Iowa, US on December 21, 2022. (Photo by Joseph Cress/AP Photo)

A Somali man carries a fish at Liido beach in Mogadishu, Somalia on December 29, 2023. (Photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters)

A volcanic eruption at Mount Etna’s Vorgaine crater in Sicily, Italy on December 3, 2015. (Photo by Marco Restivo/Barcroft Media)

Workers are pictured at a shisha manufacturing factory in Baghdad December 17, 2014. (Photo by Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters)

An Aymara woman with a sheep waves to the crowd during a Christmas parade in La Paz, Bolivia December 12, 2015. (Photo by David Mercado/Reuters)

A man dressed as Santa Claus sits at a bus stop before an annual race in Belgrade, Serbia December 27, 2015. (Photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters)

A customer grimaces in pain as she gets a tattoo on her arm at the 21st International Tattoo Convention Berlin on December 3, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The annual tattoo trade fair runs from December 2–4, 2011. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

A woman dressed in a costume poses for a photograph at Tokyo Comic Con at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan December 2, 2016. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)