A girl watches the members of Nepali ethnic Newar community participating in “Jyapu Day” celebrations that marks the end of the harvest season, in Kathmandu on December 26, 2023. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)

Miss Amazonas Ileana Marquez kisses her daughter, after winning the Miss Venezuela 2023 pageant, whose winner will participate in the Miss Universe 2024 contest, in Caracas, Venezuela on December 8, 2023. (Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters)

Vendor Nyurgusun Starostina, 47, poses for a picture at an open-air market on a frosty day in Yakutsk, Russia, December 5, 2023. Temperatures in parts of the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia and located in the northeastern part of Siberia, went below minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) on December 5. (Photo by Roman Kutukov/Reuters)

A cat sits on the shoulder of Ukrainian serviceman Mykyta of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade at a rest house near the front line in the Donetsk region on December 25, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Horses eat hay and rest on straw at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, December 5, 2023. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)

Denver Broncos cheerleaders perform in the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Isaiah J. Downing/USA TODAY Sports)

A giraffe quenches its thirst at a watering hole at Zimanga Private Game Reserve, South Africa in the second decade of December 2023. (Photo by Janette Hill/Animal News Agency)

Waxwings in Balham south London on December 31, 2023. There has been a huge influx of this erruptive species this year. This probably due to severe storms and a shortage of food in their native Scandinavia in the Autumn. (Photo by Jack Hill/The Times)