An overview shows German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) as he addresses the Bundestag (Lower house of Parliament) in Berlin on Dec. 16, 2024, ahead of a no-confidence vote. John Macdougall/AFP via Getty Images
President Joe Biden receives a plaque from Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, inducting him into the U.S. Labor Department's “Hall of Honor” at the Labor Department in Washington on Dec. 16, 2024. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (L) as they travel on board the British delegation aircraft to Estonia on Dec. 16, 2024. Leon Neal/Getty Images
President-elect Donald Trump, accompanied by SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (R) and Trump's choice for secretary of commerce, Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick, speaks at a news conference at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 16, 2024. In a news conference that went over an hour, Trump announced that SoftBank will invest over $100 billion in projects in the United States including 100,000 artificial intelligence-related jobs, and then took questions on Syria, Israel, Ukraine, the economy, cabinet picks, and many other topics. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Kite surfers at South Beach take advantage of the weather in Troon, Scotland, on Dec. 16, 2024. The Met Office issued a “yellow” weather warning for parts of Scotland lasting until Tuesday, as it forecast 70-100 mm of rainfall. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas rings a bell to signify the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels on Dec. 16, 2024. The EU is to suspend visas for Georgian officials over the security crackdown on opposition protestors. Virginia Mayo/AP Photo
An officer from the Palestinian Authority clutches his gun as Palestinian security forces mount a major raid against militants in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Dec. 16, 2024. Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo
Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (L) walks with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in front of Putra Mosque during a welcoming ceremony prior to their meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Dec. 16, 2024. Vincent Thian/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv on Dec. 16, 2024. Stoyan Nenov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
A worker looks on as some of the millions of items pass through the Royal Mail Midlands ‘Super Hub’ and the automated center sorts and sifts parcels and packages for Christmas delivery in Daventry, England, on Dec. 16, 2024. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Trucks carrying the belongings of Syrian refugees move along a road from a camp in Arsal in eastern Lebanon on their way back to Syria on Dec. 16, 2024. Nidal Solh/AFP via Getty Images
An aerial view shows thick smog from air pollution shrouding Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, on Dec. 16, 2024. Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir/AFP via Getty Images
Kenyan doctors take part in a peaceful demonstration in protest of the delay in implementing a return-to-work formula and a collective bargaining agreement arrived at earlier this year in Nairobi, Kenya, on Dec. 16, 2024. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images
Part of the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, after the island was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century on Dec. 16, 2024. UIISC7/Securite Civile via AP
A member of the Consultation Group of Political Actors (GCAP) distributes flyers at Dembe market promoting the boycott of Chad's legislative, communal and provincial elections in N'Djamena on Dec. 16, 2024. Joris Bolomey/AFP via Getty Images
Newlyweds Alina and Roman dive during their underwater wedding ceremony in the Moskvarium center of oceanography and marine biology in Moscow on Dec. 16, 2024. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images
India's President Droupadi Murmu (C) poses with Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and her Sri Lankan counterpart Anura Kumara Dissanayake during Anura's ceremonial reception at the presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, India, on Dec. 16, 2024. Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images
The first Paris-Berlin high-speed train is at its platform at the Gare de l'Est station in Paris on Dec. 16, 2024. Aurelien Morissard/AP Photo
Traffic flows on a main road past electricity transmission towers in Tehran on Dec. 16, 2024. Iran has suspended operations at several power plants over fuel shortages that have been intensified by rising demand during a spell of freezing weather. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Bank President Junichi Hanzawa (2nd L) and other representatives bow during a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2024. Japan's largest bank apologizes over the theft of millions of dollars from safe deposit boxes. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo
Daniel Sledz (L), commanding officer of the USS Savannah combat ship, shakes hands with Mean Savoeun (R), Cambodia's deputy commander of the Ream Naval Base, after the U.S. warship docked in Cambodia's southern port city of Sihanoukville on Dec. 16, 2024. Yarn Soveit/AFP via Getty Images
Anti-government demonstrators protest outside the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on Dec. 16, 2024. Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP via Getty Images
A boatman uses a magnet to search for coins offered by Hindu devotees along river Narmada, India, on a foggy winter morning in Jabalpur on Dec. 16, 2024. Uma Shankar Mishra/AFP via Getty Images
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on Dec. 16, 2024. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland in a surprise announcement on Monday quit over disagreements with Trudeau on Canada's response to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's tariff threats. Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images
An Afghan girl pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with water canisters as she walks along a path in Argo district of Badakhshan province on Dec. 16, 2024. Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images
Workers hold glass tubes over bunsen burners as they make Christmas tree bubbles in a small workshop of the social enterprise “St. George” in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, on Dec. 16, 2024. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP via Getty Images
