Heavily damaged houses are pictured two days after an explosion and fire destroyed an apartment block, killing at least six people, on the Tarwekamp in The Hague, Netherlands, on Dec. 9, 2024. Josh Walet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Director General Yousif Alobaidli as he visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 9, 2024. Kirsty Wigglesworth - WPA Pool/Getty Images
Residents sit on benches amid floodwaters from an overflowing river following torrential rain in Tempuran village in Mojokerto, East Java province, Indonesia, on Dec. 9, 2024. Juni Kriswanto/AFP PHOTO/AFP via Getty Images
Sotheby's workers hold one of the most widely known and influential texts in history: the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments during a press preview at Sotheby's in New York on Dec. 9, 2024. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images
A worker gives final touches to a temporary mega tent amid preparations ahead of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit, along the banks of Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers, in Prayagraj, India, on Dec. 9, 2024. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP via Getty Images
Protesters are evacuated by French police during a rally against the Bollore group on the occasion of Vivendi's extraordinary Mixed General Assembly in Paris on Dec. 9, 2024. Xavier Galiana/AFP via Getty Images
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be FBI Director Kash Patel arrives at Sen. Joni Ernst's (R-Iowa) office for a meeting in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Dec. 9, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (6th-R) and President of Eurogroup Paschal Donohoe (5th-R) pose for a family photo with ministers and members of the Eurogroup after a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Dec. 9, 2024. John Thys/AFP via Getty Images
Daniel Penny arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York City on Dec. 9, 2024. Alex Kent/Getty Images
NYPD officers in diving suits search a lake in Central Park in New York on Dec. 9, 2024. Yuki Iwamura/AP Photo
A member of the Jewish community staples a poster to the front of the damaged Adass Israel Synagogue in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea on Dec. 9, 2024. Australian police said on December 9 they are hunting for three suspects linked to a Melbourne synagogue blaze, which authorities have designated as a terrorist act. Martin Keep/AFP via Getty Images
Rescuers clear up rubble from damaged houses at a neighborhood affected by a landslide in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia, on Dec. 9, 2024. Rangga Firmansyah/AP Photo
A vehicle carrying a column destined for the Arkema plant, drives during two exceptional convoys, each weighing 295 metric tons, in Frouard, France, on Dec. 9, 2024. Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP via Getty Images
King Felipe VI of Spain and his wife Queen Letizia arrive to attend a funeral mass held on Dec. 9, 2024 at the Cathedral of Valencia in memory of the victims of the deadly floods that devastated the region in late October. Kai Fosterling/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
A car park is flooded as the River Severn bursts its banks as rain from the aftermath of Storm Darragh makes its way from the hills and mountains in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, on Dec. 9, 2024. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
People eat street food on the sidelines of a protest calling for the ouster of South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol on the grounds of the National Assembly in Seoul on Dec. 9, 2024. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard walks with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington on Dec. 9, 2024. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
A staff member checks on the steam turbine and generator, which transforms the thermal energy into electricity during the waste incineration process at Tainan Yongkang garbage recycling (incineration) plant in Tainan, Taiwan, on Dec. 9, 2024. Taiwan is grappling with a significant waste management crisis, highlighted by the alarming increase in garbage accumulation despite decades of environmental policies aimed at waste reduction. Annabelle Chih/Getty Images
Chef Nobu Matsuhisa displays some of his dishes at the Golden Globe Awards Nominations Media Preview and Plate Up at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Dec. 9, 2024. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
Afghan men sit around a fire at a market on a cold winter day in Herat on Dec. 9, 2024. Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images
Supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama celebrate after the Electoral Commission of Ghana pronounced him as the winner of the 2024 presidential elections, in Accra on Dec. 9, 2024. Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images
Sphere lights up in Las Vegas, Nev., on Dec. 8, 2024. The 18,600-seat, 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide music and entertainment venue is the largest spherical structure on Earth and features an Exosphere with a 580,000-square-foot display, the largest LED screen in the world. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Netherlands' pivot Merel Freriks (R) passes the ball next to Switzerland's pivot Tabea Schmid during the European Women's EHF EURO 2024 Handball Championship main round match between Switzerland and Netherlands in Vienna on Dec. 9, 2024. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images
