Mourners stand around a makeshift memorial of flowers and candles for the victims of a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Dec. 23, 2024. Ralf Hirschberger/AFP via Getty Images
Sri Lankan soldiers stand at attention while the country's national flag is lowered as part of a daily ceremony at the Galle Face Green promenade in Colombo on Dec. 23, 2024. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images
The wreckage of a small plane is seen at the crash site in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on Dec. 23, 2024. Ten people from the same family died on Dec. 22 after a small plane crashed in a commercial area of the tourist city of Gramado, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul (south), reported the Civil Defense service. Mateus Bruxel/AGENCIA RBS/AF/AFP via Getty Images
People queue during a distribution of water in the city of Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte after the cyclone Chido hit the archipelago, on Dec. 23, 2024. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP via Getty Images
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the fifth day of testimony in his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv on Dec. 23, 2024. Debbie Hill/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Riot police guard an entrance to the Legislative Assembly in San Salvador during a protest against the repeal of a law banning mining on Dec. 23, 2024. On Dec. 21, a commission of El Salvador's Congress issued a “favorable opinion” to a bill that will lift the ban on mining and endorse the reintroduction of the industry in the country. Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images
A staff of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia (BMKG) points to a seismograph system that recorded the 9.2 richter scale 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami at the Geophysical Station in Aceh Besar in Aceh province, Indonesia, on Dec. 23, 2024. Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images
Boys play football amid destroyed buildings in Yarmouk camp in Damascus, Syria, on Dec. 23, 2024. Chris McGrath/Getty Images
(L-R) Nissan Chief Executive Makoto Uchida, Takao Kato, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, and Honda Chief Executive Toshihiro Mibe leave after a joint news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Dec. 23, 2024. Nissan and Honda are to attempt a merger that would create the world's No. 3 automaker. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo
Muay Thai participants, fight during the Kibra Youth Initiative boxing exhibition at the Kibera Fort Jesus grounds in Nairobi, Kenya, on Dec. 23, 2024. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images
A Ukrainian paratrooper of the 80th Separate Galician Air Assault Brigade takes a part in the presentation of a 7.5-meter Trident, a Ukrainian national symbol, made of “didukh” or
Firefighters dressed as Santa Claus give gifts to children hospitalized at the Interbalkan Medical Center after abseiling inside the hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece, on Dec. 23, 2024. Konstantinos Tsakalidis/SOOC/AFP via Getty Images
Ecuador's Vice President Veronica Abad (C) speaks, accompanied by her father Alberto Abad (L), as she leaves the protection hearing she filed against the Ministry of Labor in Quito, on Dec. 23, 2024. She was cleared to return to her duties after a court on Monday overruled a five-month suspension by the government related to her parallel role as peace envoy to Israel. Galo Paguay/AFP via Getty Images
Mozambican Constitutional Council President Lucia Ribeiro (C) announces the results of the 2024 presidential elections in Maputo, Mozambique, on Dec. 23, 2024. The Constitutional Council of Mozambique ratified on Monday the electoral victory of the democratic socialist party Frelimo, in power for half a century, in the October elections, questioned by street protests that caused more than a hundred deaths. Amilton Neves/AFP via Getty Images
An Afghan vendor waits for customers at a bakery in Fayzabad district of Badakhshan province on Dec. 23, 2024. Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images
Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia, during a demonstration in the laboratory of the Mammoth Museum at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, on Dec. 23, 2024. Roman Kutukov/Reuters
People gather around a bus hit by an Israeli strike which led to casualties, in the Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 23, 2024. Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images
A worker collects wood for cremators of the Dom community, to burn pyres at Harishchandra Ghat along the banks of river Ganges in Varanasi, India, on Dec. 23, 2024. Niharika Kulkarni/AFP via Getty Images
People demonstrate against the disappearance of four adolescent boys who went missing during a military operation two weeks ago while they were out playing football in front of the prosecutor's office in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Dec. 23, 2024. Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images
Benfica's mascot, a bald eagle named “Vitoria,” is pictured before the Portuguese League football match between SL Benfica and GD Estoril Praia at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon on Dec. 23, 2024. Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images
Farmers thresh rice grains as Mount Kanlaon volcano spews ash into the air as seen from Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental, Philippines, on Dec. 23, 2024. Francis Fabiania/AFP via Getty Images
Melanie Celine Zeinab Bance, the Ivorian chef who is aiming for the Guinness World Record with a culinary marathon from Dec. 17 to 22, 2024, cooks in front of an audience who came to encourage her at the Agora of Koumassi, a popular commune in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Dec. 22, 2024. Sia Kambou/AFP via Getty Images
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu (L) is congratulated by Romania's President Klaus Iohannis during the swearing-in ceremony at the Cotroceni Palace, the Romanian Presidency headquarters, in Bucharest, Romania, on Dec. 23, 2024. Romania's pro-European premier Marcel Ciolacu was reappointed prime minister after striking a coalition deal to keep out the right-wing nationalists. Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
Tourists feed pigeons during heavy snowfall in downtown Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Dec. 23, 2024. Armin Durgut/AP Photo
Two grizzly bears attempt to open Christmas presents given to them by their keepers at La Fleche Zoo in Western France on Dec. 23, 2024. Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images
Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, greets as he departs for his long Christmas journey from the Santa's Village at the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland in Rovaniemi, Finland, on Dec. 23, 2024. Jouni Porsanger/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images
