A member of the Afghan national boxing team trains during a session in local gym in Serbia, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. They practiced in secrecy and sneaked out of Afghanistan to be able to compete at an international championship. Now, the Afghan boxing team are seeking refuge in the West...

UK Love Island's Kaz Kamwi attends the MOBO Awards 2021 at The Coventry Building Society Arena on December 05, 2021 in Coventry, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) British rapper Stefflon Don attends the MOBO Awards 2021 at The Coventry Building Society Arena on December 05, 2021 in Coventry,...

Newly hatched parlama turtles are released on Monterrico beach in Santa Rosa, Guatemala, 21 November 2021. The turtles, which are born in a hatchery, are released at this time of year as a method of preservation of the species that is endangered in the country by the hunting of eggs...

Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, presents herself on stage during the preliminary stage of the 70th Miss Universe beauty pageant in Israel's southern Red Sea coastal city of Eilat on December 10, 2021. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP Photo) Miss Singapore, Nandita Banna, presents herself on stage during the preliminary stage...

A Russian army soldier takes part in drills at the Kadamovskiy firing range in the Rostov region in southern Russia, Friday, December 10, 2021. Russian troop concentration near Ukraine has raised Ukrainian and Western concerns of a possible invasion that Moscow has dismissed. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer) Julian Assange supporters...

A dog chases a fake rabbit during a racing competition in Peshawar on November 19, 2021. (Photo by Abdul Majeed/AFP Photo) A woman griefs while she and others collect their belongings in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, November 20, 2021, following a fire that gutted hut homes. Scores of huts were burnt...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano seen from the Tajuya viewpoint continues to expel lava, on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain November 26, 2021. (Photo by Borja Suarez/Reuters) Spanish Army soldiers stand on a hill as lava flows as volcano continues to erupt on the Canary island of La Palma,...

Monkeys climb onto a gate during the annual Monkey Festival, which resumed after a two-year gap caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Lopburi province, Thailand, November 28, 2021. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters) Monkeys sit on a tourist's back during the Lopburi Monkey Festival on November 28, 2021 in...

A serviceman walk on a road at the line of separation near Sentianivka, Luhansk region, controlled by Russia-backed separatists, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, December 9, 2021. Russia's military warned the Ukrainian government Thursday against trying to settle a separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine with force, a statement that adds to the...

A Thai woman prays before floating a krathong, a small boat made of corn and decorated with banana leaves and flowers, into a Ong Ang canal during Loy Krathong festival in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, November 19, 2021. Thais believe that the candle-lit boats launched during the charming and popular Loy...

Jo (left) and Scott Forbes from Dorset add Christmas decorations to their 1966 Type 2 Split Screen VW California during the New Forest VW Santa Run at Beaulieu Motor Museum on Sunday, November 28, 2021. The event, which is open to all classic and custom VWs, raises funds for the...

White rhinos graze in an enclosure in Akagera National Park, eastern Rwanda, on November 29, 2021. Thirty endangered white rhinos arrived in Rwanda on November 29, 2021 after a long journey from South Africa in a Boeing 747, conservationists said, hailing it as the largest single transfer of the species...