Believers of Afro-Brazilian religions pay tribute to Yemanja during a traditional celebration ahead of New Year's eve on Praia Vermelha beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 30, 2019. #

Revelers dressed in mock military garb throw eggs as they take part in the "Els Enfarinats" battle in the Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2019. During this 200-year-old traditional festival participants known as Els Enfarinats (those covered in flour) dress in military clothes and stage a mock coup d'etat as they battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers outside the city town hall as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Innocents, a traditional day in Spain for pulling pranks. #

Outraged Iraqi protesters storm the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, protesting Washington's attacks on armed battalions belong to Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces on December 31, 2019. At least 25 people were killed in weekend U.S. airstrikes on positions of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia group, in Iraq and Syria. Hundreds of Iraqi protesters gathered early Tuesday near the embassy to show their anger at the U.S. move. #

Members of PyroCeltica pose in front of Edinburgh Castle in advance of Edinburgh's Hogmanay torchlight procession down the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland, on December 30, 2019. #

The world's largest steel caisson, meant for Pier 5 of the Changtai Yangtze River Bridge, floats along the Yangtze River near Taizhou City, Jiangsu province, China, on December 28, 2019. #

The Mars 2020 Rover is seen in the spacecraft assembly area clean room during a media tour at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on December 27, 2019. The Mars 2020 rover, which will take off in a few months to the Red Planet, will not only search for possible traces of past life, it will also serve as a "precursor to a human mission to Mars," NASA scientists said when presenting the spacecraft to the press. #

Filip Sakala of the Czech Republic starts a jump during the official practice at the second stage of the 68th Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on December 31, 2019. #

This picture shows thousands of lanterns lit inside the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam during the fourth edition of the lantern campaign by the Dutch Cancer Society’s fight against cancer on December 29, 2019. #

Community members celebrate the arrival of a new Torah at the Chaim Rottenberg residence, on December 29, 2019, in Monsey, New York. A day earlier, a knife-wielding man stormed into the home and stabbed multiple people as they celebrated Hanukkah in the Orthodox Jewish community. #

A member of Iraq's Kurdish Jewish community takes part in a ceremony on the last night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the Iraqi town of Al-Qosh, 50 km north of Mosul, on December 29, 2019. #

Kangaroos graze in a field as smoke shrouds the Australian capital of Canberra, Australia, on January 1, 2020. Australia deployed military ships and aircraft to help communities ravaged by apocalyptic wildfires that destroyed homes and sent thousands of residents and holidaymakers fleeing to the shoreline. #

Fishermen under blanket-covered reed shrouds catch fish with harpoons near a frozen portion of Anchar Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar, in India, on January 2, 2020. #