Guy Arnaud, a snowmaker, walks past a snowmaking machine during his shift, before the official opening of the Alpine ski resort of Verbier on December 5, in Verbier, Switzerland, on December 1, 2020. #

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree stands lit on December 2, 2020, in New York City. The 75-foot tall Norway spruce is covered with more than 50,000 LEDs.The lit tree will be on display from December 3 through early January 2021. #

An aerial view of a stand of Metasequoia trees (also known as dawn redwoods) in Baoyinghu National Wetland Park in Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China, on December 1, 2020 #

Industrial climbers remove ice from the cables of the Russky Bridge across the Eastern Bosphorus Strait in Vladivostok, Russia, on November 30, 2020. The bridge was temporarily closed after an ice storm, with a ferry service launched between Russky Island and mainland Vladivostok. #

An Ethiopian man, who fled the Tigray conflict as a refugee, watches the rising moon on top of a hill at Um Raquba refugee camp in Gedaref, eastern Sudan, on December 1, 2020. #

An Icelandic horse stands in the paddock of a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, while others graze in the background on a foggy Saturday, on November 28, 2020. #

People wearing animal costumes walk near a skating rink past signs requesting the use of protective face masks, as heavy fog covers a square named after the Soviet state founder, Vladimir Lenin, in Stavropol, Russia, on December 1, 2020. #

In an aerial view, cars line up at Dodger Stadium for COVID-19 testing as dusk falls over downtown Los Angeles on December 2, 2020. Residents of the city of Los Angeles were given an emergency order "to remain in their homes" effective immediately amid a surge of coronavirus cases. #

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Rabbi Aharon David Hadash, the spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva, in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael on December 3, 2020. #

Robert DeCandido, also known as "Birding Bob," is attacked by a red-bellied woodpecker as he leads a group of bird watchers during a tour in Central Park, New York City on November 29, 2020. #

Rashid Barzan Othman, a 30-year-old Syrian Kurd, poses while holding his pet lion cub in al-Malikiyah (Derik) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province, on November 29, 2020. #

An assistant helps Pal Pillmayer, dressed as Santa Claus, as he prepares to interact with children via video chat, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Budapest, Hungary, on November 30, 2020. #

Santa Claus gestures to visitors in their cars as they attend the Dodgers Holiday Festival, a drive-through light and performance experience honoring the Dodgers's baseball World Championship and celebrating the holiday season in a safe way, on December 2, 2020, at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, California. #

Guests participate in the performance artwork, "A Proxy for a Thousand Eyes" by Cherine Fahd, at the Sydney Opera House on November 29, 2020. The participatory performance explores the nature of touch and intimacy during COVID-19. #

Medical staff members palpate a patient who is on a rotating medical bed in the COVID-19 intensive-care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 2, 2020, in Houston, Texas. #

This aerial view shows the damage at the Arecibo Observatory after one of the main cables holding the receiver broke in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on December 1, 2020. The radio telescope, which once starred in a James Bond film, collapsed on Tuesday when its 900-ton receiver platform fell 450 feet and smashed onto the radio dish below. #

Diners eat in pods set up for the pop-up restaurant, Aqua Gastronomy, inside Resorts World Sentosa's S.E.A. Aquarium, which operates in the evening, after the aquarium's visiting hours, in Singapore, on December 3, 2020. #