Thomas Ceccon of Italy competes in the men's 50-meter butterfly heat during day four of the FINA World Swimming Championships at Etihad Arena, in Abu Dhabi, on December 19, 2021. #

A man wearing a full protective face shield and double mask to avoid COVID-19 contagion waits for his turn to be vaccinated, outside a vaccination center of the Social Security Institute in Quito, Ecuador, on May 6, 2021. #

Aoife Ni Heochaidh enjoys the sunrise as she welcomes the winter solstice at the 5,000-year-old Stone Age passage tomb of Newgrange in the Boyne Valley, as entry to the chamber was closed for the second year due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Newgrange, Ireland, on December 21, 2021. #

The moon rises beyond the Lee's Summit Magic Tree on December 22, 2021, in Lee's Summit, Missouri, The lone tree in a field next to a freeway is covered with more than 12,000 lights and attracts thousands of visitors every Christmas season. #

An aerial view of a fallen tree in a graveyard after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through several U.S. states, in Mayfield, Kentucky, on December 17, 2021 #

A general view of damages caused by Typhoon Rai seen in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, Philippines, on December 21, 2021. The powerful storm affected millions, and killed more than 375 people in the Philippines. #

Vehicles and buildings are seen inundated by floods in Shah Alam's Taman Sri Muda, one of the worst-hit neighborhoods during severe flooding, in Selangor state, Malaysia, on December 21, 2021. #

A woman sits holding her phone in floodwaters following heavy rains in the Muno Market in Sungai Kolok district, in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat on December 20, 2021. #

Alpine rescue team members dressed as Santa Claus rappel down the Policlinico Umberto I Hospital to greet children hospitalized in the pediatric ward, in Rome, Italy, on December 23, 2021. #

Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket, with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, is rolled out to the launch pad on December 23, 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large infrared telescope with a 21.3-foot (6.5-meter) primary mirror that will study every phase of cosmic history from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. The launch is now scheduled for Christmas Day. #

General view of a line-out in the fog during the Heineken Champions Cup rugby match between the Glasgow Warriors and the Exeter Chiefs at Scotstoun Stadium on December 18, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland #

Workers remove part of Pillar of Shame, by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot, which pays tribute to the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing on June 4, 1989, at the University of Hong Kong, in China, on December 23, 2021. #

A resident salvages parts of her home damaged due to Typhoon Rai in Talisay, Cebu province, Philippines on December 18, 2021. The strong typhoon engulfed villages in floods that trapped residents on roofs, toppled trees and knocked out power in southern and central island provinces. #

Balsam fir wreaths lie on tombstones in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, on December 18, 2021, in Arlington, Virginia. The 30th annual "Wreaths Across America" project placed wreaths on the more than 250,000 tombstones of military servicemen and women at Arlington National Cemetery. #

A staff member assists a patient infected by COVID-19 at the intensive care unit of the Center Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle in Liège, Belgium, on December 21, 2021. #

Trees along the Merced River are coated in white after a major storm dumped a foot of in snow in California's Yosemite Valley and 8 to 10 feet of powder in the higher elevations along the Sierra Nevada crest on December 16, 2021, in Yosemite National Park. #

Planes from the Italian Air Force aerobatic unit Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) trail smoke in the colors of the Italian flag as they perform over Alta Badia in the Dolomites of northern Italy, on December 19, 2021, during the men's FIS Ski World Cup Giant Slalom event. #

Reira Iwabuchi of Team Japan goes over a jump during a practice run before the start of the women's snowboard slopestyle final on Day 4 of the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain on December 18, 2021, in Copper Mountain, Colorado. #

Leila Saliamova of Russia competes in the women's high dive during day five of the FINA World Swimming Championships at Etihad Arena on December 20, 2021, in Abu Dhabi. #