A Parisian enjoys the free traditional carousel at the Hotel de Ville's Christmas Village in Paris, as France prepares to exit from its strict lockdown for Christmas, on December 14, 2020. #

A statue of a health-care worker stands in front of the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy, on December 11, 2020. The statue was placed to honor Italy's health-care workers for their heroic efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. #

The Gingerbread Town, an annual pre-Christmas tradition consisting of miniature houses, trains, cars, and ships, made from gingerbread, is pictured in Bergen, Norway, on December 8, 2020. #

Tourists walk among beach foam after wild weather lashed Australia's New South Wales and South East Queensland with heavy rain, strong winds, and king tides, on December 15, 2020. #

A woman looks from her window at police officers surrounding activists who tried to stop the eviction of Alejandro Ibañez Maltes, 30, from his apartment in Barcelona, Spain, on December 10, 2020. Maltes was accused of not making rent payments and not renewing his lease since February 2020. #

Sammy Olszta, 6, the grandson of Dan Gable, a U.S. Olympic wrestling gold medalist and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, leans against the Resolute Desk as Gable delivers remarks beside President Donald Trump during a presentation ceremony inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2020. #

The moon covers the sun during a solar eclipse in Piedra del Aguila, Argentina, on December 14, 2020. The total solar eclipse was visible from the northern Patagonia region of Argentina and from Araucania in Chile. #

Protesters burn and topple a Christmas tree in front of the Albanian prime minister's building during clashes in Tirana on December 9, 2020. Albanian police fired tear gas in Tirana late on December 9, 2020, at hundreds of protesters angry at the police for allegedly killing a young man who broke a coronavirus curfew the night before. The protesters hurled stones and firecrackers at the police as they chanted "We want justice!" They demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Sandër Lleshaj over the shooting of the 25-year-old. #

A model wears a creation by the Senegalese designer and Dakar Fashion Week organizer, Adama Paris, during an outdoor show on December 12, 2020, just outside Dakar, Senegal. #

Abortion-rights activists celebrate as the Argentine lower house approved a bill that would legalize abortion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 11, 2020. The bill now moves to the senate. #

A Sumatran orangutan sits in a cage before being repatriated from Thailand to Indonesia, after having been smuggled into the kingdom, at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on December 17, 2020. #

Shuhei Okawara, 30, the owner of Kamenya Omote, a mask shop, holds a super-realistic face mask based on his real face, made with 3D-printing technology, in Tokyo, Japan, on December 16, 2020. #

A member of the media touches a moving model of a Utahraptor, which uses a dinosaur-like human-operated mechanical suit called Dino-Techne by the Japanese firm, On-Art, during a media preview of a dinosaur art exhibition in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on December 10, 2020. #

Santa chats with a visiting child on December 6, 2020, in Seattle, Washington. Known as the Seattle Santa, he is usually booked for private events but is set up this year in a socially-distanced snow globe for public visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. #

A robot used to assist COVID-19 patients is seen in an elevator in New Delhi, India, on December 5, 2020. The robot can connect patients with their loved ones and can assist health-care workers on the front lines of the pandemic by minimizing the risk of infections caused by close contact. #

A nurse supports a patient as they walk in the COVID-19 alternative-care site, built into a parking garage, at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, on December 16, 2020. Renown Health converted two floors of a parking garage into an alternative-care site for COVID-19 patients to increase hospital capacity amid a surge in cases, allowing other facilities to be used for patients in more serious conditions. #