December 16, 2021

A rescuer helps a girl as they go through flooding caused by Typhoon Rai in Cagayan de Oro City, southern Philippines, in this image provided by the Philippine Coast Guard.

Austria's Niklas Koeck speeds down the course as an airplane wake is seen in the background, during men's alpine skiing World Cup downhill training, in Val Gardena, Italy.

Thousands of people gather in Rome's central Piazza del Popolo during a nationwide strike called by the main unions to protest a government's proposed budget law.

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dungeness, Kent, England, following a small boat incident in the Channel.

A child takes cover during a protest in favor of migration in Mexico City, Mexico.

This image from above shows a destroyed house covered with lava following the burst of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, in La Laguna, on the Canary Island of La Palma.

A biologist at the French-Austrian biotech firm Valneva waits before entering a laboratory to work on an inactivated whole-virus vaccine against COVID-19 in Vienna, Austria.

Young people walk along a dry river bed on the banks of the river Ganges, in Allahabad.

People visit a bookstore in Foshan in China's southern Guangdong province, Dec. 15, 2021.

Men who are about to get married sit inside a wedding hall as they wait for the start of a mass marriage ceremony organized by the Selab Charity Foundation in Kandahar, Afghanistan.