December 26, 2016

Tributes pour in from the music world after British pop superstar George Michael, who rose to fame with the duo Wham! and a string of smash hits including "Last Christmas", died aged 53. Michael died of apparent heart failure on Christmas Day at his home in Goring, a village on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, west of London, after an award-winning career spanning more than three decades.

Indian women throw flowers into the sea during a ceremony for the victims of the 2004 tsunami at Marina Beach in Chennai.

Members of the Prizma Ensemble wearing bodysuits take part in a festival for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, in Jerusalem.

Children with traditional hair style play at the monastery compound in Set-Set-Yo village near old Bagan, Nyaung U district, central Myanmar.

A worker applies color to strings which will be used to make kites, in Ahmedabad, India.

Jamie Vardy masks are seen on the seats before the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Everson at King Power stadium in Leicester, central England.

Candles in memory of passengers and crew members of Russian military Tu-154 plane, which crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria, are seen at an embankment in the resort city of Sochi, Dec. 25, 2016.

An aerial photo of flooded highway is seen after typhoon Nock-Ten made landfall in Polangui, Albay province, the Philippines.

A swimmer is helped out of the Vltava river after the annual Christmas winter swimming competition in Prague, Czech Republic.

Demonstrators with white flags silhouette in front of a cloudy sky during the launch of the Civil March for Aleppo at the air field of the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin, Germany.

A wooden cottage is covered in snow in the Talesh mountains, close to the Caspian Sea, some 262 miles (430 kilometers) northeast of Tehran, Iran.

French skipper Thomas Coville (C) holds a burning flare onboard his "Sodebo Ultim'" multihull as he arrives in the port of Brest, western France, after beating the record in solo non-stop round the world sailing. Coville, 48, slashed eight days off the record when he ended an astonishing solo non-stop circumnavigation of the World on his 31m maxi trimaran on Dec. 25, 2016, in just 49 days, 3 hours, 7mins and 38secs.

A bird flies over the foggy country in Zlebe, Slovenia.