December 28, 2021

A firefighter douses flames after Syrian state media reported an Israeli missile attack in a container storage area, at the Syrian port of Latakia, Syria, in this handout picture released by SANA.

A staff member sprays disinfectant outside a hotel after one person tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province.

A view of the Wall of Remembrance at St. Georges Cathedral, is set up to honor the passing of South African anti-Apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in Cape Town.

Norway's Robert Johansson practices ski jumping in the 4 Hills Tournament, in Oberstdorf, Germany.

Children play with an ice sculpture of three astronauts in Harbin in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province.

A Palestinian woman is comforted as she reacts while Israeli machinery demolishes her under-construction house, in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

An elephant feeds on an old Christmas tree in their enclosure of Prague's Zoo, in the Czech Republic.

Southampton's James Ward-Prowse scores their first goal past Tottenham Hotspur's Hugo Lloris, at St. Mary's Stadium, in Southampton, Britain.

Flamingos take flight after feeding at a beach north of Kuwait City.

Revelers take part in the Els Enfarinats festival, in the town of Ibi near Alicante, Spain. For about 200 years, the inhabitants of Ibi annually celebrate with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers, outside the city town hall.

A woman tapes the word "omicron" to a handmade doll depicting COVID-19 omicron variant in Managua, Nicaragua. The dolls are burned at midnight on December 31 as a tradition of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new.