December 3, 2018

Sully, the service dog of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush in his final months, lays in front of Bush's casket at the George H. Lewis & Sons funeral home in Houston, Texas, United States.

China's First Lady Peng Liyuan (L) is welcomed by Panama's First Lady Lorena Castillo, as their husbands hold a meeting, at the presidential palace in Panama City.

An exile Tibetan Buddhist monk throws herbs on to the funeral pyre of Palden Gyatso in Dharmsala, India, Dec. 3, 2018. Gyatso, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who spent more than 30 years in Chinese jails, died in Dharmsala on Nov. 30.

A Soyuz MS-11 rocket carrying Russian, American, and Canadian astronauts takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome before reaching orbit later, the first manned mission since a failed October launch.

A hawk attacks a rabbit during a traditional hunting contest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec. 2, 2018.

A military cadet is silhouetted while holding a Mexican flag during a troop review by Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at Campo Marte, Mexico City, Dec. 2, 2018.

Fireworks light the sky as a Christmas tree is lit in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.

Syrian refugees check the damage following a fire that went through their refugee camp in the village of Yammouneh in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley.

A ferris wheel is lit up as the sun sets over the French city of Nice, on Dec. 2, 2018.

A cat sits under the Downing Street Christmas tree, in London, Britain.