Photos of the year 2024

Volunteers use flour to clean birds following an oil spill which was caused by an incident involving two tankers damaged in a storm in the Kerch Strait, in the village of Vityazevo near the Black Sea resort of Anapa, Russia, Dec. 20, 2024. REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov

Fayza Hider, whose son was in Sednaya prison since 2013, which was known as a slaughterhouse under Syria's Bashar al-Assad's rule, reacts while she searches for her son there, in Sednaya, Dec. 16, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

People celebrate after hearing the news that South Korea's parliament voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol outside the National Assembly in Seoul, Dec. 14, 2024. The signs read 'Punish the rebellion leader Yoon Suk Yeol.' Parliament has impeached Yoon over his martial law decree, a move that ended days of political paralysis but set up an intense debate over Yoon’s fate. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Syrian opposition fighters celebrate the fall of the Syrian government, in Damascus, Dec. 8, 2024. The Syrian government fell in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

A man wades through flood water following heavy downpours in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

This photo taken on Nov. 13, 2024 shows pedestrians walking past the four-storey Arimaston Building by Japanese architect Keisuke Oka in the Mita area of Minato Ward in Tokyo. Passers-by stop and stare at the ramshackle, hand-built concrete tower that looks like it has been lifted right out of a Japanese animation and dropped onto a real-life Tokyo street. Oka started construction in 2005. Apart from the help of a few friends, he made the entire building himself by hand. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)

Firefighters carry the body of a passenger from the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed after it went off the runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2024. At least 179 people died when the Jeju Air jet belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it slammed into a wall at the ariport. Two people, both crew members, were pulled out of the wreckage alive. The plane, carrying 181 people, was returning from Bangkok. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji TPX

Venezuelan migrant Alvaro Calderini carries his niece across a river near Bajo Chiquito, Panama, after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia on their way north to the United States, Nov. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Dec. 25, 2024. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said on Dec. 29, 2024, that the airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to "hush up" the issue for days. The crash killed 38 of 67 people on board. (AP Photo/Azamat Sarsenbayev)

Riders perform during a freestyle motocross show at the EICMA exhibition motorcycle fair in Rho, outskirt of Milan, Italy, Nov. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

A protester looks on near a burning barricade during a "national shutdown" against the election outcome, in Maputo, Mozambique, Nov. 7, 2024. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Supporters of former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump celebrate as Fox News declares him the next President of the United States during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, early on Nov. 6, 2024. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Supporters react to election results during an election night event for U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at Howard University in Washington, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Firefighters pump out the floodwater out of a tunnel where vehicles are piled up, after heavy rains in Alfafar, in Valencia, Spain, Nov. 1, 2024. The deadly floods on Oct. 29 killed over 220 people in eastern Spain. Torrential rains and flooding drowned people in cars and underground car parks, and collapsed homes. REUTERS/Susana Vera

Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, Oct. 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test.  SpaceX successfully "caught" the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company's quest for rapid reusability. (Photo by SERGIO FLORES / AFP)

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, C/2023, with an 80,000 year orbit, passes behind geological formations, tufa spires at Trona Pinnacles, California, Oct. 12, 2024. REUTERS/David Swanson

Kamal Khatib, a volunteer with the Animals Lebanon rescue group, kisses kittens after rescuing them from debris of destroyed buildings at the site of an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, light up the sky over an old grain elevator in Brant, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 7, 2024. REUTERS/Todd Korol

Wedding dresses for sale are displayed on mannequins outside a damaged shop as displaced Palestinians make their way to flee the area following an Israeli evacuation order in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 7, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Palestinians search for survivors and bodies in the rubble of a mosque destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A view of lakes caused by heavy rainfall between sand dunes in the desert town of Merzouga, near Rachidia, southeastern Morocco, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo)

Debris is strewn on the lake in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Oct. 2, 2024, in Lake Lure, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

A man jumps off apparent remains of a ballistic missile lying in the desert, following an attack by Iran on Israel, near the southern city of Arad, Israel, Oct. 2, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

An aerial view shows the area affected by monsoon flooding in Roshi village of Nepal's Kavre district, Sept. 30, 2024.  Search and rescue teams in Nepal's capital picked through wrecked homes after waters receded from monsoon floods that killed at least 209 people around the Himalayan republic. (Photo by PRABIN RANABHAT / AFP)

Israeli shelling hit an area in southern Lebanon as seen from northern Israel, Sept. 30, 2024. (Photo by PRABIN RANABHAT / AFP)

A drone view shows stranded boats over the sandbanks exposed due to drought at the Solimoes River, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River, during the most intense and widespread drought since 1950, near Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Sept. 30, 2024. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Flames rise as a wildfire burns next to the village of Ano Loutro, near Corinth, Greece, Sept. 29, 2024. REUTERS/Vassilis Psomas

A local resident helps free a car that became stranded in a stretch of flooding road as Tropical Storm Helene strikes, on the outskirts of Boone, North Carolina, Sept. 27, 2024. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake

A two-month-old female pygmy hippo named "Moo Deng" who has recently become a viral internet sensation, bites her keeper Atthapon Nundee at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, Sept. 16, 2024. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Bodies of people killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamist extremists are transported for burial, in Tarmuwa, northeast Nigeria, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Abu)

Athletes compete in the men's 100m athletics T63 round 1 at the Stade de France in Sait-Denis, during the Paris 2024 Paralympics, Sept. 1, 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Local residents collect things in their destroyed building hit by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Aug. 27, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
 

A cow is stuck in the mud of the dry bed of the Las Lajas dam due to a severe drought, in Buenaventura, Chihuahua state, Mexico, Aug. 23, 2024. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

A man dressed in a Spiderman costume and known as Ethio-Spiderman sits on a horse cart in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aug. 12, 2024. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP)

Former Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat arrives at the party headquarters after Thailand's Constitutional Court delivered its verdict on a case seeking the dissolution of the opposition group, in Bangkok, Aug. 7, 2024. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa

Anti-government protesters display Bangladesh's national flag as they storm Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's palace in Dhaka, Aug. 5, 2024. Bangladesh army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman spent nearly four decades rising to the top of the military and said he was "taking full responsibility" after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted and fled. (Photo by K M ASAD / AFP)

China's Gold medalist Huang Ya Qiong reacts as she receives a marriage proposal from her partner Liu Yuchen after leaving the podium at the mixed doubles badminton medal ceremony during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Porte de la Chapelle Arena in Paris, France, Aug. 2, 2024. (Photo by Luis TATO / AFP)

Spain's Alvaro Granados Ortega shoots to score during a men's water polo Group B preliminary match between Serbia and Spain, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 1, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Simone Biles, center, and her teammates celebrate after Team USA won the artistic gymnastics women's team final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, July 30, 2024. (Photo by Loic VENANCE / AFP)

The Olympic cauldron and the Arc de Triomphe are seen after sunset in Paris, France, July 29, 2024. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

A demonstrator reacts when Molotov cocktails hit the ground in front of security forces during protests against election results after Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez claimed victory in the presidential election, in Puerto La Cruz, July 29, 2024. REUTERS/Samir Aponte

Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after getting a large wave in the 5th heat of the men's surfing round 3, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, July 29, 2024. (Photo by Jerome BROUILLET / AFP) / ALTERNATE CROP

A resident walks amongst debris of destroyed belongings next to her house at a village in Manila, July 25, 2024, a day after heavy rains fueled by Typhoon Gaemi and the seasonal monsoon lashed Manila and surrounding regions. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)

An animal flees flames as the Park Fire tears through the Cohasset community in Butte County, California, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

A man reacts as residents and volunteers dig in the mud in search for bodies at the scene of a landslide in Kencho Shacha Gozdi, Ethiopia, July 25, 2024. The death toll from landslides in a remote region of southern Ethiopia has risen to 257, the United Nations said, warning that the number of victims could soar to up to 500. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pensylvania, July 13, 2024. Trump was wounded during an assassination attempt while speaking at the rally.

Rescuers and volunteers work at the site of Okhmatdyt children’s hospital hit by Russian missiles, in Kyiv, July 8, 2024. A major Russian missile attack across Ukraine killed at least 20 people and injured more than 50, officials said, with one missile striking a large children’s hospital in the capital. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)