Commuters make their way along a street amid dense smog in Lahore, Pakistan.

Pope Francis is greeted by children as he celebrates his birthday with children assisted by the Santa Marta dispensary during an audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican.

Ukrainian servicemen cry near the coffin of their comrade Andrii Trachuk during his funeral service on Independence square in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

People on a motor bike make their way along a street amid heavy smog in Lahore, Pakistan.

Workers collect oil after it spilled over the backwater at Ennore creek in the aftermath of Cyclone Michaung, on the outskirts of Chennai, India.

A statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe stands amid pilgrims sleeping outside the Basilica of Guadalupe on her feast day in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco)

People react as they watch a parliament session on a confidence vote of outgoing Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, in a cinema in Warsaw.

Ali and Kiana Rahmani, children of Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist, accept the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 award on behalf of their mother at Oslo City Hall, Norway.

A protester holds a gun, as he takes part in a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Sanaa, Yemen.

Empty rails are pictured outside the central train station in Frankfurt, Germany. A union representing German train drivers called its members to strike for 24 hours this week, following the breakdown of talks with the main national operator in what is shaping up to be an unusually difficult dispute over pay and working hours.

A woman along with her belongings, wades through a flooded street after heavy rains in Chennai, India. Chest-high water surged down the streets of Chennai with eight people killed in intense floods as Cyclone Michaung made landfall on the southeast coast.

Vendor Nyurgusun Starostina, 47, poses for a picture at an open-air market on a frosty day in Yakutsk, Russia. Temperatures in parts of the Sakha Republic, also known as Yakutia and located in the northeastern part of Siberia, went below - 50° C (- 58° F).

Issa Kassissieh, dressed as Santa Claus, sits astride a camel as he visits an olive grove overlooking the Dome of the Rock on Al-Aqsa compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem.

A family pulls a Christmas tree on a sledge through the village of Keele, Staffordshire, Britain.

Cars travel on a road in the snow-covered landscape at the Kahler Asten mountain near Winterberg, western Germany. (Photo by Ina FASSBENDER / AFP)