Lawmakers applaud outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center on top, in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin.

A farmer dries a harvested crop of maize on the outskirts of Bangalore, India.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, observes an early morning police raid on a home in Liverpool, England, ahead of the publication of the government's 10-year drug strategy.

People take a selfie in front of the Soyuz rocket that is set as a monument in the town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Pope Francis attends a ceremony at the Apostolos Barnavas Orthodox Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus.

A three-month-old baby elephant is seen recovering in Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Chonburi, Thailand, following lifesaving treatment after being shot several times and caught in a hunter's trap.

A fissure is seen next to a house covered with ash on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain.

Georgian former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was convicted in absentia of abuse of power during his presidency and arrested upon his return from exile, reacts inside a defendant's dock during a court hearing in Tbilisi.

A passenger tries to find a flight as several airlines have stopped flying out of South Africa, amidst the spread of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.

French fishing boats block the entrance to the port of Saint-Malo as fishermen protest post-Brexit fishing rights.

Opening Macy's stars balloons fly during the 95th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Manhattan, New York City.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

A Polish imam, right, and two other members of a Muslim community bury the tiny white casket of an unborn Iraqi boy, in Bohoniki, Poland. The child is the latest life claimed as thousands of migrants from the Middle East have sought to enter the European Union.

Chairs are left abandoned after a car plowed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the occasion of the Christ the King festivity, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.