Visitors stop to look at an animated model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex wearing a Santa hat and festive sweater in its Christmas-themed display at the Natural History Museum in London, England, on December 21, 2023. #

Guatemalan firefighter Hector Chacon, dressed as Santa Claus, rappels down the Belize Bridge to give toys to children in the Jesus de la Buena Esperanza neighborhood, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on December 17, 2023. #

A view of the rear of Icehotel 34 with the northern lights above it in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, seen on December 16, 2023. Since 1989, the Icehotel—part hotel, part art exhibition—has been created annually using ice taken from the Torne River. #

Scientists from the University of Iceland take measurements and samples standing on a ridge in front of the active part of an eruptive fissure of a volcano in Grindavik on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, on December 19, 2023. #

Nathan Sennett hands furniture to Tori Grasse as they work in hip-deep water on the patio of the Quarry Tap Room in Hallowell, Maine, on December 19, 2023. Waters rose along the Kennebec River following Monday's severe storm. #

This December 19, 2023, photo shows a plane that fell through ice on Upper Red Lake near Waskish, Minnesota. The plane broke through the ice while landing, but both occupants were able to safely escape. #

A person works to repair the Cathedral of the Transfiguration, which was damaged by a Russian missile strike on July 23, 2023, in Odessa, Ukraine, on December 18, 2023. #

Bulgarian Muslim bride Aysel Gerova, 24, has makeup applied to her face during her wedding ceremony in the village of Ribnovo, in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria, on December 17, 2023. Ribnovo has kept its traditional winter marriage ceremony alive after decades of Communist rule. The wedding ritual was resurrected among the Pomaks. The highlight of the ceremony is the painting of the bride's face, where, in a private rite open only to female in-laws, her face is covered in thick, chalky white paint and decorated with colorful sequins. #

Jorge Barroso, dressed as Santa Claus, arrives on a boat as he visits a community along the jungle shoreline to give out presents to children in the Amazon basin, near Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas state, Brazil, on December 16, 2023. #

People from Romania's historical region of Moldova wear bearskins as they march and dance during the second edition of the international festival of winter traditions, "Cetatea lui Bucur," in Bucharest, Romania, on December 16, 2023. #

A brown-bear cub named Linda sits atop a tree that she climbed more than 10 days prior—and has stayed in since—at Kosice Zoo near Kavecany, Slovakia, on December 21, 2023. After being released in a separate breeding facility last Thursday, the orphaned bear cub climbed the tree and has been spending time there day and night ever since. Keepers attribute this to her shyness and distrust of humans and expect her to climb down on her own while they monitor her condition. #

Migrants wait to be transported by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border wall into the United States from Mexico, in the town of Lukeville, Arizona, on December 14, 2023. #

Migrants climb over barriers and through razor wire after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States on December 17, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A surge of migrants, as many as 12,000 a day, crossing America's southern border has overwhelmed U.S. immigration authorities. #

A man fishes on a boat at sunset, beside a floating Christmas Nativity scene created and installed by the association Amici di Santa Maria on the Lake of Pusiano in Como, Italy, on December 14, 2023. #

The evacuated Icelandic town of Grindavik (right) is seen as gas and steam billow and lava spews from a fissure during a volcanic eruption three kilometers north of Grindavik, on western Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula, on December 19, 2023. #

Tractors are lined up in the Strasse des 17 Juni, facing toward the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Germany, on December 18, 2023, as German farmers demonstrate against the planned abolition of subsidies for agricultural diesel. #