WORLD IN PICTURES
1. WONDERLAND
Children walk past 200 000 lights that decorate a winter wonderland at Naumkeag in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The town was voted the number one Christmas town in the US.
2. DOME OF LIGHT
People enjoy Christmas lights decorations in Caracas on Sunday, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
3. FACING IT
Ethiopian Walagabriel Sium, a 73-year- old farmer, flees the Tigray conflict to the Um Raquba refugee camp in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref state. The UN says 4% of more than 50 000 refugees are over 60.
4. FROSTY DAY
The ice- covered handrail on a walkway by the seashore in Dalian, in northeastern China’s Liaoning province.
5. NO XMAS CHEER
Police outside of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York on Sunday, after a shooter opened fire outside the church. A man was critically injured by police after he shot near carol-singing crowds.