Here are some of the most striking images taken from around the world over the past week.
A medical worker watches an open-air performance for hospitalized children and medical workers at Children's Hospital Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia, on Dec 25, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Christmas lights and decorations are seen in St Petersburg, Russia, on Dec 23, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Dimas Covas (left), director of the Butantan Institute, Jean Gorinchteyn (center), secretary of health of the Sao Paulo state government, and Joao Gabbardo, coordinator of the Contingency Committee against COVID-19, attend a press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Dec 23, 2020. Brazil's state-run Butantan Institute on Wednesday announced that the CoronaVac vaccine developed by the private Chinese laboratory Sinovac Life Science achieved levels of efficacy against the coronavirus required by the World Health Organization in trials with 13,000 Brazilian volunteers. [Photo/Xinhua]
An employee feeds a bottle of milk to a baby dugong in a pool at the Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center in Sungailiat district, Bangka Belitung, Indonesia, on Dec 23, 2020. The baby dugong, once stranded, was saved by fishermen in Muntok Bangka Sea and shipped to the Alobi Wildlife Rescue Center. [Photo/Xinhua]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (center) and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (left) attend a press conference on post-Brexit trade talks in Brussels, Belgium, on Dec 24, 2020. Von der Leyen said on Thursday the bloc has reached a fair and balanced agreement with the United Kingdom, after a prolonged last-minute negotiation, over the sticking points regarding the future relationship. [Photo/Xinhua]
Rescuers work at an explosion site in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Dec 22, 2020. Eight people were killed and 15 others injured when a boiler at an ice factory exploded on Tuesday, local reports said. [Photo/Xinhua]
A Palestinian dressed up as Santa Claus gestures as he rides a camel in the Old City of Jerusalem on Dec 22, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
Eurostar international departures are shown as canceled at St Pancras International Station in London, on Dec 21, 2020. A number of European countries on Dec 20 began to halt travel from the UK following the emergence of a highly infectious variant of coronavirus. [Photo/Xinhua]
Jupiter and Saturn appear close together during a planetary conjunction when seen as tiny dots alongside the Statue of Liberty in New York City, on Dec 21, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume feeds a sea turtle inside a fish tank at the Aquaria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Dec 23, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
