December 20, 2019

An Iraqi protester carrying his national flag walks past graffiti during ongoing anti-government protests, at Tahrir square in the capital Baghdad.

A mask covers the mouth and nose of the St. Mother Theresa with a child statue during smog and heavy air pollution in Kosovo capital Pristina.

Members of the Karnataka Reserve Police Force swing their sticks to beat two men on a scooter who rode too close to a barricade set up on a street in Mangalore amid heightened security due to protests over India’s new citizenship law.

Colorful clouds are seen as the sun rises over the city of Kronberg and the bank buildings in Frankfurt, Germany.

Workers wearing a pig and rat costume clean windows on a building in Tokyo, Dec. 19, 2019.

Artist Kaya Mar displays a painting of Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Westminster in London.

Street performer Thomas Liberto from Bel Air, Maryland, who goes by the social media name "Mr. Christmas Tree," sits by Christmas decorations around midtown New York, Dec. 19, 2019.

Hong Kong protesters gather outside a detention center in Lai Chi Kok to demand the release of protesters, in Hong Kong, China.

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, atop an ULA Atlas V rocket, lifts off on an uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.