December 3, 2021

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

Firefighters work to douse a fire in a warehouse where blankets were stored in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Patient Pelageya Poyarkova, 101, second from right, speaks with media as she leaves the recovery ward for COVID-19 patients at the Federal Center for Brain and Neurotechnology in Moscow, Russia.

Abandoned cats wander in search of food at a road covered by ash and blocked by the lava at the exclusion zone near the volcano on the Canary island of La Palma, Spain.

A diver dressed as Santa Claus performs during a Christmas-themed underwater show at the COEX aquarium in Seoul.

Children work in a classroom while a schoolgirl at home is connected with a "Buddy" tele-education robot at Jules Ferry elementary school in Ormesson-sur-Marne, near Paris.

Eleanora Costantini, a 25-year-old pianist from Venice, plays a composition on the Flying Piano at the Opportunity Pavilion Plaza of the Dubai Expo.

The Carrabassett, a New Bedford-based commercial fishing vessel, sits grounded on Longnook Beach in Truro, Mass. Authorities are still working to free the boat which ran aground November 30.