December 31, 2021

A Rohingya child looks on near a window of a bus during an evacuation after arriving by boat at a port in Krueng Geukuh near Lhokseumawe, North Aceh, Indonesia.

A health worker prepares a sample taken for a COVID-19 test at a free testing center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Runners compete in the Sao Silvestre international race in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 15-kilometer race held annually on New Year's Eve, suspended in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, was closed the public as a safety precaution but all runners were fully vaccinated.

Indian balloon vendors walk back home as the sun sets on New Year's Eve in Jammu, India.

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year's Eve celebrations begin in Sydney.

Family members of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu embrace at the remembrance wall after reading messages from the public, outside the St. Georges Cathedral, in Cape Town, South Africa.

Auto-rickshaws make their way along a waterlogged street after a heavy rainfall in Chennai, India.

A kite maker prepares kites in his workshop ahead of the New Year celebrations on the outskirts of Amritsar, India.

Nurses perform timed breathing exercises on a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France.

A burnt out car sits in front of a smoldering home, in Superior, Colo. An estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping center have burned and tens of thousands of people were evacuated in wind-fueled wildfires outside Denver.

Teddy, a 12-year-old miniature poodle, looks on wearing 2022 glasses on West 47th Street ahead of New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square, in New York City.