A reveler celebrates New Year's in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, US.

Nancy Allen and Brian Allen stand outside their home as high winds push smoke and ash from the Currowan Fire towards Nowra, New South Wales, Australia. Reuters photographer Tracey Nearmy said: "Covering Australia's sparsely populated regions is difficult.

And when the bushfires started this summer, getting there was tricky. After a day of travelling, I found myself in smoky red haze face-to-face with Nancy Allen in Nowra, New South Wales. Nancy and her husband Brian, dressed in a singlet and shorts, were trying to defend their home with a garden hose.

The fire bearing down on their town was so intense, it was creating its own pyrocumulonimbus storm, and the police had evacuated the area hours earlier.

Yet, Nancy and Brian stayed in the swirling smoke and ash, anxiously wetting down the front of their house.

Nancy's expression in this photograph summed up the shock and disbelief many Australians felt at the ferocity and enormity of these fires."

Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at New York Criminal Court for his sexual assault trial in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US.

On February 24, Weinstein was convicted of two of five criminal charges: one count of criminal sexual assault in the first degree and one count of rape in the third degree.

He has been sentenced to 23 years in prison and is serving his sentence at Wende Correctional Facility.

A man walks on a road blanketed with volcanic ash from the erupting Taal Volcano in Tagaytay, Philippines.

A student of the Jamia Millia Islamia university, injured after an unidentified person allegedly opened fire during an anti-CAA protest, is assisted towards a hospital in New Delhi.

Chinese children wear plastic bottles as makeshift homemade protection and protective masks while waiting to check in to a flight at Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing, China.

A man waves a British flag on Brexit day in London, Britain. The historic departure known as "Brexit" came more than three tumultuous years after 51.89 per cent of people from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland an Gibraltar voted to leave the European Union.

Shakira and Jennifer Lopez perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida.

Ryzhik the cat, who lost all four paws and got 3D-printed titanium prosthetics in 2019, is seen at the veterinarian clinic in Novosibirsk, Russia.

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rips up the speech of US President Donald Trump after his State of the Union address to a joint session of the US Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington.

"Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho poses with his Academy Awards as he attends the Oscars Governors Ball in Los Angeles.

"Parasite" became the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for best picture. It also won Oscars for best director, best international feature film and best original screenplay.

Dogs wear masks at a main shopping area during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in downtown Shanghai, China.

Hossam Nasser, 32, plays with his camel "Anter" in front of his house in the Nubian village of Gharb Soheil, on the west bank of the Nile river in Aswan, Egypt.

A man attempts to fend-off a swarm of desert locusts at a ranch near the town of Nanyuki in Laikipia county, Kenya.

A group of men chanting pro-Hindu slogans, beat Mohammad Zubair, 37, who is Muslim, during protests sparked by a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India.

Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui: "It had been a winter of protests in India, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets against a new citizenship law that many felt discriminated against the country's Muslim minority. In February, competing protests between those against the law and its supporters turned into communal riots with violent clashes.

A source called me to tell me that trouble had broken out at one of the protest sites. Within a few minutes of arriving on the scene, it became clear this was a more dangerous situation, with heavy stone-pelting, and throwing of Molotov cocktails and bottles of acid.

Shadowing lines of heavily outnumbered police, I noticed more than a dozen people ranging from teenagers to old men assaulting a Muslim man in white clothes. Using sticks, cricket stumps, plastic pipes and metal rods, they brutally beat the man. Blood flowed from his head as he went down on his knees.

The attack was over in less than a minute, as Muslims on the other side of the road started throwing stones. The man, whom I later came to know as Mohammad Zubair, lay on the road alone as stones, bricks and Molotov cocktails flew over him. Zubair suffered serious injuries all over his body."

US President Donald Trump gestures next to US First Lady Melania Trump as they tour the historic Taj Mahal, in Agra, India.

A man sets himself on fire during protest rallies in front of the presidential office in Kiev, Ukraine.

The man, who called himself Oleksandr Burlakov, said subsequently that his motive was to draw the attention of the authorities to his plight, related to the ownership of the land parcel.

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive at the Endeavour Fund Awards in London, Britain.

In January, the couple announced that they were stepping back from their roles as senior members of the British royal family.

A nurse rests during a night shift at a hospital in Cremona, Italy. This widely shared image became symbolic of the extreme fatigue that Italian healthcare workers were facing as they battled Europe's worst outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

A man, with his face daubed in colours, wears eye frames made of bamboo straw during Holi celebrations in Chennai, India.

A nurse in protective suit attends to a baby with COVID-19, caused by the coronavirus, at an isolation ward of Wuhan Children's Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, China.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan greets outgoing Chief Minister Kamal Nath during a swearing-in ceremony at Raj Bhawan, in Bhopal.

Opera singer Stephane Senechal sings for his neighbours from his apartment window in Paris on March 24. It was the 10th day of a strict lockdown in France.

The Olympic cauldron is lit during the 'Flame of Recovery' special exhibition at Aquamarine Park a day after the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games announced due to the coronavirus pandemic in Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan.

A group of migrant workers walk to their native places amid the nationwide complete lockdown, on the NH24 near Delhi-UP border in New Delhi on March 27.

Rajesh Babu, a police officer, wearing a helmet depicting coronavirus, requests a commuter to stay at home during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus disease in Chennai.

Mountain goats roam the streets of LLandudno in Llandudno, Wales. The goats normally live on the rocky Great Orme but are occasional visitors to the seaside town, but a local councillor told the BBC that the herd was drawn this time by the lack of people and tourists due to the COVID-19 outbreak and quarantine measures.

A health worker sanitises an area near Nizamuddin mosque, after people who attended the religious congregation at Tabligh-e-Jamaat's Markaz, tested postive for COVID-19, in New Delhi.

The Markaz in Nizamuddin West, became among the major coronavirus hotspots in the country.

An aerial view shows the deserted Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, during a lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease in France.

Health workers wearing protective face masks react during a tribute for their co-worker Esteban, a male nurse who died of the coronavirus disease, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, outside the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain.

A health care worker stands in a Denver street, counterprotesting a rally where people were demanding that stay-at-home orders be lifted.

Protesters around the US had rallied against coronavirus restrictions and complained that they infringe on their personal freedoms and threaten to destroy their livelihoods

A local resident dressed as Yamraj, wearing a novel coronavirus-themed balloon necklace, gestures as he poses during an awareness about social distancing and staying at home organised by Delhi police during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease, in New Delhi.

A police officer raises a baton at a man who, according to police, had broken the social distancing rule, outside a wine shop during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease, in New Delhi.

Pro-democracy lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-dick scuffles with security and pro-China lawmakers during a House Committee meeting in Hong Kong.

Chu and several other lawmakers were carried out of the room by security after they didn't comply with chairman Starry Lee's warnings to sit down.

A migrant labourer gets emotional while talking to a relative over his mobile phone at Nizamuddin Bridge, in New Delhi.

People sit in circles meant to encourage social distancing in Domino Park along the East River in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City.

Executive Assistant Jessie Dawson sits among mannequins occupying some tables so diners will not feel isolated by coronavirus disease social distancing measures when The Inn at Little Washington, a Michelin three-star restaurant, reopens shortly in Washington, Virginia, US.

The Great Banyan, the world's largest banyan tree, after it was partially damaged during Cyclone Amphan, at Botanical Garden in Howrah district.

Swiss artists Frank and Patrik Riklin pose in the bedroom of their Zero-Real-Estate land art installation, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease continues, on an alp in front of the Churfirsten mountain range and Lake Walen near Walenstadt, Switzerland.

Riot police rush demonstrators as they clear Lafayette Park and the area around it across from the White House for US President Donald Trump to be able to walk through for a photo opportunity in front of St John's Episcopal Church, during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, near the White House, in Washington.

US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible during a photo opportunity in front of St John's Episcopal Church in the midst of ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, outside the White House in Washington.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wears a mask as he takes a knee during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

The statue of 17th century slave trader Edward Colston falls into the water after protesters pulled it down and pushed into the docks, during a protest against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Bristol, Britain.

A woman cries as a horse-drawn carriage carrying the casket containing the body of George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis police custody has sparked nationwide protests against racial inequality, passes by in Pearland, Texas.

Reuters photographer Carlos Barria: "The death of George Floyd triggered a massive wave of nationwide protests demanding justice and police accountability. But it was different this time, covering protests during a global pandemic. Each time we went out on the streets, we had to work hard to assess and minimise the risk.

It was very difficult to photograph people's expressions as they wore masks, but as the horse-drawn carriage bearing Floyd's casket passed on its way to the cemetery, I heard someone screaming. When I turned, I saw a woman without a face mask on, crying as she held up her phone.

I took a few pictures, but only later realised that the carriage was reflected in her phone, capturing all the elements to tell the story within a single frame."

Protester Patrick Hutchinson carries a suspected far-right counter-protester who was injured, to safety, near Waterloo station during a Black Lives Matter protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, in London, Britain.

Photographer Dylan Martinez said: "The crowd parted right in front of me. I was in the right place at the right time, and incredibly lucky from that point of view.

A Black protester emerged from the melee, walking briskly towards me, carrying a white man with injuries to his face in a fireman's lift over his shoulder.

The anti- racism protests in London had been fluid and unpredictable. After witnessing sporadic, minor clashes between demonstrators and police in Trafalgar Square, I switched attention to nearby Waterloo Bridge, where several hundred anti-racism protesters had gathered. They took over the whole of the bridge. There was a traffic jam going from south to north, but the vibe was good – cars were honking and people were celebrating.

The mood quickly turned ugly when they encountered a group of counter-protesters and clashes broke out. I saw a skirmish and someone falling to the ground before the two men appeared through the crowd. Some people shouted out that the assault victim was a member of the far- right. Reuters journalists at the scene said he had been beaten in a skirmish with anti-racism protesters.

This picture went viral on social media and was featured in news bulletins. Patrick Hutchinson has been hailed a hero for carrying the injured man to safety during the scuffle. 'It was the right thing to do,' he told Reuters later. 'We didn't want the narrative changed and the focus taken away from what we are all fighting for, and that's true equality.'"

Funeral procession of Naib Subedar Satnam Singh who was martyred during a face-off with Chinese troops in Ladakh's Galwan Valley, at his native village Vhoj Raj in Gurdaspur district.

People participate in an outdoor yoga class by LMNTS Outdoor Studio, in a dome to facilitate social distancing and proper protocols to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Nursery plants are seen placed in people's seats during a rehearsal as Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu opera reopens its doors with a concert for plants to raise awareness about the importance of an audience after the lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Barcelona, Spain.

Minions toys are seen on cinema chairs to maintain social distancing between spectators at a MK2 cinema in Paris as Paris' cinemas reopen doors to the public following the coronavirus disease outbreak in France.

Swiss acrobat Ramon Kathriner performs Wheel Of The Death during the Airshow, marking the reopening of facilities after the coronavirus disease lockdown in Les Diablerets, Switzerland.

A Reuters photographer holds a picture of a reveller sprinting in front of a bull during the first running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival, taken in July 2019, in front of a street, during the second day of San Fermin festival which was cancelled due to the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Pamplona, Spain.

Police and media at the encounter site where gangster Vikas Dubey was killed when he allegedly tried to escape from the spot following an accident, near Kanpur.

Dubey, accused of killing eight policemen, was being brought to Kanpur from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh a day after his arrest.

Tercio Galdino, 66, and his wife Aliceia, 65, wear their protective 'space suits' as they walk on the sidewalk of Copacabana Beach amid the outbreak of COVID-19 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rapper Kanye West holds his own presidential campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina. He emotionally spoke about his faith, his late mother and his family, causing some media personalities and others on social media to speculate about West's well-being.

A sponge with toothpicks is seen inside a lift to prevent people from touching the lift buttons with their bare hands at a residential society, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Mumbai, India.

An injured man is pictured under a vehicle following an explosion in Beirut's port area, Lebanon. The explosion blew out windows in buildings across the city and could be felt as far as Cyprus, hundreds of miles away.

Lyra Conley hugs Caesar McCool, a therapy llama nicknamed the "No Drama Llama" at site of ongoing protests against police violence and racial inequality, in Portland, Oregon,US.

Security personnel stand guard near the mangled remains of an Air India Express flight, en route from Dubai, after it skidded off the runway while landing at Karippur in Kozhikode.

People hold glasses of wine as they perform wine yoga in Riga, Latvia.

Lightning strikes are seen above the skyline of Shanghai's financial district of Pudong, China.

Locals harvest their potatoes as Mount Sinabung spews volcanic ash in Karo, North Sumatra province, Indonesia.

A view shows the bulk carrier ship MV Wakashio, that ran aground on a reef, at Riviere des Creoles, Mauritius.

A participant embraces a member of Belarusian Interior Ministry troops, who stands guard during an opposition demonstration to protest against police violence and to reject the presidential election results near the Government House in Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus

Steve Krofchik of Las Vegas keeps cool with a bottle of ice on his head as the unofficial thermometer reads 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius), with a mechanical fault on the display causing the numbers to render incorrectly, at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center in Death Valley, California, US.

Juliana, who says she is four months pregnant, reacts in front of the body of her husband Davi Barboza, who was shot in Sao Carlos, during a police operation after heavy confrontations between drug gangs, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Harivansh Narayan Singh offers tea to suspended MPs at the premises of Parliament House, as they stage a protest over their suspension from the remaining Monsoon Session of Parliament over the ruckus created in Rajya Sabha, in New Delhi.

Sylvain, alias Freaky Hoody, a primary school teacher and France's "most tattooed man", poses with his eyes full of black ink at Palaiseau, southern Paris, France.

US President Donald Trump, right, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden take part in the first presidential debate. At centre is moderator Chris Wallace, who had his hands full as the debate often devolved into shouting, rancor and cross talk that sometimes made it impossible to follow what either candidate was talking about.

Senior advocate Mahipal Ahluwalia offers sweets to senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, one the accused in Babri mosque demolition case, after the verdict by the special CBI court, in New Delhi. All 32 accused in the Babri mosque demolition case have been acquitted by the court.

A drone image shows decommissioned cruise ships being dismantled at Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, some cruise companies have been retiring ships earlier than expected.

Police stop Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at Delhi-Noida border as she attempts to move towards Hathras to meet family members of the 19-year-old woman who died after being allegedly gang-raped, in Noida.

Pistachio, a puppy that was born with green fur, is seen on the day he was born on a farm on the island of Sardinia, in Pattada, Italy.

A man struggles to stay afloat in gushing floodwater following heavy rains, at Falaknuma, in Hyderabad.

An anti-government protester pushes against riot police after being sprayed with water cannons in Bangkok, Thailand.

Dana Clark and her 18-month-old son, Mason, wait in line at City Hall as early voting began in New Orleans.

Clark, a teacher, said she donned this protective cover because Mason didn't have a mask and she didn't know how many people would be wearing masks in line.

Residents are silhouetted as they watch the Blue Ridge Fire burning in Yorba Linda, California, US.

A general view of a metro that crashed through a stop block and landed on an artwork of a whale tail at De Akkers subway station in Spijkenisse, near Roterdam, Netherlands.

US President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff react on stage after Biden's address to the nation from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware.

After four days of counting the high volume of mail-in ballots in key battleground states due to the coronavirus pandemic, the race was called for Biden after a contentious election battle against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump.

People watch as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Sweat runs down the face of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to US President Donald Trump, as he speaks about the 2020 presidential election results during a news conference at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington.

People walk past a newly installed mural of the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Manhattan's East Village in New York City.

The mural of the Brooklyn-born Justice is displayed on a wall above a restaurant and is by a New York-based street artist named "Elle."

The three-story-tall mural celebrates the life of the liberal icon who died of pancreatic cancer in September. She was 87 years old.

Dr Joseph Varon hugs and comforts a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit during Thanksgiving at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas.

Texas was the first US state to pass 1 million coronavirus cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. "As I'm going inside my Covid unit I see that this elderly patient is out of his bed and trying to get out of the room and he's crying," Varon said.

"So, I get close to him and I tell him 'why are you crying' and the man says, 'I want to be with my wife.' " Varon said the man would not be able to see his wife until he tested negative on his swabs and could be discharged.

A security person baton charges on a farmer as protestors cross Singhu border during 'Delhi Chalo' protest march against the new farm laws, in New Delhi.

Mateo Johnson, 6, and Neah Johnson, 3, share their Santa letters while visiting with Santa in Seattle, Washington. Known as the Seattle Santa, he is usually booked for private events but is set up this year in a socially- distanced snow globe for public visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A woman stands in flooded St Mark's Square during high tide as the flood barriers known as Mose are not raised, in Venice, Italy.

Margaret Keenan, 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital at the start of the largest ever immunisation programme in the UK's history in Coventry, United Kingdom.

A doctor collects a swab sample from a man to be tested for the coronavirus disease outside Clinic Ajwa in Shah Alam, Malaysia.

Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the coronavirus disease vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester from Northwell Health at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, US.