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Fireworks explode next to the Arc de Triomphe with "2023" projected on the building, at the Avenue des Champs-Elysees during New Year celebrations in Paris. Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in St Mark's Square while crossing the square on an electric car in 2011 in Venice, Italy. Marco Secchi/Getty Images hide caption
Sebastian Fernandez rests as artist César "Yeyo" Molina tattoos his leg with an image of soccer player Lionel Messi kissing the World Cup trophy, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. Victor R. Caivano/AP hide caption
People gather at the bottom of a hotel, which has been partially destroyed by a Russian strike in the center of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Saturday. Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Shoppers walk through a reopened shopping mall after authorities started easing some of the anti-virus controls in Beijing on Dec. 6, 2022. Chinese manufacturing weakened for a third consecutive month in December, in the biggest drop since early 2020, as the country battles a nationwide COVID-19 surge after suddenly easing its anti-epidemic measures. Andy Wong/AP hide caption
Sgt. Mykhailo (Misha) Varvarych, 28, and his fiance, Iryna (Ira) Botvynska, 19, take part in a therapeutic swimming activity at Moldova pool in Truskavets, Ukraine. Carol Guzy for NPR hide caption
He lost his legs fighting for Ukraine. But this story is about love through adversity
An asylum-seeking migrant woman from Peru in a wheelchair is escorted through the border wall to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States in El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 21. Jim Urquhart for NPR hide caption
Ukraine marks the end of a year almost entirely spent under attack
U.S. responds cautiously to Netanyahu's return as Israel's prime minister
A boy works in a coal mine north of Kabul. Afghanistan's state-run coal industry is going strong in an otherwise shattered economy. Many underage workers are the ones who are extracting the coal. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Police officers detain demonstrators in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Sept. 21, following calls to protest against the partial mobilization announced by President Vladimir Putin. Putin called on Russian military reservists, saying his promise to use all military means in Ukraine was "no bluff," and hinting that Moscow was prepared to use nuclear weapons. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images hide caption