Simone Biles competes on the balance beam in the women's individual all-around final during the 52nd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, in Antwerp, Belgium, on October 6, 2023. #

This picture taken on September 2, 2023 shows a player scoring a try during the Water Rugby Lausanne by jumping into Lake Geneva from a floating rugby field. The match was part of a three-day tournament organized by LUC Rugby that gathered more than 240 players in Lausanne, Switzerland. #

A masked witness rests before testifying in front of a military court in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on September 15, 2023. The trial was for six soldiers accused of murdering 56 civilians during a demonstration against the presence of a United Nations peacekeeping force. #

A view of a village destroyed by a devastating earthquake, near Adassil, Morocco, on September 11, 2023. Three days earlier, a magnitude-6.8 quake struck near Marrakesh, destroying many buildings in mountainous rural villages, killing more than 2,900 people. #

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visit a construction site at the Angara rocket-launch complex in Tsiolkovsky, Russia, on September 13, 2023. Kim Jong Un was in Russia for talks with Putin. #

Danielle Collins of the United States serves against Caroline Garcia of France during their quarterfinal match of the Cymbiotika San Diego Open at Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, on September 14, 2023. #

The rear wheels spin as Andy Clifford warms the tires of his "Snake Eyes" slingshot dragster ahead of a Wild Bunch Nostalgia class heat on the final day of the STP National Finals at the Santa Pod Raceway on September 24, 2023, in Podington, England. #

Taylor Swift celebrates during the first half of a game between the Chicago Bears and the Kansas City Chiefs at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on September 24, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri. #

In this aerial view from September 28, 2023, the "Sycamore Gap" tree on Hadrian's Wall lies on the ground, leaving behind only a stump in the spot where it once stood, northeast of Haltwhistle, England. The tree, which was apparently felled overnight, was one of the U.K.'s most photographed, and appeared in the 1991 Kevin Costner film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Three people have been arrested over the incident, and are currently out on bail while the investigation into the felling continues. #

This aerial photograph, taken on October 2, 2023, shows the Rusayo IDP camp, home to tens of thousands of war-displaced people, located at the foot of the active Nyiragongo volcano, on the outskirts of Goma in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since mid-2022, hundreds of thousands of Congolese have found refuge around Goma after fleeing fighting farther north between the Congolese army and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebellion. #

After lying in state inside San Francisco City Hall, the late U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein is carried to a hearse, on October 4, 2023. The longtime Democratic senator, who died at the age of 90, had also been the first female mayor of San Francisco. #

Palestinian militants surround a truck reportedly carrying a captured Israeli woman, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023, following a surprise attack by Hamas across southern Israel in which 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, and about 240 people were taken hostage. #

Members of security forces continue to search for identification and personal effects at the Supernova music-festival site, where hundreds were killed and dozens taken by Hamas militants near the border with Gaza, on October 12, 2023, in Kibbutz Re'im, Israel. #

The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing to consider an appeal against his pretrial detention on espionage charges in Moscow, on October 10, 2023. Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal, and the U.S. government all deny the charges. He was arrested on March 29, 2023, and has been held in prison since, awaiting trial, as U.S. officials have been working to secure his release. #

A worker using a plasma torch cuts the head of a bronze monument to the Civil War General Robert E. Lee that formerly stood in Charlottesville, Virginia, before it is melted at a foundry on October 21, 2023. As part of the "Swords Into Plowshares" project, the statue was melted down with the intention to use the metal to make a new public artwork. #

An employee adjusts the skin tone on a wax figure of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, after the actor complained about how pale it appeared, at the Grévin Museum in Paris, on October 24, 2023. #

Schoolchildren wearing gas masks and suits attend training in a military-patriotic program called "School of Future Commanders" in Russian-occupied Sevastopol, Crimea, on October 28, 2023. #

An aerial view of damage caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Acapulco, Mexico, on October 28, 2023. The Category 5 hurricane underwent rapid intensification just before landfall, and caused more than $16 billion in damage. #

Canada's Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Nikolaj Sørensen perform during the dance free program in the Grand Prix de France at Angers IceParc, in Angers, France, on November 4, 2023. #

Palestinians flee Gaza City and other parts of northern Gaza on foot, heading toward southern areas along a highway on November 9, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israeli forces and Hamas. Thousands of Palestinians fled on November 8, getting away from the fighting and intense bombardment in Gaza as Israel said it was tightening its "stranglehold" around Hamas. #

Police officers work to contain protesters trying to enter a train station in Barcelona, on November 11, 2023. Riot police briefly clashed with about 2,000 pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed and occupied a commuter train station. #

A newly arrived Rohingya refugee walks to the beach after the local community decided to temporarily allow a boat full of refugees to land for water and food in Ulee Madon, Aceh province, Indonesia, on November 16, 2023. About 250 Rohingya refugees reached western Indonesia on an overcrowded wooden boat, bringing the total number of refugees reported by local officials to have arrived that week to nearly 600. #

A child greets Little Amal, a 12-foot-tall puppet representing a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child, near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on November 6, 2023. #

Smoke and dust rise during an Israeli military bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2023. Intense bombardment and ground incursions by Israeli forces have reportedly killed more than 15,000 and left "nearly 1.9 million people (or over 85 percent of the population) … displaced across the Gaza Strip since October 7," according to a December 4 report by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. #

An armed woman walks through Jerusalem during increased tensions between Palestinians and Israelis on December 4, 2023, in Israel. Israel and Hamas resumed fighting following a truce that lasted nearly a week. Both sides had agreed on the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. #