About 300 children gather in Coronationville Secondary School as they wait for a food and goods distribution ahead of Christmas, led by grassroots charity Hunger Has No Religion, in Johanessburg, South Africa on Wednesday, December 23, 2020.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, their sons Hadrien and Xavier, and daughter Ella-Grace, second right, prepare to pose in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, on Sunday.

Roman Vandendrope tries to break the world record for the longest full-body contact with ice cubes, in Waterloo, France, Saturday, December 19, 2020.

Twelve years of study boiled down into one eight-hour test for graduating high-schoolers - the 'Suneung', South Korea's college entrance exam, announced results on December 23, 2020.

On December 17, 2020, President-elect of the USA Joe Biden nominated Deb Haaland to lead the Interior Department. She would be the first Native American leading a cabinet-level agency if the Senate confirmed.