A medical worker wears personal protective equipment marked with the words “Happy New Year 2021” to encourage COVID-19 patients at the Bogor City Hospital in West Java, Indonesia, on Jan. 1.

Afghans climb atop a plane as they attempt to flee Taliban rule at the airport in Kabul on Aug. 16.

Exhausted grave diggers rest in between funerals at a cemetery designated for COVID-19 victims in Bandung, Indonesia, on June 15.

People walk through a sea of flags that are part of the “In America: Remember” public art installation commemorating Americans who have died from COVID-19 on the National Mall in Washington on Sept. 19.

A man is doused by a water cannon during clashes with police as people gather in defiance of Belgium’s COVID-19 social distancing measures and restrictions in Brussels on May 1.

The Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system (left) intercepts rockets (right) fired by the Hamas movement from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip toward southern Israel as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight on May 14.

Burning pyres of COVID-19 victims are seen at a cremation ground in New Delhi on April 26.

A resident holds an empty water hose during an attempt to extinguish forest fires approaching the village of Pefki on the Greek island of Evia on Aug. 8.

A girl leans out the window of a vehicle loaded with suitcases as it waits at the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip to travel into Egypt on Feb. 9.

A man reacts at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein Hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on July 13 after a massive fire killed nearly 100 people.

A health care worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a man in Fier, Albania, on Feb. 19.

A Shiite fighter reloads during clashes in Tayouneh, Lebanon, a southern suburb of Beirut, on Oct. 14.

Haley Agnew wipes sweat from her brow as she works with fellow firefighters to battle the moorland and gorse fire on the slopes of Slieve Donard mountain in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, on April 24.

Couples dance samba as smoke rises from a burning pyrotechnics warehouse in Moscow on June 19.

A young boy holds grocery bags as he walks away from a burnt and looted Auchan supermarket in Dakar, Senegal, on March 6. The fire took place amid protests following the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on rape charges.

Insurrectionists climb the walls of the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a riot seeking to cancel the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results Jan. 6.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter took this shot while hovering over the Martian surface on April 19—the first instance of powered, controlled flight on another planet.

A pro-democracy protester is detained by riot police officers during a rally against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 27.

Children play in the Umm Jurn camp for the displaced, near the village of Kafr Uruq, in Syria’s northern rebel-held Idlib province on Jan. 17.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande in Del Rio, Texas, on Sept. 19.

A protester asks South Africa Police Service officers not to shoot in Johannesburg on July 11 following a wave of unrest.

Taliban fighters stand guard in a vehicle along a roadside in Kabul on Aug. 16 after taking the capital.

An injured resident of Togoga, Ethiopia, arrives on a stretcher at a hospital in Mekele, the capital city of the Tigray region, on June 23, a day after a deadly airstrike on a market in Ethiopia’s war-torn northern Tigray region.

A family receives medical attention after the rescue boat that saved them from rising floodwaters capsized in Sydney on March 23.

French firefighters protect a painting with a fireproof blanket during a drill aimed at preserving artwork in the Saint-Andre cathedral in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on Oct. 12.

A Ukrainian serviceman walks in a trench near a mannequin as he works his post on the front line with Russia-backed separatists near the town of Zolote, Ukraine, on April 8.

Two astronauts from Europe and Israel walk in spacesuits during a Mars training mission at the Ramon Crater in Israel’s southern Negev desert on Oct. 10. Six astronauts from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Israel were cut off from the world for most of October, only able leave their habitat in spacesuits as if they were on Mars.

Queen Elizabeth II sits at the funeral service of her husband, Britain’s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, inside St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in England on April 17. Philip, who was married to Queen Elizabeth II for 73 years, died April 9 at the age of 99.

Dark smoke drifts over a hotel complex during a massive forest fire on Turkey’s southern coast near the town of Manavgat on July 29.

Medical personnel take COVID-19 patient Marta Pascual, 72, back to Hospital del Mar after getting some fresh air at a beach in Barcelona on March 4.

The Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given, a 1,300-foot-long vessel, is lodged sideways in the Suez Canal, impeding all traffic across the waterway, on March 24. The giant container ship ran aground after a gust of wind blew it off course, the vessel’s operator said. It was finally dislodged March 30.

A man reaches out to George Floyd’s sister Bridgett Floyd as she walks past messages written by protesters upon leaving the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on March 8. It was the first day of jury selection in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who would be convicted of George Floyd's May 2020 murder.

A young resident helps clean up outside his home following heavy rains and floods in Rochefort, Belgium, on July 17.

A child tosses a surgical mask into a fire during a mask-burning event at the Idaho Statehouse in Boise on March 6. Citizens and politicians, including Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, gathered in at least 20 cities across the state to protest COVID-19 restrictions.

A man carries a young victim at the scene of an explosion in the town of Azaz, in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo province, on Jan. 31.

Demonstrators protest against the government of President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 14.

Residents of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, flee the city following sudden activity at the Mount Nyiragongo volcano May 22.

A migrant father grips his children while walking ashore on the bank of the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border in Roma, Texas, on April 14.

A police officer and rescue dog search the area around a landslide in Atami, Shizuoka, Japan, on July 4.

Hikers watch as lava flows from the Fagradalsfjall volcano about 25 miles west of Reykjavik, Iceland, on March 21.

April Phillips of Chester, California, wipes her face while watching a family dog at an evacuation center in Susanville, California, on Aug. 6. The growing Dixie Fire forced Phillips and her family to evacuate; they have been living in their cars.

Migrants gather in Kuznica, Poland, near the Belarusian–Polish border crossing on Nov. 15.

A member of the National Border Service carries a migrant boy at the Migrants Reception Station in Lajas Blancas, Darien Province, in Panama on Feb. 9. Migrants from Haiti and several African countries were stranded at the Panama-Colombia border.

Amid surging coronavirus cases in India, a man is given oxygen provided by a gurdwara, a place of worship for Sikhs, along a roadside in Ghaziabad, India, on April 26.

Children wait to board a bus at a processing center for refugees evacuated from Afghanistan at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia, on Aug. 24.

A person sleeps on empty oxygen cylinders while waiting to get them refilled in Villa El Salvador, on the southern outskirts of Lima, Peru, on Feb. 25. Relatives of COVID-19 patients are desperate for oxygen to keep their loved ones alive during a fierce second wave of the pandemic.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump clash with police and security forces as they storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.

Performers dance during a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China at the Bird’s Nest National Stadium in Beijing on June 28.

Brazilian coronavirus patients are set up in a field hospital at a sports gym in Santo Andre, Sao Paulo, on March 26.

A flight crew in traditional Bavarian costume waves to a plane bound for Miami at Munich Airport in Freising, Germany, on Nov. 8. It was the first day tourists from Europe were allowed to enter the United States since COVID-19 restrictions went into effect.