The decisive moments tell the stories around the world.
A mahout, elephant handler, removes dung and other material as he cleans the area around a domesticated elephant on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec.9, 2017. The elephants are hired for wedding processions in northern India. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)
Participants hold messages during a space-out event in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017. The event under the slogan "Relax your brain" aimed at promoting a life free from stress and information overload. The message at left reads: "I thought I could.” (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
An aquarium staff member dressed in a Santa Claus costume greets visitors at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium-amusement park complex in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
A woman on a sun-bed enjoy the good weather at the beach in southern coastal city of Larnaca, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. The temperature on the island was still between 20-22C (68-71,6F). (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
A display of Christmas decorations are seen at the main square of Nagyvarad (Oradea), Romania, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (Zsolt Czegledi/MTI via AP)
A mother poses for a photo with her children in front of Lithuania's biggest Christmas tree at Cathedral square in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Children look at sharks swimming at the main tank of the aquarium at the Zoo in Madrid, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
A Cambodian man squeezes juice from palm flowers to make a palm sugar during harvest season at Samroang village on the north side of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Some villagers earn up to USD$7 a day collecting palm juice as part of their daily income. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A farmer drives an oxcart as he carries harvested rice back home sfter a day in the fields of Oudong village on the north side of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A 1500 kilogram heavy black rhinoceros leaves its indoor enclosure through a curtain in the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
People are silhouetted while walking through rows of lanterns during the opening night of the Vancouver Chinese Lantern Festival at the Pacific National Exhibition, in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. The festival features hundreds of illuminated lanterns and is open until Jan. 21, 2018. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, bottom, U.S. astronaut Scott Tingle, above, and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, ISS, wave near the rocket prior to the launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Shamil Zhumatov, Pool)
People wearing Santa Claus costumes row on Canal Grande in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Dec. 17 2017. Almost a hundred traditional rowing boats, of various kinds and sizes, for about two hundred rowers, gave life to the traditional water procession of the Santa Claus, parading along the Grand Canal. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)