UK flag removed from EU Council | AP

The Emirati, Israeli and US flags are picture attached to an air-plane of Israel's El Al, adorned with the word "peace" in Arabic, English and Hebrew, upon it's arrival at the Abu Dhabi airport in the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE, on August 31, 2020. A US-Israeli delegation including White House advisor Jared Kushner took off on the historic first direct commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi to mark the normalisation of ties between the Jewish state and the UAE | AFP

SpaceX CEO and owner Elon Musk celebrates after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Florida, U.S. May 30, 2020 | Reuters

Riot police detain a man as they clear protesters taking part in a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on July 1, 2020, on the 23rd anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China. Hong Kong police made the first arrests under Beijing's new national security law on July 1 as the city greeted the anniversary of its handover to China with protesters fleeing water cannons | AFP

Bong Joon Ho, right, reacts as he is presented with the award for best picture for "Parasite" from presenter Jane Fonda at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Looking on from left are Song Kang-Ho and Kwak Sin Ae | AP

Ayodhya: Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat, UP Governor Anandiben Patel and others performs Bhoomi Pujan at Shree Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir, in Ayodhya, Wednesday, Aug 5, 2020 | PTI

Divastated situation after cyclon Amphan | Salil Bera

Swarms of desert locusts fly into the air from crops in Katitika village in Kenya's Kitui county on Jan. 24, 2020. In the worst outbreak in a quarter-century, hundreds of millions of the insects swarmed into Kenya from Somalia and Ethiopia, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region | AP

Humane Society International Crisis Response Specialist, Kelly Donithan approaches an injured Koala who is sitting beside another dead koala on Kangaroo Island on January 15, 2020. The charred forest floor on Kangaroo Island is littered with corpses of animals incinerated by the blazes that swept through two weeks ago | AFP

Margaret Keenan (C), 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person to receive the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital in Coventry, central England, on December 8, 2020. Britain on December 8 hailed a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, as it begins the biggest vaccination programme in the country's history with a new Covid-19 jab | AFP

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and BCCI Secretary Jay Shah present the winners trophy to Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma after winning the final cricket match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 against Delhi Capitals, at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020 | PTI

Congress party supporters shout slogans as they gather around a flag displaying the country and flag of China along with an inscription reading 'Boycott Made in China' before burning them during an anti-China demonstration in Kolkata on June 18, 2020. India and China agreed on June 17 to ease tensions at their disputed Himalayan border, even as they traded blame for a brawl that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead | AFP

A farmer at Singhu border during the 'Delhi Chalo' protest march against the new farm laws, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020 | PTI

Nirbhaya rape and murder case victim's parents along with advocates Seema Kushwaha (2R), Jitendra Jha (L) and others react after four men convicted of the crime were executed inside Tihar jail, in Dwarka, New Delhi on March 20, 2020. Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) were executed at 5.30 am for the savage assault in an empty moving bus on the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern who came to be known world over as Nirbhaya | PTI

People mourn next to the body of Muddasir Khan, who succumbed to his injuries in a clash between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law, in a riot affected area in New Delhi | Reuters

This still image taken from a May 25, 2020, video courtesy of Darnella Frazier via Facebook, shows a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer arresting George Floyd. Witnesses say Floyd repeatedly tell the officers, 'I cannot breathe!', after being pinned to the ground by an officer with his knee on Floyd's neck | AFP

A migrant labourer reacts while talking to a relative over his mobile phone, at Nizamuddin Bridge in New Delhi, Monday, May 11, 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown | PTI

Combination of pictures from a footage filmed from an office building when a massive explosion rocked Beirut, shows a fireball exploding with smoke billowing at the port of the Lebanese capital on August 4, 2020. Emergency medical aid and pop-up field hospitals were dispatched to Lebanon along with rescue experts and tracking dogs, as the world reached out to the victims of the massive explosion that devastated Beirut, killing more than 100 people and heaping misery on a country already in crisis | AFP

Wilmington: US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris holds hands as they celebrate after winning the election | PTI

This photo taken on January 30, 2020 shows officials in protective suits checking on an elderly man wearing a facemask who collapsed and died on a street near a hospital in Wuhan. AFP journalists saw the body on January 30, not long before an emergency vehicle arrived carrying police and medical staff in full-body protective suits. The World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the new coronavirus, as China reported on January 31 the death toll had climbed to 213 with nearly 10,000 infections | AFP