Gallery: The best photos from around the world
8 ImagesThe best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
Follow us on SMH Twitter and AGE Twitter
1/8
Sofia Rios, as a Sugar Plum Fairy, gets ready to perform in the Rio Grande Valley Ballet's "The Nutcracker," for the 48th consecutive year at the McAllen Performing Arts Center, in McAllen, Texas. Credit:Delcia Lopez/The Monitor
2/8
Athletes compete in the men's 3000 meters Steeplechase during the JAAF Athletics Championships Distance Events at Yanmar Stadium Nagai in Osaka, Japan.Credit:Getty
3/8
A Thai pro-democracy protester gives a three finger salute while posing on a rubber duck during a rally in Wongwian Yai in Bangkok, Thailand. Volunteer guards from different groups are a regular presence at pro-democracy protests in Thailand. Protest leaders said they will try to centralize control of volunteer guards, with key leader Panupong "Mike" Jadnok saying that all would-be protest guards must register within a database in order to prevent infiltration from opposing camps. Credit:Getty
4/8
A Tigray woman who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, holds her malnourished and severely dehydrated baby as nurses give him IV fluids, at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan.Credit:AP
5/8
Demonstrators leave the Place de la Republique among tear gas after a demonstration, in Paris. Thousands marched in protests around France against a contested security bill with tensions quickly rising at the Paris march as intruders set fire to several cars, broke windows and tossed projectiles at police. Credit:AP
6/8
Kimberly, 1, holding a doll with fake blood, is seen during a protest against the killing of her cousins Emily Victoria Silva dos Santos, 4, and Rebeca Beatriz Rodrigues dos Santos, 7, in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. The girls, cousins, were killed by stray bullets while playing outside their homes.Credit:AP
7/8
A soldier guards a voting poll at a school that has the eyes of the late President Hugo Chavez painted on a wall during elections to choose members of the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela. The vote, championed by President Nicolas Maduro, is rejected as fraud by the nation's most influential opposition politicians.Credit:AP
8/8
British urban climber, George King, 20, scales the 144 meters (472 ft) of the Glories tower, without ropes or suction pads, in Barcelona, Spain. It took forty minutes for George King to climb and descend the iconic 33-storey tower. King said he hopes his performance will help lift the spirits during the Christmas holiday season marred by the COVID-19 pandemic.Credit:AP