A crab migration on Christmas Island, dengue-fever outbreaks in Pakistan, a castle in eastern France, migrants crossing the English Channel, illegal gold miners on a Brazilian river, a candlelight vigil in Wisconsin, the opening of an ancient walkway in Egypt, and much more

People visit the 125-foot-tall (38 meter-tall) statue of Zheng Chenggong (also known as Koxinga) atop Daping mountain on November 21, 2021, in Quanzhou, Fujian province, China. #

A woman stands in front of the 40-foot-tall (12 meter-tall) art installation "Man" by Amanda Parer, displayed at Expo 2020, in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai, on November 24, 2021. #

A mural of the late soccer star Diego Maradona decorates a wall beneath a bush at the Lugar del Sol foundation for poor children in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on November 24, 2021. The first anniversary of the soccer legend's death was on November 25. #

A model wears a creation from the Apartamento 03 collection during Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 20, 2021. #

Sinclair's Dino balloon floats during the 95th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 25, 2021, in New York City. #

A photographer stands in the middle of the Avenue of Sphinxes, known as El Kebbash Road, following an official ceremony for the opening of the ancient walkway on November 25, 2021, in Luxor, Egypt. The ceremony was meant to highlight the country's archaeological treasures as Egypt struggles to revive its tourism industry, battered by years of political turmoil and the COVID-19 pandemic. #

Visitors pose for a photograph on a viewing platform with the artwork “Tunnel of Light,” by Ma Yansong / MAD Architects, at the Kiyotsu-kyo Gorge on November 21, 2021, in Tokamachi, Japan. #

A view of skyscrapers seen during a sunset over Shanghai, China, on November 23, 2021. #

A cow is silhouetted grazing near smoke emanating from the chimney of an incineration plant in Lausanne, Switzerland, at sunrise on November 19, 2021. #

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on board, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on November 23, 2021. NASA launched the spacecraft to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth. #

Kenosha residents attend a candlelight vigil in remembrance of victims a day after a car plowed through a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on November 22, 2021. #

A woman sets a krathong into the water in Bangkok during Loy Krathong, an annual festival in which floating decorative rafts are released into rivers and ponds across the country during the evening of the full moon of the 12th Thai lunar month, on November 19, 2021. #

Off from school due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Felix (right), and his brother Asa play with their father Stu Naranch in a pile of fall leaves that they raked together in a park in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 2021. #

A squirrel named Alvin, adopted by a couple who run a cafe, drinks tea in the Basiskele district of Kocaeli, Turkey, on November 22, 2021. #

A pumpkin floats in floodwaters near a farm in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, on November 21, 2021. Residents and farmers continue to clean up and recover nearly a week after the province declared a state of emergency following record rainfall. #

A water drop hangs from a berry in a garden outside Moscow, Russia, on November 20, 2021. #

This aerial photo taken on November 22, 2021, shows a person swimming in a partially-frozen lake during a snowfall at a park in Shenyang, in northeastern China's Liaoning province. #

An aerial view shows hundreds of dredging rafts operated by illegal miners who have gathered in a gold rush on the Madeira, a major tributary of the Amazon river, in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, on November 23, 2021. #

Members of the public walk down Oxford Street in London, England, on November 23, 2021. #

A mother takes care of her son who is suffering from dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, in a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, on November 22, 2021. Pakistani health officials are battling dengue-fever outbreaks across the country as hospitals continue to receive scores of patients, putting a strain on the poor existing emergency services, local media have reported. #

Migrants are helped ashore from a Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat on a beach in Dungeness, southeast England, on November 24, 2021, after being rescued while crossing the English Channel. The past three years have seen a significant rise in attempted Channel crossings by migrants, despite warnings of the dangers in the busy shipping lane between northern France and southern England. #

Members of the Mexican Army wear sombreros during a parade to commemorate the 111th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, at Zocalo square in Mexico City, on November 20, 2021. #

Women perform during a march marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Santiago, Chile, on November 25, 2021. #

Dancers perform the Kecak Dance, a traditional cultural performance in Bali, at Melasti beach in Badung, Bali, Indonesia, on November 20, 2021. #

The sun sets over Fleckenstein Castle in Lembach, eastern France, on November 24, 2021. #

A worker pushes his bicycle under a line of cable trolleys transporting coal in Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India , on November 19, 2021. #

A dog chases a mechanical rabbit during a competition in Peshawar, Pakistan, on November 19, 2021. #

Darius Serban and Vasile Marian Gitlan of Romania fall from their sled as they compete in the team relay race during the FIL Luge World Cup 2021/2022, a test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics, at the Yanqing National Sliding Center on November 21, 2021, in Beijing, China. #

Haitians wait to cross the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, on November 19, 2021. Fridays are one of the busiest days at the binational market between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. #

In this handout image, hundreds of red crabs are seen walking along and in a drain on November 23, 2021, on Christmas Island. The annual migration of red crabs begins with the first rains of the wet season on Christmas Island, usually around October or November. Millions of the red crabs make their way across the island to the ocean to mate and spawn. #

A French farmer plows his field during sunset in Hermies, France, on November 22, 2021. #

Renee Reeves delivers an apple crisp to a home in the evacuation zone after rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province of British Columbia, triggering landslides and floods and shutting highways, in Abbottsford, British Columbia, on November 22, 2021. #

Esnayder, a migrant boy from Honduras, is pulled in a toy car by his father Hever Calero, as they take part in a caravan to the U.S. border, near Villa Mapastepec, Mexico, on November 22, 2021. #

A cat runs past burning barricades during a metalworkers' strike in Puerto Real, near Cadiz, Spain, on November 24, 2021. #

A crow attacks an egret on a cricket pitch after rain stopped play during the third day of the first Test cricket match between Sri Lanka and West Indies at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle, Sri Lanka, on November 23, 2021. #

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