Wildfires in California have been more ravaging this year than in the past, burning a total area of over 16,000 square kilometers and causing 31 deaths. The picture shows fire blanketing a wide area with smoke and ash in Orange County, California, U.S., December 3, 2020. /CFP

A man is being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus at a clinic in Moscow, Russia, December 2, 2020. /CFP

Preparations are underway for the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., U.S., December 3, 2020. /CFP

The Korean college entrance examination, originally scheduled for mid-November, was held after a delay of nearly a month with a record-low 493,400 candidates appearing this year, according to the South Korean Ministry of Education. The picture shows an examiner at a local high school confirming the identity of candidates in Busan, South Korea, December 3, 2020. /CFP

In a protest against the decline in insect populations and for a new law to protect them, activists from the environmental campaign group Campact laid out about 200 over-sized cardboard cutouts of bees in front of the German Chancellery, Berlin, Germany, December 2, 2020. /CFP

People went shopping after the second national lockdown ended and shops reopened in Newcastle, Australia, December 2, 2020. /CFP

A man posing as Santa Clause tells stories to children during a breakfast at Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S., December 5, 2020. /CFP