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Our world in photos: December 15

December 15, 2020 Michaela Keil
SOUTH AFRICA — Masked with grace: Masked Cape Town City Ballet's, Hannah Ward, performed a dance from the choreography of the late world-renowned and legendary American George Balanchine's, "Serenade" at Artscape in Cape Town, Thursday. Due to a surge of COVD-19 cases in the province the company's CEO, Debbie Turner, has postponed further performances to February 2021. Photo: Nardus Engelbrecht/AP
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CALIFORNIA — Lights on the pier: A sign encouraged visitors to wear a face cover amid the coronavirus pandemic on the pier Monday, in the Manhattan Beach section of Los Angeles.
Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
BRAZIL — Racing for a remedy: A researcher for Brazil’s state-run Fiocruz Institute took an oral swab sample from a bat captured in the Atlantic Forest, at Pedra Branca state park, near Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday. Teams of researchers around the globe are racing to study the places and species from which the next pandemic may emerge.
Photo: Silvia Izquierdo/AP
MEXICO — Winners: Leon players celebrated with their trophy after defeating the Pumas 2-0 during the Mexican soccer league’s second-leg final match in Leon, Sunday.
Photo: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
CHILE — Safety glasses on: Magdalena Nahuelpan, a Mapuche Indigenous girl, looked at a total solar eclipse using special glasses in Carahue, La Araucania, Monday. The total eclipse was visible from Chile and the northern Patagonia region of Argentina, and as a partial solar eclipse in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
Photo: Esteban Felix/AP
INDIA — Farmer protests continue: Protesting farmer leaders shouted slogans as they sat for a day-long hunger strike at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi, Monday. Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have called for a national strike on Monday, the second in a week, to press for the quashing of three new laws on agricultural reform that the farmers say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings.
Photo: Manish Swarup/AP
JAPAN — Torch relay: The Tokyo Skytree, the tallest tower in Japan, was illuminated with the color of the Olympic Torch, to commemorate 100 days until the torch relay begins, Tuesday, in Tokyo.
Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP
SLOVENIA — Flying high: Germany’s Karl Geiger soared through the air during his third jump at the Ski Flying World Championships in Planica, Saturday.
Photo: Darko Bandic/AP
POLAND — Abortion rights: Anti-government protesters held up images of the ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, in Warsaw, Sunday. Thousands of anti-government protesters demonstrated in Warsaw in the latest large protest after a high court ruled in October to further tighten the country’s already restrictive abortion law. Sunday’s protest was scheduled to coincide with the 39th anniversary of the 1981 martial law crackdown by the country’s communist regime.
Photo: Czarek Sokolowski/AP
JAPAN — Asteroid probe: This photo, provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), showed soil samples, seen inside a container of the re-entry capsule brought back by Hayabusa2, in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, Tuesday. Officials from Japan’s space agency said Tuesday that they have found more than the anticipated amount of soil and gases inside a small capsule the country’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought back from a distant asteroid this month, a sample-return mission they praised as a milestone for planetary research.
Photo: JAXA via AP
TEXAS — U.S. Women’s Open Golf: A Lim Kim, of South Korea, kissed the championship trophy after winning the U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament, Monday, in Houston.
Photo: Eric Gay/AP

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