December 7, 2015

Gary Mendoza, and his son Michael pay their respects at a makeshift memorial site honoring shooting victims in San Bernardino, California. Thousands of employees of San Bernardino County are preparing to return to work, five days after a county restaurant inspector and his wife opened fire on a gathering of his co-workers, killing 14 people and wounding 21.

Civilians and rescue workers remove a toddler and search for other victims amid the rubble of a building following a reported air strike by Syrian government forces on the Sukkari neighborhood of Syria's northern city of Aleppo.

A Russian police officer holds a puppy, named Dobrynya, before presenting it to French police in the French Embassy in Moscow, Russia. Russian police puppy Dobrynya will take place of a French service dog Diesel which died in a special operation held in Paris on Nov. 18.

Lilian Tintori (center - l), wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, celebrates next to candidates of the Venezuelan coalition of opposition parties (MUD) during a news conference on the election in Caracas. Opposition won control of the legislature from the ruling Socialists for the first time in 16 years, giving them a long-sought platform to challenge President Nicolas Maduro.

An Afghan man is seen through the cracked window of a vehicle at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Surkhrod district of Nangarhar province.

A woman wears a scarf as she walks along a street in Beijing, China.

Refugees and migrants approach the Greek island of Lesbos on a dinghy after crossing the Aegean sea from the Turkish coast.

Spain's Rafael Nadal of the Indian Aces is mobbed by his Filipino fans following his win over the Czech Republic’s Tomas Berdych of the UAE Royals in the men's singles of the 2015 International Premier Tennis League at the Mall of Asia Arena in suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, the Philippines.

The top of Switzerland's highest skyscaper, the Prime Tower (126 meters/413 ft) peeps through the fog in Zurich, with the Alps in the background.

Chinese artist Kong Ning in her costume made of hundreds of orange plastic blowing horns during her art performance raising awareness of the hazardous smog in a historical part of Beijing, China.

The first Zumwalt-class destroyer, the largest ever built for the U.S. Navy, heads down the Kennebec River after leaving Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The ship is headed out to sea for the first time to undergo sea trials.