Pictures of the year: Aerials

Decommissioned cruise ships are dismantled at the Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey, October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

A search and rescue team, surrounded by red fire retardant, look for victims under burned residences and vehicles in the aftermath of the Almeda fire in Talent, Oregon, September 13, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Excavators and bulldozers are seen at the construction site of a new hospital being built to treat coronavirus patients following an outbreak and the city's lockdown on the outskirts of Wuhan, China, January 24, 2020. cnsphoto via REUTERS

Crosses cast shadows at the Parque Taruma cemetery, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Manaus, Brazil, June 15, 2020. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

An aerial of the golden Virgin statue at the top of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace during a lockdown imposed in Cambrai, France April 5, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

A man walks on a road blanketed with volcanic ash from the erupting Taal Volcano in Tagaytay, Philippines, January 14, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Bodies are buried on New York's Hart Island amid the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

The Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe are deserted in Paris during a lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

Hundreds of residents, affected by the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic, line up in their vehicles as they await their turn to collect groceries from the San Antonio Food Bank in San Antonio, Texas, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees...more

John-Miles Lewis, the son of civil rights pioneer and longtime U.S. Representative John Lewis, reaches out and touches the casket of his father as Lewis lies in state at the center of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, July 27, 2020....more

Fog surrounds a road in Kvaerndrup, on the island of Funen, Denmark, September 22, 2020. Ritzau Scanpix/Michael Bager

A man makes his way on a flooded highway following a storm near the village of Artesiano, in central Greece, September 19, 2020. REUTERS/Giannis Floulis

A view shows damaged buildings in the aftermath of a massive explosion in Beirut's port area, Lebanon, August 13, 2020. REUTERS/Bader Helal

A person and a shark swim through a school of salmon at Sydney's Bondi Beach in Australia, October 23, 2020. Drone Shark App/via REUTERS

Destroyed planes lie damaged around a Southland Field hanger in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in Sulphur, Louisiana, August 27, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

People sit inside their cars and watch an open-air performance in the parking lot of Jerusalem's Old Station, in Jerusalem, August 4, 2020. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg

People enjoy Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 6, 2020. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

Artists fill in the letters of a "Black Lives Matter" mural on E. Pine Street as protesters establish what they call an autonomous zone while protesting against racial inequality and calling for the defunding of the Seattle police, near the...more

Sunbathers lie in circles marked on the grass to aid in social distancing at Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco, California, May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Drone Base

Damage is seen after floods caused by torrential rain, in Kumamura, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Some 25,000 candles are lit during a memorial event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Ilan Rosenberg

Beach-goers stand on salt formations in the Dead Sea near Ein Bokeq, Israel, August 25, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

An empty Times Square is seen following the outbreak of coronavirus in New York City, March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Barracks and buildings stand in the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in Oswiecim, Poland, January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

Workers Bobby Ore and Steve Piersall saw a tree that fell onto a residence in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana, August 28, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

The construction site of the future Tesla Gigafactory is seen in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, September 19, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Disney's Magic Kingdom theme park is seen empty of visitors after it closed in an effort to combat the spread of coronavirus, in Orlando, Florida, March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Gregg Newton

A fallen tree lies in an area of the Amazon jungle cleared by loggers and farmers near Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, August 14, 2020. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

The remnants of a building burnt down during demonstrations after the death of George Floyd are seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Homes are flooded within a village after the River Nile broke the dykes in Jonglei State, South Sudan, October 5, 2020. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu

A girl observes a partial solar eclipse on the Mahanakhon Skywalk Glass Tray at the King Power Mahanakhon building in Bangkok, Thailand, June 21, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

Keur Massar is flooded by heavy rains in Senegal, September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Christophe Van Der Perre

School buses are parked after California issued a stay-at-home order, in Los Angeles, April 3, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

An unfinished flight terminal, part of the abandoned construction site of a Mexico City airport that was scrapped two years ago, is now flooded by summer rains in Texcoco on the outskirts of Mexico City, September 4, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

Artwork by French-Swiss street artist Saype, entitled "Beyond Walls," is seen on a floating barge over the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Turkey, October 23, 2020. The pieces created by Saype in Istanbul are part of a project to create a spray-painted...more