A surfer dressed as a Santa Claus rides an artificial wave in the Alaia Bay surf wavepool in Sion, Switzerland. The water temperature was 0. 6 degrees Celsius, the air temperature reached two degrees Celsius. EPA
A surfer dressed as a Santa Claus rides an artificial wave in the Alaia Bay surf wavepool in Sion, Switzerland. The water temperature was 0. 6 degrees Celsius, the air temperature reached two degrees Celsius. EPA
A surfer dressed as a Santa Claus rides an artificial wave in the Alaia Bay surf wavepool in Sion, Switzerland. The water temperature was 0. 6 degrees Celsius, the air temperature reached two degrees Celsius. EPA
A surfer dressed as a Santa Claus rides an artificial wave in the Alaia Bay surf wavepool in Sion, Switzerland. The water temperature was 0. 6 degrees Celsius, the air temperature reached two degrees

Today's best photos: from a surfing Santa to Ethiopia's Ashenda festival


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Surf's up Santa

EPA
EPA

A surfer dressed as Santa Claus rides an artificial wave in the Alaia Bay surf wavepool in Sion, Switzerland. The water temperature was 0.6°C. The air temperature reached 2°C

Blurred lights

AP
AP

A long exposure photo shows a regional train leaving a station in Wehrheim, Germany

Superheroes at the window

Reuters
Reuters

Acrobatic superheroes greet the children in the paediatric ward of the San Paolo hospital in Milan, Italy

Lorry queue

Reuters
Reuters

Freight lorries queue on the A20 road into the Port of Dover, in England after France announced Channel travel restrictions

Team Red Bull

F1 World Drivers Champion Max Verstappen of the Netherlands poses for a photo with his team at the Red Bull Racing Factory in Milton Keynes, England

Tiny pumice stones

AFP
AFP

A man scoops pumice stones from the sea in Keelung after the debris drifted to the northern coast of Taiwan from the Fukutoku-Okanoba underwater volcano, which began erupting 1,280 kilometres off the southern coast of Japan in August

Ashenda festival, Ethiopia

AFP
AFP

Women participate in the Ashenda festival, an annual celebration for girls, at Romanat square in Mekele, Ethiopia

Russian new year decorations

AFP
AFP

Christmas and New Year's decorations at Zaryadye Park, in front of the Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin and the Saint Basil Cathedral, in central Moscow

Shougang Big Air

AFP
AFP

The Shougang Big Air venue at the Shougang Park in Beijing will host the big air freestyle skiing and snowboarding competitions at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

Typhoon Rai

Reuters
Reuters

A Philippine Coast Guard rescuer helps a resident trapped by floods caused by Typhoon Rai in Cagayan De Oro City, Philippines

RESULTS

Bantamweight: Victor Nunes (BRA) beat Azizbek Satibaldiev (KYG). Round 1 KO

Featherweight: Izzeddin Farhan (JOR) beat Ozodbek Azimov (UZB). Round 1 rear naked choke

Middleweight: Zaakir Badat (RSA) beat Ercin Sirin (TUR). Round 1 triangle choke

Featherweight: Ali Alqaisi (JOR) beat Furkatbek Yokubov (UZB). Round 1 TKO

Featherweight: Abu Muslim Alikhanov (RUS) beat Atabek Abdimitalipov (KYG). Unanimous decision

Catchweight 74kg: Mirafzal Akhtamov (UZB) beat Marcos Costa (BRA). Split decision

Welterweight: Andre Fialho (POR) beat Sang Hoon-yu (KOR). Round 1 TKO

Lightweight: John Mitchell (IRE) beat Arbi Emiev (RUS). Round 2 RSC (deep cuts)

Middleweight: Gianni Melillo (ITA) beat Mohammed Karaki (LEB)

Welterweight: Handesson Ferreira (BRA) beat Amiran Gogoladze (GEO). Unanimous decision

Flyweight (Female): Carolina Jimenez (VEN) beat Lucrezia Ria (ITA), Round 1 rear naked choke

Welterweight: Daniel Skibinski (POL) beat Acoidan Duque (ESP). Round 3 TKO

Lightweight: Martun Mezhlumyan (ARM) beat Attila Korkmaz (TUR). Unanimous decision

Bantamweight: Ray Borg (USA) beat Jesse Arnett (CAN). Unanimous decision

Updated: December 16, 2021, 12:51 PM