TEHRAN: Iran said on Thursday, December 8, it executed Mohsen Shrkari, the prisoner convicted for a crime allegedly committed during the country’s ongoing nationwide protests, the first such death penalty carried out by Tehran (Twitter)

RIYADH: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 7, 2022 (Saudi Press Agency/Reuters)

SPACE: NASA's Orion spacecraft captured a photo of the Earth and moon on the twelfth day of the Artemis I mission. Orion reaching a maximum distance of nearly 270,000 miles from Earth, before beginning the trip back (NASA)

LUSAIL CITY: Press members are seen trying to take photos of Cristiano Ronaldo (7) of Portugal at the end of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Portugal and Switzerland, at Lusail Stadium on December 06, 2022 in Lusail City, Qatar (Ercin Erturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

BEIJING: Security guards in a locked-down neighborhood in Beijing on Wednesday. The Chinese government has moved to loosen some restrictions (Kevin Frayer / Getty Images)

TEHRAN: Iran's attorney general, Mohammad-Jafar Montazeri, reportedly said on Sunday, December 4, the country has shut down its controversial morality police and is considering changes to a rule requiring women to wear head coverings in public (Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

USA: WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian detention, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, December 8 (CNN)

HAWAII: Lava fissures flow from the north flank of the Mauna Loa volcano on December 7 (Andrew Richard Hara/Getty Images)

PARANA: A landslide in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná killed at least two people and left dozens missing on Wednesday, according to officials (Corpo de Bombeiros Militar de Santa Catarina/Reuters)

MELBOURNE: Emergency workers patrol a flooded area as they evacuate residents in the Melbourne suburb of Maribyrnong on December 3, 2022 (William West/AFP/Getty Images)

LIMA: Dina Boluarte receives the presidential sash as she is sworn in as Peru's new president on Wednesday, December 7. Boluarte's predecessor, Pedro Castillo, was removed from office and arrested on Wednesday for unconstitutionally declaring the temporary closure of Congress, according to several constitutional analysts in the country. She is now the first female president in Peru's history, and the sixth Peruvian president in less than five years (Guadalupe Pardo/AP)

LIMA: Ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo sits in a car after leaving a police station in Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, December 7. Castillo was removed from office and arrested on Wednesda  for unconstitutionally declaring the temporary closure of Congress, according to several constitutional analysts in the country (Gerardo Marin/Reuters)

BEIJING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping joins retired leaders as well as members of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee as they pay their final respects to former leader Jiang Zemin at the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing on Monday, December 5 (Li Xueren/Xinhua/Getty Images)

PARIS: Paddleboarders compete in a race on the Seine River in Paris on Sunday, December 4 (Julien De Rosa/AFP/Getty Images)