In Pictures: Spectacular images from across the globe

SUMMARY

From New Year celebrations in Germany and China to tensions in the Persian Gulf, here is a collection of images captured last week from across the globe.

By APJan 6, 2020 6:26:38 AM IST (Updated)

A woman holding incense sticks offer prayers on the first day of the New Year at Yonghegong Lama Temple in Beijing. New Year's Eve isn't celebrated widely in mainland China, where the lunar New Year is a more important holiday. But countdown events were held in major cities, and some of the faithful headed to Buddhist temples for bell-ringing and prayers. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Light reflects from empty railway tracks outside the Saint Lazare train station in Paris. The strikes over the French government's plan to revamp the retirement system have disrupted transport across France and beyond, hobbling Paris Metros and trains across the country as well as businesses. The strikes have been especially felt over the holiday season. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Protesters set fires in front of the US embassy compound, in Baghdad. Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the US Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday. The breach at the embassy followed US airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on Iran, at his Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

A boy carries a portrait of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in the US airstrike in Iraq, prior to the Friday prayers in Tehran. Iran has vowed, "harsh retaliation" for the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed Tehran's top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Men play chess, lit by the setting sun, while others watch in a park in Bucharest, Romania. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Fireworks light the sky above the St. Severi's Church, left, and the Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary), right, during New Year's celebrations in Erfurt, central Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Orthodox Jewish people gather on a street in Monsey, New York, following a nearby stabbing late Saturday at a Hanukkah celebration. A knife-wielding man stormed into a rabbi's home and stabbed five people in the Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City. (AP Photo/Allyse Pulliam)