A look at the best news photos from around the world.
December 16, 2015

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People walk on a bridge as Christmas lights illuminate the Darsena dei Navigli, the neighborhood named for the canals that run through this area of Milan, Italy.

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A man sells balloons in the city center of Hanover, central Germany.

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Officials take part in a procession with the royal carriage containing the remains of Thailand's late Supreme Patriarch, Somdet Phra Nyanasamvara, during his cremation ceremony in Bangkok. The head of the order of Buddhist monks died in Oct. 2013 at the age of 100.

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A Dendrobates leucomelas frog is pictured at a terrarium in Caracas. Venezuelan frogs and toads are in critical danger due to climate change as rising temperatures complicate reproduction and spread a deadly fungus, say scientists, who liken the species to canaries in a coalmine warning of imminent danger.