2020 In Photos : Most memorable events and images of 2020.

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Simon Adamczyk, a wildlife rescuer, carries a rescued koala at a burning forest near Cape Borda, on Kangaroo Island, southwest of Adelaide, Australia, on January 7, 2020. During the disastrous 2019-2020 fire season in Australia, more than 46 million acres were scorched, and as many as 3 billion animals were affected.


This photo, taken in Wuhan, China, on January 30, 2020, shows officials in protective suits checking on an elderly man wearing a face mask who had collapsed and died on a street near a hospital. AFP journalists saw the body on January 30, not long before an emergency vehicle arrived carrying police and medical staff in full-body protective suits. At the time, the World Health Organization had recently declared a global emergency, and China was reporting a death toll of 213, with nearly 10,000 infections.


Construction workers drive excavators at the site of a new 1,000-bed field hospital being built in record time to accommodate the increasing number of coronavirus patients on January 24, 2020, in Wuhan, China


The South Korean film director, Bong Joon Ho, poses with his engraved awards as he attends the 92nd Oscars Governors Ball at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California on February 9, 2020. For his movie Parasite, the director won four Oscars: Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature, Best Director, and Best Picture.


Fans gather around a mural of the late NBA great Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant during a public memorial for them and seven others killed in a helicopter crash, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on February 24, 2020


An aerial view shows an eerily empty white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba in Mecca's Grand Mosque, on March 6, 2020. Attendance at Friday prayers was hit by measures to protect against the deadly new coronavirus.


A Target customer reacts to empty toilet paper and paper-towel shelves at a Target store on March 13, 2020, in San Rafael, California. Some Americans were stocking up on food, toilet paper, water, and other items after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus pandemic


Food-delivery staff members sit in social-distancing chairs as they wait for their customers' orders at a department store in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 24, 2020.


An aerial view shows cinema-goers sitting in their cars parked at a drive-in cinema in Marl, Germany, on April 6, 2020, one of the few entertainments still allowed during the coronavirus pandemic.


Drone pictures show the bodies being buried on New York’s Hart Island, where the Department of Corrections is dealing with more burials overall, amid the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, on April 9, 2020


Protesters, one holding up a portrait of George Floyd, sit together on Fifth Avenue in solidarity during a march for police reform on June 10, 2020, in New York City


A picture shows the scene of an explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020. The enormous blast that devastated much of Beirut’s port area was caused by a fire in a warehouse that had been storing explosive materials, reportedly including 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate. More than 200 deaths and over 6,000 injuries were attributed to the explosion


A man stops to shoot a picture of a mural by the artist Shane Grammer, of the late actor Chadwick Boseman's character T'Challa from the 2018 film Black Panther, on September 8, 2020, in Los Angeles. Boseman died August 28 at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer


This picture, taken in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 16, 2020, shows a graveyard for victims of COVID-19 at the Pondok Ranggon Cemetery.


President Donald Trump removes his mask upon returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 5, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Trump spent three days hospitalized for COVID-19.


President-elect Joe Biden greets a crowd after his address to the nation from the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020. After four days of counting the high volume of mail-in ballots in key battleground states, the race was called for Biden after a contentious election battle against the incumbent, President Donald Trump.

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