The Week in Pictures: Biden's boot and brash deer

The Boss Baby balloon is deflated as it ends its appearance during the modified Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York on Nov. 26, 2020.

While the the annual holiday parade usually draws thousands of onlookers, much of the celebration was prerecorded and scaled back due to the continuing pandemic.

Photos: The 94th Macy's Thanksgiving Parade goes ahead without crowds

The Red Room of the White House is adorned with Christmas decorations during a press preview on Nov. 30.

The Cross Hall, Blue Room, Red Room Green Room and East Colonnade are elegantly decorated with 62 Christmas trees, 106 Christmas wreaths, more than 1,200 feet of garland, more than 3,200 strands of lights and 17,000 bows.

President Donald Trump, center, plays at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., on Nov. 27.

Trump has said that it’s going to be difficult for him to concede the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden even when the Electoral College is expected to soon formally certify Biden’s victory.

Mourners embrace as they wait to see Diego Maradona lying in state outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 26.

The Argentine soccer great who led his country to the 1986 World Cup died Nov. 25 at the age of 60.

People watch from a window at Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital as nurses strike in front of the hospital on Dec. 1 in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Healthcare workers were demanding the hospital provide adequate protective equipment, ventilation, testing and other safety protocols to ensure the safety of staff and patients as Covid-19 cases continue to rise, according to the New York State Nurses Association.

A protester stands outside a burning BMW showroom during a a demonstration against police violence near Place de la Bastille on Nov. 28 in Paris.

The protests follow the publication of footage showing music producer Michel Zecler, a Black man, being beaten by three police officers in Paris on Nov. 21.

The incident has also fanned anger about a draft law that is seen as curbing the right of journalists to report on police brutality.

Servants of the holy shrine of Imam Reza carry the coffin of assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Mashhad, Iran on Nov. 29.

In the West, Fakhrizadeh was commonly referred to as Iran's Robert Oppenheimer, the American scientist who helped father the atomic bomb in 1945, and was considered among the most important nuclear scientists in Iran.

Iran denies it ever had a nuclear weapons program and it has accused Israel of orchestrating the assassination. 

A demonstrator wears a mask like handcuffs as owners of restaurants, bars and night clubs protest pandemic restrictions in Marseille, southern France, on Nov. 26.

The government laid out details Thursday of a gradual easing of France's monthlong virus lockdown, including hundreds of millions of euros in new aid for struggling workers and students and businesses forced to close.

President-elect Joe Biden shows off his medical boot as he enters The Queen theater on Dec. 1, in Wilmington, Del.

Biden suffered hairline fractures in his right foot on Nov. 28 while playing with Major, one of the Bidens' two German shepherds.

Thousands attend the funeral of Rabbi Aharon David Hadash, the spiritual leader of the Mir Yeshiva, in Jerusalem's Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Yisrael on Dec. 3.

Rabbi Hadash died early in the morning, two months after being rushed to hospital for experiencing difficulty breathing and testing positive for the coronavirus.

Bruce McDougal watches embers fly over his property as the Bond Fire burns through the Silverado community in Orange County, Calif., on Dec. 3.

Flames spread from a house to nearby vegetation, touching off a massive, wind-whipped wildfire that burned out of control Thursday in Southern California, authorities said.

Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Paul Holaday said this blaze, with plenty of tinder-dry brush in front of it and high winds in the forecast to fuel it, will surely burn through the weekend.

Florence Bolton, 85, a Covid-19 patient, lies in her intensive care bed as family members attempt to communicate via video at Roseland Community Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on Dec. 1.

Shatha, the daughter of 48-year-old Palestinian refugee Issa al-Loubani, looks out the window of their apartment in the Palestinian Yarmuk camp, on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on Nov. 25.

When Syrian authorities said they would allow returns to the war-ravaged Yarmuk camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Damascus, Issa al-Loubani rushed to sign up and quickly started repairing his home.

Loubani, who first left in 2012, is determined to join their ranks even if the windows of his wrecked apartment are still covered with plastic sheeting.

Great white pelicans eat fish provided by Israeli farmers at a water reservoir in the Emek Hefer valley, north of Tel Aviv, on Nov. 27.

An estimated 50,000 pelicans stop off in Israel during their annual migration from the Balkans to Africa, where they enjoy a mild winter before returning to Europe. They rest and feed for weeks, causing chaos for fish farmers, whose outdoor commercial pools and reservoirs provide rich pickings.

Farmers have tried to deter them with loudspeakers, laser beams and by firing blank rounds from rifles. In their desperation, they have come up with another way: offering the birds a free lunch.

Alexis Small and her newborn Aubrielle Kitchen sanitize before a Thanskgiving Zoom call with family on Nov. 26 in Los Angeles.

Snowmaker Guy Arnaud checks the quality of snow made by the machine  before the official opening of the Verbier ski resort in Switzerland on Dec. 1.

Jessica Walker and Nicola Foster, known as the Lido Ladies, pose by the pool at sunrise at the Charlton Lido in London's Hornfair Park as it reopened following a national lockdown on Dec. 2.

The U.K. has the highest coronavirus death toll in Europe. 

A female Coeligena helianthea hummingbird flies up to the flower in The Paramuno corridor on Monserrate hill in Bogota, Colombia, on Nov. 25.

Sailor Stuart Bee clings to his capsized boat before being rescued two days after going missing, 86 miles east of Port Canaveral, Fla., on Nov. 29.

Bee described having mechanical problems on the boat Saturday night, saying the engine was making squealing noises. He went to sleep and was woken up by water coming into the boat.

Dr. Concetta Toccio checks a Covid-19 home patient on Nov. 25 in Florence.

Tuscany and several other regions have been declared high-risk red zones as Italy races to curb the second wave of coronavirus infections.

The collapsed Arecibo Observatory after one of the main cables holding the structure broke in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 1.

The radio telescope, which was featured in a James Bond film, collapsed Tuesday when its 900-ton receiver platform fell 450 feet and smashed onto the radio dish below.

A costumed waitress serves a welcome drink at the beginning of a couple's four-course dinner in their recreational vehicle in the parking lot of a cooking school on Nov. 28 in Neumuenster, Germany.

The school, which is otherwise closed due to current lockdown measures, has begun offering the "candlelight RV dinners" three times a week for up to 15 RVs in an evening. 

Restaurants in Germany have been closed since the beginning of November and will likely remain so into January.

A red deer lifts its hoof towards a woman as she enters her car in the Highlands on Nov. 26 in Glen Coe, Scotland.

Britain's largest wild animal, The Red Deer, roam on open moorlands around the country during the summer and move to lower ground into forests and wood for shelter during the harsh Scottish winters.

Father Guillaume Normand prepares for the first service since the easing of restrictions allowing places of worship to reopen across France on Nov. 28 at Saint-Severin Church in Paris.

Places of religious worship can now hold services for up to 30 people. 

Dr. Joseph Varon comforts a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on Nov. 26 in Houston.

More than 22,000 people have died from the coronavirus in Texas, with confirmed cases just shy of 1.3 million by a few thousand as of Thursday afternoon.

More than 50,000 lights illuminate the 75-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree at the annual lighting ceremony on Dec. 2 in New York.

The ceremony was a mask-mandated, time-limited, socially-distanced event due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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