Kids play with tires amid the rubble of homes that were destroyed during the civil war at the Al-Asali neighbourhood in Damascus, Syria, Monday, January 6, 2025. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





US Sen. Josh Hawley is joined by his wife, Erin, and their children on Friday, January 3, 2025, as Vice President Kamala Harris conducts his ceremonial swearing-in at the Capitol. (Photo by Tom Brenner/The New York Times/Redux)





Catholic devotees take part in a procession during the blessing of the Black Nazarene replicas outside the Quiapo Church in Manila on January 2, 2025, ahead of its annual feast day on January 9. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)





Students from Sumter County Middle School look at a remembrance card of former President Jimmy Carter as they await the arrival of Carter's funeral procession in his hometown of Plains, Georgia on January 9, 2025. (Photo by USA Today)





A Kosovo ethnic Serb carries a dried oak branch, which symbolises the Yule log, on the Orthodox Christmas Eve, in Gracanica, Kosovo on January 6, 2025. Serbian Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas on January 7, according to the Julian calendar. (Photo by Valdrin Xhemaj/Reuters)





Children look at an Our Lady altar during a procession marking Folia de Reis or Three Kings Day, in Santo Antonio de Goias, Brazil, January 5, 2025. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)





Students eat meals from the free nutritious meals program at a school in Jakarta, Indonesia on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Willy Kurniawan/Reuters)





A boy with a motobike helmet walks amidst destroyed houses in shanty town of Cavani south district damaged by the cyclone Chido in the city of Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on January 2, 2025. The most devastating cyclone to hit Mayotte in 90 years caused colossal damage on December 14, 2024 in France's poorest department. (Photo by Julien de Rosa/AFP Photo)





A boy rides his bicycle on a road blocked by Israeli army armoured vehicles in the outskirts of the town of Quneitra, Syria, Sunday January 5, 2025. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





Young women watch people plunging into icy water during celebrations of Epiphany in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, January 6, 2025. (Photo by Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo)





Women and girls dressed up as dancers watch the arrival of men dressed as the Three Wise Men during the traditional Epiphany parade, which was brought forward exceptionally to midday, instead of at traditional night as in other Spanish cities, due to the threat of rain, in Ronda, Spain on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





Elvis Presley lookalikes, fans and admirers take part in a parade at the Parkes Elvis Festival, in Parkes, Australia, 11 January 2025. The 32nd year of the festival is themed around Presley's 1967 film “Easy Come, Easy Go” and marks what would have been his 90th birthday. (Photo by Stephanie Gardiner/EPA/EFE)





Children greet one of the three wise men as they attend the traditional “Cabalgata de Reyes” parade in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, January 5, 2025, as part of the festivities marking the Catholic feast of Epiphany. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo)





A child dressed in a Santa Claus costume reacts, on the day Palestinian Christians attend an Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City on January 7, 2025. (Photo by Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)





2 year old Martha May has a playful time with a week-old lamb on her family farm near Kidderminster, Worcestershire, UK on January 12, 2025, before the peak of the lambing season in spring. (Photo by Peter Lopeman/Alamy Live News)





Young Atlanta resident Harry Crowell makes a snow ball as Atlanta residents receive a snow storm on January 10, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta has experienced a significant amount of snow but is bracing for the ice that is expected to follow. (Photo by Megan Varner/Getty Images)





People forced to flee from Ghouta to Idlib in 2018, arrive in Damascus, Syria, 08 January 2025, after opposition forces toppled president Bashar al-Assad. A group of internally displaced people from eastern Ghouta and rural Damascus, who were forced to leave their homes to Idlib in 2018, returned amid celebrations at Umayyad Square in Damascus on 08 January. (Phoot by Hasan Belal/EPA)





An image from Steve Madden’s forthcoming book The Grind. In October 2005, BBC presenter Steve Madden was standing in Shaftesbury Avenue when he saw a woman on the 38 bus, her figure framed by the misted-up window, which reflected the lights from the street. He took a snapshot and, years later, struck by a similar scene, he had the idea for a photography series. (Photo by Steve Madden)





People at Glenshee Ski Centre on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. Weather warnings for snow and ice are in force across much of the UK after severe flooding and snow caused travel disruption and school closures. Across England, there are also 198 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected, and 300 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)