Participants take part in a Christmas day swim in the sea at Brighton beach, southern England on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Photo)





People run into the sea at the start of the Cromer Boxing Day dip in Cromer, UK on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Victoria Jones/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People take part in the annual Brighton Christmas Day Dip on December 25, 2024 in Brighton, England. The Brighton Christmas Day dip is widely accepted as the oldest established Christmas sea swim. People have been turning up on Brighton's beach on Christmas Day to enter the waters since 1860. The event is not organised by any particular group but still manages to bring in hundreds of spectators and participants every year. (Photo by Charlotte Coney/Getty Images)





A group of migrants waits to be treated by the Red Cross after arriving on a fibreglass boat, at the beach of Castillo del Romeral on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain on December 29, 2024. (Photo by Borja Suarez/Reuters)





Workers at a tyre shop wait for customers on December 30, 2024 in Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus in Syria, which is acclimatising to life after the Assad regime. (Photo by Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP Photo)





A nurdling team prepare for action on the Old Roman Road in Upwey, near Weymouth in Dorset, UK on January 1, 2025. Players arm themselves with fenders (dustbin lids) and grouting poles and attempt to get their nurdle (a wooden block) up the road as the opposition tries to swipe it into the rough. The game is believed to date back to pre-Roman Britain. (Phoot by Idris Martin/BNPS)





Participants take part in a Christmas day swim in the sea at Brighton beach, southern England on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Photo)





Members of swimming club “Berliner Seehunde” (Berlin Seals) meet for their traditional Christmas swimming at Orankesee lake in Berlin early on Christmas Day, December 25, 2024. (Photo by Tobias Schwarz/AFP Photo)





Director Payal Kapadia reacts as she posses after her interview with Reuters inside a college premises in Mumbai, India, on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Hemanshi Kamani/Reuters)





The drag artist Wet Mess performs Testo – a show about testosterone – at the Here & Now Showcase, Edinburgh international festival fringe in 2024. (Photo by Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian)





Shoppers cross the street on Regent St during Boxing Day sales, in London, Britain, on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Jaimi Joy/Reuters)





Members of the public attempt to take a selfie on Westminster bridge during wet and windy weather in Central London on New Year's Day on January 1, 2025. Yellow and amber weather warnings for wind, snow and rain are in place in parts of the United Kingdom. (Photo by George Cracknell Wright/The Times)





People covered in flour celebrate the traditional fest called “The floured ones” (Els Enfarinats) in Ibi, Alicante, Valencia, Spain, 28 December 2024. The fest is celebrated during the “Dia de los Santos Inocentes” (Saint Innocents Day), the Spanish version of April Fools' Day, and people battle among themselves with fireworks, flour and eggs. (Photo by Pablo Miranzo/EPA/EFE)





Wrestlers participate in the Christmas Slaycation, a live heavy metal and high-flying wrestling show featuring masked performers, at the O2, in London, Britain, on December 28, 2024. (Photo by Isabel Infantes/Reuters)





A woman reacts at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in central Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 20, 2024. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)