Local residents look at fireworks as they celebrate the New Year at Ancol Beach in Jakarta on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)




Revelers in costumes enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andres Kudacki/AP Photo)




Family and friends carry the caskets of four children who went missing after playing soccer in December to the Angel Maria Canals municipal cemetery for burial in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Cesar Munoz/AP Photo)




A reveler wears decorative glasses adorned with number 2025 to celebrate the new year in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York, New York, USA, 01 January 2025. (Photo by Olga Federova/EPA/EFE)




A person celebrates as they watch the traditional New Year's fireworks from the water at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early on January 1, 2025. A traditional fireworks display and free music concerts will be held to welcome the new year during the New Year's Eve celebration in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Mayor's Press Office considers it the world's biggest New Year's Eve celebration, with 2 million people expected to attend. (Photo by Tercio Teixeira/AFP Photo)




Aymara Indigenous people celebrate the “Roscasiri” in the Pomata District, one of seven districts of the Chucuito Province in the Puno Region, southern Peru, on January 1, 2025. This ancient Aymara event, in which people decorate themselves with breads and fruits that represent abundance for the new year, celebrates the change of local authorities. (Photo by Connie France Calderon Martel/AFP Photo)




An ultra-Orthodox Jewish girl looks at her family's candles, lit to mark the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo)




Firefighters rescue a man from his car, after he became trapped in flood water on the A555 near Bramhall, Britain, on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)




A man dressed as Ded Moroz, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, reacts during New Year celebrations near the Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral in central Moscow, Russia, on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)




A man dressed as a Zagarron character visits the villagers houses to congratulate them with the New Year and ask for a Christmas bonus in the village of Montamarta in Zamora, northern Spain, 01 January 2025. (Photo by Mariam A. Montesinos/EPA/EFE)




Swimmers enter the water during the traditional New Year's Dive in a lake near Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo)




A leaf among raindrops in London on January 1, 2025 as more than 130 flood warnings were in place for England. (Photo by Linda Nylind/The Guardian)




Rain falls as performers prepare to take part in the New Year's Day Parade in central London on Wednesday, January 1, 2025, as wind, rain and snow warnings are in force across parts of the UK, with the threat of flooding and disruption to New Year's Day travel. Large parts of England and Wales will be hit by strong winds until 3pm on Wednesday, while north-west England and Wales are forecast to see heavy rain for much of the morning. (Photo by Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images)




People attend a New Year celebration in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on January 1, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)




A member of the Shembe Church (R) kneels in prayer as a surfer (L) walks into the ocean on New Year's day in Durban on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Rajesh Jantilal/AFP Photo)




A person watches the traditional New Year's fireworks from the water at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early on January 1, 2025. A traditional fireworks display and free music concerts will be held to welcome the new year during the New Year's Eve celebration in Rio de Janeiro. The Rio Mayor's Press Office considers it the world's biggest New Year's Eve celebration, with 2 million people expected to attend. (Photo by Tercio Teixeira/AFP Photo)




People enter the water through a hole cut in the ice at Gatineau Park's Meech Lake in Chelsea, Que., during a polar bear dip on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Justin Tang /The Canadian Press via AP Photo)




Participants in the annual New Year’s Day parade in London on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Martin Godwin/The Guardian )




Revelers in a costume enter the cold water during the annual Polar Bear Plunge on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andres Kudacki/AP Photo)