A couple kisses as fireworks light up the sky over Copacabana Beach during New Year's celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)




Kilgore College Rangerettes perform in front of spectators during London's New Year's Day Parade in London, United Kingdom on January 01, 2025. The annual parade attracts 500,000 audience lining the streets in central London to watch performances by 10,000 participants from the USA, UK and Europe. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)




Fireworks explode around the Burj Khalifa during the New Year's celebration in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo)




Revellers take part in a New Year's day swim in Lake Geneva with its 7.3 degree celsius waters in Geneva on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)




Fireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate during New Year's celebrations shortly after midnight in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)




Members of the “Ekum Baba” light up the streets of Banjul ahead of the annual hunting festival in Banjul on January 1, 2025. Rooted in tradition, this vibrant celebration marks the New Year with music, dancing, and a fierce yet friendly competition between hunting societies for the title of the best display of animal heads, masks and costumes. (Photo by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP Photo)




Bonnie Sowden raises a toast to the New Year with friends on Pineda Beach at Patrick Space Force Base, FL on January 1, 2025, as the first sunrise of 2025 appears above the horizon. (Photo by USA Today)




Fireworks light up above Prambanan Temple, a 9th-century Hindu temple complex and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Yogyakarta on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Devi Rahman/AFP Photo)




Women look at a billboard displaying images of elderly people for New Year celebrations in Phnom Penh on January 2, 2025. (Photo by Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP Photo)




Lithuanians dressed as the Three Kings parade during the Epiphany Day celebrations in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, January 6, 2025. (Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo)




A sunken boat on the Bridgewater Canal, which embankment collapsed on New year’s Day in Little Bollington, Britain, 02 January 2025. The canal collapsed during heavy rainfall in northern Britain on New year’s Day. (Photo by Adam Vaughan/EPA)




Supporters of impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol react during a rally near his residence in Seoul on January 6, 2025. South Korean investigators trying to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol have asked for an extension to the warrant that expires on January 6, with the embattled leader holed up in his residence. (Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP Photo)




Traditional dancers perform during the inauguration ceremony of Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama at Independence Square in Accra, Ghana, Tuesday, January 7, 2025. (Photo by Misper Apawu/AP Photo)




An Italian 50 tons heavy luxury yacht Pershing GTX 80 crosses a street in front of waiting cars on its way to the upcoming boat fair in Duesseldorf, Germany, Monday, January 6, 2025. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)




Government supporters ride past opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro protesting a day before he will be sworn-in for a third six-year term despite credible evidence that he lost the presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, January 9, 2025. (Photo by Cristian Hernandez/AP Photo)




A statue depicting the late Syrian President Hafez Assad is seen destroyed on the top of a mount in Dayr Atiyah, Syria, Sunday, January 5, 2025. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)




A woman holds images of the baby Jesus, in La Paz, Bolivia, 06 January 2025. Thousands of parishioners celebrated Three Kings' Day in Bolivia this 06 January with the religious custom of taking images of the Baby Jesus to Catholic churches to ask for 'peace and health' for the country this year. (Photo by Luis Gandarillas/EPA/EFE)




Reveler on stilts take part in the unofficial kick off of Rio's Carnival with the weed block parade performance by “Bloco Planta na mente”, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil January 5, 2025. (Photo by Aline Massuca/Reuters)




Riders and their horses perform a fantasia during the second edition of the Grand Prix Apec (Association des professionnels des établissements de crédit) at the opening of the AEARCT (Association d'encouragement pour l'amélioration des races des chevaux du Tchad) horse racing season in N'Djamena province, at the Ouka-Djermaya racecourse, on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Joris Bolomey/AFP Photo)