People dressed in costumes and masks participate in the traditional Perchten parade in Windischgarsten, Austria, on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Lisa Leutner/Reuters)




Flowers are seen, after people were killed by a man driving a truck in an attack during New Year's celebrations, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., January 2, 2025. (Photo by Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)




Israeli police disperse Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking a highway to protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)




Christian Orthodox believers, who follow the Julian calendar and celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, burn dried oak branches, the Yule log symbol for the Orthodox Christmas Eve, in front of St. Luke church in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, January 6, 2025. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)




A worker sets up a giant lantern in the traditional Chinese style at China Railway Qingdao World Expo City in preparation for a lantern festival to welcome the upcoming 2025 Chinese New Year, the Year of the Snake, on January 4, 2025 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by Zhang Jingang/VCG via Getty Images)




People visit Cristo Redentor Paisa, the largest monument in Latin America created with 3D printing, located in Comuna 13 in Medellin, Colombia on January 2, 2025. (Photo by Juan David Duque/Reuters)




Heavy smoke from a brush fire in the Pacific Palisades rises over the Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, Calif., on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. (Photo by Eugene Garcia/AP Photo)




The 2025 Dakar Rally in Bisha, Saudi Arabia on January 5, 2025 continued with the grueling 48-hour Chrono Stage, challenging competitors with 1,000km of desert terrain. Yazeed Al Rajhi leads the Ultimate class after battling with Nasser Al-Attiyah, while defending champion Carlos Sainz suffered a costly flip and Sébastien Loeb lost time due to mechanical issues. Rookie Toby Price impressed, finishing the day just 16 minutes off the lead. In the Bike class, Daniel Sanders maintained his dominance with another fastest time, keeping the overall lead. Competitors now face a night in the desert, performing their own repairs before continuing tomorrow. (Photo by Kin Marcin/Red Bull)




Women perform dressed as members of Mothers of Plaza as they protest against layoffs announced by the government of Javier Milei at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, January 4, 2025. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)




Artistas perform with traditional floats during the “Blacks and Whites” carnival parade in Pasto, Colombia, on January 6, 2025. The Blacks and Whites carnival has its origins in a mix of Andean, Amazonian and Pacific cultural expressions, and it celebrates the ethnic diversity in the region and was proclaimed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2009. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)




A reveler takes 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 on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Aline Massuca/Reuters)




A person wearing a costume and a mask participates in the traditional Perchten parade in Windischgarsten, Austria, on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Lisa Leutner/Reuters)




Competitors ride their wooden sledge during the traditional Bavarian horn sledge race “Hornschlittenrennen” in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Angelika Warmuth/Reuters)




Volunteers known as The Punk Kings load a truck to distribute toys, clothes and piñatas to disadvantaged children in celebration of Día de los Reyes Magos or Three Kings Day, in Mexico City, January 5, 2025. (Photo by Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo)




An actress representing the Three Wise Men's gift of gold poses for a photo during an Epiphany pre-event in the Plaza de Armas of Santiago, Chile, January 5, 2025. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)




Diego Sanchez, 37, local real estate agent, dressed up as Gaspar, one of the Three Wise Men, and his entourage of pages, throw sweets and toys from a float 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)




A reveler looks on as he takes part in a parade during the “Blacks and Whites” carnival in Pasto, Colombia on January 4, 2025. The Blacks and Whites carnival has its origins in a mix of Andean, Amazonian and Pacific cultural expressions, and it celebrates the ethnic diversity in the region and was proclaimed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2009. (Photo by Raul Arboleda/AFP Photo)




This photo taken on January 4, 2025 shows people from the Miao ethnic group attending a cultural new year celebration as part of the Lu Sheng (traditional wind instrument) festival in Congjiang county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)




This picture taken on January 6, 2025 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on January 7, 2025 shows the launch of a hypersonic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said that a new hypersonic missile system used in a test launch on January 6 would help deter the country's rivals in the Pacific, the North's state news agency reported. (Photo by KCNA via KNS/AFP Photo)