A U.S. Air Force bomb squad have posed for an explosive team picture. Explosive ordnance disposal technicians took time to make an eye-catching photo op during a controlled demolition at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on January 10, 2025. It features the 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron showing off their protective gear, reinforced vehicles, and remote-controlled bomb disposal robots – along with a C-17 military transport flying in the background. The U.S. Air Force said the “EOD technicians provide explosive threat mitigation using a range of sophisticated equipment such as bomb suits, remote-controlled robots, x-ray systems and chemical detection devices”. (Photo by A1C Zeeshan Naeem/USAF/South West News Service)




People covered in soap foam take 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)




Noono, AI robotic pet mice, are held in the Metapet booth during CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Reuters)




A protester gestures as Israeli mounted police disperse the crowds during a demonstration calling for the release of hostages held captive in Gaza by Palestinian militants since the October 7 attacks, outside the Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 4, 2025 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)




Cardinal James Michael Harvey opens the Holy Door of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, for the Jubilee, in Rome, Italy on January 5, 2025. (Photo by Remo Casilli/Reuters)




A performer dressed as Bastiao the clown rests amid performing with the Santo Antonio Folia de Reis group during a procession marking Epiphany, or Three Kings Day, in Santo Antonio de Goias, Brazil, Sunday, January 5, 2025. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)




A participant throws a tree at the 17th World Christmas Tree Throwing Championships on January 5, 2025 in Weidenthal, Germany. The “World Championship”, founded by the club FC Wacker Weidenthal, is held in a three-way competition: long throw, high throw and sling throw of a tree measuring approximately 1.50 meters. (Photo by Uwe Anspach/dpa/Alamy Live News)




Juan Miguel Aguilar, 49, a local journalist, Diego Sanchez, 37, a local real estate agent, and Angel Ballesteros, 39, a local tourism businessman, dressed up as Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar, the Three Wise Men, worship a statue of Christ placed on an altar inside a church, as they tour the city centre visiting churches, ahead of the Epiphany parade, in Ronda, Spain on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)




An Orthodox faithful kisses a wooden crucifix during Epiphany day celebrations in Piraeus, Greece, on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)




A man walks past a fire-ravaged business after the Eaton Fire swept through Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (Photo by Ethan Swope/AP Photo)




Students protest against government policies, corruption, and negligence, which they blame for the deaths of the victims in the November 2024 Novi Sad railway station disaster, in front of the constitutional court in Belgrade, Serbia, on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters)




Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation during a news conference in Ottawa on Monday, January 6, 2025. Trudeau said he intends to step down from the top job and as the leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party once a new party leader is chosen. Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party for 11 years and prime minister for nine, was facing a mounting set of crises, including Donald Trump’s tariff threats, the resignation of key allies, and disastrous opinion polls. (Photo by Cole Burston/The New York Times/Redux)




A man takes a selfie at the “Los Indomables” monument with frozen water during a day of low temperatures, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on January 8, 2025. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)




The coffin with the remains of the 19th-century Portuguese novelist Eca de Queiroz is flanked by guards of honour during the transfer ceremony to the National Pantheon in Lisbon on January 8, 2025. Eva de Queiros was born in November 1845 and died on August 1900. (Photo by Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP Photo)




People attempt to save a neighboring home from catching fire during the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California. Over 1,000 structures have burned, with two people dead, in wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds across L.A. County. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)




A Catholic devotee kisses the carriage during the annual religious procession of the Black Nazarene in Manila on January 9, 2025. Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle on January 9, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of religious fervour. (Photo by Jam Sta Rosa/AFP Photo)




A Mexican vaquero jumps through a lasso during the National Western Stock Show Kick-off Parade on January 9, 2025 in Denver, Colorado. The parade marks the start of the premier livestock, rodeo, and horse show in the United States, now in its 119th year. (Photo by Jason Connolly/AFP Photo)




NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks about robotics during the NVIDIA keynote at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show being held at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada USA, 06 January 2025. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, is a place where industry manufacturers, advertisers and tech-minded consumers gather to view new innovations coming to the market each year. CES takes place from 07-10 January 2025. (Photo by Allison Dinner/EPA)




Dancers perform during the Victory Day parade in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 07 January 2025. Cambodia marked its 46th anniversary of Victory Day, the liberation of Cambodia's citizens from the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. (Photo by Kith Serey/EPA)