A horseman rides through a bonfire during the traditional festival of “Las Luminarias” in honour of San Antonio Abad (Saint Anthony), the animals' patron saint, in San Bartolome de Pinares, west of Madrid, on January 16, 2025. (Photo by Philippe Marcou/AFP Photo)




A person enters a makeshift tunnel symbolizing Hamas tunnels, built in support of the hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas and who are still held in captivity, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the so-called “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 14, 2025. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)




People attired as the “Silvesterchlaeuse” (New Year's Clause) gather in Schwellbrunn, Switzerland, 13 January 2025. This traditional event occurs on 13 January, according to the Julian calendar, when participants pay visits to local farmers to extend their heartfelt wishes for the New Year. (Photo by Gian Ehrenzeller/EPA)




Participants take part in the 14th annual “No Trousers Tube Ride” event on the London Underground on January 12, 2025. The event, staged by Improv Everywhere, takes place every January in New York City and has since expanded internationally. What began as a small prank with just seven participants has grown into a global celebration of silliness, with dozens of cities, including London, joining in each year. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/London News Pictures)




A man wears a “torito” fireworks display during the celebration of the Black Christ of Esquipulas the night before its feast day in Esquipulas Palo Gordo, in Guatemala's San Marcos department, Tuesday, January 14, 2025. (Photo by Moises Castillo/AP Photo)




Dancers perform the traditional Chinese dragon dance outside a Chinese Association ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 18 January 2025. The Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival in China and Tet in Vietnam, falls on 29 January, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake. (Photo by Kith Serey/EPA/EFE)




Security personnel remove a protester as Pete Hegseth, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, testifies before a Senate Committee on Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 14, 2025. (Photo by Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)




This picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke plumes rising from explosions above destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on January 14, 2025, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)




The first full Moon of the year, called the Wolf Moon, rises in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, January 14, 2025. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)




Masked revelers wait for the start of the carnival parade in the village of Vevcani, North Macedonia in the eve of Orthodox St. Basil's day, marking the beginning of the New Year by the Julian calendar, on Monday, January 13, 2025. (Photo by Boris Grdanoski/AP Photo)




A model poses for visitors during the 2025 Tokyo Auto Salon car show in Chiba, near Tokyo, Japan, 10 January 2025. Tokyo Auto Salon is among one of the top car shows in the world for modified and tuned cars. The annual show will be open to the general public until 12 January 2025. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA/EFE)




Vintage vehicles take part in the 25th Traversée de Paris, which follows a 20-mile (30km) route through the city in Paris, France on January 12, 2025. (Photo by Anadolu/Getty Images)




Fans cool down at a water mister machine at Melbourne Park venue for the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, January 14, 2025. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)




Firefighters work on a landslide site at Bethania neighborhood, Ipatinga, Minas Gerais state, Brazil on January 12, 2025. Landslides caused by torrential rains in southeast Brazil have left at least seven people dead and four others missing, rescue services in Minas Gerais state said January 12. (Photo by Nilmar Lage/AFP Photo)




People on board a tube as they take part in the annual event “No Trousers Tube Ride” in London, Sunday, January 12, 2025. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo)




A model showcases a creation by Spanish designers Juan Foronda and Rafa Diaz during the 13th edition of the “We Love Flamenco – WLF” fashion show, in Seville on January 13, 2025. (Photo by Cristina Quicler/AFP Photo)




Protesters from northen Romania hold mock voting stamps that read “Free elections” during a rally organized by the right wing Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR), calling for free elections after Romania' s Constitutional Court annulled the first round of presidential elections last December, in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, January 12, 2025. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)




Alfred Vaz poses ahead of a parade at the Parkes Elvis Festival, in Parkes, Australia, 11 January 2025. The 32nd year of the festival is themed around Presley's 1967 film “Easy Come, Easy Go” and marks what would have been his 90th birthday. (Photo by Stephanie Gardiner/EPA/EFE)




Bulgarian kukeri dancers hold their torches as they perform Surva ritual celebrating the New Year with colorful garments, bells and masks, to ward off evil spirits and bring prosperity, in the village of Svetlya, Bulgaria, Monday, late January 13, 2025. (Photo by Valentina Petrova/AP Photo)