A child touches the glass as he looks at biologist Felippe Luna, dressed as Santa Claus, swimming among fish at the AquaRio aquarium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, om December 18, 2025. (Photo by Tita Barros/Reuters)




A girl rescues books from a shop near the premises of the Prothom Alo daily newspaper which was set on fire by angry protesters after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, December 19, 2025. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo)




A child catches snowflakes with their tongue during El Museo del Barrio's 47th annual Three Kings Day parade, January 6, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)




A person in a Santa Claus costume dives and poses at the Guadalajara Zoo Aquarium in Guadalajara, Mexico, 12 December 2025. (Photo by Francisco Guasco/EPA)




Pilgrims from various Mexican states walk along train tracks in Chimalhuacan, State of Mexico, to reach the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City and celebrate the Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, held every December 12th to give thanks for miracles and favors received, in Chimalhuacan, State of Mexico, on December 11, 2025. (Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)




Girls from the A’i Cofan indigenous community walk to school against the backdrop of the Reventador volcano during a meeting of indigenous guards from communities across the region, who aim to defend the natural resources of the Amazon from exploitation, in Sinangoe, Ecuador, on December 3, 2025. (Photo by Karen Toro/Reuters)




Pope Leo XIV blesses a child as he arrives to lead his weekly General Audience in Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City, 10 December 2025. (Photo by Riccardo Antimiani/EPA)




Horse-drawn carts and carriages in the capital for the London Christmas Drive on December 7, 2025. (Photo by Jill Mead/The Guardian)




Beau Blades poses for photo at Mulletfest 2025 Grand Final at the Chelmsford Hotel on December 06, 2025 in Kurri Kurri, Australia. Hundreds of mullet enthusiasts from across Australia and internationally converged at Chelmsford Hotel in the Hunter Valley for the Mulletfest Grand Final, where competitors vied for the coveted title of “Best Mullet of Them All” across multiple categories ranging from junior to extreme styles. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)




A child holds a balloon during a Christmas lighting-up ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 6, 2025. (Photo by Tita Barros/Reuters)




People wade across floodwater, amid heavy rain due to cyclone Ditwah, on the outskirts of Chennai, on December 3, 2025. (Photo by R.Satish Babu/AFP Photo)




A boy looks at the damaged central market, hit by a Russian military overnight strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on November 30, 2025. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters)




A woman feeds a child at a refugee camp after evacuation, amid deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along a disputed border area, in Srei Snam, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, on December 10, 2025. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)




The Christmas Concert at Norwich Cathedral, UK on December 12, 2025 where during the second half of the programme the choristers don Santa hats and cathedra's master of music, Ashley Grote casts off his cassock to reveal a festive suit before choir and congregation join together in traditional Christmas carols. (Photo by Jason Bye)




A father and his daughter ride a carousel during the Christmas Fair at Ukrainian National Exhibition Center in Kyiv on December 21, 2025, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)




Displaced residents rest at an evacuation center in the Thai border province of Surin on December 12, 2025. At least 20 people have been killed in the latest round of border fighting that reignited last week, officials said. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)




Young Iraqi girls who have reached the age of wearing a hijab, are clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)