Juan Miguel Aguilar, 49, local journalist, dressed up as Melchior, one of the Three Wise Men, throws sweets 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)





Arsenal's Brazilian midfielder #11 Gabriel Martinelli attempts to control the ball during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Ipswich Town at the Emirates Stadium in London on December 27, 2024. (Photo by Glyn Kirk/AFP Photo)





Revellers dressed in mock military garb take part in “Els Enfarinats” flour-battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2024. In this 200-year-old traditional winter festival, the participants – known as Els Enfarinats (those covered in flour) – dress in military clothes and stage a mock coup d'etat as they battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers outside the town hall as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Innocents, a traditional day in Spain for pulling pranks. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





A band plays Dixie as a man starts to strip to the beat in Dundalk, County Louth, November 2014. The crowd, who suddenly come alive, egg him on as a security guard gives chase. (Photo by Seamus Murphy/The Guardian)





A member of the ThesSUP team, wearing a Santa Claus costume, balances on his board, off the seafront of Thessaloniki, Greece on December 22, 2024. (Photo by Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters)





Children enjoy a day off school due to the snow, and find a field to go sledging in at Embsay, North Yorkshire, UK on January 6, 2025. (Photo by Lorne Campbell/Guzelian)





A woman jumps into the waters of the Forty Foot, the bathing place made famous by James Joyce in the opening of Ulysses in Sandycove, County Dublin on September 2021. (Photo by Seamus Murphy/The Guardian)





Swimmers participate in the 115th edition of the popular swimming race Nadal Cup at the port of Barcelona, Spain, 25 December 2025. (Photo by Enric Fontcuberta/EPA/EFE)





A dog jumps over a fallen tree trunk. A quirky photographer makes dogs look like superheroes – by catching them mid-jump. Nigel Wallace from Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK, 57, shoots the pets as they leap over fallen trees so they resemble Superman. (Photo by Nigel Wallace/South West News Service)





Angela McClements joins fellow New Year's Day celebrants as they dive into Carnlough harbour on January 1, 2025 in Carnlough, Northern Ireland. The annual dive and swim is in aid of charity. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)





A Christian orthodox priest throws the cross into the sea water, during an epiphany ceremony to bless the sea, on the southeast village of Xylophagou, Cyprus, Monday, January 6, 2025. (Photo by Petros Karadjias/AP Photo)





A flock of ring-necked paraqeets flying along the Jubilee River in Dorney, Buckinghamshire on December 31, 2024. They are an introduced species whose numbers are increasing. (Photo by Stan Kujawa/The Times)





Marco Fois dives into the Tiber River from the Cavour bridge, as part of traditional New Year celebrations, in Rome, Italy, on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Claudia Greco/Reuters)





Ballet dancers perform in "Swan Lake", composed by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, at Donbass Opera in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on December 22, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Muay Thai participants, fight during the Kibra Youth Initiative boxing exhibition at the Kibera Fort Jesus grounds in Nairobi on December 23, 2024. The purpose of the boxing exhibition is to promote boxing and Muay Thai in the local communities and help prevention of crime and substance abuse among the growing youth within the area and surrounding communities. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)