Daniel Sheridan, a council worker from Poole, Dorset, runs a side hustle snapping dogs living their best lives in the second decade of December 2024. (Photo by Daniel Sheridan/South West News Service)

SpaceX launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlink satellites on Mission 12-2 on December 23, 2024. The rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A in Florida. (Photo by USA Today)

British-Albanian singer Dua Lipa (left) and American model Emily Ratajkowski goof around at a Puma event in Milan, Italy in the second decade of December 2024. (Photo by Instagram)

Julia Lopez Peña, the daughter of slain environmentalist Juan López, poses for a photo with her state-assigned bodyguards at her ninth birthday party in Tocoa, Honduras, December 7, 2024. (Photo by Moises Castillo/AP Photo)

Participants take part in a parade in traditional attire to celebrate Tamu Lhosar, a New Year festival of the Gurung community in Kathmandu, Nepal on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)

A student poses with her painted face, ahead of New Year celebrations at a college in Chennai on December 28, 2024. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)

Local residents participate in the annual carbide shooting on New Year's Eve in Zwolle, the Netherlands on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Vincent Jannink/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Revellers brave the rain as they make the most of New Year's Eve in Liverpool city centre, UK on December 31, 2024. (Photo by Ioannis Alexopoulos/London News Pictures)