In more “raccoons are getting more like us” news, a drunk raccoon was found in a liquor store in Virginia, US in the first decade of December 2025. The animal had got into the shop via some loose ceiling tiles, knocked bottles of spirits off the shelves, lapped up the contents and passed out in the toilets. Once it had sobered up, it was released back into the wild – no doubt with a crashing hangover. (Photo by AP Photo)

A woman reacts as she attends Fet Gede, the traditional Haitian Day of the Dead celebration at the Port-au-Prince cemetery, in Haiti, on November 1, 2025. Fet Gede is the annual celebration when practitioners of vodou parade and believe to be possessed by the spirits of the dead. (Photo by Clarens Siffroy/AFP Photo)

British-Albanian singer Dua Lipa performs during 2024 Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park on October 05, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Erika Goldring/WireImage)

Ahead of Valentine's Day, American singer Jennifer Lopez in the last decade of January 2024 drops not-so-subtle hints as to what's on her wish list. (Photo by JLo /Instagram)

Opposition activist Marcelin Myrthil AKA Arab holds a machete during a protest against the government and calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on February 5, 2024. (Photo by Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters)

Men who are part of a neighbourhood vigilante group hold a hammer and machetes while posing for a photograph after suspected gang leader Makandal was killed and set on fire, amid an escalation in gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 20, 2024. (Photo by Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters)

Squirrels are seen on a tree branch at a park as temperatures rise with the arrival of spring season in Ankara, Turkiye on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Evrim Aydin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

A fox pounces on a mouse in the snowy hills on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. (Photo by Johnny Krüger/Mediadrumimages)