A person dressed as Santa Claus jumps into the sea during the Copa Nadal (Christmas Cup) swimming race in Barcelona, Spain on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Casas/Reuters)

A folk artist shakes iron nets with hot charcoals to create sparks during Huohu (fire pot) performance on December 28, 2024 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Mane flowing, a young competitor clears a jump at the hobby horse racing, eventing and dressage event at Parklands Equestrian Centre near Sheffield, UK on December 30, 2024. (Photo by James Glossop/Times Media Ltd)

A Ukrainian serviceman hugs his relative after returning from captivity during a POWs exchange between Russia and Ukraine, in Ukraine, Monday December 30, 2024. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)

A visitor takes a selfie with a backdrop of sunflowers in full bloom at the E-World Sunflower Garden in Daegu, 237 kilometers southeast of Seoul, South Korea, 13 July 2024. (Photo by Yonhap/EPA)

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caught on a passenger train, ahead of the general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 5, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

A Wallcreeper (aka Tichodroma muraria) flies to a flower on January 28, 2024 in Leshan, Sichuan Province of China. (Photo by Zhou Zhiyong/VCG via Getty Images)

An Iraqi camel herder poses in the desert of Samawa in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Hussein Faleh/AFP Photo)