Day in Photos: Floods in UAE, Kennedy Center Renaming, and Crowds Rallying in Bangladesh
People wade through floodwaters after heavy rains in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 19, 2025. Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images
People wade through floodwaters after heavy rains in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Dec. 19, 2025. FADEL SENNA / AFP via Getty Images

Day in Photos: Floods in UAE, Kennedy Center Renaming, and Crowds Rallying in Bangladesh

A glimpse into the world through the lens of photography.
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Workers pose for a photo after adjusting the name of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Dec. 19, 2025. The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees voted in a unanimous decision to rename the facility The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. Heather Diehl/Getty Images
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Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy review a military honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec. 19, 2025. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images
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A devotee sits near a sacred lake around the Golden Temple amid dense smog in Amritsar, India, on Dec. 19, 2025. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images
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Tourists queue near the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Dec. 19, 2025. Tourists will have to pay a two-euro entrance fee to get close to Rome's famous Trevi Fountain. Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty Images
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Demonstrators take part in a march to express support for Congolese institutions, the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Wazalendo, and affirm national sovereignty in Kinshasa, Congo, on Dec. 19, 2025. Hardy Bope/AFP via Getty Images
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Protesters rally at the Shahbagh intersection following the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Dec. 19, 2025. As news spread that the 32-year-old student leader died in a hospital in Singapore, crowds took to the streets in an outpouring of mourning and anger. Abdul Goni/AFP via Getty Images
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People walk outside Westminster Cathedral in London on Dec. 19, 2025. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images
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Sudanese men repair an electric generator at a workshop in Port Sudan, Sudan, on Dec. 19, 2025. Ibrahim Ishaq/AFP via Getty Images
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A tractor throws straw to protest against the EU–Mercosur deal and the French government's management of the lumpy skin disease outbreak in front of the administrative city of Alençon, France, on Dec. 19, 2025. Jean-Francois Monier/AFP via Getty Images
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A military police officer stands guard as a woman looks at a victory wall outside the Electoral Logistics Center in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Dec. 19, 2025. Orlando Sierra/AFP via Getty Images
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Israeli security forces stand near demonstrators in Beit Jala near Bethlehem in the West Bank on Dec. 19, 2025. Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images
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Denmark’s King Frederik inaugurates a new battery-powered train in Lemvig, Denmark, on Dec. 19, 2025. Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AFP
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gestures as journalists ask questions during an end-of-year press conference at the State Department in Washington on Dec. 19, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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People line up for a cable car during a transport strike in La Paz, Bolivia, on Dec. 19, 2025. Jorge Bernal/AFP via Getty Images
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Displaced Palestinians watch as another rides a quad bike on the sand dunes opposite displacement shelters in Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip on Dec. 19, 2025. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
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A man stands in the water at Alimos Beach at sunset in Athens, Greece, on Dec. 19, 2025. Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images
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Displaced people take refuge at an evacuation center in Surin, Thailand, on Dec. 19, 2025. Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images
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The memorial at Bondi Pavilion before dawn in Sydney on Dec. 20, 2025. George Chan/Getty Images