The “family fireworks”—also known as the Country fireworks, displayed three hours before midnight every year ahead of the main show at midnight—fill the sky over the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney on New Year's Eve in Sydney on Dec. 31, 2025. Izhar Khan/Getty Images
A participant, wearing a 1900s-style costume, runs into the sea as he takes part in the traditional last swim of the year, off the beach in Cabourg, France, on Dec. 31, 2025. Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images
Members of the public gather to celebrate New Year's Eve at the Jogyesa buddhist temple in Seoul, South Korea, on Dec. 31, 2025. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images
Switzerland's Gregor Deschwanden competes during the qualifying for the Men's Individual Large Hill HS142 event of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, the second leg of the Four Hills Tournament, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Dec. 31, 2025. Philipp Guelland/AFP via Getty Images
A girl poses with painted face and hands during New Year's Eve celebrations in Amritsar, India, on Dec. 31, 2025. Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images
In this aerial view, swimmers from the Bold And Beautiful Swim Squad make their way from the South corner of Manly Beach to Shelly Beach in Sydney on Dec. 31, 2025. The social group of swimmers wear pink swim caps and participate in an informal 1,500-meter swim from Manly Beach to Shelly Beach and return daily. Started in 2008, the squad is open to all swimmers of different skill levels, and between 50 and 300 people participate every morning. Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
A woman talks on the phone inside a damaged residential building following an attack in Odesa, Ukraine, on Dec. 31, 2025. Russian strikes on the city wounded six people including three children, the Ukrainian city's military administration said. Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images
Mourners gather around a convoy carrying the remains of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in Dhaka, on Dec. 31, 2025, a day after her death. Bangladesh bid farewell to Zia, the first woman to serve as prime minister in the South Asian nation of 170 million people, in a state funeral that drew vast crowds mourning a leader whose career defined the country's politics for decades. Anwar Hossain Joy/AFP via Getty Images
A group of swimmers raising money for Cancer Research UK take an early morning New Year’s Eve dip in the tranquil but cold waters of Pickmere Lake in the Cheshire countryside in Knutsford, United Kingdom, on Dec. 31, 2025. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Revelers pose for photographs at an illuminated sea promenade during New Year's Eve in Mumbai, India, on Dec. 31, 2025. Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images
Explosive barrels placed by Taiwan military at the Tamsui river, as part of a series of emergency combat readiness drills, in response to the Chinese communist regime conducting military drills around Taiwan, in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 31, 2025. Ann Wang/Reuters
A girl stands in the courtyard of a building of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Askar camp for Palestinian refugees, east of Nablus in the West Bank, on Dec. 31, 2025. Zain Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images
Assad, the official mascot, gestures during the Africa Cup of Nations Group E football match between Equatorial Guinea and Algeria at Moulay Hassan Stadium in Rabat, Morocco, on Dec. 31, 2025. Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images
A large crowd of people fills the street at a New Year's Eve celebration in Bangkok on Dec. 31, 2025. Thousands attended a countdown event in the city’s downtown as the country welcomes the new year. Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images
A member of the security forces mans a checkpoint in Aden, Yemen, where the country’s internationally recognized government is based, on Dec. 31, 2025. Saudi Arabia welcomes the UAE's troop withdrawal in Yemen but tensions will remain while Abu Dhabi backs separatists there, a source close to the Saudi government told AFP. The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council's forces have swept through divided Yemen's government-run areas this month, seizing much of resource-rich Hadramawt bordering Saudi Arabia and neighboring Mahra province. Saleh Al-Obeidi/AFP via Getty Images
A person paddles past the snow-covered banks of lake Tegel in Berlin on Dec. 31, 2025. The German capital got a light dusting of snow on the last day of 2025. Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images
Brazilian runner Fabio Jesus Correia crosses the finish line to get the third place in the men's 15-kilometer competition of the 100th edition of the Saint Silvestre road race in Sao Paulo on Dec. 31, 2025. Miguel Schincariol/AFP via Getty Images
Surfers ride a wave at Taghzout beach, Morocco, on Dec. 31, 2025. Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images
A man stands on the outside of a car while spinning during a spinners event at an arena for a crossover gathering on New Year's Eve in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Dec. 31, 2025. Zinyange Auntony/AFP via Getty Images
A tourist rides a one-humped camel during the last sunset of 2025 on New Year's Eve in Al Wakrah, Qatar, on Dec. 31, 2025. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images
