French acrobat Nathalie Jeanson performs during the annual Festival du Merveilleux at the Musee des Arts Forains in Paris on Dec. 26, 2025. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images
Riders with horses and hounds take part in the Old Surrey, Burstow and West Kent Hunt Boxing Day Meet in Chiddingstone Causeway, England, on Dec. 26, 2025. The government has announced plans to follow through on a pledge to ban trail hunting as part of a package of animal welfare reforms. Traditional hound hunts of wild mammals were banned in England and Wales in the Hunting Act 2004, but the practice of trail hunting, which replicates a hound hunt by laying an animal scent trail, remains legal. Animal welfare activists have criticized the practice as an unregulated smokescreen for hunting wild animals, while hunting advocates say it benefits rural communities by boosting local economies. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
People pass Sule Pagoda in Yangon, Burma, also known as Myanmar, on Dec. 26, 2025. The country is holding a multiphase general election beginning on Dec. 28, 2025, and continuing into January 2026 under the military administration, which has presented the vote as a step toward restoring civilian rule following the 2021 military coup and subsequent conflict. Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images
People view an exhibit of President John F. Kennedy at the recently renamed Trump Kennedy Center in Washington on Dec. 26, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Professional Santas from Brazil's Santa Claus School take part in the annual event Barbas de Molho (Beards at Rest) at a restaurant in Rio de Janeiro on Dec. 26, 2025. Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images
U.S. military fighter jets sit on the tarmac at José Aponte de la Torre Airport, formerly Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 26, 2025. The United States has deployed a major military force in the Caribbean and has recently intercepted oil tankers as part of a naval blockade against Venezuelan vessels and oil it considers to be under sanctions. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images
Pedestrians cross a street in the neighborhood of Cosa in Conakry, Guinea, on Dec. 26, 2025, ahead of the presidential election on Dec. 28. Patrick Meinhardt / AFP via Getty Images
Employees clean certified Vinalopo grapes for New Year's Eve consumption at a vineyard processing plant in Aspe, Spain, on Dec. 26, 2025. In a century-old Spanish tradition, people gather at homes or in squares to eat 12 grapes, one with each stroke of the clock at midnight. Jaime Reina/AFP via Getty Images
Armed security officers cordon off the area following an explosion inside Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood of Homs, Syria, on Dec. 26, 2025. The blast in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria's Homs left eight people dead. Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty Images
A man takes a traditional Christmas swim in the Vltava river in Prague on Dec. 26, 2025. Michal Cizek/AFP via Getty Images
Police personnel carry a teacher who fainted during a protest demanding salary hikes and regularization of government jobs in Chennai, India, on Dec. 26, 2025. R.Satish Babu/AFP via Getty Images
Taiwanese police officers confront a knife-wielding mock attacker as a man playing the role of a wounded victim lies on the ground during a security drill in Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 26, 2025. Huang Yu Chien/AFP via Getty Images
People hold Free Aceh Movement flags while escorting humanitarian aid meant for survivors of the recent devastating floods in Sumatra, in Bireuen, Aceh Province, Indonesia, on Dec. 25, 2025. Amanda Jufrian/AFP via Getty Images
Chairs and a table stand partially buried inside a damaged house as heavy rains fall due to an atmospheric river in Wrightwood, Calif., on Dec. 26, 2025. Jill Connelly/Reuters
A girl enjoys snow in front of New Year 2026 numerals at the Vorobyovy Hills observation point in Moscow on Dec. 26, 2025. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images
