December 29, 2025, Syowa Station, Antarctic: The Japanese icebreaker Shirase arrives at the closest point to Japan's Syowa Station in the Antarctic.

- 28 December 2025, Lower Saxony, Laatzen: A woman walks across a road in the Hanover region in fog and sub-zero temperatures. Fog, frost and freezing rain have once again made the roads slippery.

December 28, 2025, Naypyitaw, Myanmar: Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Myanmar's capital Naypyitaw for the country's first general election since a 2021 coup. (Kyodo).==Kyodo.

- 29 December 2025, Brandenburg, Cottbus: A shopping cart with fireworks is pushed through a supermarket. The sale of New Year's Eve fireworks begins today. Firecrackers, rockets and firework batteries up to category F2 are officially on sale until New Year's Eve.

- 29 December 2025, Hamburg: The first customers pay at the till during a special sale of fireworks, firecrackers and rockets in the clubhouse of a shooting club in Hamburg-Harburg. The sale of New Year's Eve fireworks started on 29.12.2025.

- 29 December 2025, Bremen, Bremerhaven: Employees transport trolleys with fireworks through the hall at the start of sales of New Year's Eve fireworks at Comet Feuerwerk. The sales launch for New Year's Eve fireworks was on 29.12.2025.

December 28, 2025, Miami Gardens, Florida, USA: Miami Dolphins safety ASHTYN DAVIS (21) makes an interception and celebrates with safety DANTE TRADER JR. (11) and cornerback RASUL DOUGLAS (26) during an NFL game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday at the Hard Rock Stadium. The Dolphins beat the Bucs 20-17.

December 28, 2025, Los Angeles, California, USA: Los Angeles Lakers' LEBRON JAMES (23) dunks against Sacramento Kings' DEMAR DEROZAN (10) during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

December 28, 2025, Los Angeles, California, USA: Los Angeles Lakers' LEBRON JAMES (23) dunks against the Sacramento Kings during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles.

December 23, 2025, New York, New York, USA: The masked ICE agents and federal officers making detainments of migrants after court hearings at the Jacob Javits Federal building during President Trump's controversial immigration reform policies amid a mass deportation effort in New York, NY from June-December, 2025. (PHOTOS ARE NOT POSED). In balaclavas and sunglasses, they spend most of their days waiting against walls with papers bearing photos of their 'target.' A few in supervisory roles are unmasked but most agents say the masks save them from doxing and protect their families from the animosity towards them in society. Critics believe masks are intimidating and further traumatize children witnessing detainments of their parents, and that they should be required to show their identity and be held accountable the same as police officers. Legal efforts to unmask them are ongoing. There is a vast political divide in America. Some protest, decrying a lack of due process with echoes of Nazi Germany and a slippery slide into fascism. Others applaud. And daily, detentions continue.

ICE agents say the masks save them from doxing and protect their families from the animosity towards them in society. Critics believe masks are intimidating and further traumatize children witnessing detainments of their parents, and that they should be required to show their identity and be held accountable the same as police officers. Legal efforts to unmask them are ongoing. There is a vast political divide in America. Some protest, decrying a lack of due process with echoes of Nazi Germany and a slippery slide into fascism. Others applaud.

November 20, 2025, Rancho Cordova, California, USA: Michelle Glass holds the hand of her 2-month-old son, ANDREW JAMES GLASS, on a changing table as he smiles at his handmade birth announcement plaque, in Rancho Cordova. Andrew was named after his uncle, Andrew James Mathew Pringle, who died in 2023 after being hit by a driver who ran a red light in Rosemont.