2025: A year in pictures

Dec 25, 2025 - 07:03

2025: A year in pictures

Above: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives for his inauguration in the Capitol Rotunda. Next: Cardinals attend the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City on April 26, 2025. Bottom: A Palestinian man carries the body of a baby killed in an Israeli strike in the northern Gaza Strip.

A protester, wearing a flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman, shouts outside the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal’s government, during a protest in Kathmandu against corruption and a ban on social media.
Top: People hold up signs during a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Next: Riot police use pepper spray against a protester after Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was arrested and sent to prison.
Above; People standing near a flow of lava from the Mount Etna volcano. Next Capybaras covered in bright green slime due to cyanobacteria in the waters of the Salto Grande lake, an artificial body of water made by the hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River, Argentina. Below: On Bangladesh’s coast, where mighty Himalayan rivers meet the sea, water defines every rhythm of life and every struggle. For the millions living in the ecologically sensitive deltas of mudflats and mangrove forests, finding clean drinking water has become an escalating challenge. 

A woman and her child arrive at a hearing as U.S. federal agents patrol the hallways outside a courtroom at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Court.

Top: People gather by the rubble of destroyed buildings for a communal iftar fast-breaking meal on the second day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Gaza City. Below: An aerial photograph shows inflatable dinghies and outboard engines believed to have been used by migrants to cross the English Channel and stored in a Port Authority yard in Dover, southeast England.
A pile of dragon’s teeth concrete blocks during the construction of defense lines in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
A dead body lies on the ground after a Russian missile strike in Sumy, Ukraine.
Wounds from a Russian strike cover Kostiantyn Bychek’s face at a hospital in Kyiv.
Ukrainian servicemen of the 59th brigade mobile air defence unit fire a Soviet made ZU-23 anti-aircraft twin autocannon towards a Russian drone from a sunflower field.

 French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he sits with Egypt’s president to witness the signing of bilateral agreements at the Presidential Palace in Cairo.
Above: French police officers stand next to a furniture elevator used by robbers to enter the Louvre Museum. next: France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy, with his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, leaves his residence to go to La Santé Prison for incarceration on a five-year sentence after being convicted of criminal conspiracy.

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