From air crashes and bombings to fireworks and dancing

Rescuers work near the wreckage of the Jeju Air aircraft that went off the runway and crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea on December 30, 2024.

People walk past trucks in a sandstorm ahead of the Dakar Rally on January 2, 2025.

A mourner prays at the Ulee Lheue mass grave, one of the two major mass burial sites where victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were laid to rest, in Banda Aceh on December 26, 2024, the 20th anniversary of the tsunami.

Palestinians inspect the damage in Gaza City's al-Zaitoun area on December 26, 2024.

Dancers parade during the Calabar Carnival in Calabar, Nigeria, on December 28, 2024.

A Sadhu, or a Hindu holy man, applies ash on his face at the revamped Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of the river Ganges, ahead of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj, India, on December 31, 2024.

Fireworks explode over the Palace of Westminster in central London just after midnight on 1 January 2025 to celebrate the New Year.

Orthodox Jews gather on the fifth night of Chanukah in Jerusalem on December 29, 2024.

A member of the new armed forces, a former rebel who took part in the overthrow of Bashar Assad's government, celebrates the New Year at Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria on January 1, 2025.

An aerial view of intricate patterns formed by thin layers of ice on the surface of Yan Lake at Yellow River Delta Wetland in Dongying, eastern China's Shandong province.