In photos: What are people around the world doing on the last day of 2025?
People enjoy a carousel ride at a Christmas market on Red Square in front of Spasskaya toer of the Kremlin in Moscow Moscow on December 31, 2025, on the eve of New Year's celebrations. Photo: AFPResidents secure spots for their boats near the Sydney Opera House ahead of the New Year's Eve fireworks display in Sydney on December 31, 2025. A man walks into a store decorated with balloons that read '2026' ahead of the New Year in Kuwait City on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPMourners attend the funeral ceremony of Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia at the Parliament house premises in Dhaka on December 31, 2025 a day after her death. Photo: AFPA girl poses with her painted face and hands during New Year's Eve celebrations in Amritsar on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPPeople visit a Christmas themed market on New Year's Eve at Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPPeople visit a Christmas themed market on New Year's Eve at Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPA Palestinian boy carries a tray of bread on his head as he walks along a street on New Year's eve in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, in East Jerusalem on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPPope Leo XIV thumbs up to pilgrims as he leaves after the weekly general audience in St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPCambodian soldiers, who had been captured by Thai soldiers in July, gesture to well-wishers from a bus after their release, near a checkpoint along the border with Thailand, in Cambodia's Pailin province on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPA Palestinian man walks up the street carrying shopping on New Year's eve in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, in East Jerusalem on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPA vendor hands a passenger in a car a party bag, as he sells party accessories for New Year’s Eve sets-up along a street in the Lebanese capital Beirut on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPA screen indicates cancelled flights at the Brest-Bretagne Airport in Guipavas, western France, on December 31, 2023 after the tower control of the airport was struck by lightning.Photo: AFP.A woman stands on the balcony of a damaged residential building following an attack, in Odesa, on December 31, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.Russian strikes wounded six people in Odesa including three children, the Ukrainian city's military administration said on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFPTwo midnight ball drops, jumping over 7 waves: How some countries will ring in New Year 2026From 7 countdowns to world record attempt: How UAE will ring in 2026 on New Year's EveGoodbye 2025! First 10 countries to ring in New Year 2026 before UAE
People enjoy a carousel ride at a Christmas market on Red Square in front of Spasskaya toer of the Kremlin in Moscow Moscow on December 31, 2025, on the eve of New Year's celebrations. Photo: AFP
Residents secure spots for their boats near the Sydney Opera House ahead of the New Year's Eve fireworks display in Sydney on December 31, 2025.
A man walks into a store decorated with balloons that read '2026' ahead of the New Year in Kuwait City on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
Mourners attend the funeral ceremony of Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia at the Parliament house premises in Dhaka on December 31, 2025 a day after her death. Photo: AFP
A girl poses with her painted face and hands during New Year's Eve celebrations in Amritsar on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
People visit a Christmas themed market on New Year's Eve at Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
People visit a Christmas themed market on New Year's Eve at Gwanghwamun square in central Seoul on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
A Palestinian boy carries a tray of bread on his head as he walks along a street on New Year's eve in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, in East Jerusalem on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
Pope Leo XIV thumbs up to pilgrims as he leaves after the weekly general audience in St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
Cambodian soldiers, who had been captured by Thai soldiers in July, gesture to well-wishers from a bus after their release, near a checkpoint along the border with Thailand, in Cambodia's Pailin province on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
A Palestinian man walks up the street carrying shopping on New Year's eve in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, in East Jerusalem on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
A vendor hands a passenger in a car a party bag, as he sells party accessories for New Year’s Eve sets-up along a street in the Lebanese capital Beirut on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
A screen indicates cancelled flights at the Brest-Bretagne Airport in Guipavas, western France, on December 31, 2023 after the tower control of the airport was struck by lightning.
Photo: AFP.
A woman stands on the balcony of a damaged residential building following an attack, in Odesa, on December 31, 2025, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Russian strikes wounded six people in Odesa including three children, the Ukrainian city's military administration said on December 31, 2025. Photo: AFP
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