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Loic Venance / AFP / GettyA woman takes photographs in front of the Maraya (or “Mirror”), the world’s largest mirrored building, designed by Florian Boje, in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, on January 27, 2025.Alcides Antunes / ReutersFlames rise from a Tesla Cybertruck following an explosion outside of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 1, 2025, in this screengrab taken from a social-media video. At least seven people were injured in the incident. The driver, reportedly a veteran who was struggling with PTSD, shot himself in the vehicle at the same time as the explosion.Ilia Yefimovich / DPAA protester shows the phrase Stop the War written on her palms during a demonstration calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas since the October 7, 2021, attacks, and for an end to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 4, 2025.Valery Hache / AFP / GettyA driver competes in Stage 2B of the 47th Dakar Rally outside Bisha, Saudi Arabia, on January 6, 2025.Raul Arboleda / AFP / GettyArtists perform with traditional floats during the Blacks and Whites Carnival parade in Pasto, Colombia, on January 6, 2025. The carnival has its origins in a mix of Andean, Amazonian, and Pacific cultural expressions; it celebrates the region’s ethnic diversity and was proclaimed by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage in 2009.Leo Correa / APA statue depicting the late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad sits destroyed in Dayr Atiyah, Syria, on January 5, 2025.Ethan Swope / APThe Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 7, 2025.David McNew / GettyPeople enter an Eaton Fire evacuation zone to take selfie photos and videos near burning homes on January 7, 2025, in Pasadena, California.Andrew Harnik / ReutersThe flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, in Washington, D.C., on January 8, 2025.Mariana Suarez / AFP / GettyComet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is in the sky at dusk, as viewed near Capilla del Sauce, Florida Department, Uruguay, on January 22, 2025. The comet reached its closest point to the sun on January 13, 2025.Christopher Furlong / GettyDemonstrators participate in the People’s March on Washington on January 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Two days before the presidential inauguration, activists rallied in opposition to the incoming Trump administration’s policy objectives.Julia Demaree Nikhinson / APPresidential inauguration guests, including Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk, arrive in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025.Evan Vucci / APPresident Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, along with Vice President J. D. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance, dance at the Starlight Ball, part of the 60th presidential-inauguration ceremony, on January 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C.Petty Officer 1st Class Brandon Giles / U.S. Coast Guard / GettyThe U.S. Coast Guard investigates aircraft wreckage on the Potomac River on January 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. An American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, collided midair with a military Black Hawk helicopter while on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, outside Washington, D.C. There were no survivors among the 67 people on board both aircrafts.Patrick Smith / GettyKendrick Lamar performs onstage during the Super Bowl LIX halftime show at Caesars Superdome on February 9, 2025, in New Orleans.Omer Messinger / GettyDemonstrators march along a street in Berlin’s Tiergarten to protest cooperation by political parties with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on February 2, 2025. The protest followed an attempt by Friedrich Merz, a chancellor candidate and the leader of the Christian Democrats, to pass new legislation on immigration and security, knowing that passage depended on support from the AfD. The banners at front, translated into English, read, “We are the firewall. No cooperation with the AfD.”Anas Zeyad Fteha / Anadolu / GettyA person walks among collapsed buildings after a cease-fire began, on a cold night in the Sheikh Ridvan neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on February 13, 2025.Luis Tato / AFP / GettyResidents cast shadows as they observe a member of the Congolese Red Cross spraying disinfectant on body bags containing human remains during a mass burial for victims of clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo at Musigiko Cemetery in Bukavu on February 20, 2025. The army of Congo was urging soldiers fleeing in the province of North Kivu to rejoin their units and continue the fight to counter the advance of M23 rebels.Evgeniy Maloletka / APLong-range AN-196 Liutyi attack drones of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine agency have been lined up before takeoff in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, on February 28, 2025.Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP / GettyPeople gather on the second day of Ramadan beside the rubble of destroyed buildings for a communal iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the second day of the Muslim holy month, in the area of al-Dahduh, in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa district, Gaza Strip, on March 2, 2025, amid an ongoing truce between Israel and Hamas.Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP / GettyA Palestinian man carries the body of a child killed in an Israeli strike on a United Nations building in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on April 2, 2025, at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia. The Israeli army said it had targeted Hamas militants in the strike. Gaza’s civil-defense agency said the attack killed 19 people, nine of them children.Ivan Samoilov / AFP / GettyValentyna Guk stands on the roof of a heavily damaged building in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 7, 2025. Guk is a 21-year-old Ukrainian artist from Kharkiv who creates mosaics from broken glass. After missile strikes or artillery attacks, she collects interestingly shaped pieces of glass and then assembles them into separate mosaic forms, which she later hangs on the facades of buildings. In total, six of her mosaic works are on the streets of Kharkiv, and one in Izyum.Andriy Andriyenko / Ukraine’s 65th Mechanised Brigade / APA Ukrainian service member examines a ground-based drone at a military training ground in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on March 13, 2025.Dan Kitwood / GettyIn this aerial view, smoke billows from the MV Solong cargo ship in the North Sea, off England’s Yorkshire coast, on March 11, 2025. Thirty-six people were reportedly brought ashore, and one taken to a hospital, after the Solong collided with the oil tanker Stena Immaculate.Keegan Barber / NASA / ReutersSupport teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it splashed down with the NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore as well as the Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the waters off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, on March 18, 2025.AFP / GettyScientists perform a necropsy on an ancient baby mammoth nicknamed “Yana” at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, on March 27, 2025. The carcass, which was dug up the previous summer in the permafrost-covered region of Sakha, weighs 180 kilograms (397 pounds). Yana’s geological age, meaning the period when she lived, was first estimated at 50,000 years, but later updated to “more than 130,000 years” following an analysis of the permafrost layer where she was found.Mikkel Berg Pedersen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP / GettyA dead humpback whale is beached in shallow water along Følle Strand, on the Djursland Peninsula, Denmark, on April 2, 2025.Sai Aung Main / AFP / GettyA monk takes a photo on the banks of the Irrawaddy River in front of the collapsed Ava Bridge, also known as the Inwa Bridge, in Sagaing, Myanmar, on April 3, 2025, after an earthquake struck the central part of the country on March 28. The shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake flattened buildings across Myanmar, killing more than 2,700 people and making thousands more homeless.Chris Bergin / ReutersAngry constituents express themselves during a town hall hosted by the Republican representative for Indiana’s Fifth Congressional District, Victoria Spartz, in the Indianapolis suburb of Westfield, on March 28, 2025.Patrick Smith / GettyMookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers runs to the dugout after losing to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on April 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C.Juan Medina / ReutersUkraine’s Marta Kostyuk, in action during her match against Britain’s Emma Raducanu in the round of 64 at the Madrid Open in Madrid, Spain, on April 25, 2025Paul Ratje / ReutersDetainees form the letters SOS with their bodies in a courtyard of the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling were held, in Anson, Texas, on April 28, 2025.
