24 hours in pictures, 30 December 2025

The sun rises as birds fly over the uShaka Marine Pier, south of Durban on 30 December, a day before the New Year’s Festivities begin worldwide. Picture: Rajesh Jantilal

Rotterdam prepares for National Fireworks display on Erasmus Bridge

Preparations are underway in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 30 December 2025, for the National Fireworks display, which will be set off on the Erasmus Bridge on New Year’s Eve. The grand fireworks show on one of Rotterdam’s most famous bridges has been held for more than fifteen years. Picture: EPA/IRIS VAN DEN BROEK

A Zulu traditional dancer performs for Joburg shoppers ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations, 30 December 2025, in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

Costa Rica's Zapote festivities underway for the 2025-2026 season

A man in costume is gored by a bull during a bullfight at the Zapote festivities in San Jose, Costa Rica, 29 December 2025. The festivities take place from 25 December 2025 to 04 January 2026. Picture: EPA/JEFFREY ARGUEDAS

Joburg residents queue to buy fireworks from the China Fireworks shop in Commissioner Street, 30 December 2025, ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

Nepal's Gurung ethnic group celebrates the Tamu Lhosar new year festival in Kathmandu

A group of Nepalese indigenous people from the Gurung community wearing traditional attire perform during the ‘Tamu Lhosar’ New Year festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, 30 December 2025. Tamu Lhosar is the new year festival celebrated by the Gurung people, the indigenous people living in the high altitude foothills of Nepal. The Nepali government announced a public holiday to recognize the prominent festival of the community. Picture: EPA/NARENDRA SHRESTHA

Georgian farmers sell foodstuff at a street market in Tbilisi on December 29, 2025, ahead of the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays. (Photo by Vano SHLAMOV / AFP)

People gather in Judean Desert to witness rare Qumran flash flood

People celebrate as they witness the first flash flood of the season surging through the Qumran riverbed in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea, West Bank, 29 December 2025, on a stormy day in the region. Picture: EPA/ABIR SULTAN

Joburg residents buy fireworks from the Sui Hing Hong shop in Commissioner Street, 30 December 2025, ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen

Venerable Monk Bhikkhu Pannakara greets well-wishers while leading a group of Buddhist monks during their 2,300-mile peace walk in Fayetteville, Georgia, USA, 29 December 2025. The monks, from the Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, Texas, are on a planned 120-day ‘Walk for Peace’ to Washington, DC, to promote peace, loving-kindness, compassion, mindful awareness, unity, and healing. Picture: EPA/ERIK S. LESSER

Devotees of lemanja renew their wishes with offerings on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro

A woman walks in the sea during a religious ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 29 December 2025. Hundreds of followers of Afro-Brazilian religions gathered to offer gifts to lemanja, considered the mother of the orishas, sovereign of the waters, and protector of sailors. Picture: EPA/Andre Coelho

Unions resume protests against fuel subsidy withdrawal in Bolivia

A person looks on during a protest organized by unions affiliated with the Bolivian Workers’ Union (COB) and miners’ groups in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 29 December 2025. Demonstrators protested a decree withdrawing a fuel subsidy that had been in place for more than 20 years. Picture: EPA/JORGE ABREGO

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