Day in Photos: New Years Celebration, Combat Readiness Drills in Taiwan, and Spinners Event
Children perform a traditional Balinese dance to release the sun of 2025, and to welcome the sun of 2026, during a New Year’s Eve celebration in Denpasar, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on Dec. 31, 2025. Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP via Getty Images|December 31, 2025Updated:December 31, 2025The “family fireworks”—also known as the Country fireworks, displayed three hours before midnight every year ahead of the main show at midnight—fill the sky over the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney on New Year’s Eve in Sydney on Dec. 31, 2025. Izhar Khan/Getty ImagesA participant, wearing a 1900s-style costume, runs into the sea as he takes part in the traditional last swim of the year, off the beach in Cabourg, France, on Dec. 31, 2025. Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images
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