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This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.
DEC. 4, 2025
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FILE - A woman shows her t-shirt as she arrives for a Mass led by Pope Leo XIV in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Dilara Acikgoz, File)
This image released by Warner Bros Pictures shows Michael B. Jordan, foreground from left, Michael B. Jordan and Omar Benson Miller in a scene from "Sinners." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
The best movies of 2025, ranked by AP film writers
The bean counters might say otherwise, but 2025 was a good year for movies. Filmmakers working in and out of the studio system managed to make bold, personal, wildly imaginative and singular works. Some of them even broke through to the mainstream — how extraordinary that “Sinners” is among the highest earning of the year in North America, […]
DEC. 4, 2025
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The traditional lighting up ceremony starts for the annual Norwegian gifted Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, in London, England, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)
Norway donates a Christmas tree to London every year. Here’s how the tradition began
London’s Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square was lit up Thursday as part of a British tradition with roots in the Norwegian forest. The tree symbolizes the friendship between London and Oslo in an annual ceremony that highlights the history of the countries’ alliance. Here’s how the tradition began: Token of thanks The bond between the two countries was […]
DEC. 4, 2025
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This combination of photos shows an Elf on the Shelf doll in various locations at the home of Antonia Katsanos in Totowa, N.J. in December 2020-2021. (Antonia Katsanos via AP)
Parents under pressure offer creative tips for moving Santa’s spy Elf on the Shelf
A few years ago, Kurt Neesley of Redondo Beach, California, was brainstorming where to put his family’s Elf on the Shelf for his three kids to find the next morning. He decided to make it look like the doll, named Elfie, had painted on their kitchen wall. Neesley used Tootsie Rolls to build an elf-size […]
DEC. 4, 2025
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A Springdale, Ark., police vehicle, center, pulls over a convertible vehicle, right, Nov. 18, 2025, in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A county jail in Arkansas produces hundreds of ICE arrests under a program surging across the US
She was already separated from her husband, the family breadwinner and father of her two youngest children, and had lost the home they shared in Arkansas. Then Cristina Osornio was ensnared by the nation’s rapidly expanding immigration enforcement crackdown just months after her husband was deported to Mexico. Following a traffic stop in Benton County, in the state’s […]
DEC. 4, 2025
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Sabrina Carpenter performs "Tear" during the MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2025. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP File)
The biggest entertainment and fashion moments of 2025, as seen in AP photos
For many, 2025 felt like a blur and that was true in the world of entertainment, which saw happy reunions, somber farewells and introductions to fresh voices and faces. Associated Press photographers were there to capture it all, from Tom Cruise reuniting with his “Mission: Impossible” co-stars for a globetrotting press tour, one rivaled by the glamorous rollout of the blockbuster “Wicked: For Good.”
DEC. 4, 2025
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Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi arrives for an MLS Eastern Conference final soccer match against New York FC, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
The World Cup draw is usually a spectacle. This time, FIFA hopes bigger is better
A record 64 nations will be in Friday’s World Cup draw, more than 30% of FIFA’s members, as soccer’s leaders insist a bigger tournament is better. FIFA expanded the field from 32 teams to 48, and just 42 spots have been determined going into the convoluted ceremony in which balls representing nations are plucked from bowls and […]
DEC. 3, 2025
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FILE - A PlayStation 3 video console is displayed during a news conference in Los Angeles on May 16, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)
The PlayStation turns 30: Looking back at the console that gave us Lara Croft and ‘The Last of Us’
When Kendrick Lamar began his Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year, he picked a stage design likely familiar to anyone tuning in: a square, triangle, cross and circle. The Grammy-winning rapper — in front of more than 133 million people — chose to perform on a massive, industrialized grid of flashing lights resembling a giant PlayStation controller. It was […]
DEC. 3, 2025
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Bad Bunny performs during the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles on March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
AP’s top songs of 2025: ‘Lo que le pasó a Hawaii,’ ‘Abracadabra’ and more
The Associated Press has selected the 10 best songs of the year, presented in no particular order. Read on and then listen to all of the tracks on our Spotify playlist. “Lo que le pasó a Hawaii,” Bad Bunny Selecting just one song from Bad Bunny’s pivotal 2025 album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” is a fool’s errand. Most would likely […]
DEC. 3, 2025
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Tanane Ibrahim, who fled his village in Burkina Faso, tends to cattle at a makeshift grazing area in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
As conflict grips Sahel, herders are pivoting to an unusual city life
Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That’s until the day armed men descended on his home in northern Burkina Faso and seized all his livestock. Within minutes on that day in 2020, the father of four lost everything. For the next three years, he […]
DEC. 3, 2025
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The Winter Egg by Faberge is displayed at Christie's auction rooms in London, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, it is expected to sell for in excess of 20 million UK Pounds when it is auctioned on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Crystal Fabergé egg crafted for Russian royalty shatters record and sells for $30.2 million
A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before it was toppled by revolution shattered records Tuesday as it sold at auction for 22.9 million pounds ($30.2 million). The Winter Egg, which was compared to the iconic Mona Lisa, was just one of seven of the opulent ovoids remaining in private hands, Christie’s London […]
DEC. 2, 2025
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Santa Clara basketball player Thierry Darlan, left, greets teammate Jake Ensminger while walking toward study hall during an interview at the Santa Clara University campus in Santa Clara, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Santa Clara’s Thierry Darlan paves new path after going from NBA G League to college basketball
Alone in Santa Clara’s practice gym, Thierry Darlan reaches up and grabs onto the bottom of the net with two left fingers. He crosses his left leg over the right and stands with right hand on hip, looking comfortable and beaming as he ponders all he has endured to reach this very place. A place […]
DEC. 2, 2025
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