FILE - A girl slides down an ice slide built in the shape of the Kremlin for the Icy Moscow festival at the Victory park in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, as the monument to the Heroes of the First World War is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov, File)
Dec. 24-30, 2025.
AP mobile scroll: a selection of standout vertical images published by The Associated Press in the past week.
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This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.
FILE – People take to the sea at Helen’s Bay, Northern Ireland, for the annual Christmas Eve swim in the cold waters in Belfast Lough to raise money for Dementia NI & Air Ambulance NI, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)FILE – Italian Cardinal Baldo Reina, Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, stands in front of the closed Holy Door of the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran during a ceremony as part of the rites marking the conclusion of the 2025 Jubilee year, in Rome, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Riccardo Antimiani/Pool Photo via AP, File)FILE – President Donald Trump greets Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Mar-a-Lago club, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)FILE- Rescuers work on the scene of a building damaged by a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)FILE – Golden State Warriors forward Trayce Jackson-Davis shoots against the Dallas Mavericks during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eakin Howard, File)FILE – Revellers take part in the Els Enfarinats festival, a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers, in the town of Ibi near Alicante, Spain, Sunday Dec. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz, FIle)FILE – Palestinian youth walk along a tent camp for displaced people as the sun sets in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
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