Photos That Defined 2025: Fires, Robots and an Oval Office Clash

December 11, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

The images that Bloomberg photographers took in 2025 captured a world in flux, as politicians jockeyed over rare minerals and trade tariffs, European war games imagined a conflict with reduced US support and national guard troops patrolled the streets of major American cities.

The year was bookended by devastating fires, from the wildfires that burned across swathes of Los Angeles in January, to the fire that tore through a Hong Kong housing estate in November.

In between, it was a year of firsts: the first woman elected as prime minister of Japan, the first time humanoid robot athletes have competed on a ...

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