Festive swims and Santa treats: Christmas Day’s best photos

St Peter’s Basilica during Pope Francis’s Christmas mass

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Swimmers take part in the White Christmas Dip, in aid of Macmillan Caring Locally, at Boscombe Pier

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People watch the sunrise at Jeongdongjin beach

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Ukrainian army medic Oleksander carries his bride and comrade Eugenia after their wedding ceremony

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Flooding after heavy rain

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Festive swims and Santa treats: Christmas Day’s best photos

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St Peter’s Basilica during Pope Francis’s Christmas mass

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Vatican City, Vatican

Swimmers take part in the White Christmas Dip, in aid of Macmillan Caring Locally, at Boscombe Pier

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Bournemouth, UK

People watch the sunrise at Jeongdongjin beach

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Gangneung, South Korea

Ukrainian army medic Oleksander carries his bride and comrade Eugenia after their wedding ceremony

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Lyman, Ukraine

Flooding after heavy rain

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Deir al-Balah, Gaza

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Desolation Islands, sub-Antarctic