MY OWN WAY

Fireworks are set off at midnight during the Times Square New Year's celebration, Jan. 1, 2023, in New York.

Fireworks explode over the Acropolis in Athens.

An aerial view of the partially frozen Niagara Falls.

Surfers take to the water at the Crissy Field as a rainstorm hits San Francisco and Bay Area in California. (Dec 28, 2022)

Pope Francis presides over Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Dec. 24, 2022.

Trees are covered in snow in front of the Elizabeth Tower, more commonly known as Big Ben, in London.

New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis on Wednesday introduced 10 films that impressed her this year, and Park’s Cannes-winning film “Decision to Leave” ranked eighth. “Once again, there is a man and a woman as well as love and betrayal. Yet as ‘Decision to Leave’ unfolds and settles into its own distinctively kinked groove, the movie’s emotional focus progressively shifts from the obsessed l..