Top Ten Worst Things That Have Happened in 2025
And now that 2025 is here, it's time to talk about the new worst things that have happened this year. As of this list's creation, we are nine days into the year. While I am sure more items will arise as time goes on, the world has no shortage of awful events and other "worst" things that can occur.I am aware of a list already made called Top 10 Biggest Events of 2025 two days ago. However, that list includes a couple of positive items. This list, in contrast, focuses exclusively on the "worst," the negatives.
Another list could certainly be made about the Best Things in 2025 if enough positive events occur. But for now, let's get started here.
Let's start with an item that was already on the previous list, as well as one before it. Israel is still in the war against Hamas, and the sad part is a whole lot of other nations in the Middle East have been dragged into the conflict like Syria and Iran. I do believe Israel is biting off way more than they can chew, and I see them as more of an aggressor now. Yeah, they are retaliating a lot, but things can only go too far in this whole conflict. Countless casualties across the Middle East.
Another item on the previous list and it should be quite obvious how dire it is. Russia is a big nuclear power that wants to take Ukraine, there's evil everywhere going on. Russia is bad enough, but let's not also forget that a whole lot of money is being given to Ukraine, and it gets to a point where we don't really know if or how the money will help the Ukrainians here. It's a totally uphill battle, and I feel like western nations may blunder into this war and get themselves under the missiles of Russia.
As of this writing this is the biggest current (not recurring) event in 2025 so far. But man, all those brushfires, with annoying wind and dry air, and it resulted in lots of places around southern California burning down. The government is being heavily criticized, how its fire department had fired competent workers and their replacements aren't doing good, and worse yet, there's no water in the fire hydrants to fight the fires. The fires have spread throughout a lot of Los Angeles as of now. Some deaths have been reported, I counted 5 last time, but there's likely more. UPDATE: The death toll has risen to 11. Another thing making this worse is the fact that there are LOOTERS plaguing areas affected by wildfires.
Another holdover from the previous list, honestly there is zero reason to let this go due to many different and actually preventable incidents that involve deaths or rape from illegals crossing the United States border and how many illegal border crossings happened. As a reminder this Top 3 consisted of previously listed items that have been ongoing crises and wars and have resulted in a lot of bad.
This seems like a holdover from the previous list but I actually don't remember if I added it or if it was ever there. However, the migrant crisis in European nations can be just as bad as the ones in the US. Germany, France, Spain, and the UK are the main hotbeds of migrants coming over, namely Muslim, and it resulted in a ton of politics, protests, and pushback from normal citizens over there over many different things. The worst has to be in the UK, where the newly-elected prime minister Keir Starmer seems to be making a huge name for himself. Is he compromised that much to not have law enforcement go after migrants that commit crimes in the UK but would rather have regular British citizens arrested over mere social media posts online? And to have Parliament say no to an investigation on possible grooming gangs? If there are people on social media around the world comparing the UK to North Korea and they have evidence like this they may be on to something. European nations should find something that will work for their citizens before any bloody revolution were to occur.
A small location in Tibet close to the Nepal border had a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, leaving lots of people trapped and at least 126 dead.
A terror attack to start 2025's midnight hour off in New Orleans. Shamsud-Din Jabbar drives through Bourbon street into a crowd, and even engages with police by shooting them. He had an Islamic State flag in his truck too and even pledged his allegiance to IS in a video prior to the attack. 15 dead, and the Sugar Bowl postponed.
Aco Martinovic apparently got into a bar fight, left, got his gun, went back to the bar, and shot people. Then he went to another location to do the same thing, then two more other locations. 13 died before the shooter offed himself. This was definitely a mass shooting, and the fact it happened as a result of a bar fight proves how psychotic those can make people. Cetinje had a mass shooting 3 years before this too.
This was one very weird event that happened at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. A parked cybertruck explodes at the hotel, with the driver inside dead, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound prior to the explosion? This lends a ton of questions as to what Matthew Livelsberger was doing and why.
This could be as bad as COVID, depending on the severity, how much it spreads, and maybe even world government responses. We could have another global pandemic going around, and at least one confirmed human death has been reported as of this. We will see.