A snow-and-ice festival in northern China, destructive wildfires in Los Angeles, Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Addis Ababa, the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, a Christmas-tree snack at a Berlin zoo, an oil spill off the cost of Crimea, and much more
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Artists perform with traditional floats during the Blacks and Whites carnival parade in Pasto, Colombia, on January 6, 2025. The Blacks and Whites carnival has its origins in a mix of Andean, Amazonian, and Pacific cultural expressions; it celebrates the region's ethnic diversity and was proclaimed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2009. #
People dressed in costumes and masks participate in a traditional Perchten parade in Windischgarsten, Austria, on January 5, 2025 #
Visitors look at a sculpture of the Hulk made of flowers at a Flower Show in Ahmedabad, India, on January 3, 2025. #
A worker sets up a giant lantern in preparation for a lantern festival to welcome the upcoming 2025 Chinese New Year, the Year of the Snake, on January 4, 2025, in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. #
Yu Xiaofeng leaps into a pool carved into the ice of the frozen Songhua River in Harbin, in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, on January 7, 2025. #
Driver Gonçalo Guerreiro races in stage two of the 2025 Dakar Rally in Bisha, Saudi Arabia, on January 5, 2025. #
Competitors ride a wooden sled during the traditional Bavarian Hornschlittenrennen sled race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on January 6, 2025. #
Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions scuffle with police officers during a protest against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on January 3, 2025, in Seoul, South Korea. #
People and dogs participate in a snowball fight at Meridian Hill Park as a winter storm that brought snow, ice, and freezing temperatures to a broad swath of the U.S. hit Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2025. #
Young people play cricket at the Maidan, an urban park, amid dense fog on a cold winter morning in Kolkata on January 6, 2025. #
Bitterly cold winds kick up waves at sunrise in Sunderland, England, on January 7, 2025. #
Worshippers hold candles and sing religious hymns as they gather for the eve of Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas celebrations at Bole Medhanialem Church in Addis Ababa on January 6, 2025. #
The flag-draped casket of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter lies in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 8, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died at the age of 100 on December 29, 2024, at his home in Plains, Georgia. #
A couple pose for their wedding photos in Central Park during heavy snowfall in New York City on January 6, 2025. #
A deer lies among frosty foliage at Richmond Park in London, England, on January 4, 2025. #
A man takes a picture of the "Los Indomables" statue, which is covered in ice due to subfreezing temperatures in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on January 8, 2025. #
A Siberian tiger stands in the snow at Hengdaohezi Siberian tiger park in Hailin, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang province, China, on January 5, 2025. #
A home is engulfed in flames during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, California, on January 8, 2025. #
People enter an evacuation zone to take selfie photos and videos near burning homes at the Eaton Fire on January 7, 2025, in Pasadena, California. A powerful Santa Ana wind event dramatically raised the danger of wind-driven wildfires such as the destructive Palisades Fire near Santa Monica. #
The Palisades Fire approaches the Pacific Ocean along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, on January 8, 2025. #
The devastation from the Palisades Fire is seen from the air in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on January 9, 2025. #
A woman works at a plant making colored pencils in the city of Binzhou, in east China's Shandong province, on January 7, 2025. #
A visitor slides down blocks of ice during the opening ceremony of the Harbin Ice and Snow World in China's Heilongjiang province, on January 5, 2025. #
Cosimos Cendo skis down Main Street in Annapolis, Maryland, during a snowstorm on January 6, 2025. #
A giraffe grazes on a discarded Christmas tree at a zoo in Berlin, Germany, on January 3, 2025. #
A statue depicting the late Syrian President Hafez Assad is seen destroyed in Dayr Atiyah, Syria, on January 5, 2025. #
On January 8, 2025, a volunteer at a veterinary clinic in the Black Sea resort city of Saki, Crimea, cleans an oil-covered bird following a recent incident involving two tankers that were damaged in a storm in the Kerch Strait. #
An Orca performs at the marine theme park Marineland in Antibes, France, on January 2, 2025. Marineland park closed its doors to the public permanently on January 5, 2025, following a decline in attendance and a recent ban on shows featuring cetaceans. Marineland has until December 2026 to rehome its two remaining killer whales, Keijo and Wikie. #
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