A bull-taming festival in India, snow-covered desert dunes in China, a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, a traditional Shinto ceremony in Tokyo, a fashion show in Seville, continued wildfires across Los Angeles, and much more
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A car drives past homes and vehicles destroyed by the Palisades Fire at the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates on January 12, 2025, in Los Angeles. #
A firefighting helicopter drops water as the Palisades Fire grows near the Mandeville Canyon neighborhood and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. #
An aerial view of repair vehicles at sunset passing near beachfront homes that burned in the Palisades Fire on January 15, 2025, in Malibu, California. Multiple wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds are still burning across Los Angeles County, with at least 25 people dead, more than 12,000 structures destroyed or damaged, and 40,000 acres burned. #
A firefighter works on the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 12, 2025. #
Members of the Iranian Basij paramilitary force attend a parade in Tehran, Iran, on January 10, 2025. #
A model showcases a creation by Spanish designers Juan Foronda and Rafa Diaz during the 13th edition of the We Love Flamenco fashion show in Seville on January 13, 2025. #
A worker walks in front of the Karl Marx monument, known as the "Nischel," in Chemnitz, Germany, on January 14, 2025. #
Shinto believers of Teppozu Inari Shrine run around the shrine to warm up before taking a bath in cold water to purify their souls and bodies during an annual new-year ritual in Tokyo on January 12, 2025. #
Hindu pilgrims carrying their belongings walk over floating pontoon bridges to reach Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and mythical Saraswati rivers, on a foggy winter evening during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Prayagraj on January 13, 2025. #
Naga Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, arrive to take a dip in Sangam, to mark the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, in Prayagraj on January 14, 2025. #
Solar-power panels sit on the roofs of houses in Yuanlong Village in Yinchuan City, in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on January 15, 2025. #
An aerial view of structures atop Laojun Mountain, seen at sunset in Luoyang, Henan province, China, on January 12, 2025 #
A steam train travels through the Harz forest to the top of Germany's Brocken, near the village of Schierke, on January 13, 2025. #
A woman and child look up at volcanic ash rising into the air during the eruption of Mount Ibu, as seen from Duono Village, in West Halmahera, North Maluku province, Indonesia, on January 15, 2025. #
A man rides a horse through a bonfire as part of a ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of domestic animals, in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain, on January 16, 2025. #
A red fox hunts mice in the snow in Kars, Turkey, on January 12, 2025. #
Skiers on the slopes at the L'Alpe Du Grand Serre resort, in the North Alps, in La Morte municipality, near Grenoble, on January 13, 2025. #
An aerial view of snow-covered dunes in the Taklimakan Desert after a snowfall on January 15, 2025, in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. #
"Frost flowers" form on the surface of a salt lake during cold weather in Yuncheng, Shanxi province, China, on January 16, 2025. #
Flamingos rest near a beach in Kuwait City on January 13, 2025. #
Destroyed buildings are seen inside the Gaza Strip from southern Israel, on January 13, 2025. #
Operators look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold-mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, on January 16, 2025. Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said on January 16, 2025, that a final sweep appeared to show nobody left underground, after 78 bodies and more than 200 miners were lifted out this week. Police cracking down on illegal mining operations had encircled the 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) mine shaft since August, cutting off food and water. A total of 87 bodies have been retrieved, and 1,907 miners have resurfaced. #
Team member Jennifer Allison cleans a chandelier as they are lowered for maintenance at the Blackpool Tower ballroom on January 14, 2025 in Blackpool, England. #
An aerial view of illuminated ice sculptures at Harbin Ice and Snow World, seen at sunset on January 15, 2025, in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China #
Masked revelers wait for the start of the carnival parade in the village of Vevcani, North Macedonia, on the eve of Orthodox Saint Basil's day, marking the beginning of the new year in the Julian calendar, on January 13, 2025. #
Participants try to control a bull during the annual Jallikattu bull-taming festival in the village of Palamedu, on the outskirts of Madurai, India, on January 15, 2025. #
A shelf cloud rolls across Newcastle, Australia, ahead of a storm that brought wild winds and rain to the region on January 15, 2025. #
A murmuration of migrating starlings is seen in the sky near Beersheba, Israel, on January 12, 2025. #
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