Two people play Subbuteo table football at Stephen Morton’s home in Essex, England. Morton House is filled with lovingly recreated model pitches, complete with players and fans, and an impressive collection of football memorabilia. Every year it opens its doors on December 29, inviting other enthusiasts to compete in the annual Subbuteo game.
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Firefighters at Muan International Airport in South Korea, the site of the Jeju Air plane that crashed on approach on Dec. 29, killing 179 people. The Boeing 737-800, which flew from Bangkok, was used by South Korea’s most popular low-cost airline. Only two crew members survived the crash, making it the deadliest air crash on South Korean soil.
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A young tourist slides down a sculpted ice tunnel at the annual Harbin Ice Lantern Art Fair in Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province. At night, the incredible structures, intricately built by thousands of craftsmen during December, are lit up with colorful lights that make the ice glow.
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A man admires the northern lights in the sky above the suburbs of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk in Russia. A solar storm on New Year’s Day heralded the year’s first dramatic display of the colorful phenomenon known as the aurora borealis.
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Hilde Dazon completes her 366th marathon in 2024 in Ghent, Belgium in aid of the BIG Breast Cancer Research Group. Dazon broke the unofficial Guinness World Record in May 2024 by completing her 151st consecutive daily marathon.
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The world said goodbye to 2024 and welcomed 2025 in style. The event was marked by many spectacular fireworks displays around the world, including this one enjoyed by a family at Ankol Beach in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Pyrotechnics lit up the night sky above the famous pyramids in Giza, Egypt – one of the seven wonders of the world.
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Angela McClements – wearing Where’s Wally? in costume – joins throngs of hardy revelers ringing in the New Year by taking a dip in the harbor in Carnlough, Northern Ireland, during the annual charity dive and swim.
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Palestinians fight for a place to receive food prepared by a charity kitchen, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Khan Yunis, located in the southern Gaza Strip.
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US police believe that an explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day was not connected to a fatal car crash in New Orleans. The driver of a Tesla Cybertruck was killed and seven others injured in Las Vegas after a vehicle filled with fuel canisters and mortars exploded.
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