A selection of captivating news photographs from across the globe, showcasing events ranging from vibrant cultural celebrations to poignant reminders of conflict and tragedy.
A participant poses for a photograph as she parades during Calabar Carnival in Calabar on December 28, 2024. Calabar Carnival is an annual carnival held in Cross River State, Nigeria: it is celebrated every December to mark Christmas celebration yearly. The quality of the festival has grown over the years making it Nigeria’s biggest carnival and an internationally recognized festival.
(Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP) This aerial view shows the remains of a destroyed monument to Syria’s late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar al-Assad who died in 2000, in Deir Attiyah in the countryside of Damascus on December 28, 2024. The monument in Deir Attiyah was the largest statue of Hafez al-Assad until it was destroyed on December 8 after Bashar al-Assad fled the country and Islamist rebels took the capital Damascus. Revellers dressed in mock military garb take part in “Els Enfarinats” flour-battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2024. In this 200-year-old traditional winter festival, the participants — known as Els Enfarinats (those covered in flour) — dress in military clothes and stage a mock coup d’etat as they battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers outside the town hall as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Innocents, a traditional day in Spain for pulling pranks. Fire and smoke rise from the tail section of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on December 29, 2024. A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Bangkok to South Korea crashed on arrival on December 29, authorities told AFP, with 29 confirmed dead and dramatic video showing the aircraft bursting into flames
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