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Dancers performed the dance of releasing the sun 2024, welcoming the sun 2025, a New Year's Eve celebration in Bali, Indonesia. A "family fireworks" display lit up the Opera House and the Sydney ...

Credit: Reuters Parishioners Maddie-Rae Eason, 8, and Sam Brobbey, 6, hold their Christingles, which represent Christ's birth and the Light of the World, during a Christmas Eve service at the ...

12, its closest point to Earth in its orbit around the sun ... Space.com readers caught the spectacle on camera in the gorgeous photos below. Photographer Peter Jay caught the Red Planet lurking ...

The world has been saying goodbye to 2024 and welcoming ... RITCHIE B TONGO/EPA A person takes photos of the crowd gathered prior to the firework display at Taiwan's Taipei 101 tower.