Today in Pictures, Jan 17, 2025
Tennis action from Australian Open, Saint Anthony’s day in Spain, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A man riding a horse through flames during the annual "Luminarias" celebration on the eve of Saint Anthony's day in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares in Spain on Jan 16, 2025. The tradition of riding animals through the narrow cobblestone streets dates back 500 years and is meant to purify the animals and protect them for the year to come.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka serving to Denmark's Clara Tauson during their women's singles match on day six of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on Jan 17, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
MD Rallye Sport's Ludovic Gherardi and Francois Borsotto in action with MD Rallye Sport's Simon Vitse and Max Delfino during the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on Jan 16, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Divers performing a dragon dance ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations at the Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World aquarium in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan 16, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
French horse breeder Elodie Cappe hugging "Rillette", a wild boar she rescued as a piglet in 2023 that is now at the centre of a legal dispute over the keeping of wild animals in France, at her farm in Chaource on Jan 15, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A villager is pinned by a bull as he tries to control the bull during a bull-taming festival, known as "Jallikattu", which is a part of south India's harvest festival of Pongal, on the outskirts of Madurai town on Jan 16, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Aerial view of a site taken on Jan 16, 2025, in Malibu, California, where houses were destroyed by the Palisades Fire.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A worker painting a mural of monkey god Hanuman on a wall during the Maha Kumbh Mela festival, near Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati rivers, in Prayagraj, India, on Jan 16, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
