Today in Pictures, Jan 8, 2025
Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas, a fire in California’s upscale Pacific Palisades, and more images from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A devotee attending an Orthodox Christmas service at the heavily damaged St Iveron Monastery amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on Jan 7, 2025.
PHOTO: REUTERS
An Orthodox priest giving holy wine and bread to devotees following a Christmas Day mass at St Kliment Central Orthodox Church in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Jan 7, 2025. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas Day on Jan 7, in accordance with the Julian calendar.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Runners participating in the Christmas race of Father Frost (Santa Claus) at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, on Jan 7, 2025. Russians celebrate Christmas on Jan 7, according to the Russian Orthodox Julian calendar.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Firefighters at work as a brush fire burned in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan 7, 2025. The fast-moving brush fire in the Los Angeles suburb tore through buildings and sparked evacuations as "life-threatening" winds whipped the region.
PHOTO: AFP
Flames raging at an intersection in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan 7, 2025. Frightened residents abandoned their cars on one of the few roads in and out of the upscale Pacific Palisades area, fleeing on foot from the blaze that had engulfed an area crammed with multimillion-dollar homes.
PHOTO: AFP
Onion vendors waiting for customers at a traditional market in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Jan 8, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
A man dressed in a pre-Hispanic costume dancing as he takes part in the annual tour of the Three Wise Men, or The Magi, in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, in Mexico's Jalisco state, on Jan 7, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
A military guard of honour standing next to the flag-draped casket of former US president Jimmy Carter during the Lying in State Ceremony at the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington on Jan 7, 2025. Mr Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died at the age of 100 on Dec 29, 2024, at his home in Plains, Georgia.
PHOTO: AFP
Fog and snow surrounding an art installation, giving a picture-framed view of the valley beneath, at the summit of Holme Moss in the Peak District, in northern England on Jan 7, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Members of the guard of honour of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro standing on the roof of the Miraflores presidential palace during a swearing-in march for combatant forces in Caracas on Jan 7, 2025. Mr Maduro will be sworn in on Jan 10 for a third six-year term.
PHOTO: AFP
