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Firefighters work at Haneda International Airport when a Japan Airlines A350 airplane caught fire in Tokyo after colliding with a Coast Guard plane. All 379 aboard the Japan Airlines plane escaped the inferno. However, five of the six crew on the Coast Guard plane lost their lives.
A gargantuan sand dune provides a serious challenge for a vehicle taking part in the 47th edition of the Dakar Rally, held in Saudi Arabia.
Firefighters and volunteers attempt to extinguish a fire that broke out at a commercial depot used for oil barrels and flammable drums near the Muthurwa settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy looks on as the first day of the Ukraine Southeast Europe Summit opens in Tirana, Albania.
A man, his face covered, pleads with demonstrators to stop rioting during a protest against Prime Minister Ariel Henry's government and insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Supporters of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi wear masks of his face as they attend an election campaign rally in Meerut, India.
A view of the destroyed roof of a vehicle in Gaza where employees from the food charity World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The Israeli military said it was conducting a thorough review at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this "tragic" incident.
People viewed from above are seen walking around the cherry orchard at Alnwick Gardens in Northumberland, England. The garden complex has the largest collection of Taihaku cherry trees outside of Japan.
The moon blots out the sun during a total solar eclipse, as seen from Carbondale, Illinois, in the United States.
A car is driven carefully along a flooded highway in Dubai after heavy rainfall inundated the United Arab Emirates. The unprecedented downpour was the heaviest recorded in 75 years.
The Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul also suffered heavy rainfall. Floodwaters swamped the airport, leaving airplanes sitting on flooded runways.
Extreme weather conditions were experienced elsewhere in Brazil. In the Pantanal, devastating fires swept through the world's largest wetland near Corumba in Mato Grosso do Sul.
US President Joe Biden looks down as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with former US president and Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. The head-to-head took place at CNN's studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and is remembered for Biden's disastrous performance.
Security forces spray demonstrators in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem as ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that requires the state to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to the military.
A staff member of the metropolitan outer floodway management office in Kasukabe demonstrates how to perform check-ups inside a pressure-adjusting water tank, part of a complex of underground water discharge tunnels constructed to protect Tokyo and its suburbs against floods during Japan's heavy rain and typhoon seasons.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face and surrounded by Secret Service agents as he is taken off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, after surviving an assassination attempt.
Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after successfully riding a huge wave in Tahiti during the 5th heat of the men's surfing round 3 during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The moon is pictured with the Olympic cauldron and the Eiffel Tower towards the end of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
President Joe Biden addresses enthusiastic delegates on day one of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Amid surging floodwater, a local resident helps free a car that became stranded in a stretch of flooded road as tropical cyclone Helene strikes on the outskirts of Boone, North Carolina.
Beached boats are caught on sandbanks exposed due to severe drought on the Solimoes River near Manacapuru, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon River. The drought was the most intense and widespread Brazil has experienced since records began in 1950.
A spectacular total solar eclipse is seen in Las Horquetas in Santa Cruz, Argentina. The year 2024 witnessed five eclipses—two solar eclipses and three lunar eclipses.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk jumps on stage as he joins former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Group members of "Colla Jove Xiquets de Tarragona" start to form a human tower called a "castell" during the biannual human tower competition in Tarragona, Spain.
A member of the fire brigade's search and rescue team is dwarfed by debris in the wake of devastating floods that struck Spain's Valencia province killing more than 220 people.
Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris and Maya Rudolph react as they sit opposite one another while sharing a joke on the day Harris makes an appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' in New York City.
Cows and buffaloes wade into the polluted Yamuna River on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India. Out of 30 days in November, two were classified under the 'severe plus' category, the most hazardous Air Quality Index level.
Supporters react in dismay while another takes a selfie as Democratic presidential nominee US Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks conceding the 2024 US presidential election to Donald Trump at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
A Palestinian mother holds the foot of her ailing child at Nasser Hospital amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
The last supermoon of 2024 is visible above a park in Lianyungang, China. Illuminated fencing adds a surreal quality to the image.
Members of the Indigenous People Association stage a protest to demand action on climate change, using big head cut-outs of world leaders on the waters of Botafogo Bay in Rio de Janeiro to make their point ahead of the G20 summit. Depicted larger than life are Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Ursula von der Leyen, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin, and Shigeru Ishiba.
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As 2024 draws to a close, it's time to look back on some of the pictures that have defined the past twelve months. News photographers around the world captured dramatic images of natural disasters and extreme weather conditions, as well as documenting several extraordinary episodes during the US presidential campaign. Classic images of sporting and cultural events have also been taken. So as the current year ends, let's look back on how we saw 2024.
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