Beyoncé, bushfires and Boxing Day dips: photos of the day – Thursday

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  • Great Bowden, UK

    Riders prepare for the Fernie Hunt Boxing Day meet in Leicestershire

    Three women on white horses have a pre-hunt drink
  • Piau-Engaly, France

    People enjoy the sunshine at a ski resort in the Pyrenees

    People at an outdoor cafe surrounded by snow-covered mountains bathed in sunshine
  • Sydney, Australia

    The yacht Celestial takes part in the 2024 Sydney to Hobart race

    A racing yacht keels to the right as it cuts through the water with its crew on deck
  • Ayr, Scotland

    People take part in a Boxing Day charity swim that raises funds for Ayrshire Cancer Support

    Three women in Santa hats run into the water with a crowd of people following behind them
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Xavier Worthy of the Kansas City Chiefs fends off Alex Highsmith of the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium

    An American footballer pushes another in the face to fend him off as he carries the ball
  • Lhasa, China

    Monks take part in a ceremony at Jokhang Temple in Tibet

    Two monks in crimson robes and yellow headdresses blow horns over a table covered in candles
  • Houston, Texas

    Beyoncé performs with her daughter, Blue Ivy, during the half-time interval of an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans

    Beyoncé and her daughter onstage dressed in white sequinned outfits and cowboy hats
  • Cocoa Beach, Florida

    A surfer dressed as Father Christmas takes part in the annual Surfing Santas event

    A man dressed as Father Christmas walks out into the waves with his surfboard, which has a reindeer soft toy standing on it, on his head
  • Baghdad, Iraq

    An acrobat takes part in a circus performance

    A woman standing on her hands on stilts uses a bow and arrow with her feet
  • Gomadingen, Germany

    Horses gallop through the snow at the Main and State stud farm

    White horses gallop through snow
  • Khan Younis, Gaza Strip

    Students take part in a class at New Rahmaa school, which was established in a tent for displaced people

    Schoolchildren raise their hands as they look at their teacher, who is out of shot
  • Cusco, Peru

    People take part in Takanakuy celebrations, during which conflicts over issues such as land and livestock are traditionally resolved

    A man wearing a stag headdress carries his child, who is wearing an eagle headdress as other people mill around in the background
  • Harbin, China

    Men at work at the annual ice sculpture event

    A group of men dressed in black work on an ice sculpture of a temple
  • Gaza City

    Relatives of five Al-Quds journalists killed in an Israeli airstrike mourn outside al-Awda hospital

    Family members huddle over the bodies of their relatives covered in white sheets with bulletproof vests carrying the word ‘press’ on top of them
  • Toronto, Canada

    Two deer walk between gravestones at the Park Lawn cemetery

    Two deer walk between gravestones at the snow-covered Park Lawn cemetery
  • Yuandang, China

    A train crosses a lake on a section of the new Shanghai-Huzhou high-speed railway

    A high-speed train crosses a lake on a bridge
  • Cromer, UK

    People run into the sea at the start of the Cromer Boxing Day dip

    A man in swimming trunks and a woman in a pink tutu run into the sea followed by a crowd of other people
  • Grampians, Australia

    Smoke rises from a bushfire in the Grampians national park

    Emergency service vehicles are parked in front of billowing smoke
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