Best photos of January 1: Sunrise over Damascus to cleanup in Melbourne

January 2nd, 2025. A general view of the city during the year's first sunrise on New Year's Day, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria, January 1, 2025. REUTERS / Amr Abdallah Dalsh
Visitors pray and make offerings at Meiji Shrine in central Tokyo. AFP
A member of the Shembe Church kneels in prayer as a surfer walks into the ocean on New Year's day in Durban. AFP
Sikh devotees take a dip in the holy sarovar at the Golden Temple during the New Year's Day in Amritsar. AFP
People hold incense as they pray on the first day of the new year at Yonghe Temple, also known as Lama Temple, in Beijing. EPA
Devotees offer prayers on New Year's Day at a Hindu temple in Colombo. AFP
The sun rises amid winter clouds as a Great Cormorant migratory bird perches on tree branches at Tauddaha Lake in Kathmandu, Nepal. EPA
The hot air balloon festival in Pokhara, Nepal, takes off. AFP
Cleaners work in the Docklands on New Year's Day in Melbourne, Australia. EPA

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January 01, 2025

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