Thousands gathered in Dublin to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a grand parade showcasing Irish culture and heritage. Marching bands filled the streets with music, while performers in colorful costumes entertained the crowds. The city was alive with joy, marking Ireland’s biggest national celebration.

Dublin celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with grand parade & festivities

South Korea marks Jeongwol Daeboreum, the first full moon of the year, with dazzling lights, bonfires, and traditional performances. The festival symbolizes driving away bad luck and welcoming prosperity. People gather to enjoy folk games, moonlit dances, and special delicacies.

South Koreans celebrate 'Jeongwol Daeboreum' with bonfires and festivities

Diwali & healthy food? Follow these easy tips to stay fit amid the festivities

The Ganesh Laddu set a record by being sold for 18.6 million in Hyderabad’s Balapur

Vibrant, colourful show of splendour | Goa Carnival 2023 starts on a high note, amid high spirits

With pandemic restrictions in place, the annual Copenhagen Light Festival kicked off on Friday (February 5), bringing light and colour to the Danish capital.

Light festival kicks off in Danish capital amid pandemic restrictions

Christmas has gone to the dogs in Peru. A stream of pampered pooches have donned on their festive best as part of a canine costume parade to help herald in the season.

It's Santa Paws. Peru's pooches put on canine Christmas parade

Athens annual Christmas tree lighting took place in the main square on Monday (December 14), but unlike other years, it was without ceremony - there were no marching bands, no crowds, nor famous celebrities singing carols for the event.

Locked down Athens is lit up for the holidays without fanfare

This holiday season, a cat cafe in Seoul is allowing visitors to cuddle up with around 130 feline friends, some dressed up in red-and-white Santa costumes, ready to wish people a "meow-y Cat-mas."

Santa cats spread Christmas cheer in Seoul

Britain's Queen Elizabeth will be tucking in to a German delicacy on Christmas Day, when she is served stollen sent all the way from Bavaria.

German baker makes Christmas stollen for the Queen

An estimated of 150 people dressed as Santa Claus hit the waters in Queensland's iconic Gold Coast on Sunday (November 29) in a charity run for Australian children in residential care.

Australia's Santas ditch sleighs for jetskis in charity run

Father Frost (Russian Santa Claus) and Snegurochka met children with disabilities on Saturday (November 28) in Kuzminki Moscow residence of Father Frost as New Year and Christmas near.

Children with disabilities meet Father Frost, Russia's Santa Claus

Archival tech company Storyfile has come up with an A.I. alternative, creating a website where children can ask Santa questions online instead.

Online Santa website uses A.I. to let children interact with St. Nick during covid

In the midst of a pandemic, decorative Christmas candles in Greece look a little different this year. Santa has adorned a blue surgical face mask, as one candlemaker said he wanted to do his part to raise awareness about wearing a mask.

Christmas candles with a twist: In Greece, Santa masked due to coronavirus

The store itself is shut, and the pavement outside is nearly empty, but the French capital's Printemps department store lit up its Christmas window display on Tuesday because - global epidemic or not -- it's an annual tradition.

Unbowed by COVID-19, Paris store lights up Christmas display

Residents in Seville celebrated the annual traditional April fair from their balconies on Saturday (April 25), after one of southern Spain's most famous festival, due to start this week, was called off due to coronavirus.

Spain's "Feria de Sevilla" celebrated from balconies under coronavirus lockdown

In downtown Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province where the coronavirus pandemic is said to have originated, barber Yang Guangyu is busy giving haircuts and shaving beards of his customers now that the lockdown is coming to an end.

Wuhan barber wears plastic bottle and pipe mask for protection

The U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds showed their solidarity with frontline workers fighting the pandemic with a fly by over Las Vegas on Saturday (April 11).

Thunderbirds show solidarity with frontline workers with a fly by in Las Vegas

A coronavirus quarantine couldn't stop the Easter Bunny from making his rounds in California.Mom and lawyer, Jessica Pride, drove her husband, Dante Pride, around their Solana Beach neighborhood on Saturday (April 11) with Dante dressed as the holiday mascot.

Mom drives Easter Bunny around neighborhood to entertain quarantined kids

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