Sep 29, 2016

Asaro Mud Men perform at Australian Museum

Matt Bracken 0 Comment World Australia, Papua New Guinea, Sydney

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Asaro Mud Men from the Asaro Valley in Papua New Guinea’s eastern highlands perform, for the first time outside their home, their rituals for visitors at the Australian Museum in Sydney on September 29, 2016. The eerie show is traditionally intended to intimidate their enemies in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, with the men donning masks and white clay on their bodies and elongating their fingers with bamboo, they perform a dance with the warriors holding bows and arrows.

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Jun 1, 2016

Australia lights up with Vivid Sydney

Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World Australia, festival, lights, Sydney

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Vivid Sydney, an annual festival of lights, music and ideas, runs from May 27 to June 18.

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Jan 25, 2016

Australia Day 2016

Quinn Kelley 0 Comment Sports, Travel, World Aborigine, Australia, Australia Day, Australian Open, Melbourne, Sydney, tennis

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Australians celebrated Australia Day on Tuesday. The holiday marks the anniversary of the arrival and landing of the First Fleet of convict ships from Great Britain, and the raising of the Union Jack at Sydney Cove by Captain Arthur Phillip, on Jan 26, 1788. Day nine of the 2016 Australian Open also fell on Australia Day.

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Nov 15, 2015

Solidarity with France: Red, white and blue buildings around the world

Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World attacks, France, Las Vegas, London, Madrid, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, terrorism

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Across the globe, notable structures were lit in red, white and blue in a show of solidarity with France after the terrorist attacks in Paris.

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Nov 10, 2015

Light festivals around the world

Steve Earley 0 Comment World art, Australia, Baltimore, Belgium, Berlin, Czech Republic, festivals, France, Germany, Light City Baltimore, lights, Maryland, Prague, Seoul Lantern Festival, seoul South Korea, Signal Festival, Sydney, turin Italy, Vivid Sydney

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Baltimore is one of the latest world cities to be turned on to large-scale artistic light displays. The inaugural Light City Baltimore, modeled after the Vivid Sydney festival in Australia, is planned for seven days this spring. These photos of the Sydney festival and six others around the world offer a glimpse of the type of treatments the Inner Harbor and locations in five city neighborhoods might get.

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Dec 16, 2014

Massacre in Pakistani school, holiday “illuminations” in France, mourning in Sydney | Dec. 16

Greg Kohn 0 Comment Daily Brief, Weather, World Bosnia, California, China, cricket, Duchess of Cambridge, France, oil, Pakistan, Sydney, Taliban

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The day in pictures around the world.

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Dec 16, 2014

Hostage standoff in Sydney, Australia comes to an end

Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World Australia, Sydney

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Three people died in a Sydney cafe after a hostage crisis led to heavy gunfire and security forces storming the building.

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Dec 15, 2014

Giant Christmas ball, Sydney hostages released, brussels sprout-loving sea turtle| Dec. 15

Emma Patti Harris 0 Comment Daily Brief Australia, China, Christmas, hostages, South Sudan, Sydney

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The day in pictures around the world.

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Jan 17, 2014

Celebrities in Wax: Taylor Swift, Sofia Vergara, Carmelo Anthony, Justin Bieber and their waxen doppelgangers

Jerry Jackson 0 Comment Nation, World Berlin, Japan, London, Los Angeles, Madam Tussauds, New York, Sydney

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Taylor Swift, Sofia Vergara, Dame Helen Mirren, Carmelo Anthony, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber and other celebrities meet their waxen doppelgangers.
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Oct 23, 2013

Australian brushfires threaten small towns around Sydney

Michael Gold 0 Comment World Australia, brushfires, fire, New South Wales, Sydney, weather, wildfires

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Firefighters in Australia continued their efforts Wednesday to contain massive wildfires raging across New South Wales. As the afternoon, around 60 blazes were still burning in the Blue Mountains, a suburban area of west of Sydney.

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