Total solar eclipse plunges stretch of North America into darkness – best video and pictures
A total solar eclipse plunged the skies along a swathe of North America into darkness.
The moon completely blocked out the sun for more than four minutes in some places along a path starting in Mexico and crossing through the United States and into Canada.
Here are some of the best pictures and videos from before, during, and after, the spectacular cosmic event.
Total eclipse plunges parts of Mexico, US and Canada into darkness
Total eclipse – as it happened
A total solar eclipse is seen from Mazatlan in Mexico
Pic: Reuters
Mazatlan in Mexico.
Pic: Reuters
People watch the partial solar eclipse as they gather on the observation deck of Edge at Hudson Yards in New York.
Pic: Reuters
People use their mobile phones as the sky darkens in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Pic: AP
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‘Oh my God it’s amazing!’
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People react to total eclipse
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Eclipse: How dark did it get?
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‘I think it’s happening!’
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First total eclipse seen in Mexico
People watch the eclipse in Times Square
Pic: Reuters
A person watches the start of the eclipse in New York.
Pic: Reuters
People use special protective glasses in Mazatlan, Mexico .
Pic: Reuters
People dance next to models of the earth, sun and moon at Saluki Stadium in Illinois.
Pic: Reuters
Tawhid Rana holds his daughter Thia, as she views the sun at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Pic: AP
Clouds pass in front of the sun in Eagle Pass.
Pic: Texas Houston Chronicle/AP
Ximena and Magdalena Govea wait at the Saluki Stadium in Illinois.
Pic: Reuters
People prepare their telescopes in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Pic: Reuters
Some of the 309 people gathered to break the Guinness World Record for the largest group of people dressed as the sun in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
Pic: Reuters
Passengers wear solar eclipse glasses as they get ready to board a plane en route to Detroit, Michigan.
Pic: Reuters
Tourists sit by the Horseshoe Falls ahead of the Solar Eclipse. Pic: Reuters
Tamra Sylvester poses with a person dressed as a NASA astronaut during a total eclipse viewing event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Pic: AP
Special protective glasses placed for people to observe the solar eclipse, in Torreon. Mexico.
Pic: Reuters
A person plays a guitar, as people assemble to view the partial solar eclipse over New York.
Pic: Reuters
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“Super high-IQ revolutionaries” who are willing to work 80+ hours a week are being urged to join Elon Musk’s new cost-cutting department in Donald Trump’s incoming US government.
The X and Tesla owner will co-lead the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
And in a post on X, the official DOGE account put out a call to arms for people to sign up and help “dismantle government bureaucracy”.
The post said: “We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE.
“We don’t need more part-time idea generators.
“We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.
“If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”
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In a reply to an interested party, Mr Musk suggested the lucky applicants would be working for free.
“Indeed, this will be tedious work, make lost of enemies & compensation is zero,” the world’s richest man wrote.
“What a great deal!”
When announcing the new department, President-elect Donald Trump said Mr Musk and Mr Ramaswamy “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies”.
Mr Musk has previously made clear his desire to see cuts to “government waste” and in a post on his X platform suggested he could axe as many as three-quarters of the more than 400 federal departments in the US, writing: “99 is enough.”
At least 10 people have been killed after a fire broke out at a retirement home in northern Spain in the early hours of this morning, officials have said.
A further two people were seriously injured in the blaze at the residence in the town of Villafranca de Ebro in Zaragoza, according to the Spanish news website Diario Sur.
Two people remain in a critical condition following the blaze. Pic: AP
They remain in a critical condition, while several others received treatment for smoke inhalation.
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the residence – the Jardines de Villafranca – at 5am (4am UK time) on Friday.
Several residents were treated for smoke inhalation. Pic: AP
Those who were killed in the fire died from smoke inhalation, Spanish newspaper Heraldo reported.
The residence is home to 82 elderly residents.
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The blaze started in one of the rooms, Fernando Beltran, the national government’s top official in the region, told reporters.
All of the victims were elderly residents, he added.
Relatives wait for news outside the care home. Pic: AP
Fire crews, paramedics and police officers remain on site, said a spokesperson for the regional government of Aragon who confirmed the fatalities.
It took firefighters several hours to extinguish the blaze, they said.
The cause of the fire is unknown and is being investigated.
At least 10 people have been killed after a fire broke out at a retirement home in northern Spain in the early hours of this morning, officials have said.
A further two people were seriously injured in the blaze at the residence in the town of Villafranca de Ebro in Zaragoza, according to the Spanish news website Diario Sur.
Two people remain in a critical condition following the blaze. Pic: AP
They remain in a critical condition, while several others received treatment for smoke inhalation.
Firefighters were alerted to the blaze at the residence – the Jardines de Villafranca – at 5am (4am UK time) on Friday.
Several residents were treated for smoke inhalation. Pic: AP
Those who were killed in the fire died from smoke inhalation, Spanish newspaper Heraldo reported.
The residence is home to 82 elderly residents.
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The blaze started in one of the rooms, Fernando Beltran, the national government’s top official in the region, told reporters.
All of the victims were elderly residents, he added.
Relatives wait for news outside the care home. Pic: AP
Fire crews, paramedics and police officers remain on site, said a spokesperson for the regional government of Aragon who confirmed the fatalities.
It took firefighters several hours to extinguish the blaze, they said.
The cause of the fire is unknown and is being investigated.
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