Greenlanders have celebrated National Day, the Arctic island’s biggest summer festival, to mark the solstice with songs, cannon salutes and dances under 24 hours of sunlight ...

From Finland's bonfires to England's Stonehenge gathering, here are eight global traditions that celebrate the longest day.

Greenlanders have celebrated National Day, the Arctic island’s biggest summer festival, to mark the solstice with songs, cannon salutes and dances under 24 hours of sunlight. Revelers across ...

Friday is the Summer Solstice for 2025, which is the typically longest day of the year for the northern hemisphere. But will you have two longest days? As the Sun makes its daily passage through ...

Jāņi isn’t the only surprise of my month-long visit to Latvia. The country’s coast is a revelation too: 500km of ...

The summer solstice on June 20 signifies the beginning of prime time for birds, butterflies and beautiful nights filled with stars not visible during winter months.

King Charles is the first monarch to take part in the annual BBC broadcast, which sends a morale-raising message to ...

An award-winning artistic director and performer is set to bring a fresh twist to a popular annual winter festival in Perth’s South.

For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the sun.

Richard Russell’s collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded today announce and release Solstice Equinox - a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at ...

Maths boffins say that you only need to be in a room with 23 other people before the probability that one of them shares a birthday is over 50 per cent. That seems like too low a number because it is ...