A record-setting acqua alta has left much of Venice submerged, following stormy conditions blowing in from the Adriatic Sea.
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a look back at the 28 years when it stood, separating a city and its people.
The French theater company La Machine is bringing a massive fire-breathing dragon built of steel and carved wood to the city of Calais, France.
Lederhosen, overflowing beer mugs, carnival rides, dancing, and more—some 6 million visitors are anticipated at this year’s Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich.
Several fires in the Castelo Branco region injured dozens before being largely contained.
The annual Fiesta de San Fermín, including the famous Running of the Bulls, began in Spain this week.
Images from this year’s edition of the world’s largest greenfield music and performing-arts festival, at Worthy Farm near Somerset, England.
The paranoid worldview of Enver Hoxha, the leader of Albania during the Cold War, led to a massive “bunkerization” project that resulted in the building of nearly 175,000 concrete bunkers across the country.
The 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, held in locations throughout Venice, Italy, will open to the public on May 11.
Investigators and photographers were able to get a first look at the damaged interior.
A massive fire burned through the roof of one of Europe’s most visited historic landmarks today.
In Les Baux-de-Provence, a former limestone quarry has been transformed into an immersive multimedia exhibit space dedicated to art and music.
Colorful images from the opening days of the festival—“Tutta colpa della Luna!”
Dive into a frigid Norwegian fjord with the photographer Olivier Morin and a group of orcas as they hunt for herring.
A third weekend of protest in Paris turned violent on Saturday, as thousands of “yellow vests” (gilets jaunes) battled with riot police, burned cars, and damaged property.
This Sunday, November 11, 2018, will mark the passing of 100 years since the end of World War I.
For the first four days of November, Toulouse, France, became a labyrinth, home to a street-theater performance by a massive robotic spider and a 50-ton Minotaur.
Photos of Venice, Italy, during a period of near-record flooding
The 185th Oktoberfest beer festival opened in Munich this weekend, and organizers are expecting more than 6 million visitors over the next two weeks.
Recent images of Croatia’s dramatic landscape, cities, parks, and shorelines
In August 1968, the Soviet Union sent 2,000 tanks and thousands of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia to seize control and put down its growing pro-democratic government.
For years, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling churches.
Strong winds drove wildfires across the villages, hills, and forests around Athens, Greece, starting on July 23, with authorities blaming the fires for at least 74 deaths.
Fields of lentils and poppies carpet this Italian landscape with a colorful quilt of blossoming flowers every year.
A bull-taming festival in India, icy purification in Tokyo, locusts in Ethiopia, illuminated hats in Switzerland, a coming-of-age ceremony in Tokyo, bushfires in Australia, and much more.
Images of some of the 560 competitors taking part in a 12-day, 4,660-mile (7,500-kilometer) off-roading adventure held entirely in Saudi Arabia this year.
Some of the top images from the 16 categories of underwater photography in this year’s competition.
Hundreds of thousands of residents within a 10-mile radius of the volcano are now being evacuated.