Images of Muslims around the world observing Eid al-Fitr and Ramadan this year
Colorful images from the Sambadromes of Rio and São Paulo
People around the world are ushering in the Year of the Tiger with displays of fireworks, family get-togethers, temple visits, and street festivals.
Every January, the streets of Piornal, Spain, fill with residents armed with turnips, seeking to punish the devil-like Jarramplas.
A collection of images of this year’s socially distant “Yardi Gras,” as New Orleanians prepare for Mardi Gras on February 16
Colorful images from Rio, São Paulo, and more
Lederhosen, overflowing beer mugs, carnival rides, dancing, and more—some 6 million visitors are anticipated at this year’s Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich.
The annual Fiesta de San Fermín, including the famous Running of the Bulls, began in Spain this week.
Observations of Vesak, or Buddha Day, from several countries across Asia
Over the past two weekends, thousands of music fans gathered to hear performances in Indio, California.
Images of Maslenitsa, a Slavic Shrovetide festival, as celebrated in Russia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan.
Colorful images from Rio, São Paulo, and more
Colorful images from the opening days of the festival—“Tutta colpa della Luna!”
Welcoming the arrival of the Year of the Earth Pig with family get-togethers, temple visits, street festivals, and displays of fireworks
Massive, colorful ice sculptures light up the night in the frigid northern city of Harbin, China.
Authorities in Allahabad, India, are expecting approximately 100 million visitors over the 48-day Ardh Kumbh Mela festival starting on January 15, 2019, and 22 temporary pontoon bridges are being built to handle the traffic.
The 185th Oktoberfest beer festival opened in Munich this weekend, and organizers are expecting more than 6 million visitors over the next two weeks.
A spectacular festival of handheld fireworks that dates back more than 350 years
In parts of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Russia, an ancient pagan rite combined with a traditional Orthodox feast to become Ivan Kupala Night, a festival celebrating the summer solstice.
Last weekend, the first part of the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival took place in Indio, California, headlined by Beyoncé.
Church services, processions of hooded penitents, Easter egg hunts, Catholic passion plays, and more.
Images of Carnival season 2018, already underway, with celebrations in Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, Bolivia, Haiti, Spain, Italy, and more.
In the past couple of days, festivals were held in two villages separated by language, culture, religion, and great distance, but both centered on the use of fire as a method of purification and blessing.
Each year, participants in the Burning Man Festival travel to the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to form a temporary city—a self-reliant community populated by performers, artists, free spirits, and more.
A fancy-dress evening in Versailles, a destroyed industrial area in Ukraine, a mass wedding on the Uyuni Salt Flat, mourning families in Texas, Fleet Week in New York City, and much more
A series of sandstorms has sent thousands to hospitals with breathing problems, and caused the closure of airports, schools, and government offices.
A fashion show in Burkina Faso, images from battlefields in Ukraine, the Witches and Wizards Convention in Brazil, a sandstorm in Iraq, electric-scooter racing in England, and much more
Images of Lake Mead, which has reached its lowest water levels since the 1930s