san fermin festival (spain)

Revelers from around the world have been participating in the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, for the last nine days. Visitors take part in many festivities including the eight days of the running of the bulls, a half- mile dash from the corral with six bulls destined to die in the following bullfight. Each day includes traditional processions, music, food and lots of celebrating.

AQUATICS

The 15th FINA World Championships are taking place in Barcelona this year, and the photography is a feast for the eyes. FINA is the Swiss-based international swimming organization that holds the championships for aquatic sports every two years. 

ROWS OF BODIES

Horrific images were taken this week of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria. Rows of bodies, including many children, fill rooms and streets in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, and Syrian activists are reporting hundreds of people killed. The Syrian government denies the use of chemical weapons, and an investigation continues. The civil war persists as forces continued fighting and droves fled the country.

DAMPEN THE SPRITS

A DRIZZLING RAIN

A drizzling rain can't dampen the sprits of fair-goers Will Black, right, and Jordan Fioretti from Olive Branch, Miss. as they take a turn on the Blizzard. 29 afternoon on the final day of the Mid-South Fair at the Landers Center in Southaven, Miss.

NAGANO

Takamori Fudou-taki waterfall Nagano

JAPANESE STATION

Japanese station staff and passengers work together and push the train in order to rescue a woman sandwiched between the train and platform. The woman was rescued without injury. | JR Minami Urawa Station, Saitama, Japan

MAKEUP

KAPUKI MAKE UP

SUMO

SUMO IN TRAINING

OKUTAMA

Okutama, Tokyo - Snow Scene

ICICLE CAVE

ICICLE CAVE at Misotsuchi, Saitama, Japan

balochistan

baloch culture

football and sun in the hand

moon in the hand

best sea side and stones

happy new year 2014

calender 2014

a man

Nelson mandela next to the royal festival hall

People look at floral tributes placed on a sculpture of Nelson Mandela next to The Royal Festival Hall on Dec. 6, in London, England. Mandela was a leader that helped conquer apartheid in racially divided South Africa after being jailed for his activism for decades. He was South Africa's first black president.

ANC PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA

ANC president Nelson Mandela is surrounded by young supporters after addressing residents at Phola Park, a squatter settlement east of Johannesburg, on May 31, 1992.

christiano ronaldo with great hero nelson mandela

indian children celebratin new year 2014

Indian school children light candles forming the date '2014' at a school in Agartala on December 30, 2013, one day ahead of New Year's celebrations.

new year's fun

Happy New Year, world

It’s time to have a little New Year’s fun. No depressing (yet important) photos of serious events from the year. Just a collection of fun, silly, unusual, picturesque and unique photos of people from different parts of the world either getting ready to celebrate 2014 or already doing so. 

A reveler writes "2014" with sparklers in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, December 30, 2013. 

Visitors of the New Year's event of the 'Pyroland' fireworks company watch the rehearsal for the big New Year's pyrotechnics show in Lauenbrueck, Germany, December 30, 2013.

Myanmar boys wearing school uniforms run as they play near a place decorated for the country's public New Year countdown celebration in Yangon, Myanmar, 30 December 2013. This is only the second official New Year public countdown celebrated in Yangon. 

NELSON MANDELA WORLD SALUTE TO YOU

A salute to 2013’s departed

South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 95. The anti-apartheid icon revolutionised politics in his home country and as a result, his influence was felt across the world.

Mandela had been in and out of hospital battling a recurrent lung infection. After battling illness several times in recent years, his family and supports had been resigned to the prospect of his death in the last few months.

After challenging white minority rule in his youth and facing life imprisonment in 1964, Nelson Mandela was released in 1990 and just four years later won an election be South Africa’s first black president, signalling an end to racial segregation.

These are the top tributes to a man who changed the world, Nelson Mandela.