Fire festival and a room of balloons: photos of the weekend

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  • Jimbaran, Bali

    Members of the Jimbaran Indigenous community take part in a 6km procession from their villages to Uluwatu Temple as part of the Mepinton ceremony

    Crowds of people wearing white in a procession
  • Vatican City

    A US flag is waved in the crowd as Pope Leo XIV appears on the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica for his first Sunday blessing after his election

    The pope on a balcony as a US flag fills the foreground in half of the picture
  • Los Angeles, US

    A boy plays in water from a broken fire hydrant as spring heat breaks temperature records

    A boy lays with arms outstretched in water on a path beside a road
  • London, UK

    People interact with balloons in the artist Martin Creed’s installation Half the Air in a Given Space (2025), where half the air of a Grade II-listed former Methodist church is filled with hundreds of white balloons

    People stand and walk among large white balloons
  • Mexico City, Mexico

    A man during a march by mothers and relatives of missing persons demanding that the government clarify their disappearances

    A man holds up a sign reading 'desaparecido' (disappeared)
  • Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Protesters block a main road demanding a ban on the ousted Awami League political party

    A child holding a microphone at a protest
  • Basel, Switzerland

    Malta’s Miriana Conte poses on the turquoise carpet during the opening ceremony of the 69th Eurovision song contest

    Miriana Conte poses wearing a dress the appears to be partly constructed from screwed up newspaper pages
  • Tirana, Albania

    The Albanian prime minister, Edi Rama, the leader of the Socialist party, speaks to members of the media after voting during parliamentary elections

    Edi Rama, wearing round red-rimmed sunglasses, speaks into microphones held up by journalists
  • Magelang, Indonesia

    Dancers perform in the Progo River as Buddhist devotees release fish as part of a traditional life-release ritual held on the eve of Vesak Day

    Dancers perform in the Progo River
  • Peshawar, Pakistan

    People hold national flags as they show their support for the Pakistan army, a day after the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan was announced

    People hold national flags and throw flower petals in the air
  • Rathnew, Ireland

    Performers hold fire during a procession at the Bealtaine fire festival, marking the beginning of summer at the Hill of Uisneach

    People dressed in historical tribal costumes, including deer antlers on their heads, hold fire torches
  • Panama City, Panama

    Birds fly over polluted water during the Global Big Day, an annual event focused on birdwatching and citizen science

    Flocks of birds fly over waves, with debris visible in the waters nearest the camera
  • Cartagena, Colombia

    Dancers chat after performing at a wedding

    Women in long dresses chatting on a pavement outside an ochre-coloured house
  • El Alto, Bolivia

    Participants at an event where the Senate president, Andrónico Rodríguez, was announced as a presidential candidate for the 2025 election in August

    A person wearing traditional Bolivian costume, including black triangular-shaped headwear, takes a photo with a phone
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina

    An aerial view of fans of the Argentine series El Eternauta, who gathered at one of the show’s filming locations to recreate the final scene, with some attendees dressed in character with costumes and replica weapons

    Drone shot of crowds around a illuminated building
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