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Added on the 15/08/2018 17:40:26 - Copyright : RT Ruptly EN
Worshippers at a Tokyo shrine welcome the new year with an ice-cold bath in an annual tradition that dates back about 70 years Participants warm up through stretches and chants before plunging into a pool filled with huge ice blocks. IMAGES
Images of a large crowd of passengers waiting in London's St Pancras International station, after Eurostar cancelled at least 14 trains due to a flooded UK tunnel, the day before New Year's Eve. The tunnels near Ebbsfleet International station in Kent were inundated as the Met Office issued weather warnings for rain, snow and ice across large parts of the country. IMAGES
The Oktoberfest, Munich's annual beer festival, kicks off with the mayor of the city tapping the first keg at noon. The festival will go on until 3 October 2023. IMAGES
Music rises in the streets of west London as the famous and colourful Notting Hill Carnival returns after two years of Covid cancellation. Started as a children's fayre by local communities to ease tensions in a racially divided 60s London, the Carnival is now a world-reknowned celebration of the British Afro-Caribbean identity. IMAGES
Atlixco, Oct 2 (EFE).- More than 20 hot air balloons took to the sky Saturday in the Mexican city of Atlixco, giving those who attended the Balloon Festival a dreamy, colorful and exciting sunrise. (Camera: GABRIELA GARCÍA). SHOT LIST: A VIEW OF HOT AIR BALLOONS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF ATLIXCO IN THE STATE OF PUEBLA, MEXICO.