Today in Pictures, July 23, 2024
Colourful dancers on stilts in Spain, “Ama” female free divers in Japan, and other photos from around the world in Today in Pictures.
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A resident taking part in a “colourful dance” down a slope as part of a festival called The Anguiano Dancers in Anguiano, La Rioja, northern Spain, on July 22, 2024. In a tradition dating back to 1603., dancers walked down a slope, turning like a human spinning top onto 45cm-high stilts, to worship the town's patron Mary Magdalene.
PHOTO: EPA-EFE
"Ama" female free divers, who harvest sea life from the ocean, leading volunteers as they swim with torches during the Shirahama Ama festival in Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on July 20, 2024.
REUTERS
An air tanker flying low over a wildfire burning on the edge of the Cariboo region city of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada, on July 21, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Molly Picklum of Australia during a surfing training session ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics in Tahiti, French Polynesia, on July 21, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
An Iranian man jumping into a pool amid a heat surge in Tehran on July 22, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A person swinging 120m over ground near Alexanderplatz on the highest swing in Europe, which allows participants secured via a bungee line to swing as far out as they dare, in Berlin, Germany, on July 21, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
A participant posing on the day people from the LGBTQ+ community and their allies parade the city to claim visibility and equal rights, in Cologne, Germany, on July 21, 2024.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Rescuers putting out a fire in a private house destroyed during a missile attack in Kostyatynivka town, Donetsk region, on July 21, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
PHOTO: AFP
