Travel pictures

The red wine flows in city ahead of the running of the bulls.

Having begun in 1916 on Coney Island, the contest marks its 100-year anniversary this year.

An Angry Birds purse was among items found by US lawyer Blaine Gibson on island of Nosy Boraha.

Leading British photographer reveals how the nation's capital looks after dark.

Tate Modern's new 10-storey, pyramid-shaped tower has been unveiled ahead of its opening to the public.

The park serves as a garden, gym, dance floor, rehearsal studio, prayer venue and place to socialise with friends and loved ones.

The world's biggest gathering of its kind, the Cumbria-based fair is expected to attract about 5,000 travellers and thousands of visitors.

The caterpillar fungus germinates in living moth larvae, killing and mummifying them, then growing out of its head.

At 35.5 miles long, the Swiss railway line will speed passengers and cargo by rail under the mountain chain that divides Europe's north and south.

The tenth annual Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year Award is open for entry until 10 July.

The light festival transforms various buildings and landmarks into a canvas for the giant creations.

Visitors to this year's show greeted by a sea of handmade poppies.

Buddhists around the world celebrate Vesak, marking the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha.

Harmony of the Seas is 361m long – 37m longer than the Eiffel Tower and more than three times the length of the Elizabeth Tower in London.

The Grande Hotel da Beira was once the largest and most luxurious hotel on the African continent.

Thousands of Confederates fled the southern United States and moved to Brazil after the end of the US Civil War.

Foreign journalists visiting North Korea to cover its Seventh Workers' Party Congress were denied access.

Award-winning photographer Kevin Frayer travelled to Cangshan in Sichuan province to watch the Jinyuan Opera Company perform.

A circular glass viewing platform jutting out from the edge of a mountain is the latest of China's glass suspension structures.

Surrounded by gleaming towers, holdouts decline to move from ramshackle homes in dilapidated area

Aerial photos record landmarks such as the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge, as well as Australians enjoying the great outdoors.

The new area of the historic palace includes a secret grotto, colourful turrets and a 25 foot-long sleeping dragon.

The celebrations saw crosses heavily adorned with flowers paraded throughout the towns.

British news and documentary photographer Mary Turner spent some time in Zimbabwe looking at life after 36 years under Robert Mugabe.

Illegal gold mining is destroying swathes of the Amazon rainforest, poisoning the river and the people who live along it.

Reuters photojournalist Gleb Garanich photographed the survivors as they visited the ghost town and the dusty derelict flats there that were once home.

Interactive photos, taken a year apart, show areas of Nepal immediately after the quake and today.

The 5,000-year-old World Heritage Site is one of the most popular tourists attractions in Turkey.

Prince William and Kate Middleton hiked up to the Buddhist monastery in Bhutan.

Two women died when the building in the popular Canary Islands tourist destination of Los Cristianos collapsed.