Festival

An emergency room nurse in Sweden has won a prize to watch films for a week alone in a lighthouse on a remote island.

Every year on the night of January 13, villagers in Bulgaria gather in a festival to scare away evil and bring good health and bountiful crops.

Sculptors will spend five days perfecting their frozen creations before judges choose the winners.

Because of the uncertainty caused by COVID-19, UK festival organisers say they need government insurance support to save summer events such as Glastonbury.

The annual event usually attracts half a million visitors - this year it was reduced to 400.

Halloween is normally big business In the US. But the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has put pay to a lot of events.

Resistance to censorship was a central theme of the World Press Cartoon awards in Portugal and the subsequent ongoing exhibition. The ceremony also managed to sucessfully navigate COVID-imposed restrictions.

Under the motto "together we shine," the historic centre of Berlin was lit up on Friday evening with installations on monuments and historical buildings throughout the city.

A traditional "sunning of the Buddha" ceremony marked the start of the festival Wednesday in the capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, with a huge Thangka painting bearing the image of the Buddha being displayed on hillsides near the Drepung Monastery.

Revellers were eating and drinking together, watching shows and fireworks and sampling the more than 1,500 types of beer available.

Latin America takes centre stage this year at the La Gacilly Photo Festival in Western France, featuring works from Sebastião Salgado.

The annual Scarlet Sails festival takes place in honour of Russian school graduates but without spectators due to coronavirus restrictions.

India, one of the world's most populous countries, has around 30 cases of COVID-19 and it has prompted caution about mass gatherings.