Sky lanterns over Taiwan, drums and feathers in Rio, clouds of colour at Holi. Six celebrations that bring whole cities out at night and into the street.
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Every culture has a night when the rules of an ordinary day are put away. Streets close, neighbours cook for strangers and the sky fills with light or colour.
Our photo desk's favourites, from Carnival to Diwali, are below. Some of these festivals go back centuries; others have spread around the world with the people who carried them.
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Winter giants in Sapporo, elite runners in Berlin and the last days of the Tour de France. Six frames from events that draw crowds by the hundred thousand.
By Daniel Osei
High tides over Venice, a river in flood on the American plains, a country under water. Six images of the moment the water rises, and of the people who go out to meet it.
By Daniel Osei
From Canberra to Toronto, students left their classrooms and filled the streets. Six frames from the September strikes that turned a school protest into a worldwide march.
By Daniel Osei
A path of totality from Mexico to Canada turned an April afternoon into dusk. Four frames of the crowds who stopped to look up.
By Daniel Osei
