Beach racing in England
Beach racing is an offshoot of enduro and motocross racing. Riders on solo motorcycles and quad bikes compete on a course marked out on a beach, with man-made jumps and sand dunes being constructed to make the course tougher.
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Rock & Roll’s ‘Records and Rebels’ on display in London museum
Photos from the press preview of “You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-70” exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum on September 7, 2016 in London, England.
‘Tomatina’ tomato fight festival
Had enough salad and gazpacho? Here’s another way to use up tomatoes. The annual “Tomatina” tomato fight was this morning in Bunol, a village outside Valencia, Spain. Drawing from a 160-ton cache, for an hour or so, thousands of people, many of them tourists, lobbed the ripe fruit like snowballs, bathing each other and the surrounding streetscape in pulp and juice.
Muddy waters at the World Bog Snorkeling Championships
The World Bog Snorkeling Championships is held in southern Wales on August 28, 2016. Entrants must negotiate two lengths of a 60-yard trench through the peat bog in the quickest possible time without using any conventional swimming strokes.
Mass alphorn concert in Bavaria
Remember the old Ricola commercials? Imagine 300 of those guys all in one place. And so you can imagine the scene (and sound) coming out of southern Germany on August 28, 2016.
Earthquake hits central Italy
More than 100 were killed and hundreds more injured in a magnitude 6 earthquake before dawn in central Italy. In the mountainside villages around the epicenter, scores of buildings were reduced to rubble. “The town isn’t here anymore,” said Sergio Pirozzi, the mayor of Amatrice. Swaying could be felt some 60 miles away in Rome.
Taking flight at the 2016 St. Annes Kite Festival
Kite enthusiasts participate in the St Annes Kite Festival on the seafront in Lytham St Annes, northwest England.
Spanish city hosts annual beach horse race
Jockeys and their mounts race along the beach during the annual beach horse race in Loredo, near the northern Spanish city of Santander, on July 24, 2016.
Traditional garlic fair on St. James’ Day in northern Spain
In Vitoria, northern Spain, even if a resident’s ordinary market is closed for St. James’ Day, they won’t want for garlic. Every year on July 25 producers from all around Spain converge on the Basque Country capital for a traditional garlic fair.
Turkey, after the coup attempt
Turkey’s Interior Ministry has fired nearly 9,000 police officers, bureaucrats and others and detained thousands of suspected plotters following the attempted coup, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Monday. Warplanes patrolled Turkey’s skies overnight in a sign that authorities feared that the threat against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government was not yet over, despite official assurances that life has returned to normal.