In pictures: Festivities around the world

Updated On Sept 19, 2014 02:25 pm IST
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Children run ahead of a model bull used to train bullfighters after the first bull run of the San Sebastian de los Reyes Festival near Madrid, on August 26, 2014.(AFP PHOTO/ Pedro Armestre) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Children run ahead of a model bull used to train bullfighters after the first bull run of the San Sebastian de los Reyes Festival near Madrid, on August 26, 2014.(AFP PHOTO/ Pedro Armestre)

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Devotees at the 'Peli-Kali Maarbat' ceremony during Pola festival in Nagpur on 26th August.(PTI) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Devotees at the 'Peli-Kali Maarbat' ceremony during Pola festival in Nagpur on 26th August.(PTI)

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Idols of Lord Ganesh put on sale as pigeons fly at the back in Kabutarkhana, Dadar, Mumbai, India on Tuesday, August 26, 2014. (Hindustan Times/Kalpak Pathak) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Idols of Lord Ganesh put on sale as pigeons fly at the back in Kabutarkhana, Dadar, Mumbai, India on Tuesday, August 26, 2014. (Hindustan Times/Kalpak Pathak)

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Tibetan Buddhists and tourists view a huge Thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying a Buddha portrait, during the Shoton Festival at Zhaibung Monastery in Lhasa.(REUTERS/China Daily) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Tibetan Buddhists and tourists view a huge Thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying a Buddha portrait, during the Shoton Festival at Zhaibung Monastery in Lhasa.(REUTERS/China Daily)

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Tibetan Buddhists and tourists gather to view a huge Thangka (not pictured), a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying a Buddha portrait, during the Shoton Festival at Zhaibung Monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, August 25, 2014.(REUTERS/China Daily) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Tibetan Buddhists and tourists gather to view a huge Thangka (not pictured), a religious silk embroidery or painting displaying a Buddha portrait, during the Shoton Festival at Zhaibung Monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, August 25, 2014.(REUTERS/China Daily)

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A performer wears an ornate head dress during the parade on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London on August 25, 2014.(AFP photo/Leon Neal) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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A performer wears an ornate head dress during the parade on the second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London on August 25, 2014.(AFP photo/Leon Neal)

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Revellers react during the rain at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London August 25, 2014.. The Notting Hill Carnival honours London's Afro-Caribbean culture in an area which was home to thousands of immigrants to Britain from the Caribbean in the 1950s onwards.(REUTERS/Toby Melville) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Revellers react during the rain at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London August 25, 2014.. The Notting Hill Carnival honours London's Afro-Caribbean culture in an area which was home to thousands of immigrants to Britain from the Caribbean in the 1950s onwards.(REUTERS/Toby Melville)

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An Indian artists gives the final touches to a statue of the Hindu god Lord Ganesh ahead of the forthcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad. The statues are being prepared for the Ganesh festival, a popular eleven-day long Hindu religious festival in India which will be celebrated from August 29 to September 8. (AFP PHOTO/Noah Seelam) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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An Indian artists gives the final touches to a statue of the Hindu god Lord Ganesh ahead of the forthcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Hyderabad. The statues are being prepared for the Ganesh festival, a popular eleven-day long Hindu religious festival in India which will be celebrated from August 29 to September 8. (AFP PHOTO/Noah Seelam)

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Nepalese Hindu devotees gather for the Kuse Aunse, or Father's Day, Festival at the Gokarneswar Mahadev Temple at Gokarna on the outskirts of Kathmandu on August 25, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Prakash Mathema) expand-icon View Photos in a new improved layout
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Nepalese Hindu devotees gather for the Kuse Aunse, or Father's Day, Festival at the Gokarneswar Mahadev Temple at Gokarna on the outskirts of Kathmandu on August 25, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Prakash Mathema)

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