In pictures: Festivities around the world
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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