Travel pictures

Nepal has decided to impose more regulations to increase the safety of the thousands of tourists that visit the Himalayan state every year.

People burn incense at temples to pray for good health and fortune and flock to temple fairs to watch dragon dances and Chinese opera.

We look at craters that have suddenly opened up around the world.

Donald Trump is a typical Fire Dog: hot-tempered, talkative and argumentative. Chinese astrologers predict his second year in office will be even more tempestuous than his first.

Ashbourne is home to one of Britain's oldest and bloodiest sporting traditions: the Royal Shrovetide Football Match, played every year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.

Behind the ostrich feathers and sequins, the parades tackle serious matters such as crime, corruption, drugs, poverty and intolerance towards the LGBT community.

A panorama photograph of motorbikes in a World War Two shipwreck in the Red Sea has won Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018.

Germany celebrates its annual Rose Monday carnival in traditional fashion: with floats featuring huge, unflattering puppets of politicians.

Teams throw 500,000 kilograms of oranges at each other as the northern Italian town of Ivrea marks the start of carnival season.

Seven of Rio de Janeiro's elite samba schools danced through the specially-built Sambadrome on the first night of the city's famous Carnival parades.

People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.

Escape to somewhere exotic and tropical this winter: the 23rd annual orchid festival at Kew Gardens in southwest London.

The spectacular costumes – covered in feathers, sequins and jewels – can be more than 5m high and weigh over 80kg.

Photos show buildings in Hualien leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, shattered glass and bent iron beams.

An 11-year-old girl was the only one person at home when the helicopter crashed into her house. She managed to escape with only a minor knee injury,

The Alps Ski Resort was one of South Korea's first winter sports destinations, attracting tens of thousands of skiers every year, until it abruptly shut in 2006.

The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total.

The world's largest annual migration is underway as hundreds of millions of Chinese people head back home to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their families.

IBTimes UK presents a gallery featuring the best photos of the most creative costumes and masks at this year's Venice Carnival.

Amazon says its "employees can work in an environment that's more like a tropical rainforest in the clouds than an office." Like that's a good thing.

Venice carnival costumes are changing. It's not just fabulous ballgowns for the ladies and black cloaks for the men. Why should the ladies have all the fun?

Invasion Day rallies to protest against Australia Day, the celebration of the start of white colonisation and persecution of Aboriginal Australians 230 years ago.

Rivers across France keep getting more and more swollen as more and more rain falls on the country,.

The Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show is being held at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, a nine-minute drive away from the Mandalay Bay resort.

Paris City Hall closed roads along the shores of the Seine as water levels rose at least 3.3 metres (nearly 11 feet) above the normal level.

The Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition provides a powerful insight into the landscapes, wildlife and nature of the planet, and the adventures to be found on it.

One man was killed and at least 11 people were injured when an avalanche, possibly triggered by the eruption of a nearby volcano, engulfed skiers.

Lava fountains gush up 700 metres (2,300 feet) above Mount Mayon's crater and ash plumes tower up to three kilometres (1.9 miles) in the sky.

While North Korea's nuclear ambitions made global headlines, its humanitarian situation received almost no coverage.

For four nights, London's dark streets are being lit up by more than 50 light-based artworks across the city as part of the Lumiere arts festival.