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With just a few weeks left to enter the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, we present a selection of early submissions.

Water from the flood in 10 November 1985 has receded revealing a lost Argentinian spa town.

The 103-year-old telegram is expected to fetch about $40,000 at an auction.

Facial tattoos were once common among Berber women, but now it is considered a sin in Islam.

Devotees pierce both cheeks and thread skewers through the holes. Some go a bit further.

Reuters photographer Denis Balibouse photographs the Aletsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps.

Smartphones, traffic jams, restaurants and taxis – North Korea's capital is showing signs of prosperity.

Activists protesting against redundancies at Air France stormed the HQ and attacked two managers.

More than 500 hot air balloons took to the skies for the annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico.

A 300-metre long glass bridge suspended over a canyon that is 180 metres deep in places.

In the former Soviet Union, bus stops were often an excuse for designers to try out their most outlandish ideas.

Photos of this year's Burning Man, a huge alternative festival in Nevada's Black Rock desert.

Steampunks show off their creative costumes at the Asylum Steampunk Festival in Lincoln.

The streets of Bunol run red as 20,000 people pelt each other with tomatoes in the 70th La Tomatina festival.

A photographer manages to capture photos showing the harsh realities of life in poverty-stricken North Korea.

Events include carrot tossing, ginger speed dating, freckle counting, and the coronation of the King and Queen of the Redheads.

Toplessness is legal in New York, but aggressively soliciting payment is not.

Four fit young men perform gravity-defying exercises in the rubble of bombed buildings in Gaza.

Endless drought is seeing California suffer one of the worst fire seasons in its history.

First observed in the 70s, there are almost 4,000 sinkholes along the shores of the salty sea today.

A dense layer of ivy covers the houses in the abandoned fishing village on a Chinese island.

The Shanghai Tower will be the world's second-tallest building when it opens later in 2015.

Giant trampolines, walkways, slides and tunnels are suspended inside a cavern twice the size of St Paul's Cathedral.

It cost more than a billion euros to build, but Spain's 'ghost airport' received just one bid of €10,000 at auction.

Revellers wrestle in huge pools of grey goo at South Korea's Boryeong Mud Festival.

The Yellow Sea turns green as a thick carpet of algae covers the beaches of Shangdong Province, eastern China.

Thousands of wine-soaked revellers celebrate the start of Pamplona's San Fermin festival, famed for its running of the bulls.

Worker push heavy machinery across a snow-white landscape, breathing in blizzards of limestone dust.

As Mount Sinabung erupts, thousands of people refused to leave their homes on the slopes the volcano.