The performers prepare for the show. Fontana, a travelling water circus produced by Cirque Du Liban at Festival City in Dubai. (Photo by Chris Whiteoak/The National)
A person participates in the annual “Battle of the Oranges” in the northern city of Ivrea, Italy on February 19, 2023. (Photo by Massimo Pinca/Reuters)
A resident douses passengers riding in a public motorcycle cab with water, during St. John the Baptist Feast Day celebrations in San Juan city, metro Manila June 24, 2014. Residents participate in an annual city-wide waterfest in honour of their patron Saint John the Baptist. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
Chinese tourists watch storm clouds moving along the coast towards the city of Sydney, Australia, November 6, 2015. Powerful storms swept across the city on Friday, with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology issuing a warning for severe thunderstorms with large hailstones, heavy rainfall and damaging winds, local media reported. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)
A giant sinkhole in Guatemala City, on May 31, 2010. More than 94,000 were evacuated as the storm buried homes under mud, swept away a highway bridge near Guatemala City and opened up several sinkholes in the capital. (Photo by Casa Presidencial/Reuters via The Atlantic)
Revellers gather for the start of the Annual SantaCon Bar Crawl at Father Duffy Square, a section of Times Square, on December 14, 2019, in New York City. SantCon is an event where people make donations to charitable causes and dress up as a Christmas character and visit bars around the city. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)