Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

A giant float takes part in the Karatsu Kunchi festival, designated as an UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage asset, in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2025.

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

A giant float takes part in the Karatsu Kunchi festival, designated as an UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage asset, in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2025.

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

A giant float takes part in the Karatsu Kunchi festival, designated as an UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage asset, in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2025.

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

People watch giant floats during the Karatsu Kunchi festival, designated as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage asset, in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2025.

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

Giant float festival in southwestern Japan

People watch giant floats during the Karatsu Kunchi festival, designated as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage asset, in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Three Gorges Zigui Port Float Cleaning

Workers are driving fully automatic float cleaning boats to carry out float cleaning operations at Zigui Port in front of the Three Gorges Dam. Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China on October 12, 2025.

Takayama autumn festival in central Japan

Takayama autumn festival in central Japan

A colorful float, lit by chochin lanterns, proceeds through a street in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Oct. 9, 2025, during the Takayama autumn festival.

Nagasaki Kunchi festival

Nagasaki Kunchi festival

About 20 men spin a shrine-shaped float during a traditional Nagasaki Kunchi autumn festival at Suwa Shrine in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Oct. 7, 2025. The festival dating back to 1634 features exotic events and runs through Oct. 9.

Danjiri festival in Osaka

Danjiri festival in Osaka

A Danjiri float is pulled by people through a street in Kishiwada during the Danjiri festival in the western Japan prefecture of Osaka on Sept. 13, 2025.

Japan: Rare Brocken Spectre with Rainbow Halo Spotted in Japanese Alps

Captured at Karasawa-dake, a peak near Mount Okuhotaka, this video shows a rare Brocken spectre. The climber’s shadow appears on the mist below, clearly surrounded by a bright, rainbow-colored halo. This optical phenomenon occurs when the sun is low behind the observer, creating a ghostly shadow that seems to float in the clouds.

Kashmir Floods Homes - Pampur

Kashmir Floods Homes - Pampur

Boats float on the swollen Jhelum river in Pampur, India, on September 4, 2025. Days of heavy rain pushed the Jhelum river above the danger mark at Sangam and Ram Munshi Bagh, triggering floods across the Kashmir Valley. Authorities reported breaches along the river in parts of Budgam district and urged residents of low-lying areas to evacuate. Schools remained closed for a second day as rescue teams moved people to safer locations. Photo by Faisal Khan/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Power Generation Industry

Power Generation Industry

ZAOZHUANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 - White clouds float over the MiShan mountain Peak Wind Solar Complementary Power Station in Xuzhuang Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China on September 1, 2025.

Power Generation Industry

Power Generation Industry

ZAOZHUANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 - White clouds float over the MiShan mountain Peak Wind Solar Complementary Power Station in Xuzhuang Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China on September 1, 2025.

Power Generation Industry

Power Generation Industry

ZAOZHUANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 - White clouds float over the MiShan mountain Peak Wind Solar Complementary Power Station in Xuzhuang Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China on September 1, 2025.

Power Generation Industry

Power Generation Industry

ZAOZHUANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 - White clouds float over the MiShan mountain Peak Wind Solar Complementary Power Station in Xuzhuang Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China on September 1, 2025.

Power Generation Industry

Power Generation Industry

ZAOZHUANG, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 - White clouds float over the MiShan mountain Peak Wind Solar Complementary Power Station in Xuzhuang Town, Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province, China on September 1, 2025.

World Exposition in Osaka

World Exposition in Osaka

A giant float from the Iida Toroyama festival of Ishikawa Prefecture's Suzu is carried during an event featuring the central Japan prefecture at the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 27, 2025.

World Exposition in Osaka

World Exposition in Osaka

A float from the Okuma Kabuto festival of Ishikawa Prefecture's Nanao is carried during an event featuring the central Japan prefecture at the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 27, 2025.

World Exposition in Osaka

World Exposition in Osaka

A giant float from the Iida Toroyama festival of Ishikawa prefecture's Suzu is carried during an event featuring the central Japan prefecture at the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 27, 2025.

World Exposition in Osaka

World Exposition in Osaka

A giant float from the Iida Toroyama festival of Ishikawa prefecture's Suzu is carried during an event featuring the central Japan prefecture at the World Exposition in Osaka on Aug. 27, 2025.

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Lanterns float on a pond in Sapporo, northern Japan, to honor the war dead on Aug. 15, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Lanterns float on a pond in Sapporo, northern Japan, to honor the war dead on Aug. 15, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Lanterns float on a pond in Sapporo, northern Japan, to honor the war dead on Aug. 15, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Lanterns float on a river in Tokyo in memory of over 100,000 victims killed in U.S. air raids of the capital during World War II on Aug. 15, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war.

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Japan marks 80th anniv. of WWII surrender

Lanterns float on a river in Tokyo in memory of over 100,000 victims killed in U.S. air raids of the capital during World War II on Aug. 15, 2025, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war.

Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Lanterns float on a lake in Potsdam on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan's Nagasaki in World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman's order for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was issued during his stay in the eastern German city in the closing days of the war in the summer of 1945.

Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Memorial event in Potsdam on 80th A-bomb anniv.

Lanterns float on a lake in Potsdam on Aug. 9, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan's Nagasaki in World War II. U.S. President Harry Truman's order for the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was issued during his stay in the eastern German city in the closing days of the war in the summer of 1945.

Japan: Lanterns Float in Hiroshima to Mark 80th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing 2

People in Hiroshima launched lanterns onto the Motoyasu River, which flows through Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing on Wednesday, August 6.

Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade - Canada

Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade - Canada

A dressed-up reveler performs with her float during the Grand Parade of the 2025 Toronto Caribbean Carnival in Toronto, Canada, on Aug. 2, 2025. This annual event was held here on Saturday to showcase Caribbean culture with thousands of masqueraders in stunning costumes. Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade - Canada

Toronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade - Canada

A dressed-up girl poses for photos with her float during the Grand Parade of the 2025 Toronto Caribbean Carnival in Toronto, Canada, on Aug. 2, 2025. This annual event was held here on Saturday to showcase Caribbean culture with thousands of masqueraders in stunning costumes. Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

China: Miraculous Mirage Makes Ship Appear to Float Above Pier in Zhejiang

Residents in Zhejiang, China, witnessed a stunning mirage on July 27, 2025, where a large ship appeared to float above a pier. The natural optical illusion blurred the horizon, making the vessel look suspended in the sky, leaving onlookers amazed as they filmed the surreal scene.

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

The mechanical hand sheet picking system automatically stacks glass on the float glass production line of Jiangsu Suhuada New Materials Co., LTD., Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China on July 29, 2025.

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

A worker is working on the float glass production line of Jiangsu Suhuada New Materials Co., LTD., Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China on July 29, 2025.

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

The mechanical hand sheet picking system automatically stacks glass on the float glass production line of Jiangsu Suhuada New Materials Co., LTD., Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China on July 29, 2025.

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

A worker is working on the float glass production line of Jiangsu Suhuada New Materials Co., LTD., Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China on July 29, 2025.

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

Glass Manufacturing in Suqian

A worker is working on the float glass production line of Jiangsu Suhuada New Materials Co., LTD., Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China on July 29, 2025.