If the majority of Western countries condemn the practice of cockfighting, in the Dominican Republic it is a real institution in the same way as bullfighting is for Spanish people. This national sport has its own rules. Cockfighting is the first money game in the country.
It is in the courtyard of the gallera that the roosters are prepared. The natural lugs are replaced by metal lugs. Kills rarely last more than 5 minutes. Some roosters are raised to the rank of national celebrities.

If some bikers live on the fringes, for most of them, they are fully integrated into society: In addition to their singular life as a biker, they can have a regular civilian life, a family life, a job. The 21st century Biker is no longer really at odds with society, even if he still has this fierce desire for independence and a spirit of rebellion. .. form the largest part of Motorcycle Clubs. Few bikers live on income generated by the club.

Since 1972, the city of Albquerque, in the state of New Mexico in the United States, has hosted a huge hot air balloon festival every first weekend of October. More than 700 hot air balloons dance through the air and color the sky for nine days. Private owners allow balloonists to land at approximately 400 different sites. This event is the largest hot air balloon festival in the United States and the second largest after the Mondial Air Ballons in France

Thirty years ago, on December 16, 1989, a Hungarian pastor from Timişoara - László Tőkés - precipitated the fall of Ceaușescu and triggered the Romanian revolution. On December 25, 1989, the Ceauşescu couple were shot after a mock trial. Western media, which covered the Romanian revolution extensively, acknowledged their biased treatment. Despite a very difficult democratic and economic "transition", Romania joined NATO in 2004 and then the EU in 2007.

If the majority of Western countries condemn the practice of cockfighting, in the Dominican Republic it is a real institution in the same way as bullfighting is for Spanish people. This national sport has its own rules. Cockfighting is the first money game in the country.
It is in the courtyard of the gallera that the roosters are prepared. The natural lugs are replaced by metal lugs. Kills rarely last more than 5 minutes. Some roosters are raised to the rank of national celebrities.

No less than 20,000 people went to Place de la République in Paris and defied the ban on demonstrations by responding to the call of the collective "Truth for Adama Traoré" and that of Assa Traoré, the sister of Adama. The death of George Floyd in the United States a week earlier also awakened movements in France fighting against police violence.

The "Komondor" (equivalent to french RAID) was created in October 1987 within the Hungarian police. They are specially trained, equipped and deployed for tasks against organized crime and terrorism thanks to the assistance and training provided by the German GSG9. This elite group, prepared for special missions, will be dissolved in 1990 following cases of murder perpetrated by some of its members.

Geomines is one of the leaders in civilian demining.

It has 35 employees, including 9 bomb disposal experts from the army.
In these high-risk missions, it is essential to be able to identify the type of shell before any handling: chemical models and others are not treated in the same way.

In case of doubt, the munitions are X-rayed to know precisely their contents and to avoid the risk of destroying shells that should be incinerated in the open air.

In Pakistan, trucks known as "jingle trucks" are often decorated  with floral designs and religious or poetic calligraphy. This  art form is very popular in the north of the country. For the vast majority, these trucks do not belong to large firms but to small owners, who buy them mainly second-hand and go into debt to paint them in their image.

ZENON, THE MASTER OF ICONS
Pechori, Estonia. Six hundred kilometers north of Moscow, at the edge of a monotonous plain, lies Zenon, a young monk of thirty. Both artist and theologian, he paints his icons as one celebrates a religious service. He is in a ceaseless quest for truth, that is, mastery of the original style, the purest Byzantine, that of Andrei Rublov. In his monastery, a veritable paradise on earth, this aesthete is now a leading figure.