The Garma Festival has wrapped up in the Northern Territory’s remote northeast Arnhem Land for another year, and has been in the news for political reasons. But it is a major cultural festival, and these striking photographs from the event will linger longer.

Chicken lovers in Iowa’s capital Des Moines have paraded their poultry around City Hall to protest against new laws restricting hens and roosters in the city. They’re resisting the new pecking order… 

Spain has a thing for unconventional cultural restorations (who could forget 2012’s ‘monkey christ’?). Now, a church in the north-eastern city of Soria is the latest to be botched with a pink makeover that includes some very scary cherubs. Time for the artists to repent…