La Mercè
Barcelona's biggest annual festival, honouring the patron saint of the city. Human towers (castells), fire runs (correfocs), and giant papier-mâché figures parading through the Gothic Quarter.
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Spain
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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled that advice given by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Queen Elizabeth II that Parliament should be prorogued was unlawful.- 2023NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth.
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- 2014The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.