Photos of the Day: Celebrations and Illuminated Water

Kolkata, India

Statues of the goddess Durga are prepared for the Durga Puja

Photograph: Saikat Paul/Pacific Press/Barcroft Images

Bern, Switzerland

People swim in the illuminated water of the Hirschengraben swimming pool during a performance by the Swiss visual artist Pipilotti Rist to highlight the disappearance of corals due to the warming and acidification of the ocean

Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/Getty Images

Munich, Germany

Celebrations at the closing of the Oktoberfest beer festival

Photograph: Felix Hoerhager/AP