Singers perform on a giant stage on Lake Constance during a rehearsal of Giuseppe Verdi's opera 'Ein Maskenball'. The design of the stage in the lake shows 'Death' reading the book of life.

French jets fly over Dubai's Burj Al-Arab, the world's tallest sea-based hotel, during preparations for the Dubai Air Show.

Falling for Colour: Hundreds of cars jam a road in Nikko, Japan, as drivers slow down to admire the colourfully tinted leaves of Autumn.

One of the many "geometrical" paintings from the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelius Escher