The sun came out in Wiltshire this week and the county has welcomed rare wildlife and also pancakes and spring re-openings.

See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Salisbury City Council Flipping fun: Shrove Tuesday led to some racing in the centre of Salisbury. Raising money for the local foodbank, people competed to win the Golden Frying Pan in the pancake ...

Scores of people showed up to soak up the syrupy sunshine at Windsor & Eton Pancake Race 2025. At 10.20am, teams began ...

In the 826-year-old Atherstone Ball Game, there are two rules, locals say: Keep the big leather ball on the main street, and don’t kill anyone.

The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver held Ash Wednesday services on March 5, 2025. Ash Wednesday is ...

For $2 a go, tourists can purchase sticks of dynamite and experience them exploding in the “nightmarish” subterranean world ...

A HISTORIC sport was played in the streets of a Scottish Borders town once again today as dozens took part in the ancient ...

Photo: Lucy Young The Leadenhall Market pancake race is much of a Shrove Tuesday staple as lemon and sugar, with local workers and visitors going head-to-head on a 20-metre cobbled course ...

Royal Shrovetide is a centuries-old ball game played in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It looks nothing like the world's most popular ...