The National Citizen Party (NCP) has applied to use the “water lily” as its election symbol, saying no law prevents a party from choosing a national emblem already used in other contexts. The ...

Our first choice is the water lily. We hope that NCP will get the water lily as it is a symbol of the people, of mass uprisings, and of rural Bangladesh.

This includes Aztec codices, which are quite rare because most of them were burned by Spanish conquistadors, says F. Ramón Zúñiga, a UNAM seismologist who not involved with the work.

Some brought water guns to shoot one another and stay cool in the summer heat. A protester holds a water gun during a protest against overtourism in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday, June 15, 2025.

How the humble water gun became the symbol of Barcelona’s anti-tourism movement The phenomenon started last July, when a fringe, left-wing activist group based in Barcelona held its first ...