Hero Motosports Team Rally's Botswanan biker Ross Branch competes during Stage 2 of the Dakar Rally 2024, between Al Henakiyah and Al Duwadimi, Saudi Arabia, on January 7, 2024. (Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP Photo)





The inside of a cave dwelling is pictured in Langenstein, eastern Germany, Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Workers of a nearby sheep farm built twelve of these caves in the rocks where they lived with their families from 1858 to 1910. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Germany's Roman Rees reacts after crossing the finish line of the men's 15km short individual event of the IBU Biathlon World Cup in Antholz-Anterselva, Italy, on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Marco Bertorello/AFP Photo)





A participant dressed up as a demon brandishes a stick with fireworks during the traditional Correfoc (fire-run) festival in Palma de Mallorca on January 28, 2024. The Correfoc is a night of revelry in which participants dress up as demons and devils, and run through the streets scaring people with fire and fireworks. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





Couples dressed in a traditional attire line up during a mass wedding called “Yeshih Gabicha” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on January 14, 2024. Hundreds of couples gathered in Ethiopia's capital on January 14, 2024 to take part in a traditional mass wedding ceremony, the first such event in a decade, according to the organisers and participants. Dressed in traditional white clothes, the couples sang and danced in the streets outside the wedding venue before the ceremony began, bringing together Ethiopians from around the country. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





Wearing a sumo wrestler costume, Fletcher (C), an 8-year-old tourist from Australia, practices with former sumo wrestler Jokoryu (R) on a sumo ring before tourists from abroad during a lunch sumo show at the restaurant Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan, 10 January 2024. The Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka, a restaurant in Tokyo managed by retired sumo wrestlers is becoming a popular spot for tourists because of its performances in English, that allows the foreign public to expand its knowledge about the iconic Japanese sport while giving a new work life to retired professionals. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





An elephant with his face painted is pictured at Amer Fort in the outskirts of Jaipur, India on January 11, 2024. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





Police hold a minute of silence for the victims of violence during a ceremony with the president to receive equipment, at Gral. Alberto Enriquez Gallo police school in Quito, Ecuador, Monday, January 22, 2024. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo)





People watch fireworks while rain falls at the Saint “Gauchito” Gil sanctuary in Mercedes, Corrientes, Argentina, late Sunday, January 7, 2024. Every Jan. 8, devotees from across the country visit his sanctuary to ask for miracles or give him thanks. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)





A person wearing a mask depicting Mr. Bean drives a car during the London's New Year's Day Parade event in London, Britain on January 1, 2024. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Reuters)





Models present creations by designer Giorgio Armani as part of his Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2024 collection show for Giorgio Armani Prive in Paris, France, on January 23, 2024. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)





Guests attend the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2024 collection show for Giorgio Armani Prive by designer Giorgio Armani in Paris, France, on January 23, 2024. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)





Members of the Hook Eagle Morris Men gather in the orchard during the annual Wassail night in Hartley Wintney, west of London on January 12, 2024. The event, held near to twelfth night, celebrates both the passing of Christmas and the future good health of the fruit trees. Traditionally the custom involved the local farm workers visiting the orchard after dark with shotguns, horns, food and a large pail of cider. They would make a loud noise to raise the Sleeping Tree Spirit and to scare off demons. Cider would be poured over the roots and pieces of toast placed in the branches as a gift to the spirit of the tree. The wassail song is sung as a blessing or charm to bring fruitfulness or even in admonishment not to fail in the upcoming year. (Photo by Adrian Dennis/AFP Photo)





People watch from the north as the volcano erupts near Grindavík, Iceland, Sunday January 14, 2024. A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland, sending semi-molten rock spewing toward a nearby settlement for the second time in less than a month. Iceland's Icelandic Meteorological Office says the eruption Sunday came after a swarm of earthquakes near the town of Grindavik. (Photo by Marco Di Marco/AP Photo)





Riot police stand in a phalanx formation as people protest outside Congress where lawmakers are debating a bill promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, January 31, 2024. The bill includes a broad range of economic, administrative, criminal and environmental reforms. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





Soldiers briefly detain a youth to walk him to an area to check if he has gang-related tattoos as they patrol the south side of Quito, Ecuador, Friday, January 12, 2024, in the wake of the apparent escape of a powerful gang leader from prison. President Daniel Noboa decreed Monday a national state of emergency, a measure that lets authorities suspend people's rights and mobilize the military. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa/AP Photo)





A model presents a creation by Fendi during the Women's Haute-Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of the Paris Fashion Week at the Palais Brongniart in Paris, on January 25, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP Photo)





Estephania Mendez, a nine-months pregnant Mexican migrant, is assisted by a friend in crossing the Rio Bravo river, the border between the United States and Mexico, with the intention of turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to seek asylum, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on January 3, 2024. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)





A guest leaves after the presentation of the Spring/Summer 2024 Haute Couture collection by Dior during the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris, France on January 22, 2024. The presentation of the Haute Couture collections runs from 22 to 25 January. (Photo by Yoan Valat/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)