People take part in the annual New Year's Day Dip, on the beach in Ramsgate, south east England on January 1, 2024. (Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP Photo)





People dress up like devils dance among firecrackers in a traditional “correfoc” during the celebration of Sant Antoni at the town of Morella in Castello, Spain on January 19, 2024. The festival of Sant Antoni is a tradition that remains from the 15th century. (Photo by Andreu Esteban/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Ethiopian Orthodox worshippers get holy water sprayed on their faces during the celebration of the Ethiopian Epiphany in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on January 20, 2024. Timkat is the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian festival which celebrates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan river. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)





A handout photo made available by the Olympic Information Service (OIS) shows Paul Andrea Gay of France and Jiah Cohen of USA in action during the Freestyle Skiing Mixed Team Dual Moguls at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Gangwon, South Korea, 26 January 2024. (Photo by Joel Marklund for OIS/IOC/EPA/EFE)





Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka during the Australian Open AO 2024 women's final Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Melbourne in Australia, on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Ella Ling/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Revellers take part in the “Castaneda Family” parade during the Carnival of Blacks and Whites in Pasto, Colombia on January 3, 2024. The Carnival has its origins in a mix of Andean, Amazonian and Pacific cultural expressions, and it celebrates the ethnic diversity in the region and was proclaimed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2009. (Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





A performer rides a motorcycle as part of the Ives Brothers Wall of Death at the 48th annual North American International Motorcycle Supershow at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada on January 6, 2024. (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)





President of European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, attends a press conference after an ECB's governing council meeting in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, January 25, 2024. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Baby southern white rhino Malaika with 15-year-old mum, Keyah on January 18, 2024. The amazing moment a rare baby southern white rhino was born at West Midland Safari Park in Worcestershire, England, has been caught on CCTV. Keepers watching the live footage behind-the-scenes, saw the female calf arrive at 1:48am on 11 January 2024, following a tricky breach birth, for 15-year-old mum, Keyah. After a few attempts, keepers noticed that the calf was struggling to get to her feet, so stepped in quickly to get her standing, enabling her to tentatively walk to her mum to have her first feed. Now at a week old, the calf is doing really well and has been given the African name Malaika, meaning “angel”. (Photo by South West News Service)





A Syrian fighter affiliated with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group operates the remote for a pickup-mounted rocket launcher firing at Syrian government forces' positions in the northwest of Aleppo province on January 1, 2024. (Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP Photo)





Family members react while saluting during the funeral of Master Sgt. Daniel Weidenbaum on January 14, 2024 in Ra'anana, Israel. The Israel Defense Forces announced that Weidenbaum was killed on Friday while fighting in central Gaza. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)





Guizer Jarl Richard Moar poses with members of the Up Helly Aa “Jarl Squad”, before parading through the streets of in Lerwick, Shetland Islands on January 31, 2024 before the Up Helly Aa festival later in the day. Up Helly Aa celebrates the influence of the Scandinavian Vikings in the Shetland Islands and culminates with up to 1,000 “guizers” (men in costume) throwing flaming torches into their Viking longboat and setting it alight later in the evening. (Photo by Andy Buchanan/AFP Photo)





The Vulcan Centaur rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral in Florida, US on January 8, 2024, on its debut voyage carrying Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP Photo)





The national visitation team during a presentation about the drug seizures in the port of Vlissingen, Netherlands on January 17, 2024. Dutch and Belgian customs present the results of drug seizures in 2023. (Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Revelers dance during a traditional carnival to celebrate the departing winter and forthcoming spring in the village of Hamry, Czech Republic, Saturday, January 27, 2024. The carnival is part of a centuries old tradition called the Shrovetide Procession which takes place in Eastern Bohemia near the end of winter and before Christian Lent. Experts trace the event, also known as Masopust, with its vibrant colors and archaic masks to pre-christian paganism, then common in the area. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo)





View of an icy excavator at the Brocken station in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on January 8, 2024. In the early morning light, the Brocken is visible again after days without fog. Icy polar cold brings temperatures of minus 16 degrees Celsius to the Brocken summit. Frost and fog have left a bizarre icy landscape on the Harz summit. (Photo by Matthias Bein/dpa)





A Cucumber and a Chuta Cholero hug during the traditional festival “Desentierro del Pepino” (unearthing the Cucumber) to mark the beginning of carnival on January 21, 2024 in La Paz, Bolivia. People dug up the cucumber from the cemetery and walk through the streets with two characters, the Ch'uta and the Chola. (Photo by Gaston Brito/Getty Images)





Demonstrators shout slogan as they march towards Victoria Park during an Invasion Day protest on January 26, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Australia Day, formerly known as Foundation Day, is the official national day of Australia and is celebrated annually on January 26 to commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788. Many indigenous Australians refer to the day as Invasion Day and there is a growing movement to change the date to one which can be celebrated by all Australians. In 2024, supermarket Chains Woolworths and Aldi announced that they would stop stocking themed merchandise for the day, drawing a political backlash from opposition leader Peter Dutton. (Photo by Roni Bintang/Getty Images)





Followers of the Nazareth Baptist Church dressed in traditional attire, from the Ekuphakameni group, also known as the Shembe Church, get ready to take part in a dance at the Nhlangakazi Holy Mountain in Ndwedwe, 85 kilometres north of Durban, on January 7, 2024. The devotees climb the mountain as part of their annual 10 day pilgrimage. The church was founded in 1913 and is one of the largest African traditionalist church in Africa. They walk up to 68kms barefoot praying, worshipping, singing, dancing and camping on their four weeks stay at the mountain. The Shembe Church is the oldest independent indigenous Church in Southern Africa. (Photo by Rajesh Jantilal/AFP Photo)