A Democratic Republic of Congo supporter beats on a drum ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) 2024 group F football match between Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo at the Amadou Gon Coulibaly Stadium in Korhogo on January 24, 2024. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)





The Gordon’s School Pipes and Drums in the last decade of January 2024 rehearse for the Woking school’s annual Whitehall Parade on Saturday to honour the life of General Gordon, the British war hero and philanthropist in whose name the school was founded. (Photo by Richard Pohle/The Times)





A reveler dressed as a pirate takes part in a pre-carnival street party, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, January 28, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





Members of the Special Inspection Group from the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) detain an illegal miner during an operation against illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous land, Roraima state, Brazil, on December 5, 2023. (Photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)





A man wears a traditional kankurang mask during the kankurang Festival in Janjanbureh on January 27, 2024. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, Kankurang, a combination of the Mandingo words “kango” and “Kurango”, literally translated as “voice” and “force”, ensures the transmission and teaching of the values and practices that form the basis of Mandingo cultural identity, a West African people whose historical home was the Mali empire. (Photo by Muhamadou Bittaye/AFP Photo)





People dressed in colorful clothes and wearing scary wooden masks decorated with mirrors walks during the Napoleon-themed Coumba Freida Carnival on January 27, 2024 in Doues near Aosta, Italy. The typical costumes of this carnival recall the passage of the soldiers following Napoleon in May 1800. (Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images)





Members of a traditional Bolivian dance group perform during a pre-carnival parade prior to the Jisk'a Anata Carnival, in the streets of La Paz, Bolivia, 28 January 2024. The Jisk'a Anata pre-Carnival is a colorful celebration full of harlequins and cholitas that takes place before the February Carnival. (Photo by Esteban Biba/EPA)





A masked reveller takes part in the Venice carnival in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy on January 27, 2024. (Photo by Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters)





A kukeri dancer holds her mask during the 30th International Festival of Masquerade Games “Surva” in the town of Pernik, Bulgaria Saturday, January 27, 2024. The carnival in the city of Pernik, attracts a record number of participants from all over the country, as well as foreign dancers from across Europe. It marks the culmination of traditional winter festivities that are believed to date back to pagan times. (Photo by Valentina Petrova/AP Photo)





Edinburgh mask maker Lorraine Pritchard on Sunday, January 28, 2024 alongside some of her Venetian masks which will be worn and displayed at the Venice Carnival, which starts on Saturday February 3. Lorraine studied model making at Glasgow College of Building and Printing and Venetian mask making in Florence, Italy. She travels to Venice each year to be a “mask” herself, wearing different masks she has designed as a live exhibit of her work. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





A model walks the runway during the Robert Wun Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show at Palais de Tokyo as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 25, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Richard Bord/Getty Images)





Recently swapped Ukrainian prisoners of war covered in national flags sit in a bus after a prisoner exchange on the Ukrainian Russian border, on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war each, the countries said Wednesday, despite tensions stemming from last week's crash of a military transport plane that Moscow claimed was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv's forces. (Photo by Danylo Pavlov/AP Photo)





Pensioners compare their walking sticks in a street in Ronda, Spain on January 30, 2024. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)





Models wear outfits designed by students from Afro-Brazilian communities at a subway station as part of Black Consciousness Awareness Month, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 19, 2021. In Brazil, more than half the population self-identifies as Black or biracial. (Photo by Andre Penner,/AP Photo)





A woman raises her fist while holding a sign with a visage of then former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during a Black Women's March in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 31, 2022. Demands for reparations for Brazil's role in slavery are being heard in public, partly a reflection of the political climate ushered in by Lula, who took office in January 2023. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





A man helps a female victim at the site of an overnight Russian rocket attack on a hotel in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 10 January 2024. At least 10 people, including one foreign journalist, were injured as a result of two rockets hitting the downtown area of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to State Emergency Service reports. Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory in February 2022, starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Sergey Kozlov/EPA/EFE)





A woman watches fireworks at the sanctuary of Argentina's folk Saint “Gauchito” Gil in Mercedes, Corrientes, Argentina, Monday, January 8, 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)





Aymara indigenous women “Martha La Altena” (El Alto's Martha) (R) and “Susana La Bonita” (Pretty Susana) take part in a freestyle wrestling flight in El Alto, on June 29, 2018 “Cholita Fighters” aim to include their show in a tourist route. (Photo by Aizar Raldes/AFP Photo)





Covered in wine revellers enjoy during the “Batalla del Vino” (Battle of Wine) in Haro, on June 29, 2015. Every year thousands of locals and tourists climb a mountain in the northern Spanish province of La Rioja to celebrate St. Peter's day covering each other in red wine while tanker trucks filled with wine distribute the alcoholic beverage to water pistols, back mounted spraying devices, buckets which are randomly poured on heads and into any other available container. More than nine thousand people threw around 130,000 litres of wine during this year's Haro Wine Festival, according to local media. (Photo by Cesar Manso/AFP Photo)





Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic hits a return during her women's singles match against Naomi Osaka of Japan at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane on January 3, 2024. (Photo by Patrick Hamilton/AFP Photo)