A vendor sells Guy Fawkes masks and items with the colors of the national flag at a market ahead of Independence Day celebrations in Karachi, Pakistan, 13 August 2023. Pakistan celebrates its 76th independence anniversary from British rule in 1947 on 14 August 2023. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)

Onlookers gather around a struggling beached whale in the Yoff neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Residents worked Wednesday morning to save some of the more than 80 whales that were stranded on the beach Tuesday night. This whale was successfully towed out to sea by a fishing boat, though at least 20 others lay dead on the beach by midday Wednesday. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)

Fireplace for children, Trondheim, Norway, by Haugen/Zohar. The children of Trondheim come to sit around the fire and tell stories in this whimsical cone hut, made with materials recycled from a construction site. (Photo by Jason Havneraas/The Guardian)

The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen in the sky in Ivalo of Lapland, Finland on September 27, 2019. (Photo by Alexander Kuznetsov/Reuters)

Locals look on as high winds from Storm Bert cause waves to crash over the harbour arm in Folkestone, Britain, on November 24, 2024. (Photo by Chris J. Ratcliffe/Reuters)

An Iraqi soldier stands guard as a pipeline burns in the background after an explosion 30 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of Tikrit, Iraq, Monday, February 11, 2008. (Photo by Bassem Daham/AP Photo)

A Palestinian boy pours water over his head in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 22, 2020. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP Photo)

People pose for photographs in the wind during Typhoon Saola in Tseung kwan O, in Hong Kong on Saturday, September 2, 2023. Typhoon Saola made landfall in southern China before dawn Saturday after nearly 900,000 people were moved to safety and most of Hong Kong and other parts of coastal southern China suspended business, transport and classes. (Photo by Billy H.C. Kwok/AP Photo)