A vendor sleeps as his son waits for customers at their roadside vegetable shop in New Delhi, February 12, 2019. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)

Colorado Rockies' Charlie Blackmon, back, douses Randal Grichuk as he is interviewed by field announcer Kelsey Wingert, right, following Grichuk's three-run home run off Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Taylor Rogers during the 10th inning of a baseball game Tuesday, September 6, 2022, in Denver. (Photo by David Zalubowski/AP Photo)

People play with snow during the first snowfall in a park in Tehran, Iran on December 24, 2022. (Photo by Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)

A woman dressed in traditional Oromo costume attends a swearing ceremony of the newly named 72nd Borana Pastoralist chief, “Aba Gada” Guyo Wariyo in Arero, Ethiopia on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Tiksa Negeri/Reuters)

“The Africanis is a landrace of South African dogs. It is believed to be of ancient origin, directly descended from hounds and pariah dogs of ancient Africa, introduced into the Nile Valley from the Levant. The Swahili name for the breed is umbwa wa ki-shenzi meaning common or mongrel or “traditional dog”. Africanis is also an umbrella name for all the aboriginal dogs in southern Africa”. – Wikipedia. Photo: Africanis 18. Murraysburg, Western Cape, May 10, 2010. (Photo by Daniel Naudé)

A chicken seller carries his chickens on his head in the market in Peshawar, Pakistan, August 20, 2015. (Photo by Khuram Parvez/Reuters)

William Gibson is not one of the authors that spits out novels like a machine – in his long and fruitful career he has only published 11 novels andof short stories and articles in the tens each. Still his impact on modern literature was huge – the “noir prophet” of the cyberpunk subgenre (that he was one of the pioneers of) has predicted the rise of reality television, virtual reality, video games and the internet. He is a Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction writer, with a special eye for what the future might bring.

In this picture taken on October 28, 2017, former Japanese p*rn star Mana Izumi checks her new tattoo at a tattoo studio in Tsurugashima, Saitama prefecture. Tattoos still provoke deep-rooted suspicion in Japan as the country prepares to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. People with body ink are refused entry to public swimming pools, bathing spots, beaches and often gyms, while visible body art can be harmful to job prospects. (Photo by Behrouz Mehri/AFP Photo)