Iraqi Kurdish women train weight lifting at a centre in Iraq's Kurdish regional capital of Arbil on February 2, 2022. Women's sports have developed at a sluggish pace across much of conservative Iraq, which has struggled through decades of conflict. But the Kurdistan region was spared the brunt of the violence and destruction, and its infrastructure, facilities and government funding have paved the way for a boom in professional women's sports. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

An undated handout photo obtained on May 14, 2022, from Khartoum's Marshall Nature Reserve for exotic birds, shows a visitor posing for pictures with some of the protected birds in the capital Khartoum. Tucked away east of Sudan's capital Khartoum, a sanctuary of lush green vegetation has been a haven for dozens of exotic birds from far and wide. (Photo by Khartoum Marshall Nature Reserve/AFP Photo)

A woman wearing a mask takes a selfie as she paddles underneath a bridge with colourful lights along a canal, Friday, July 1, 2022, in Beijing. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)

Palestinian boy looks at a sheep at a livestock market, ahead of the Eid al-Adha festival, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 21, 2023. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

Mary Earps of England makes a save during an England Training Session at St George's Park on April 02, 2024 in Burton upon Trent, England. (Photo by Naomi Baker/The FA via Getty Images)

Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini poses with a Barbie doll, in Verona, Italy, in this undated handout image. (Photo by Mattel/Petra Rajnicova/Handout via Reuters)

Law enforcement clashes with demonstrators outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, MDC, in downtown Los Angeles, California on June 8, 2025. US President Donald Trump deployed 2,000 troops on June 7 to handle escalating protests against immigration enforcement raids in the Los Angeles area, a move the state's governor termed “purposefully inflammatory”. Federal agents clashed with angry crowds in a Los Angeles suburb as protests stretched into a second night Saturday, shooting flash-bang grenades and shutting part of a freeway amid raids on undocumented migrants, reports said. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)

Participants take part in the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade on March 02, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade began in 1978 as a march to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York and has been held every year since to promote awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. (Photo by Roni Bintang/Getty Images)