A cygnet keeps snug under its mother’s wing at Heronry Pond in Wanstead Park in east London in the last decade of May 2024. (Photo by Jeff Moore/The Times)

British singer-songwriter Rita Ora has her knickers in a twist as she gets animated backstage at a music festival in Lithuania in the last decade of July 2024. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)

American singer-songwriter Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom take a leap of faith into the Mediterranean Sea in the second decade of August 2024. (Photo by katyperry/Instagram)

Women in Pathein, Myanmar, construct in the last decade of August 2024 parasols that they will paint in vibrant colours to sell in nearby markets. (Photo by Nantapon Pattamakijsakul/Solent News)

Pixel – the cat about to enter the record books as the world's shortest feline. Standing at just five inches from shoulder to paw this compact cat could break the previous record held by her mother Fizz Girl in 2012, who stood at six inches.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has spent the last six years working on a giant aircraft capable of launching rockets to space. Today, his company Stratolaunch Systems literally rolled that plane out of its hangar in the Mojave Desert for the first time ever.

American actress and model Bella Thorne in the last decade of September 2022 wears a barely-there dress joking she “didn't have a bikini”. (Photo by bellathorne/Instagram)

American model, fashion influencer and social media personality Olivia Culpo puckers up at a Revolve party in the first decade of December 2022. (Photo by oliviaculpo/Instagram)