Germany's Nikias Arndt, left, receives encouragement from a spectator during the men's elite road race at the world road cycling championships in Wollongong, Australia, Sunday, September 25, 2022. (Photo by Rick Rycroft/AP Photo)

In November 2021 Bryan Adams took the pictures for next year’s Pirelli calendar, which features fellow musicians including Cher, Rita Ora, Iggy Pop and the American singer Jennifer Hudson, above, as it depicts a typical day in the life of a touring performer. (Photo by Bryan Adams/Pirelli)

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A talented nail artist has created manicure works of art with stunning detail. Alice Bartlett visited a craft and hobby shop in London to get the idea for her most intricate and flamboyant finger sculptures yet. She saw tiny figures used for model railway scenery displays and decided to use them to create rural scenes. (Photo by Alice Bartlett/Flickr)

Kenyan activists (L) resist arrest from police officers, as police chased after activists from different social justice centers based in informal settlements, who were marching in protest against police brutality and harassment in their communities on Sab’a Sab’a day (or Seven-Seven), in Nairobi, Kenya, 07 July 2021. Police used tear gas to disperse the protestors and arrested several of them during the protest. The Sab’a Sab’a day commemorates protests and government crackdown on a multi-party democracy movement in the 1990’s. (Photo by Daniel Irungu/EPA/EFE)

A young lady blows a balloon during a federal conference of the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) on December 3, 2011 in Offenbach, Germany. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/Getty Images)

The moon rising above the Forth Rail Bridge in The Firth of Forth from North Queensferry, England on July 16, 2019. (Photo by South West News Service)

A Vietnamese woman, wearing the traditional “ao dai” long dress, poses for photos along peach blossom flowers ahead of the Vietnamese “Tet” (Lunar New Year festival), in a field in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 2, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Kham)