Two white storks stand close to each other on their nest on a tree in Zerbolo, Italy, Thursday, October 26, 2017. (Photo by Antonio Calanni/AP Photo)

A tourist poses for a souvenir snap in front of autumn foliage in Pitlochry, Scotland, Britain on September 28, 2018. (Photo by Russell Cheyne/Reuters)

Shortlisted: Pooyan Shadpoor, Houcheraghi. While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran – an island in the Persian Gulf – Shadpoor came across this luminous scene. The “magical lights of (the) plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot”, he writes. (Photo by Pooyan Shadpoor/2016 EPOTY)

A woman stands at the door of her shanty at a slum in Mumbai, India July 20, 2016. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)

A Pakistani vendor tries to salvage materials after flood water destroyed his shop following heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar on April 4, 2016. (Photo by A. Majeed/AFP Photo)

Loreen from Sweden performs after winning the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool, Britain on May 14, 2023. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)

A girl cools off in a public fountain in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, August 16, 2023. The heat wave continues in Lithuania as temperatures rise to as high as 32 degrees Celsius (89.6 degrees Fahrenheit). (Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo)

Picture show a 39-foot whale that was crushed to death hanging lifelessly over the bow of a tanker in Japan. Horrified locals caught sight of the whale as the ship pulled into the harbour of Kurashiki last month, September 2021. (Photo by Newsflash)