Revellers brave the rain as they make the most of New Year's Eve in Liverpool city centre, United Kingdom on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Ioannis Alexopoulos/London News Pictures)

A pregnant woman poses on June 19, 2018 in Vertou, western France. France had an estimated population of 68.4 million by January 1, 2024, representing a further year-on-year increase of 0.3 percent, limited by a marked drop in the birth rate, the INSEE national statistics bureau of France reported on January 16, 2024. In 2023, 678,000 babies were born in France, 6.6 percent fewer than the previous year, the lowest number of births in any year since 1946. Over the same period, there were 631,000 deaths, down 6.5 percent on 2022, a year marked by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and episodes of extreme heat. (Photo by Loic Venance/AFP Photo)

Men who are part of a neighbourhood vigilante group hold a hammer and machetes while posing for a photograph after suspected gang leader Makandal was killed and set on fire, amid an escalation in gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 20, 2024. (Photo by Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters)

American model Olivia Culpo in the second decade of March 2024 is in “vacation mode”. (Photo by oliviaculpo/Instagram)

A fox pounces on a mouse in the snowy hills on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. (Photo by Johnny Krüger/Mediadrumimages)

Indian actress Ananya Panday poses for pictures on the red carpet on the day of the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant in Mumbai, India, on July 12, 2024. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

People carry an empty coffin past a street food vendor into the shop that is buying it to repair and sell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, September 13, 2024. (Photo by Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo)

Kindergarten children show off handmade floral headdress made of ginkgo leaves on December 17, 2024 in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. The floral headdress is also known as Zanhua or Zanhuawei. Zanhuawei is a traditional Chinese hairstyle favored among ladies from Xunpu Village of Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province. (Photo by Tan Yunfeng/VCG via Getty Images)