A mourner reacts as bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes lie at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
A red deer stag in Bushy Park, southwest London, pulls a comical face for the camera in the second decade of November 2023. (Photo by Andrew Wood/Caters News Agency)
A member of the Siberian Battalion of the Ukraine's Armed Forces International Legion smokes a disposable vape during military exercises, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at an undisclosed location in Kyiv region, Ukraine on December 13, 2023. (Photo by Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters)
An Iraqi army cadet participates in “the leap of faith”, from a bridge as part of their training, in Baghdad, Iraq on December 15, 2023. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)
Lola Aylmer, 25, stands inside the artist Gemma Anderson-Tempini's infinite laundry mirrored room, which is part of a transformed Victorian house, in Leeds, UK early November 2023. (Photo by South West News Service)
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 squirrel and lizard both refuse to give way in an unlikely standoff on a wall in Mohali, India in the first decade of February 2024. (Photo by Anuj Jain/Solent news)
Revellers are sprayed by a water cannon during a street party called “Bloco Das Barbas” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 18, 2023. Hundreds of street parties traditionally take place every year in the city before and during Rio de Janeiro's carnival. (Photo by Carl de Souza/AFP Photo)