A woman disguised as Catrina is pictured next to decorations with Cempazuchitl – Mexican Marigold (Tagetes erecta) – set along the Paseo de la Reforma avenue within preparations for the Day of the Dead celebration, in Mexico City, on October 21, 2021. (Photo by Pedro Pardo/AFP Photo)





Dancers perform during the “Totally Crazy” show few days after the reopening of the Crazy Horse cabaret, in Paris on October 28, 2021. The Crazy Horse cabaret remained closed for months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Bertrand Guay/AFP Photo)





Russian President Vladimir Putin and CNBC's anchor Hadley Gamble arrive to attend the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, October 13, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP Photo)





A dancer from Malaysia's pavilion performs wearing a face shield due to the coronavirus at Expo 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, October 3, 2021. (Photo by Jon Gambrell/AP Photo)





A model arrives at the Balenciaga Summer 2022 Red Carpet Event, at Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, October 2, 2021. (Photo by Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)





Cosplayer Barbie Chula poses for a photo on the last day of the New York Comic Con 2021 at the Jacob Javits Center on October 10, 2021. The four-day event is the largest pop culture event on the East Coast. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP Photo)





A passenger poses for a photo in front of a double-decker bus she got on board, in Hong Kong, Saturday, October 16, 2021. Travel-starved, sleep-deprived residents might find a new Hong Kong bus tour to be a snooze. The 76-kilometer (47-mile), five-hour ride on a regular double-decker bus around the territory is meant to appeal to people who are easily lulled asleep by long rides. It was inspired by the tendency of tired commuters to fall asleep on public transit. The banner reads: “The first in Hong Kong! Snooze bus tour”. (Photo by Kin Cheung/AP Photo)





The Greek National Opera Ballet presents MicroDances at three emblematic venues in Athens on October 9, 2021. A five-hour wandering from the Acropolis Museum to the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC). MicroDances is held as part of the project An Ideal City, which aims to research and explore the possibilities of dance as a public art that is rooted in the urban web of three cities: Athens, Reggio Emilia and Brussels. (Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





In this photo provided by the Dongyu Gatsal Ling nunnery, a Dakini dancer in full attire performs movements of the ritual dance at the nunnery in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India on October 27, 2021. Women were included in Buddhism since its earliest years, and their monastic ordination dates back more than 2,500 years, said Judith Simmer-Brown, emeritus professor of contemplative and religious studies at Colorado’s Naropa University. But as monasticism spread from India to other countries, there often were extra requirements to become ordained in those patriarchal societies. (Photo by Dongyu Gatsal Ling nunnery via AP Photo)





A dog dressed as a pumpkin pie vendor poses at the Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade on October 23, 2021 in New York City. Last year the parade was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)





Boston Dynamics' robot dog hold the starting flag on the grid of the Indy Autonomous Challenge race at the Indianapolis Speedway in Indianapolis on October 23, 2021. There will be cars on the track on October 23, 2021 at the famous Indianapolis racetrack, but no driver in them; that won't stop the cars, in autonomous driving, from reaching 250 km/h, a new stage in the development of driverless vehicles. Nine single-seaters will be at the start of the Indy Autonomous Challenge, a competition endowed with one million dollars, whose objective is clear, “to prove that autonomous technology can work in extreme conditions”, explains Paul Mitchell, from ESN, co-organizer of the event. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)





This handout picture released by the Spanish Military Emergency Unit (UME) shows UME members monitoring the lava flow produced by the Cumbre Vieja volcano, in the northern area of the Canary island of La Palma on the night of October 1, 2021. A new flow of highly liquid lava emerged from the volcano erupting in Spain's Canary islands on October 1, 2021, authorities said, as a huge magma shelf continues to build on the Atlantic ocean. (Photo by Luismi Ortiz/UME/AFP Photo)





A couple of astronauts from a team from Europe and Israel walk in spacesuits during a training mission for planet Mars at a site that simulates an off-site station at the Ramon Crater in Mitzpe Ramon in Israel's southern Negev desert on October 10, 2021. Six astronauts from Portugal, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Israel will be cut off from the world for a month, from October 4-31, only able leave their habitat in spacesuits as if they were on Mars. Their mission, the AMADEE-20 Mars simulation, will be carried out in a Martian terrestrial analog and directed by a dedicated Mission Support Center in Austria, to conduct experiments ahead of future human and robotic Mars exploration missions. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)





Indian women in traditional attire pose for photographs before practicing Garba, a traditional dance of Gujarat state, ahead of Hindu festival of Navratri in Ahmadabad, India, Friday, October 1, 2021. The Hindu festival of Navratri or nine nights will begin from Oct. 7. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)





Climate activists wear costumes as they participate in a climate march in Brussels, Sunday, October 10, 2021. Some 80 organizations are joining in a climate march through Brussels to demand change and push politicians to effective action in Glasgow later this month. (Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo)





Galina Artyomenko, a local journalist and influential behind the monument, looks at “Sad Angel”, a memorial for St. Petersburg's medical workers who died of coronavirus in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, October 26, 2021. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A model displays an outfit of Finland's designer Venla Elonsalo during the fashion festival in Hyeres, southern France, on October 15, 2021. (Photo by Christophe Simon/AFP Photo)





A cosplayer with a Pikachu hat attends the 27th Manga Fair 2021 in Barcelona on October 31, 2021. (Photo by Pau Barrena/AFP Photo)





A woman on stilts performs at the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Friday, October 1, 2021. After eight years of planning and billions of dollars in spending, the Middle East's first ever World Fair opened on Friday in Dubai, with hopes the months-long extravaganza draws both visitors and global attention to this desert-turned-dreamscape. (Photo by Jon Gambrell/AP Photo)