A Hindu devotee with multiple piercings takes part in a procession to mark the Thaipusam festival in Singapore on January 25, 2024. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)





A woman walks past a body of a victim killed during the shelling that Russian officials in Donetsk said was conducted by Ukrainian forces, in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, January 21, 2024. Local officials say at least 18 people have been killed by shelling of a market in Russian-occupied Ukraine. The attack hit Tekstilshchik, a suburb of the city of Donetsk, on Sunday. Alexei Kulemzin, the city's Russian-installed mayor, said that the shells had been fired by the Ukrainian military. (Photo by Alexei Alexandrov/AP Photo)





Vendors salvage their merchandise as a helicopter drops water at the fire at the “Chinese shopping center” in Belgrade, Serbia, 24 January 2024. About 76 firefighters using 25 vehicles battled the fire with the help of the police Helicopter unit that made 37 flybys, extracting 71 tons of water over the flames. No fatalities have been reported according to the Serbian Interior Ministry in the blaze that started early morning on 24 January. (Photo by Andrej Cukic/EPA/EFE)





Flames rise from a forest during a wildfire in Bogota on January 24, 2024. More than twenty forest fires have Bogota and several regions of Colombia on alert amid record temperatures due to the El Niño phenomenon, according to an official report on Wednesday. (Photo by Guillermo Munoz/AFP Photo)





A picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip on January 19, 2024, shows an Israeli tank rolling along the fence as damaged buildings are see in the Gaza strip amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)





A stuffed animal with a blindfold hangs on the back of an Israeli military vehicle near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, on January 26, 2024. (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters)





A reveler dances during a pre-carnival “Piratas do Axe” street party, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, January 28, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





A cossack helps a woman get out of the Kara-Balta river during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday near the village of Sosnovka, some 90 kms from Bishkek, on January 19, 2024. Among Orthodox Christians, the feast of Epiphany celebrates the day the spirit of God descended upon believers in the shape of a dove during Jesus Christ's baptism in the river Jordan. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP Photo)





A model presents a creation by Bluemarble for the Menswear Ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2024/2025 collection as part of the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Alain Jocard/AFP Photo)





People wade into the chilly water of Lake Balaton during the annual New Year's Swim in Szigliget, Hungary, 01 January 2024. (Photo by Tibor Katona/EPA/EFE)





Protesters clash with attendees during a protest against the return of bullfighting, outside the Plaza de Toros Mexico bullfighting ring, in Mexico City, Mexico, on January 28, 2024. (Photo by Toya Sarno Jordan/Reuters)





Debris washed up during the cyclone is strewn across the Caudan Waterfront in Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius, Tueday January 16, 2024. Mauritius lifted its highest weather alert and eased a nationwide curfew Tuesday after a cyclone battered the Indian Ocean island, causing heavy flooding and extensive damage in the capital city and other parts of the country. (Photo by Lexpress.mu via AP Photo)





An injured woman reacts after an overnight Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 10 January 2024. At least 10 people, including one foreign journalist, were injured as a result of two rockets hitting the downtown area of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to State Emergency Service reports. Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory in February 2022, starting a conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Sergey Kozlov/EPA/EFE)





Soldiers of the Romanian Presidential Honor Guard, as seen through the eternal flame that burns for the fallen heroes, pay respect in front of the Unknown Soldier Memorial during a religious ceremony organized to mark the 165th anniversary of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities, in Bucharest, Romania, 24 January 2024. The Day of the Unification of the Romanian Principalities, also known as the “Little Union Day”, is a public holiday of Romania that is celebrated every 24 January in order to commemorate the unification of the Romanian Principalities, performed on 24 January 1859 under the prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza. (Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA/EFE)





A man carrying a griller on his head takes part in a demonstration near the Argentine Congress during a national strike against the government of Javier Milei in Buenos Aires, on January 24, 2024. Argentine President Javier Milei faces the first national strike in just 45 days of government, against his draconian fiscal adjustment and his plan to reform more than a thousand laws and regulations that governed for decades. The largest Argentine union called the strike in rejection, in particular, of the changes by decree to the labor regime promoted by Milei, which limit the right to strike and affect the financing of unions. (Photo by Tomas Cuesta/AFP Photo)





A woman kisses a picture of Mercedes Oria Amar who was killed at the site of the Nova festival, where people were killed and kidnapped during the October 7 attack by Hamas gunmen from Gaza, on the day of a press conference held by family members and relatives of Nova festival attendees, in Reim, in southern Israel on January 5, 2024. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Alfred Vaz (C) poses for photographs dressed as Elvis Presley ahead of the departure of the Elvis Express bound for Parkes, at Central Station in Sydney, Australia, 11 January 2024. More than 25,000 Elvis enthusiasts are expected to make the annual pilgrimage to Parkes NSW, making it the largest congregation of Elvis fans in the Southern Hemisphere. (Photo by Bianca De Marchi/EPA)





In this image taken from video, assault boats take part in naval drills in Kaohsiung, Southern Taiwan on Wednesday, January 31, 2024. Taiwan is holding spring military drills following its recent presidential election and amid threats from China, which claims the island as its own territory that it is determined to annex, possibly by force. (Photo by Johnson Lai/AP Photo)





Picture of a float taking part in the “White Day” parade during the Carnival of Blacks and Whites in Pasto, Colombia on January 6, 2024. The Blacks and Whites carnival has its origins in a mix of Andean, Amazonian and Pacific cultural expressions, and it celebrates the ethnic diversity in the region and was proclaimed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2009. (Photo by Joaquín Sarmiento/AFP Photo)