An aerial view shows floodwater covering the grounds of a children's playground in Buckhurst Hill, northeast of London on January 5, 2024, after heavy rain brought flooding to much of the country, following Storm Henk. (Photo by Daniel Leal/AFP Photo)





An elephant enjoys a Christmas tree in its enclosure at the Zoologischer Garten zoo in Berlin on January 4, 2024. Traditionally, some animals at the Berlin zoo in January are offered leftover trees that were not sold before the Christmas holidays. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP Photo)





People play with foam during the Carnival of Blacks and Whites in Pasto, Colombia on January 3, 2024. The 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 Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP Photo)





Passengers board a train to visit their respective hometowns ahead of the Hindu harvest festival of “Pongal”, in Chennai on January 12, 2024. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





Shinto believers pour cold water over themselves to purify their bodies and souls as part of a New Year ritual at Kanda Myojin Shrine in Tokyo on January 13, 2024. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)





Pilgrims take a holy dip amid dense fog at the confluence of River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal during “Gangasagar Mela” on the occasion of the Hindu festival of Makar Sankranti at Sagar Island, around 150 kms south of Kolkata on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)





An installation by artist Sandeigh Kennedy of 657 pairs of shoes in memory of the more than 600 mass shootings that occurred in the United States in 2023, is seen in Houston, Texas, on January 15, 2024 as the country marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Each pair of shoes has “a marker denoting the location, date, number of injuries, and the number of lives lost at each event. Each pair is painted black to give a sense of equality to each victim”, says the Texas artist. The shoes are displayed in front of the Broken Obelisk, a Barnett Newman sculpture, at the Rothko Chapel Plaza. In 1969, the city of Houston refused to place it in front of its City Hall because it was honoring Martin Luther King. (Photo by Cecile Clocheret/AFP Photo)





Team Bahrain Raid Xtreme's French driver Sebastien Loeb and his Belgian co-driver Fabian Lurquin steer their car, during stage 9 of the Dakar rally 2024, between Hail and Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia, on January 16, 2024. (Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP Photo)





A participant tries to control a bull during an annual bull-taming festival “Jallikattu” in Palamedu village on the outskirts of Madurai, India on January 16, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Members of the public look at pigeons in their cages during the “British Homing World Show of the year” at the Winter Gardens, in Blackpool, north west England, on January 20, 2024. “The British Homing World Show of the year” is the biggest gathering of pigeon fanciers, attracting up to 15,000 visitors to see the showing and judging of more than 2000 of the country's best homing pigeons. (Photo by Paul Ellis/AFP Photo)





Audrey Shin skates in the championship women short program during the 2024 US Figure Skating Championships at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio on January 25, 2024. (Photo by Adam Cairns/USA TODAY Sports)





The retired space shuttle Endeavour is hoisted into a vertical orientation as it is positioned to be attached to a rocket for display at the California Science Center on January 29, 2024. (Photo by Robert Hanashiro/USA TODAY Network)





Revelers celebrate New Year's in Times Square on January 01, 2024 in New York City. Around 1 million people are estimated to fill Times Square, alongside a large police presence amid concerns about protests targeting the event. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)





A reveller dressed in mock military garb takes part in the “Els Enfarinats” battle in the southeastern Spanish town of Ibi on December 28, 2023. During this 200-year-old traditional festival, participants known as Els Enfarinats (those covered in flour) dress in military clothes and stage a mock coup d'etat as they battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers outside the city town hall as part of the celebrations of the Day of the Innocents, a traditional day in Spain for pulling pranks. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





A firefighter works to extinguish a fire from a gas pipe line damaged by a Russian rocket attack, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, January 2, 2024. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





Actors Matty Matheson, center, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach kiss as “The Bear” wins the award for outstanding comedy series during the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, January 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)





A Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft takes off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on a mission to strike targets in Yemen on Thursday, January 11, 2024. The US and UK militaries launched multiple strikes against targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, marking a significant response after the Biden administration and its allies warned that the Iran-backed militant group would bear the consequences of its attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. (Photo by Sgt Lee Goddard/UK MInistry of Defence/AP Photo)





Palestinian bride Afnan Jibril (C) is escorted by her father (C-R) during her wedding at the UNRWA School in the al-Salam neighborhood of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on January 12, 2024, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Pupils play soccer at a school as Mount Marapi spews hot smoke (background) in Agam, West Sumatra on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Noli Kampai/AFP Photo)