A farmer stands at a barricade as farmers block a highway Tuesday, January 30, 2024 in Jossigny, east of Paris. With protesting farmers camped out at barricades around Paris, France's government hoped to calm their anger with more concessions Tuesday to their complaints that growing and rearing food has become too difficult and not sufficiently lucrative. (Photo by Christophe Ena/AP Photo)





Players from the Kunduz and Samangan teams struggle to catch the goat carcass during semi-final game of Buzkashi league in Kabul, Afghanistan, 03 January 2024. Several provincial teams are participating in the Buzkashi league. Buzkashi is a traditional sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to place a goat or calf carcass in a goal. (Photo by Samiullah Popal/EPA)





Edinburgh mask maker Lorraine Pritchard on Sunday, January 28, 2024 alongside some of her Venetian masks which will be worn and displayed at the Venice Carnival, which starts on Saturday February 3. Lorraine studied model making at Glasgow College of Building and Printing and Venetian mask making in Florence, Italy. She travels to Venice each year to be a “mask” herself, wearing different masks she has designed as a live exhibit of her work. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images)





A girl from the riverside communities observes a turtle after its release into the wild, in the Parque Nacional do Jau, some 195 kilometers from Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon, Brazil, 27 January 2024. The historic drought that the Amazon has been suffering since September 2023 made it difficult to rescue the endangered turtle eggs in the world's largest rainforest, but did not prevent activists fighting to save the species in Brazil from commemorating the release of 800 chelonian hatchlings this weekend. (Photo by Raphael Alves/EPA/EFE)





A man rides a horse through bonfires during “Las Luminarias” Festival on January 16, 2024 in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain. Each year, horses leap through bonfires in a “purification ritual”, forging a connection between the town and its tradition of tending to livestock and agricultural practices. (Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Getty Images)





Countertenor Christophe Dumaux (R) performs the role of Orfeo during a rehearsal of Orpheus & Eurydice at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia 10 January 2024. Opera Australia and Sydney Festival in association with Circa will present the Sydney Premiere of Opera Queensland's critically acclaimed reimagining of Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice at the Sydney Opera House. (Photo by Bianca De Marchi/EPA/EFE)





A choreographic collective dances in the street during a parade of the Blacks and Whites' Carnival in Pasto, southwestern Colombia, 03 January 2024. The city of Pasto kicked off the year with its traditional Blacks and Whites Carnival. The annual event is recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. This year's festivities take place between 02 and 08 January. (Photo by Mauricio Duenas Castaneda/EPA)





(L-R) Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Prince Jacques of Monaco, Princess Gabriella of Monaco and Charlene, Princess of Monaco look out of a window during The Circus Parade on January 13, 2024 in Monaco, Monaco. (Photo by PLS Pool/Getty Images)





A man carrying an assault rifle walks the street with his kids in Jerusalem, 10 January 2024. Since the 07 October 2023 Hamas attacks, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has recruited more than 300,000 reservists soldiers, while over 260,000 new applications for weapons licenses have been submitted to the Ministry of Internal Security office, the minister of national security said. The events of October 2023 had a huge impact on Israeli citizens and their sense of personal security. (Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA/EFE)





A participant dressed up as a demon brandishes a stick with fireworks among revellers during the traditional Correfoc (fire-run) festival in Palma de Mallorca on January 28, 2024. The Correfoc is a night of revelry in which participants dress up as demons and devils, and run through the streets scaring people with fire and fireworks. (Photo by Jaime Reina/AFP Photo)





Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school dancers carry their high heels to rehearsal where they will practice for upcoming Carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, January 15, 2024. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)





A snow leopard looks on from an inside of a cage, after being captured from the southern plains of Nepal and brought to the central zoo, which wildlife experts say is rare for the animal that is found in the higher altitude, in Kathmandu, Nepal on January 26, 2024. Snow leopards are typically found at elevations of 2500m above sea level, but this one was found hiding in a bamboo forest at just 150m, raising concerns as to why it was outside its normal territory. Authorities hope the leopard can be released back into the wild after it recovers. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Medics evacuate a wounded soldier who tripped on a petal mine as evacuation takes place in darkness in the middle of a damaged forest on January 27, 2024 in Kupiansk Frontline, Ukraine. The Edelweiss Brigade (also spelled Edelveys), a specialized unit within the Ukrainian ground forces, is trying to fend off near-constant Russian attacks on Kupiansk, which is mere kilometers from the frontline. Ukrainian soldiers, mountain assault infantry, hold the front in the winter forest. (Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)





A model walks the runway during the On Aura Tout Vu Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 22, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Kay-Paris Fernandes/Getty Images)





Poland's Orthodox Christian minority celebrating second day of Christmas in Eastern Poland on January 8, 2024. The local art group singing Christmas carols in Narewka village. The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church is the second-largest religion in Poland. According to various estimates, there are 500,000 to 600,000 Orthodox believers, and over 320 churches scattered all across the country. (Photo by Velar Grant/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





China's Xiao Siyu competes during the final run of the women's freeski slopestyle qualification at the Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games at Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort in Hoengseong, South Korea, on January 24, 2024. (Photo by OIS/IOC/Handout via Reuters)





A view of a building destroyed by a Russian rocket strike as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on January 26, 2024. (Photo by Ignacio Marin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





General view of the burning hut as neighbours crowded under the pine tree to cross it inside on January 19, 2024 in Forcall, Spain. The small village of Forcall, with 450 inhabitants, holds an annual festival to celebrate the patron saint of animals, Sant Antoni. Following a procession through the streets of the village with people dressed as demons, and another procession with animals, villagers cross through a big bonfire in the middle of the village square. (Photo by Zowy Voeten/Getty Images)





The seventeenth Atltepeilhuitl cultural festival was held, a festival of pre-Hispanic origin and festival of the petition of water to the god of the hill, where several municipalities attended with their respective dances in Papalotla, Tlaxcala de Xicotencatl, Mexico on January 28, 2024. This traditional celebration is to kick off the carnival on February 12 and finish on February 13, on Cerro de la Luna. (Photo by Essene Hernandez/Eyepix Group/Rex Features/Shutterstock)