Demonstrators attend a protest by police professional associations demanding better salaries and work conditions in Lisbon, Wednesday, January 24, 2024. (Photo by Armando Franca/AP Photo)





People disguised as fantastic creatures take part in the traditional “Three Wise Men Parade” in Cordoba, Spain, 05 January 2024. The traditional parade to welcome the Three Wise Men, that according to the Bible visited Jesus after his birth, is held on the eve of Three Wise Men Day, when children in Spain traditionally receive their Christmas presents. (Photo by Salas/EPA)





Spectators arrive dressed in pink on Jane McGrath Day, Day 3, of the Third Test match between Australia and Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney, Australia, 05 January 2024. (Photo by Dan Himbrechts/EPA)





The Straw Bear is paraded through the streets accompanied by attendant keepers, musicians and dancers during the Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival in Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, UK on Saturday, January 13, 2024. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images)





People walk on a street with their belongings as they abandon their homes due to the war between armed gangs in the Pernier area, in the commune of Petionville, today in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 31 January 2023. Since 2018, there has been a significant deterioration in the security situation in Haiti due to war between armed gangs with cases of kidnapping, massacre, armed attacks, robberies, and rapes of citizens increasing substantially. (Photo byJohnson Sabin /EPA/EFE)





A worker looks at a car stuck on a broken road in the aftermath of an earthquake, near Anamizu, Japan on January 3, 2024. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Researchers take part in a lunar simulation exercise to test the EuroHab space dwelling, in Tignes resort on January 23, 2024. Peter Weiss and Jean-Jacques Favier, two of the co-founders of Spartan Space, have developed the EuroHab concept, an inflatable habitat for missions on the surface of the Moon or Mars, developed as part of the CNES “Tech The Moon” program and supported by the European Space Agency (ESA). (Photo by Jeff Pachoud/AFP Photo)





Women dressed in traditional folk costumes participate at the Epiphany day celebrations in the village of Bitushe, some 50km south-west of Gostivar, North Macedonia, on January 19, 2024. (Photo by Robert Atanasovski/AFP Photo)





Revellers take a rest during the traditional Reinado de Nossa Senhora do Rosário e Santa Ifigênia (Reign of Our Lady of the Rosary and St Ifigenia) festival to honour Chico Rei, through the historic streets of Ouro Preto, Brazil, on January 14, 2024. According to tradition, Chico was the king of a tribe in Congo brought by the Portuguese as a slave and who managed to buy his freedom and that of other slaves to become “king” in Ouro Preto and, from then on, part of the Brazilian folklore. (Photo by Douglas Magno/AFP Photo)





A woman shouts slogans during a protest in support of Palestinians and calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, January 20, 2024. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/AP Photo)





A participant hurls a spruce on the grounds of the Wacker soccer club on January 8, 2024. In Weidenthal, Germany, locals have found a use for redundant Christmas trees by hosting the world Christmas tree throwing championships, now in their 15th year. Participants have to throw a spruce like a javelin, hurl it like a hammer in athletics and manoeuvre it over a high jump. (Photo by Uwe Anspach/dpa via Cover Images)





Swans swim past a submerged car in a car park after heavy rains and sewer system overflows caused the River Thames to break its banks, on January 05, 2024 in Wallingford, United Kingdom. Days of heavy rainfall have exacerbated conditions in already saturated areas in the wake of Storm Henk, which caused widespread damage across parts of the UK, with winds of more than 90mph sweeping across some regions. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)





Revelers parade during a pre-carnival street party rehearsal of the “Orquestra Voadora” block in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, January 21, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)





A kid dressed like one of the Three Wise Men poses for a picture during the traditional “Three Wise Men Parade” on January 6, in Miahuatlan, Mexico. Every year the residents of the Miahuatlan municipality organize a parade where kids get down the streets dressed as “Melchor, Gaspar and Baltazar”, which are the names given to the wise men in some regions of Latin America. (Photo by Hector Quintanar/Getty Images)





People react as they ride an escalator on the London Underground during the “No Trousers Tube Ride” in London, Britain on January 7, 2024. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Reuters)





Rescuers retrieve the carcass of a stranded fin whale in Christchurch on January 29, 2024. The whale, which had been stranded off the coast of Moncks Bay on January 28, died in the early morning. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/AFP Photo)





Bows at the ready for the Straw Bear festival in the Cambridgeshire town of Whittelsey, United Kingdom on January 13, 2024. The event, which dates back to the 19th century, features a person known as the “driver”, who is dressed in a suit of straw and parades around the town accompanied by musicians and colourful dancers. (Photo by South West News Service)





Armed supporters of Yemen's Huthi rebels attend a rally in solidarity with the the Palestinian Hamas movement's armed resistance against Israel in the capital Sanaa on January 29, 2024, amid the continuing battles between Israeli forces and Hamas in Gaza. Since shortly after the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza broke out on October 7, the Huthis have launched a spate of missile and drone attacks on passing commercial ships in the Red Sea which they say are linked to Israel. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais/AFP Photo)





The so-called “Silvesterchlausen” (New Years Clause) are on their way to offer the best wishes for the New Year (following the Julian calendar) to the farmers in this region, in Hundwil, Switzerland, 13 January 2024. (Photo by Gaetan Bally/EPA)