An Emirati falconer trains his bird on January 1, 2017, during the Liwa Moreeb Dune Festival in the Liwa desert, some 250 kilometres southwest of Abu Dhabi.
The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a variety of races (cars, bikes, falcons, camels and horses) or other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore. (Photo by Karim Sahib//AFP Photo)





Models celebrate at the end of the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, November 30, 2016. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters)





Belarussian World War II veterans Vasily Molodtsov (R) and Nikolay Skatulin pose for a photo during the event to mark the 71st anniversary of the country's liberation from Nazi Germany in Minsk, Belarus May 5, 2016. (Photo by Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)





An elderly woman thumbs up to women posing in a shop window of a shopping mall in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, 19 September 2016. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA)





Comrades react during the funeral ceremony for ultra-nationalist Ukrainian volunteers “Aydar Battalion” servicemen Sergey Kochetov and Nikolay Sayuk, who were reportedly killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, 04 November 2016. Pro-Russian separatists attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 31 times in the past 24 hours, including 17 attacks in the Mariupol sector, and seven in the Luhansk and the Donetsk sectors each, according to the Ukrainian government's official press center for the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). (Photo by Roman Pilipey/EPA)





Several half naked men and bikini women celebrate the Singles’ Day on the street on 11th November, 2014 in Nanjing, Jiangsu,China. (Photo by TPG/Getty Images)





Father and grandfather of 15-year-old Shafiq mourn as Iraqi forces surround his body at an outdoor field clinic in the Samah neighbourhood in Mosul on November 13, 2016. A double barreled mortar attack killed Shafiq and seriously injured his 12-year-old neighbour Mohammed as Iraqi Special Forces 2nd division continued to battle IS forces as they pushed through the Arbagiah area and into the neigbourhood of Karkukli. (Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP Photo)





Vacationers at the Laguna (Lagoon) women's resort in the village of Aldy on the Grozny Sea shore in Chechnya, Russia on August 4, 2015. (Photo by Yelena Afonina/TASS)





Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia competes in the women's Triple Jump final at the London 2017 IAAF World Championships in London, Britain, 07 August 2017. (Photo by Franck Robichon/EPA)





A woman with her face painted like a Catrina, participates in a Day of the Dead march calling for justice for victims of femicide, women murdered where the motive was directly related to their gender, in Mexico City, Wednesday, November 1, 2017. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo)





Passengers ride a Transmilenio system bus during rush hour in Bogota, October 27, 2014. A Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 15 of the world's largest capitals and New York found Bogota in Colombia ranked as having the most unsafe public transport, with women scared to travel after dark, followed by Mexico City, Lima, then Delhi. (Photo by John Vizcaino/Reuters)





Poachers selling ivory and bull elephant tusks are arrested in Zambia. (Photo by Roger Allen/The Guardian)





Ivanka Trump, the daughter and advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, delivers a speech at World Assembly for Women: WAW! 2017 conference in Tokyo Friday, November 3, 2017. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo)





17-year-old student, female boxer and “Hafiz” Zeynep Gul Caylar waits for the train at a subway station in Ankara Turkey on October 25, 2017. Tevfik Ileri Religious High School's 10th grade student Zeynep Gul Caylar wants to be the champion of Turkey after winning the Ankara championship in the boxing sport that she has been interested in for four years as well as the achievements she has shown in the Holy Quran memorizing training and poetry writing. Because of his interest in foreign languages, Caylar learned Arabic as well as English. She won the first and the third place in two Arabic poetry contests and won sixth place overall in Turkey. “Hafiz”, literally meaning “guardian” or “memorizer”, depending on the context, is a term used by Muslims for someone who has completely memorized the Qur'an. (Photo by Guven Yilmaz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)





In this photo taken on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, Sergei Soloviev, who impersonates Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, stands in Red Square, with St. Basil's Cathedral, center, Spasskaya (Saviour) Tower, and the Lenin's Mausoleum in the background, in Moscow, Russia. Visitors are forbidden to photograph Vladimir Lenin’s mummified body in the mausoleum on Red Square – but nearby, Sergei Soloviev is happy to offer an alternative. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Actress Liv Tyler, 40, stripped in shots for the Triumph Essence's Autumn/Winter 2017 campaign in November, 2017. The Essence line is Triumph’s premium offering, with this season taking on the theme of “opulent Art Nouveau”, featuring designs in velvet embellished mesh, Leavers lace and silk satin. (Photo by Rankin/The Mega Agency)