A bell tower of the Saint Sophia Cathedral is seen through the destroyed Russian artillery cannon in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, January 29, 2024. (Photo by Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)





A woman prepares to take selfies for her 23rd birthday at sunset at the Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung on January 10, 2024. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP Photo)





People walk on the rocks during sunset at Sea Point promenade in Cape Town, on January 23, 2024. (Photo by Esa Alexander/Reuters)





Two children sit on a bridge Tuesday evening in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, January 23, 2024. (Photo by Matthias Schrader/AP Photo)





A silhouette of David Law of Scotland as he reacts after putting on the ninth green during Day One of the Bahrain Championship presented by Bapco Energies at Royal Golf Club on February 01, 2024 in Bahrain, Bahrain. (Photo by Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images)





People look at the volcano erupting, north of GrindavÌk, Iceland, Thursday, February 8, 2024. Icelandís Meteorological Office says a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of the country, north of a nearby settlement. The eruption of the Sylingarfell volcano began at 6 a.m. local time on Thursday, soon after an intense burst of seismic activity. (Photo by Marco Di Marco/AP Photo)





A visitor is silhouetted while passing by the statue of a dragon for the upcoming Chinese New Year celebrations in Banting, Malaysia, 26 January 2024. The Chinese Lunar New Year, also called the 'Spring Festival,' will fall on 10 February 2024, marking the beginning of the Year of the Dragon. (Photo by Fazry Ismail/EPA)





Railway traffic signals are pictured at the Cologne main railway station as German train drivers stage a six-day strike in Cologne, western Germany, on January 25, 2024. German train drivers are holding a six-days long strike, called by the GDL train drivers' union, the longest walkout yet in an escalating row with German railways operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) over pay and working hours. (Photo by Ina Fassbender/AFP Photo)





Sunrise at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, Britain, on January 15, 2024. (Photo by Matthew Childs/Reuters)





A dancer performs her classical variation during a run through on stage during the first day of the 52nd Prix de Lausanne at the Theatre de Beaulieu, in Lausanne, Switzerland, 29 January 2024. Launched in 1973, the Prix de Lausanne is an international dance competition for young dancers aged 15 to 18. At the closing the six-day event, scholarships granting free tuition in a world-renowned dance school or dance company will be awarded to the best dancers out of 87 participants, 43 girls and 44 boys from 18 different countries this year. (Photo by Valentin Flauraud/EPA/EFE)





A man with ice skating shoes plays with his dog on the frozen Old Danube River in Vienna, Austria, on January 14, 2024. The low temperatures of the last few days have formed a blanket of ice, but the city administration warns against stepping on the ice. (Photo by Alex Halada/AFP Photo)





A pregnant woman poses on June 19, 2018 in Vertou, western France. France had an estimated population of 68.4 million by January 1, 2024, representing a further year-on-year increase of 0.3 percent, limited by a marked drop in the birth rate, the INSEE national statistics bureau of France reported on January 16, 2024. In 2023, 678,000 babies were born in France, 6.6 percent fewer than the previous year, the lowest number of births in any year since 1946. Over the same period, there were 631,000 deaths, down 6.5 percent on 2022, a year marked by the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and episodes of extreme heat. (Photo by Loic Venance/AFP Photo)





An Orthodox believer plunges into the icy waters of the Ob river during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday in Novosibirsk early 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 Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP Photo)





A man drinks wine during the annual “Luminarias” celebration on the eve of Saint Anthony's day, Spain's patron saint of animals, in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares, northwest of Madrid, Spain on January 16, 2024. (Photo by Juan Medina/Reuters)





The Star of David is silhouetted against light installations during a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust, at the Coral Temple synagogue in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, January 29, 2024. (Photo by Andreea Alexandru/AP Photo)