French photographer Bettina Rheims poses next to her work, two days before the opening of her exhibition “Pourquoi m'as-tu abandonnée ?” (Why did you abandon me?) at the Museum of Photography Charles Negre, in Nice on June 13, 2024. (Photo by Valery Hache/AFP Photo)

UK Love Island's Matilda Draper in the first decade of August 2024 left little to the imagination in plunging dress. (Photo by Instagram)

St Louis Cardinals’ Nolan Arenado, centre, is doused with water by team-mates Masyn Winn and Lars Nootbaar after he took the team to victory against the Milwaukee Brewers of the last pitch of the game at Busch Stadium on August 21, 2024 in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Jeff Curry/USA TODAY Sports via Reuters)

Scientists trekking for days to the undisputed furthest north land point on the planet, in October 2024 were greeted by an unexpected welcoming party: a stoat, whom they named Randall. The team were heading to Kaffeklubben Island, also known as Inuit Qeqertaat, off the northern tip of Greenland, about 440 miles from the North Pole, when Randall emerged from a cairn of rocks, showing no fear as he went to investigate them. (Photo by Jeff Kerby/Magnus News)

Wefa, 13, a female Western lowland gorilla, looks inside a Christmas box that contained food as a gift, after a caretaker dressed up as Santa Claus placed it in the enclosure of the family of gorillas, at Bioparc Fuengirola, in Fuengirola, Spain, on December 21, 2024. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)

Dalmatian pelicans jostle over a fish meal on September 9, 2021. Every year about 100 of the birds fly to feast at Lake Kerkini, central Macedonia, Greece. (Photo by Peter Bradley/Solent News & Photo Agency/Solent News)

Portuguese firefighters and Spanish military personnel work together to battle a forest fire in the parish of Bouses, Oimbra, Ourense, Galicia, Spain on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pascual/Anadolu Agency)

A wildlife photographer captured a rare moment of harmony in the animal kingdom – a snake and a frog calmly share the same branch. The serene scene was spotted by Dzulfikri, 53, in a garden in West Jakarta, Indonesia in May 2025. (Photo by Dzulfikri/Caters News Agency)