A man poses in front of a portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong during the opening of an exhibition of Mao related art in Beijing, China, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)
Dancers from the Motionhouse company surprised London, United Kingdom passersby on September 5, 2021 with a preview of “Nobody”, which has its premiere at Sadler’s Wells on September 22. (Photo by Vicki Couchman/The Times)
In this picture taken on August 1, 2022, a priest performs a ritual on a newly purchased car to seek blessings from the deities for safety outside a temple in Bangalore. (Photo by Sebastien Berger/AFP Photo)
Participants from an art group wearing traditional dresses rehearse Garba dance ahead of the Navratri festival in Ahmedabad on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP)
A greedy wild elephant shunned jungle leaves and instead stopped passing trucks to steal sugarcane. The 35-year-old jumbo nicknamed “Fatty” by locals emerged from the forest on a road in Chachoengsao province, Thailand, on December 29, 2022. (Photo by Au Wanapin/ViralPress)
Dark clouds hang over the Great Belt Bridge connecting Nyborg and Halsskov, Denmark, on June 26, 2023. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AFP Photo)
A worker covers mounds of rice with a giant hat-shaped bamboo cone in a field in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh on September 21, 2023 after they have been dried in the scoring sun. (Photo by Joy Saha/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
Allie Plott, Lydia Smith, Madeline Evans and Ellie Boulware, members of The Tuscaloosa Community Dancers, prepare for a dress rehearsal of The Nutcracker at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on December, 5, 2023. (Photo by Gary Cosby Jr./Tuscaloosa News)