Participants in historical costumes attend the celebrations to mark the 114th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, in Mexico City, Mexico on November 20, 2024. (Photo by Raquel Cunha/Reuters)
Fireworks illuminate the St. Nicholas church after the Christmas mass in the Croatian minority town, in Janjevo, Kosovo, on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Valdrin Xhemaj/Reuters)
Children enjoy skating at the ice rink built at the Christmas market outside of the Schoenbrunn imperial palace just few days before Christmas in Vienna, Austria on December 20, 2024. Schoenbrunn Palace was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP Photo)
A mahout rides on an elephant in the city of Amritsar, India, 08 November 2015. Such elephants are often accompanied by their caretakers who ask for alms from people in the streets. (Photo by Raminder Pal Singh/EPA)
In this September 5, 2012 file photo, people run for cover as smoke rises from the site of a fire at a fireworks factory on the outskirts of Sivakasi, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) southwest of Chennai, India. Police in southern India arrested six employees of the fireworks factory for a massive blaze that killed 40 workers and injured 60 others. (Photo by AP Photo/File). P.S. I didn't publish the photos which you already saw here (Avax).
U.S. Marine Lt. Ben Reid from 1/2 Charlie Company of Task Force Tarawa waits to be medivaced after being hit with shrapnel and a machine gun round, in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on March 23, 2003. The Marines suffered a number of deaths and casualties during gun battles throughout the city. (Photo by Joe Raedle via The Atlantic)
Female North Korean traffic police officers gather in front of bronze statues of the late leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to pay their respects in Pyongyang, North Korea on Saturday, February 16, 2013. North Koreans turned out to commemorate what would have been the 71th birthday of Kim Jong Il who died on December 17, 2011. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)