Yanna Xian, 24, and her boyfriend Mitch Brown, 27, were swimming while on a boat tour off Honolulu, Hawaii last year, when a curious two-week-old humpback approached them. (Photo by South West News Service)

A Palestinian man reacts as he confronts Israeli forces during a protest against Israeli settlement activity near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on June 11, 2022. (Photo by Mussa Qawasma/Reuters)

A view shows a Lun-class Soviet-made ekranoplan, which is a naval craft and a ground-effect vehicle, on the Caspian Sea coastline in Derbent in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia on November 3, 2020. (Photo by Kazbek Basayev/Reuters)

An Afghan woman collects cotton buds at governmental farms in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 20 October 2020. Afghanistan's agriculture and livestock department in Nangarhar province hire women and people in need of cash assistance to harvest cotton from their farms. (Photo by Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA/EFE)

Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer Tate McRae arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, September 7, 2025, at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Photo)

The RNLI Swanage lifeboat in Dorset, UK churns the water as it performs some manoeuvres on September 13, 2025. (Photo by Lewis Johnstone/BNPS)

A woman takes a photograph of the Martin Place Christmas Tree on December 17, 2024 in Sydney, Australia. Each year Sydney's landmarks and streets are adorned with festive lights and projections for the Christmas festive period. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

A Hindu holy man, or sadhu, sits beside a fire after smearing his body with ashes at the premises of Pashupatinath Temple, ahead of the Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal February 21, 2017. Hindus mark the Maha Shivratri festival by offering special prayers and fasting, with sadhus arriving at Pashupatinath to take part in the event, which takes place on February 24. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)