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A young Hindu girl sits for a ceremony where she and other girls are worshipped as “Kumari”, or living goddess, during Ram Navami festival, at a temple in Kolkata, India, Saturday, March 28, 2015. Ram Navami marks the birth of Hindu God Rama. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)

Villagers wade through a flooded road following heavy rains after cyclone Remal's landfall at Singi Mari village of Nagaon district, in India's Assam state on May 29, 2024. A powerful cyclone that smashed into low-lying Bangladesh and India killed at least 65 people, including in torrential rain storms in its wake, state government officials and media said on May 29. (Photo by Biju Boro/AFP Photo)

Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Geri Horner of the Spice Girls in concert at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday, June 16, 2019. (Photo by Andrew Timms/PA Wire)

British singer-songwriter Rita Ora treats herself to a pretty pink martini in the last decade of January 2025. (Photo by ritaora/Instagram)

American singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo is red hot backstage at her show in Argentina in the last decade of March 2025. (Photo by oliviarodrigo/Instagram)

Members of the US secret service scramble toward the stage as Donald Trump fell while speaking as shots rang out during a campaign rally at in Butler, Pennsylvania in 2024. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/Siena awards festival 2025)

Actress Nina Dobrev kicks off the first-ever Aperolidays celebration with an Aperol Spritz in hand in the second decade of November 2025. (Photo by Aperol)