It doesn’t make for the most flattering photoshoot, but there is a reason these zebras at Lewa wildlife conservancy in Kenya in the second decade of August 2025 are stood head to tail: they use their tails to swat flies from each others’ faces. (Photo by Andrew Campbell/Solent News & Photo Agency)
England players celebrate Sunday, July 27, 2025 after they defeated Spain to win the Euro 2025 tournament. The Lionesses won on penalties, retaining their European crown and avenging their loss to Spain in the 2023 World Cup final. (Photo by Harriet Lander/The FA/Getty Images)
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)
Four orphan barn owl chicks were found weak from hunger and thirst after their mother's death, are under treatment at the Dicle Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center before being released back into their natural habitat on September 23, 2025, in Diyarbakir, Turkiye. (Photo by Bestami Bodruk/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A woman reacts during the annual “Tomatina” tomato fight fiesta, in the village of Bunol near Valencia, Spain, Wednesday, August 27, 2025. (Photo by Alberto Saiz/AP Photo)
A woman reacts as she attends Fet Gede, the traditional Haitian Day of the Dead celebration at the Port-au-Prince cemetery, in Haiti, on November 1, 2025. Fet Gede is the annual celebration when practitioners of vodou parade and believe to be possessed by the spirits of the dead. (Photo by Clarens Siffroy/AFP Photo)