One of the most significant challenges related to cancer in Nepal is the lack of awareness around the prognosis of the disease, as many patients, their families and even healthcare professionals consider cancer to be an incurable disease at any stage. This results in significant delays in bringing patients to hospitals, and high rates of advanced stage cancers and mortality. (Photo by Omar Havana)

Born in Hanoi, 1979, a member of the Young Painter Association of Vietnam, Trang is an emerging young artist whose mind has been engraved with images of the city and the Northern villages. She brings these vivid memories of the villagers and their life to her paintings. She paints scenes of landscapes in thick textural impasto with bright colours of red, orange, yellow, and blue, making the genre of landscape her own. Her paintings depict her passion to showcase the radiance and freshness of the landscapes in Vietnam. For every stroke of brush reflects her burning desire to bring out a world of complications to simple living and a deep appreciation of nature’s blessing and beauty.

A dog waits to be blessed by a priest outside San Anton Church in Mijas, near Malaga, Spain, January 17, 2017. Hundreds of pet owners bring their animals to be blessed every year on the day of Saint Anthony, Spain's patron saint of animals. (Photo by Jon Nazca/Reuters)

Battersea Power Station Ice Rink in London, United Kingdom on November 13, 2022. Running until 8th Jan. 2023, a large outdoor ice-rink outside the power station and next to the riverside brings in festive Christmas fun with vivid illumination. (Photo by Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News)

A Taliban helicopter takes off after bringing aid to the site of an earthquake in Gayan, Afghanistan on June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the country's deadliest quakes in decades, the state-run news agency reported. (Photo by Ali Khara/Reuters)

Artists perform during a slum party in Oworonshoki district of Lagos, Nigeria, 24 September, 2024. The slum party is a yearly artistic dance festival initiated by Ennovate Dance House. It highlights the positive sides of the slum community and brings hope to the inhabitants. (Photo by Emmanuel Adegboye/EPA/EFE)

Car headlights illuminate a woman walking through city streets as snow accumulates on December 16, 2020 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Winter Storm Gail is expected to bring more than a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Revellers descended onto Broad Street in Birmingham on Thursday, March 28, 2024 evening into the early hours of Good Friday. The partygoers took advantage of the Easter Bank Holiday on Friday to let their hair down despite Storm Nelson still bringing strong winds and cold temperatures to the region. (Photo by Stop Press Media/Splash News and Pictures)