A couple shelter under an umbrella during a heavy downpour of rain in Belfast, Ireland on Monday, July 31, 2023. (Photo by Liam McBurney/PA Images via Getty Images)

A guest wearing a fur hat looks on before a fashion show by Chinese brand CHNNYU during BRICS+ Fashion Summit in Moscow, Russia on November 29, 2023. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)

In this picture taken on July 10, 2023, women belonging to the “Meira Paibis”, a group of women representing Meitei society, hold torches during a demonstation demanding for the restoration of peace in India's north-eastern Manipur state in Imphal, following ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

Students take part in the traditional Raisin Monday foam fight on St Salvator's Lower College Lawn at the University of St Andrews, UK in Fife on Monday, October 16, 2023. (Photo by Lesley Martin/PA Images/Profimedia)

A model backstage ahead of the Lantern Sense show at Fashion Scout during London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/17 at Freemasons' Hall on February 22, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)

A dog plays amid a heavy snowfall in Madrid on January 9, 2021. Heavy snow fell across much of Spain, leaving huge areas blanketed in white as Storm Filomena brought wintry weather not seen in decades to the Iberian peninsula. (Photo by Benjamin Cremel/AFP Photo)

A musician plays his violin next to a depiction of La Santa Muerte (Saint Death) at a shrine during Day of the Dead celebrations in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, November 2, 2015. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)

The civilised world lies on its knees, a sickness wracking its body. The affliction causes a necrotising of tissues so perfectly uniform in distribution that victims take on the appearance of corpses long before death occurs due to organ failure or secondary infections. ...