A woman crosses an open sewer as she makes her way to her house in a Christian slum in Islamabad December 4, 2014. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

A walrus takes centre stage after barging another out of the way to be in a photograph in Svalbard, between mainland Norway and the North Pole in January 2025. (Photo by Olav Thokle/Syndicated Photos/Solent News)

A woman walks into the ocean as a sea lion makes its way to the beach in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, on September 3, 2025. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

Recruits who earned a place in the Motivation Platoon struggle through water and muck on their way to becoming a Marine or going into some other line of work, October 7, 1971. (Photo by Eddie Adams/AP Photo)

Israeli designer HIlla Shamia has found a way to mix “oil and water” or aluminum and wood – two materials I’ve never seen fused together. The product designer has created a novel way to meld both poured aluminum with irregular wood chunks to create modern tables and benches with a warm industrial feel. Old world and new world in one.

Men stroll past roadside vendors as a painted truck makes its way through the busy street in Kabul, Afghanistan, November, 1961. (Photo by Henry S. Bradsher/AP Photo via The Atlantic)

Students on their way home from school play in a river which has risen due to recent seasonal rains, in a remote village in Panca, Aceh province on January 22, 2021. (Photo by Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP Photo)

The galactic centre of the Milky Way glows brightly in the clear night sky above the lighthouse at Portland Bill on the Dorset Jurassic Coast, United Kingdom on April 13, 2021. (Photo by Graham Hunt/Alamy Live News)