Members of the Maori community march in a protest rally to criticise the government for its policies affecting the Indigenous Maori population in Wellington on November 19, 2024. (Photo by Sanka Vidanagama/AFP Photo)

Beachgoers pass a snowman made from sand on Christmas Day at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 25, 2023. (Photo by David Gray/AFP Photo)

Festivalgoers on June 29, 2025 enjoy the final day of Glastonbury Festival, where Rod Stewart wowed the Pyramid Stage crowd in the legends slot, with Olivia Rodrigo down to headline the Pyramid Stage. (Photo by South West News Service)

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift early October 2025 reveals “dark fear” that used to plague her before finding Travis Kelce as she opens up about wedding plans. (Photo by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott)

The Doppler on Wheels (DOW) vehicle scans a supercell thunderstorm during a tornado research mission, May 8, 2017 in Elbert County near Agate, Colorado. Doppler on Wheels (DOW) is a mobile doppler radar mounted on a truck that brings instruments directly into storms, allowing scientists to scan storms and tornadoes and make 3-D maps of wind and debris. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Cottbus Aviation Museum specialists prepare a Soviet Tupolev 134 A passenger plane for dismantlement in Gruenz, Germany, 10 July 2017. The team is preparing the 29 ton plane for transport from a garden in Gruenz to the Aviation Museum in Cottbus. The plane' s owner acquired it in 1991 and transported it with nine tractors and numerous helpers to his vegetable garden where he planned to open a cafe. The plane, formerly used by the East German Stasi for anti- terror operations training, is 30 metres long. (Photo by Jens Büttner/Zentralbild/DPA)

A Malaysian Hindu devotee (C) reacts in a state of trance as she walks towards the Batu caves temple during the Thaipusam festival celebrations in Kuala Lumpur on January 24, 2016. More than a million Hindus celebrate the festival of “Thaipusam” at temples across the country. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)

October winner. “A burst of the aurora borealis over Kirkjufell, taken in September 2016. This shot has been a holy grail for me and was finally captured after many trips”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Iceland is a hotspot for aurora photography and this composition of the symmetric, free-standing Kirkjufell and the trident waterfall is much-sought after. If you can time your visit when the aurora “kp” index is high and know the settings for nighttime aurora images, you may end up with a beautiful photograph like this. (Photo by DВ/The Guardian)