A Ukrainian mortar crew in the last decade of April 2024 fires a 120mm round at the Russian positions as soldiers defend the city situated halfway between Bakhmut and Kostyantynivka, which has become the primary target of Russian attacks. (Photo by Anadolu/Getty Images)

Indian Army Jawan (soldiers) of the “ASC Tornadoes” daredevil bike team perform during Independence Day celebrations in Bangalore, India, 15 August 2024. India celebrated its 78th Independence Day on 15 August. (Photo by Jagadeesh N.V./EPA)

A relative mourns Palestinian Ahmad Saif, 23, who died as a result of injuries sustained on March 1, during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a demonstration, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Burqa, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (Photo by Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo)

This handout photo taken on August 31, 2023 and provided by the South Korean Defence Ministry shows South Korean soldiers participating in an air assault drill at a training field in Jangseong, as part of the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield joint military drills between South Korea and the United States. (Photo by Handout/South Korean Defence Ministry/AFP Photo)

A female soldier takes part in a training for women at the Tolemaida Military Air Base in Tolemaida, Colombia, on May 16, 2023. The last time the Colombian Army enlisted women in their ranks was in 1993. Now, 30 years on, more than 1,200 women voluntarily joined the military service in the country. (Photo by Raúl Arboleda/AFP Photo)

A woman falls while slipping on ice during freezing rain on Roosevelt Island, a borough of Manhattan, in New York January 5, 2014. New York City was hit on Friday by the first severe winter storm of 2014 and was still in the grip of sub-freezing weather on Sunday morning. The woman got up and walked away from the fall. (Photo by Zoran Milich/Reuters)

In this May 17, 2017 photo, cowboy cook Odair Batista carries a case with food in Corumba, the Pantanal wetlands of Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. Dressed with leather chaps on top of their jeans, stetson hats and a machete attached to their waists, before setting off, the men finish their breakfast with Terere, an herbal “mate” beverage served ice cold in an ox drinking horn. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)

A pair of ice climbers have been snapped in front of a stunning aurora. Mike Stuart and Takeshi Tani were climbing the Athabasca Glacier in Alberta, Canada, when the aurora lit up the nights sky. They were photographed by famed night-time photographer Paul Zizka, who specialises in photographing auroras in some of Canadas most beautiful parks. (Photo by Paul Zizka/Caters News)