Clouds cover the sky over the Ernst-Taehlmann-Park housing estate after a thunderstorm in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo)

Mr Lordi aka Tomi Petteri Putaansuu of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi gets the second jab of his Covid-19 vaccination from nurse Paula Ylitalo (R) in Rovaniemi, Finland, on August 1, 2021, amid the novel coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Jouni Porsanger/Lehtikuva/AFP Photo)

Icelandic horses play in their paddock at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, as a mist rolls in on Thursday, August 5, 2021. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)

A diver in a pool at the Army 2021 International Military and Technical Forum, at the Patriot military park in Moscow Region, Russia on August 22, 2021. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/TASS/Alamy Live News)

People celebrate the start of the New Year as fireworks illuminate Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Monday, January 1, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)

A green jumping spider (Lyssomanes viridis), in a forested area of Cerro de la Muerte, in San Jose, Costa Rica, 20 May 2025. International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated every 22 May around the world. (Photo by Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA/EFE)

Visitors ride a swing attraction during the Hochheim Market in Hochheim, Germany on November 11, 2025. The traditional autumn fair has been held for more than 500 years. (Photo by Matias Basualdo/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

“When I was 8 years old, my parents paid a smuggler to take me across the Himalayas, a weekslong walk over the mountains from Tibet to India. It was a trek that tens of thousands of other Tibetans have taken since the Dalai Lama fled a failed 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. My parents must have had their reasons to send me here; they must have had the best of intentions. But 18 years later, I still don't know why they did it. They are not political people. They are small farmers who raise barley and a few yak in a rural area not far from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. I have not seen them since I left...”. – Tsering Topgyal via The Associated Press. (Photo by Tsering Topgyal/AP Photo)