Japan's delegation gather to sign the formal surrender document on the U.S. Navy battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in a September 2, 1945 file photo. (Photo by Reuters/US Navy)
Artist Pyotr Pavlensky sits on the wall enclosing the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry after he cut off a part of his earlobe during his protest action titled “Segregation” in Moscow October 19, 2014. Pavlensky protested against the usage of forensic psychiatry for politically motivated purposes. He cut off his earlobe to demonstrate how authorities could “cut off” an unwanted individual from society by using psychiatric and medical diagnosis to forcefully send a person to a penitentiary hospital, according to Pavlensky. (Photo by Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters)
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Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi rides a wave with his alpaca Pisco at San Bartolo beach in Lima March 16, 2010. Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)
British puffin mid-flight with a beak full of small fish, their favourite foods being sand eels, herring and hake in Farne Islands, United Kingdom in June 2022. These pint-sized creatures are just 12 inches in height and have a wingspan of 25 inches. (Photo by Mathijs van Lisdonk/Media Drum Images)
Hot air balloons are displayed during an exhibition, in Caracas, Venezuela, 09 December 2022. The Government of Venezuela inaugurated an international transport exhibition to attract investment for a sector that has almost been paralyzed for the past five years but has begun to show signs of recovery this year. Venezuela has one of the most obsolete vehicle fleets in Latin America.. (Photo by Miguel Gutierrez/EPA/EFE)
One of the Houston Rockets NBA basketball team’s cheerleaders — known as the Power Dancers – in action during a game against the New Orleans Pelicans at Toyota Center on March 19, 2023 in Houston, Texas. The Rockets won 114-112. (Photo by Thomas Shea/Reuters)
A girl dives under a wave at Bondi Beach as temperatures reached 29 degrees celsius on December 17, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology predicted the arrival of thunderstorms and showers later today with a southerly change bringing possible severe storms around the Sydney region. (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images)