People wait to enter the Fashion on the Field event ahead of the Melbourne Cup horse race at the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on November 5, 2024. (Photo by William West/AFP Photo)

A woman stands as fireworks light up the sky over Copacabana Beach during New Year's celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)

In this January 16, 2019, file photo, a homeless man sleeps on a median strip in New Delhi, India. In India, some 270 million people – nearly 22 percent of the country's population – live in poverty, making giveaways particularly attractive to voters. The Modi government in its interim budget in January announced farmers would be paid 6,000 rupees ($85) annually, benefiting as many as 120 million households and income tax relief to the middle class. (Photo by Altaf Qadri/AP Photo/File)