The performers prepare for the show. Fontana, a travelling water circus produced by Cirque Du Liban at Festival City in Dubai. (Photo by Chris Whiteoak/The National)

Dennis Hong a professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering attempts to impede the movement of ARTEMIS, a full-sized humanoid robot with first-of-its-kind technology in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 13, 2023. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)

People enjoy their time near the Arcadia stage at the Glastonbury Festival site in Somerset, Britain on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Jason Cairnduff/Reuters)

Students with faces painted as Hindu goddess Kali, take part in a cultural event ahead of the Janmashtami festival, or the birth anniversary of Hindu Lord Krishna, inside a college in Mumbai, India on September 4, 2023. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

A person dressed as a horned evil spirit known as “Krampus” parades with a torch through the small town of Goricane, Slovenia on November 18, 2023. (Photo by Borut Zivulovic/Reuters)

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caught on a passenger train, ahead of the general election in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 5, 2024. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

New Zealand singer and songwriter Kimbra Lee Johnson showed off her ageless appearance in a new photo shoot early February 2024. (Photo by Spencer Ostrander)

A mural depicting a resting cat by Russian street artist Vladi is photographed by a man outside a hotel in Hong Kong on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)