A meat vendor counts money at a public market in Marikina, Philippines on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

Michael Olivant, a Times reader, saw a chance to contribute when a Dalmatian pelican landed on his wife’s head at Lake Kerkini in northern Greece in the first decade of February 2025. (Photo by Michael Olivant/The Times)

Brazilian model and TV presenter Sabrina Sato from the Gavioes da Fiel samba school performs during a Carnival parade in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, February 11, 2024. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)

Robbie Lee of Team Great Britain competes in the Men's 10m Platform Preliminaries on day 23 of the Singapore 2025 World Aquatics Championships at OCBC Aquatic Centre on August 02, 2025 in Singapore. (Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

An urban Opossum covered in light snow visits a suburban Chicago deck on December 10, 2025. (Photo by H Rick Bamman/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Children react after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad near the Syrian Arab Red Crescent center in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus May 6, 2015. (Photo by Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)

A Christian pilgrim is baptised by a priest in the muddy water of the Jordan River at the Kasser-Al-Yahud baptismal site near the West Bank city of Jericho, on April 11, 2017. According to the gospels Jesus Christ was baptised in the waters of the Jordan River by John the Baptist. (Photo by Gali Tibbon/AFP Photo)

Girls accompany grooms as they sit separate from the brides during a mass wedding for 150 couples in Beit Lahiya town in the northern Gaza Strip July 20, 2015. The wedding was funded by al-Basheer Society for Relief and Development. (Photo by Suhaib Salem/Reuters)