On the way to class in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The delayed vaccines means that girls in countries such as Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Mozambique who are now 14 will no longer be eligible for vaccination when these campaigns finally start.

Kenneth Davis, a patient in an H.I.V. treatment trial, undergoes a routine exam with the assistance of Phoebe Bryson-Cahn, a research clinician, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

A nurse attending to a patient with dengue at Chulucanas Hospital in Peru in February.

Recycled polypropylene pellets at a PureCycle Technologies plant in Ironton, Ohio.

Ytasha Womack, a screenwriter on “Niyah and the Multiverse,” currently playing at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, is the author of numerous works including “Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration.”

Skipjack tuna in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, in October. Thousands of tuna samples collected around the world from 1971 to 2022 showed mercury levels almost unchanged.

Smith & Wesson was one of many American gun manufacturers that were sued by Mexico.

Shirene Thomas, a retired actress and social worker from Wilmington, N.C., spent a third of her retirement savings in order to put down $156,000 for the three-year Life at Sea cruise.

The Gunung Padang site in Cianjur, Indonesia, in December.

Jargal Lhagvasuren practiced at Old Circus, (that’s how the locals are calling the venue) which is only used by Mongolian Circus School for training now, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on May 18th, 2023.

Workers at a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, in July.

Javier Milei at home in 2018 with his cloned mastiff puppies.