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A model presents a creation from the Spring/Summer 2020 Haute Couture collection by Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen during the Paris Fashio​n Week, in Paris, France, 20 January 2020. The presentation of the Haute Couture collections runs from 20 to 23 January 2020. EPA-EFE/CHRISTOPHE PETI​T TESSON

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A shaman plays the drum while performing rituals in Kathmandu, Nepal, 28 March 2019. Shamans, or 'Jhakri', as they are known in Nepal, are healers who provide spiritual and physical healing and cleansing. Using a combination of Hindu worship, mantras, meditation and traditional herbal remedies, the shamans are believed to help people who have been unable to find a cure through modern medicine or who have become possessed by spirits. EPA-EFE/NARENDRA SHRESTHA

Shamanism in Nepal

A relative sits next to the dead body of Kodu Singh Parmar, that died inside his room at Kashi Labh Mukti Bhawan in Varanasi, India, 09 October 2019. Kashi Labh Mukti Bhawan is a charity-run a place that offers lodging to those who wish to give up their last breath in the holy city of Varanasi (also known as Banaras or Kashi) to achieve Moksha, a Hindu term for enlightenment or release. There is a saying in Sanskrit, Kashyam Marnata Mukti, which means that one will get Moksha if he dies in Kashi. The city i

Death Guest House - Mukti Bhawan

A boy living on the Autism spectrum immerses himself in a bath filled with coloured plastic balls in a special sensory room designed to help children on the Autism spectrum at the Autism unit of Beacon school in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, South Africa, 10 May 2019. Waves for Change is an organisation that uses surfing as a form of therapy to help children who are on the autism spectrum. One out of every 59 children globally are diagnosed with some form of autism, and those affected often suffer from social

Surf Therapy Supporting Children Living on the Autism Spectrum

The doctor Frolian Paez (C) does a surgical procedure of a structural rhinoplasty, in Caracas, Venezuela, 24 August 2019. Every six minutes, someone in Venezuela is subject to cosmetic surgery. In a country where millions of inhabitants suffer from a shortage of medicines, thousands are prepared to spend 50-years of minimum wage just for looking beautiful. The Venezuelan Society of Plastic Surgery reported figures of 200 US dollar millions spent by customers in 2018. Every one of the 700 society members c

Silicon City: Venezuela's Non-Petroleum Industry

(02/41) Lei Yao of China Golden Dragons looks on during the 2. Liga ice hockey match between China Golden Dragons and HC Tabor in Slany, Czech Republic, 11 September 2019. A selection of Chinese ice hockey players have been sent to the Czech Republic in a bid to hone their skills and improve their team performances, as China prepares to host the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. Coming from a country with little to no hockey culture, the promising youngsters have traveled to the other side of the world as

China Golden Dragons

Local Turkana men stand next to a dam constructed to help refugees and locals in agriculture and livestocks in Kalobeyei settlement, adjacent to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Turkana county, northern Kenya, 25 June 2019. Despite an improvement, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in its 2018 report classifies the nutrition situations in Kakuma camp and adjacent Kalobeyei settlement as 'serious' and 'poor' respectively. More than 10 percent of refugees in Kakuma camp suffered from acute malnutrition in 20

Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya