US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) facility, which will house a compact fusion experiment device, undergoes its first exterior lighting test on September 9, 2026, in Hefei, China. (Getty Images)
United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participate in a joint press conference after talks on September 6, 2026, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
Engineers work outside the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, on September 25, 2009. (Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Getty Images)
An Egyptian Christian mourns following a New Year's Eve car bomb attack on the Coptic church in Alexandria in which 21 people were killed, on January 2, 2011 outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
Rohingya migrants on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman, May 14, 2015. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP/Getty Images)
A damaged painting of Jesus Christ on the ground of Syriac Orthodox Um al-Zinar church in Homs, central Syria, May 12, 2014. (JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the US ambassador's residence in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
(L-R): Jeremy Spiegelman, Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gerard Biard, New Yorker Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff and Charlie Hebdo film critic Jean-Baptiste Thoret, PEN American Center Literary Gala, May 5, 2015, New York City. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
Australians Andrew Chan (R) and Myuran Sukumaran (L) behind the bars of a court cell before their trial in Denpasar, on Bali island, February 14, 2006. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)