Hermien enjoys her first day outside in pasture at a retirement home for cows in Zandhuizen, Netherlands, on May 3, 2018. The cow escaped a few months earlier from a cattle truck on its way to the butcher and was saved by a crowdfunding campaign that funded her retirement. #

Inside an ordinary suburban home in in Golden Beach, Australia, live a host of hopping surprises—a troop of baby kangaroos. When a stranger pulled up to their home with an orphaned kangaroo in 2010, this couple's lives changed forever and "Our Haven Wildlife Shelter" was born. Theresa and Tony Matthews had always loved wildlife, but after being told that the healthy orphaned joey would have to be euthanized, they realized that they had to aid the helpless animal, and their kangaroo sanctuary was born. Here, Tony cradles one of their rescued kangaroos outside their home on January 12, 2018. #

An Iraqi student poses for a picture during a celebration marking the University of Mosul's 51st anniversary on April 1, 2018, about eight months after the city was retaken from the control of ISIS fighters by Iraqi government forces. #

Loyola University of Chicago's Sister Jean shows off the NCAA Final Four ring she received before an NCAA college-basketball game between Loyola of Chicago and Nevada, in Chicago, on November 27, 2018. Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, age 99, has been the basketball team’s chaplain since 1994, as well as one of its biggest supporters, and has achieved a level of celebrity in recent years. #

Sister Hicks (center) assists a woman in making a donation at a "Giving Machine" in New York on November 29, 2018. The machine, located near Manhattan's Columbus Circle, accepts donations as part of the #LightTheWorld campaign for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. People are able to use the machines to give money to be used for cattle, meals, clothes, and other donations for charities helping people around the world. The idea was conceived and tested by Mormons in Salt Lake City, who are now bringing the concept to several countries. #

A dog named Dost (friend) and a goose named Zincir (chain), who grew up together, are photographed lying next to each other in Ankara, Turkey, on September 30, 2018. #

A monk performs violin music on the mountain at the Tiantai Temple on November 22, 2018, in Hongan, Hubei province, China. Monks of Tiantai Temple are proficient not only in Buddha dharma but also in orchestral instruments. Master Wule started to rebuild the 1,400-year-old Tiantai Temple in 2004. As a former musician, he organized the monk orchestra Guangxuan to preach Buddhism and Zen philosophy through music in 2008. Members of the orchestra learn to play instruments from scratch and overcome numerous difficulties. By attracting believers and monks who identify with the idea of Buddhist practice through music, the orchestra now has more than 40 members. The monks and nuns play music in the pursuit of inner peace and benevolence. #

Christian Budney (center) water-skis with Katie Heikkinen and Jim Kovaleski through a program with Individual Abilities in Motion and LOF Adaptive Skiers at Chapman Lake in Scott Township, Pennsylvania, on August 10, 2018. #

Chubby Hearts Over London is a design project conceived as a love letter to London by Anya Hindmarch in partnership with the Mayor of London, The City of Westminster, and British Fashion Council, photographed here on February 14, 2018 in London, England. #

An activist from the LGBTQ community celebrates after the supreme court's verdict of decriminalizing gay sex and the revocation of the Section 377 law in Bengaluru, India, on September 6, 2018. #

Models wait before presenting eco-fashion pieces that use recycled or biodegradable materials during the Fashion for Sustainable Future event by UN Environment in Kisumu, Kenya, on May 31, 2018. #

A group of urban street dancers practices in front of the Eiffel Tower in the Trocadero fountain to keep cool as the summer temperature soared in Paris on July 26, 2018. #

A reveler smiles during the Banda de Ipanema carnival "bloco" parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 27, 2018. Merrymakers took to the streets in hundreds of open-air bloco parties ahead of Rio's over-the-top Carnival, the highlight of the year for many. #

Ali Kemer, a 50-year-old horse-breeder, kisses one of his horses in the village of Hormetci, on the foothill of Mount Erciyes, in the province of Kayseri, Turkey, on August 5, 2018. Kemer is a third-generation horse-breeder in the village where the residents have a special affinity with the "yilki," as the untamed horses are called. He cares for about 350 of them and charges visitors 50 Turkish lira (8 U.S. dollars) to photograph the horses, money he says he uses for their upkeep. Thousands of other wild horses, the descendants of horses that were abandoned by farmers, roam free on the mountains and plains of Turkey's Anatolia region. #

Sometimes the pups help take care of us. Zucca, a Labrador retriever therapy dog, accompanies a child during a session with a dentist in a public hospital as part of a program to calm the fears of children in the dentist's chair, in Santiago, Chile, on May 8, 2018. #

And sometimes we help take care of the pups. Volunteer veterinarians clean a stray dog, rescued from an area affected by the eruption of the Fuego volcano, in Alotenango, Guatemala, on June 9, 2018. #

Two-year-old Souhail waves to medical personnel as he sits in an electric toy car on his way to the operating room at the Valenciennes Hospital in Valenciennes, northern France, on February 2, 2018. The hospital currently owns three electric toy cars, one of which was donated by the city's football club, Valenciennes FC. The cars allow children to reduce stress before undergoing surgery. #

A mugshot of Bean, a pug dog, taken at the Cape May Police Department in Cape May, New Jersey. Bean the pug found her way back home after police in the New Jersey shore town posted the dog's mug shot on social media. Cape May Patrolman Michael LeSage found Bean in a yard on July 15, 2018. Police then posted a photo of Bean on Facebook with the caption: "This is what happens when you run away from home." It took a few hours before Bean's owners tracked her down. #

South Korean Lee Geum-Sum, 92 (left) meets with her North Korean son Lee Sung-Chul, 71, during a separated-family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort in Mount Kumgang, North Korea, on August 20, 2018. Almost a hundred South Koreans crossed the heavily armed border to meet their separated families for the first time since the 1950-53 Korean War. #

Volunteer Amber Hersel from the Civilian Crisis Response Team helps rescue the 7-year-old Keiyana Cromartie and her family from their flooded home in James City, North Carolina, on September 14, 2018. Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina as a Category 1 storm, and flooding from the heavy rain forced hundreds of people to call for emergency rescues. #

People atop the Pyramid of the Sun at the archaeological site of Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City, raise their hands to the sun as it rises during celebrations of the spring equinox on March 21, 2018. #

Copenhagen's Dame N'Doye celebrates his second goal in the Europa League Third Qualifying Round Second Leg, FC Copenhagen vs. CSKA Sofia, in Telia Park in Copenhagen, Denmark, on August 16, 2018. #

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Virginia’s Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives, laughs as a horse begins to chew her hair while she visits a horse rescue facility in Burkeville, Virginia, on October 31, 2018. #

The Swiss, German-born, disabled athlete Silke Pan climbs stairs with her powered exoskeleton, "Twiice On," designed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, during a press preview in Lausanne on November 6, 2018. Following the 2016 Cybathlon Championships in Kloten, and two years of development, the team of engineers and researchers introduced a new, more efficient powered exoskeleton that can now be used independently. #

Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, with her 10-day-old baby, Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, leaves the Senate floor after voting on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 19, 2018. #

A young Muslim girl dances and runs in the sea as she and her family celebrate Eid al-Adha by watching the sun set at Crosby Beach in Liverpool, England, on August 21, 2018. #