Photo of the day

Laura Thomas, a former CIA Chief of Base utilizes her knowledge of covert exfiltrations, and connections she made while working as one of America's top spies, in a volunteer effort to rescue people from the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A humpback mother and calf sleep at the surface surrounded by ice.

Alissa Chant during a live fire training.

Now old enough, a great hornbill chick peeks out at the world beyond the nest.

K9 about to search a vehicle for anything illegal hidden inside a vehicle.

Aerial of Parthenon in Athens.

The inside of Melipona bee hive.

Fluffy honeybee collects nectar from a flower.

Agent Jones assists with the search for smuggled goods amongst luggage in Atlanta airport.

A bull gaur with mynas grooming him.

A former Special Forces soldier turned CIA officer, Gary Harrington, gets the rare opportunity to meet with an enemy Taliban leader, but when a critical ally goes missing, he must decide whether or not to embrace the warrior code and launch a rescue mission, even if it means walking into an ambush.

Air traffic controllers in the tower at Melbourne Airport.

Hannah hands out red envelopes to the younger members of fixer Trung's family as part of Tet traditions.

The patrol boat out on the water.

Aerial directly above Ulm Minster in Germany.

Hannah Fry poses by the Icelandic landscape.

Three zebras standing in long grass near a body of water, interacting with each other.

A plane lands at Melbourne Airport. Melbourne Airport is Australia's busiest airport, with over 35 million passengers passing through annually.

Many sperm whales are wandering nomads. They travel freely across vast stretches of ocean and stop to interact with local whales.

Customs and Border Patrol officer on the patrol boat.

A lion and lioness fighting whilst the lioness is biting the male on the neck.

Silhouetted against a star-strewn Nilgiri sky, a rhododendron tree stands as a sentinel of the high-elevation shola grassland ecosystem.