A boy looks out over the city of Edinburgh from Holyrood Park. The Scottish Parliament building is on the right of picture.

A field on the edge of east London with London's high rise buildings stretching from the the BT Tower on the right through the City, the Shard and Canary Wharf on the left.

Seedlings growing in a field on the edge of east London. On the horizon London's high rise buildings stretch from the Barbican on the right through the City, the Shard and Canary Wharf on the left.

A tractor sprays seedlings growing in a field on the edge of east London. On the horizon London's high rise buildings stretch from the Barbican on the right through the City, the Shard and Canary Whar...

Shoppers and traders in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is among the largest in Africa, with more than 10,000 stalls selling virtually everything imaginable.

Shoppers and traders in Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is among the largest in Africa, with more than 10,000 stalls selling virtually everything imaginable.

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Corrugated metal roofs at Kejetia market (Kumasi Central Market). The market is thought to be amongst the largest in Africa, with over 10,000 individual stores.

Santa Marta and its port.

People walking through the heavily-secured market area in downtown Afrin.

The Nahr Irfin river which runs through the centre of Afrin city.

Refugees displaced during a 2020 Syrian regime offensive in nearby Idlib now living in a sprawling tented camp on a muddy hill above the city of Afrin.

New housing blocks overlooking the River Lea in the Lea Valley

A woman and her twins on the roof of Hillbrow flats.

The night time Johannesburg sky line.

The empty Yangon Central Railway Station which has not been in operation as the staff have been participating in the Civil Disobedience Movements and staying away from their work places.

Protestors and local residents re group behind barricades after clashes with joint military and police security forces who they are trying to prevent entering the neighbourhood in Bayintnaung junctio...

After the start of the nightly curfew, imposed by the military, residents across the city turn off lights while military and police joint security forces move around lighting up buildings with torch l...

The urban refugee camp popularly known as 'Geneva Camp'. The people living in the area are related to Muslims who moved here mostly, but not exclusively, from Bihar in India after partition. Following...

Medical students, doctors and engineers form a march estimated to be in the tens of thousands to protest against the military coup.

Medical students, doctors and engineers form a march estimated to be in the tens of thousands to protest against the military coup.

A view over the city as dusk falls. The military has imposed martial law and an 8pm curfew.

A view of the wall of the Mandalay royal palace, a base for military forces. Since after the coup, the security forces have blocked off the area surrounding the palace.

A view over the city as dusk falls. The military has imposed martial law and an 8pm curfew.

A view of the wall of the Mandalay royal palace, a base for military forces. Since after the coup, the security forces have blocked off the area surrounding the palace.

A view of the wall of the Mandalay royal palace, a base for military forces. Since after the coup, the security forces have blocked off the area surrounding the palace.

Medical students, doctors and engineers form a march estimated to be in the tens of thousands to protest against the military coup.

A jogger runs around Roman-era archaeological ruins on the outskirts of Tyre.

Reconstructed Roman columns at an archaeological site at the Egyptian Harbour on the Mediterranean coast. Although this area occupies the site of the Phoenician island of Tyre, the ruins that have sur...

The skyline of the Lebanese capital.

The war-damaged Holiday Inn Hotel and new blocks of flats.

Red shirts hang from the balconies of apartment buildings in a covert show of support for democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) and to protest the 1 February 2021 mil...

The ruins of a Roman-era baths and the Cathedrale St Louis with the Grand Serai govenment offices to the left. The reconstruction of downtown Beirut has been largely driven by Solidere, a development...

Dusk in Yangon where following the coup martial law was declared by the military and includes a stay at home curfew from 8pm-4am.

Residents come onto their apartment balconies for the nightly 8pm noise campaign to protest the coup and show support for democracy and the NLD (National League for Democracy) following the army's cou...

A couple dance on a rooftop in the medina (old town) near the minaret of the Zitouna mosque.

Cupolas of the Zitouna mosque and rooftops of the medina (old town) and city beyond.

A minaret and bougainvillea blossoms.

A view over rooftops of the medina (old town) and city beyond near the minaret of the Zitouna mosque (at right).

A view over Bielefeld.

Roza (18), a high school student, looks towards the city centre from her flat where she is studying as, since the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020, all teaching has been conducted via online h...

View across city rooftops to the spire of Geneva's Cathedral with the snow dusted cliffs of the Saleve mountain in France in the background.

A view across Lausanne's rooftops at dusk towards Lake Geneva (Lac Leman) with the Alps beyond.

At 8pm, as the internet is cut off by the military, residents come onto their apartment balconies to make noise to protest the coup and show support for democracy and the NLD (National League for Demo...

A view from an aircraft flying over Dhaka.

The city of Agdam which lay in ruins after nearly 30 years under the control of Armenian forces. Originally home to nearly 40,000 people the city was captured by Armenia in the first Nagorno Karabakh...

The city of Agdam which lay in ruins after nearly 30 years under the control of Armenian forces. Originally home to nearly 40,000 people the city was captured by Armenia in the first Nagorno Karabakh...

The city of Agdam which lay in ruins after nearly 30 years under the control of Armenian forces. Originally home to nearly 40,000 people the city was captured by Armenia in the first Nagorno Karabakh...

The city of Agdam lay in ruins after 27 years under the control of Armenian forces. Originally home to nearly 40,000 people the city was captured by Armenia in the first Karabakh war. The entire popul...

The a bridge over the Brantas River with the Grand Mosque's minaret rising on the far bank.

Winter garden in a recreation zone of the Yar-Sale School. The school of Yar-Sale provides education to 1573 pupils. Among them are children from nomadic families living in the boarding school and ch...

Recreation zone in a school of1. The school of Yar-Sale provides education to 1573 pupils. Among them are children from nomadic families living in the boarding school and children from families living...

A view of administrative buildings and an Orthodox church on the banks of the river Shaytanka.

A view of administrative buildings and an Orthodox church on the banks of the river Shaytanka.

A view of Nadym through a window from Gazprom Nadym Dobycha museum.

A girl holding a red balloon looks over the capital city from Atakule or the Atatower.

A flock of starling during a murmuration in the evening above Eminonu. In the background is the Galata Tower or Galata Kulesi.

A busy road in the city centre.

A new office development in the Wola district.

A couple drink tea at the The Pierre Loti Cafe, which offers a splendid view over the Bosphorus. The cafe is named after French novelist and naval officer Pierre Loti.

A newly married couple have their photograph taken in Camlica Park with the skyline of Istanbul in the background.

A woman hangs out washing on a hillside in Kucukcekmece where some 2,800 Kurdish families, who moved to Istanbul in search of work during the 1980s, live in illegally built slums on the outskirts of I...

Lining on the Galata Bridge, hundreds of fishermen cast their lines into the Golden Horn near the New Mosque or Yeni Cami.

Old low rise housing and new high rise residential apartment blocks.

A Myanmar migrant labourer works on a construction project on the roof of a shopping mall.

A low rise Malay kampung (traditional housing compound) area next to a highway and a commercial construction site.

Workers labouring on a highway construction project in Petaling Jaya.

A couple tend their garden in a low rise Malay kampung (traditional housing compound) area overlooked by a highway and a commercial construction site.

A newlywed couple pose for a photo on a Beijing viaduct.

A low rise Malay village area overlooked by a highway and a commercial construction site.

Children play in a low rise Malay kampung (traditional housing compound) area overlooked by a highway and a commercial construction site.

A highway under construction in Petaling Jaya.

An aerial view of Khayelitsha, a slum where over 600,000 people live.

Major banks loom above the Masjid Jamek.

Major banks loom above the Masjid Jamek.

The Maybank Tower rises above the city.

A view from the raised highway that runs above the Carmona family's patch of agricultural land which is gradually being surrounded by the urban sprawl of Santa Fe.

Gerardo Carmona's bulls fight on a hill that overlooks the expanding suburb of Santa Lucia.

People walk along a road that overlooks Sidi Houari and the mountain top fortress of Santa Cruz.

Men gather on the seafront near a row of French colonial-era buildings.

A couple sit on a cliff top looking out over the Bab El Oued district.

A land slip in the Sidi Houari district that has caused a large section of a road to collapse.

A view over the city of La Paz.

The cable car linking La Paz to El Alto.

The cable car linking La Paz to El Alto.

People relax on the beach at JBR, a promenade with restaurants and attractions on the Persian Gulf shoreline, flanked by the residential towers of the Dubai Marina.

The Creek and the skyline of Dubai.

A veiled woman sits on the sand at the Beach near the Dubai Marina.

Spectators are waiting for the doors to open at the Meydan racecourse.