A woman waits for a train in at Invalidovna metro station. 

A man waits in the bus station at Kirkwall, the main town in Orkney.

Sheep graze on a hill with the Sullom Voe oil terminal in the background. In 2020 the Shetland council voted to look at ways of obtaining financial and political independence from Scotland. Shetland a...

Shipping containers and trucks loaded with bananas at Santa Marta's port.

Shipping containers stacked at Santa Marta's port.

A resident of Altamira's stilt houses who was forced to relocate because of the construction of Belo Monte dam, dismantles his house to reuse this material to build a new home or to expand the footpri...

Water crashes against the Santo Antonio Hydroelectric Power Plant's dam built over the Madeira River.

An aerial view of the construction of the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River. More than 80% of the river's waters has been diverted from its natural course, making it one of the biggest man-made interv...

The construction of the bypass channel for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. More than 80% of the water in the Xingu River has been diverted from its natural course, making it one of the largest man-m...

The Duvha coal powered station near Witbank.

The Duvhu Power Station with pylons carrying power cables across nearby fields.

A power line worker installs power cables on a pylon to supply electricity to a new township outside Johannesburg.

Tramway tracks on Malostranke Namesti. On 1 March 2021 the state of emergency lockdown in the Czech Republic was reinstalled because of the fast increasing number of infections.

Smoke rises from fires set by protestors to block the roads ahead of a crack down by the security forces at Bayintnaung junction a major hub across the river from Hlaingtharyar.

Snow covered train tracks in Colusdon.

The view over the mainline railway running towards Dover from Rainham Station.

Two Afghan teenagers watch as ferries leave the port of Dover. Both arrived in the UK within the last six months, one by ferry and one by dinghy.

A girl walks on the beach at Dover. The Ferry port can be seen in the background.

Trucks embark and disembark from ferries at Dover.

Trucks embark and disembark from ferries at Dover.

Kay, a volunteer for Channel Rescue, looks out to sea from a vantage point above the port at Dover.

A boat passes beneath the bridge between the main land and the isle of Pag.

A CCTV surveillance camera among the cables on an electricity pylon.

A newluy built highway and road tunnel.

A view over the border towards Israel with the Israeli-built Technical Fence just south of the Line of Demarcation (Blue Line).

A UN compound on the Lebanese side of the Blue Line, marked with blue barrels, indicating the line of withdrawal of the Israeli army in 2000. The land to the left of the barrel is Israeli territory, t...

A tangle of electrical cables strung around a pylon on a street.

Market stalls beside a hole in the street excavated to access water pipes.

A graffiti artist paints a huge image of the three fingers pro-democracy hand gesture on a flyover pillar.

People sunbathing beside the Bodensee (Lake Constance).

The skyline of the Lebanese capital.

A white cat climbs on a wall above a mural on the outskirts of the city that features a Confederate flag.

Railway tracks leading to the train station.

A mas of power cables on a city centre street.

A man fishing alongside the railway tracks.

A sail ship passes through the Corinth Canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea.

A couple on a motorsycle pass a tree trunk marking a large pot hole and the collapsed edge of the road. Residents of the communities around the salt-rich Songor Lagoon complain that for decades the l...

The formerly militarised Jiou Gong Tunnel complex on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (K...

Coastal defences on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, now more a tourist attraction for those curious about the Cold War. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces to...

Coastal defences on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, now more a tourist attraction for those curious about the Cold War. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces to...

Coastal defences on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, now more a tourist attraction for those curious about the Cold War. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces to...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Angled metal spikes, positioned to repel amphibious invasion, line a beach on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's na...

Angled metal spikes, positioned to repel amphibious invasion, line a beach on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's na...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Angled metal spikes, positioned to repel amphibious invasion, line a beach on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's na...

Coastal defences on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, now more a tourist attraction for those curious about the Cold War. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces to...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

People cleaning-up flotsam from a beach containing defensive infrastructure on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's n...

The view from a formerly fully-manned coastal defensive post on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island towards Xiamen on the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (...

Angled metal spikes, positioned to repel amphibious invasion, line a beach on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's na...

Cattle graze in a former mine field on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, a tiny territory littered with relics of the Cold War which lies around 150 miles from Taiwan, but only two miles from mainland Chin...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Cattle graze in a former mine field on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, a tiny territory littered with relics of the Cold War which lies around 150 miles from Taiwan, but only two miles from mainland Chin...

A visitor rides a bicycle past soldier mannequins outside a coastal defensive post on on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, which is now more a tourist attraction for those curious about the Cold War. Foll...

Soldier mannequins outside a coastal defensive post on on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, which is now more a tourist attraction for those curious about the Cold War. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai...

People walk past a bus stop displaying a COVID-19 warning.

A domestic Taiwanese tourist takes a picture at a view point on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island looking towards Shiyu Islet and the Chinese mainland. Beside the binocular stand is a manequin soldier also...

A domestic Taiwanese tourist looking through the wrong end of a tower viewer which is mounted at a view point on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island looking towards the Chinese mainland. Beside the binocular...

People wait at a bus stop on London Bridge.

A man waits at a bus stop on London Bridge.

An old artillery piece kept on display in a bunker on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (...

A statue of the Goddess Matzu (Mazu) beside an old artillery piece kept on display in a bunker on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat o...

A manequin soldier keeps vigil on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island against the risk of invasion from the Chinese mainland, visible in the distance a mile or two away. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-s...

A manequin soldier keeps vigil on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island against the risk of invasion from the Chinese mainland, visible in the distance a mile or two away. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-s...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Cattle graze near the off-ramp of a soon-to-be completed road bridge that will connect Kinmen's main island with Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Followin...

Cattle graze near the off-ramp of a soon-to-be completed road bridge that will connect Kinmen's main island with Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Followin...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, and the gleaming skyscrapers of Xiamen on the Chinese mainland beyond, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island. Following t...

Angled metal spikes, positioned to repel amphibious invasion, line a beach on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's na...

Angled metal spikes, positioned to repel amphibious invasion, line a beach on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's na...

Beach defences on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese Mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) forces to Taiwan (Formosa) at t...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese Mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang K...

A visitor plays among the beach defences on Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese Mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) force...

Shiyu Islet, a forward observation post controlled by the Taiwanese military, seen from Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, just a mile or two from the Chinese Mainland. Following the retreat of Chiang K...

Sign warning of deep water at Beishan, on the north western tip of Kinmen Island with the Fujian coastline just visible on the horizon.

A roadside sign on the outskirts of Kirkenes indicates the distances to various European cities.

A sign at the Arctic border crossing between Russia and Norway. This is the northernmost crossing point and marks the end of the Schengen area. An old rule forbids pedestrians from crossing the border...

A road sign on the outskirts of Kirkenes, a small town 10 km from the border with Russia, indicating the distances to nearby towns and Murmansk.

Bamidele Ajayi, consultant, physician and infectious disease specialist working at the Ogun Isolation Centre. ''People have been coming up with different theories as to why the COVID-19 fatality rate...

STEE (Chadian National Electric Company) employees passing between fuel reservoirs during an inspection tour at the Farcha power station.

In the Namuwongo 'slum, a woman working behind a bar threads beads as she waits for orders. The bar is equipped with a television to entertain customers and a fan to cool them down. The bar is one of...

In the living room of their house, lit by a light bulb, the Jackson family watches television, during an outage of UMEME, the national electricity company. Mr Jackson has installed a solar micro-grid,...

A woman waits for a bus inside the Soviet-era bus station, renovated with European Union money.

The interior of the Soviet-era bus station, renovated with European Union money.

A man waits for a bus inside the Soviet-era bus station, renovated with European Union money.

A woman walks past the Soviet-era bus station, renovated with European Union money.