Russian diplomats including Boris Bondarev (right with glasses), Russia's counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva, photographed at open-ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats on 11th May 202...

Russian diplomats including Boris Bondarev (right with glasses), Russia's counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva, photographed at open-ended Working Group on Reducing Space Threats on 11th May 202...

Alungile Mayekiso, a member of a high-angle tree clearing team, getting ready for the day at her team's campsite in a remote montane catchment area that feeds the Theewaterskloof dam. The teams are de...

People watching from above the clouds as the sun descends towards the horizon and sunset approaches on Table Mountain.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressing the Conference on Disarmament at the UN through a video speech. He had been due to address the conference live, but cancelled due to sanctions. The sp...

An UN official looks through a glass door as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the Conference on Disarmament at the UN through a video speech. He had been due to address the conference...

Tourists wade in the shallow waters at a beach resort in Hurgarda, a Red Sea resort popular with tourists from Russia and Eastern Europe.

Three women enjoy the beach facilities in Hurgarda, a Red Sea resort popular with tourists from Russia and Eastern Europe.

A woman and children enjoying a pleasure cruise from Hurgarda, a Red Sea resort popular with tourists from Russia and Eastern Europe.

Fatoumata Doumbia shows Le Ladoum Mass, a Ladoum ram from the Na-Fanta Diane flock. It is 30 months old and 110cm at the withers.Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-ba...

Habibou Diop shows Bideo Bou Bess, a 19 month old Ladoum ram from the Malle flock which is 112cm in height and 172cm in length.Ladoum sheep are a cross between Mauritanian touabir and Malian bali-bali...

Wuling E1oo mini EV models sit in a parking lot at the SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. Baojun Base plant, a joint venture between SAIC Motor Corp., General Motors Co. and Liuzhou Wuling Automobile Indus...

People gather beneath an inflatable MIG fighter plane which forms part of the 31st independence day celebrations. During the late 1980s it was this type of aeroplane that completely destroyed Hargeisa...

People gather beneath an inflatable MIG fighter plane which forms part of the 31st independence day celebrations. During the late 1980s it was this type of aeroplane that completely destroyed Hargeisa...

A People's Defence Force (PDF) soldier with a tattoo of the map and flag of Myanmar on his back, bathes in the closest frontline defensive outpost to the Myanmar Army near Lay Kay Kaw in Karen State....

Min Thar (front), a former banquets and events worker at the Lotte Hotel in Yangon who joined the People's Defence Force (PDF), patrols with other PDF soldiers on the frontline close to Myanmar Army p...

The Moei River that separates Thailand, bottom left, from Myanmar (top and right) where a Karen IDP camp for people displaced by Myanmar Army attacks on Lay Kay Kaw can be seen, bottom right, and jung...

Drug addicted people squat among the detritus beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge (Pul-i-Sokhta) where, one estimate claimed, up to 1000 drug users regularly gather.

A man carries a bicycle across an open raw sewage trench which drains into the Maramba River which contains the parasite causing schistosomiasis (bilharzia).

Reyhana stands in a queue of women at a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution centre near Madina Bazaar in central Kabul.

Construction teams work to repair roads and railways that have been damaged by a landslide.

Pope Francis wears a traditional headdress, a gift from Indigenous Chief Wilton 'Willie' Littlechild, during a powwow with Indigenous leaders.Pope Francis toured Canada for a week, including stops in...

A restaurant dish featuring boiled squid.

A fresh catch of fish at Penghu's main Makung Port. Taiwan's windswept Penghu Islands lie in the middle of the Taiwan Strait between China and Taiwan in one of the region's most productive fishing gro...

Pramod Ram (40) who lives in Ranchi's squalid Jorar basti, an illegal, informal, squatter settlement where the community lives in mud-stained, makeshift tents, surrounded by a large landfill stalked b...

Manual scavengers have a makeshift shower after cleaning out a septic tank in Railway Colony, Bokaro Steel City.Sewer cleaning, known as manual scavenging, was made illegal in India in 1993, yet the h...

Manual scavenger Muna Kumar (28) working in Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand.Sewer cleaning, known as manual scavenging, was made illegal in India in 1993, yet the highly dangerous practice remains widesp...

Pope Francis has a moment of reflection at a cemetery where Indigenous children from residential schools were buried in Maskwacis.Pope Francis toured Canada for a week, including stops in Edmonton, Qu...

People protest against economic mismanagement and the role of the Rajapaksa family as Sri Lanka faces price rises, power cuts, and shortages of fuel and essential goods.

Soldiers salute in front of a ship with humanitarian supplies worth more than 4 million GBP, as it is officially presented from India. The cargo consists of rice, milk powder and medical supplies.

Protestors climb onto police wagons during a march on Colombo's fort area on Thursday 19th May.

Protestors flee tear gas during a protest in Colombo's fort area on 19th May.

People buying vegetables at a market.

People wait in a line for cooking gas at a petrol station in Colombo amid the economic crisis.

People queue with containers for fuel as shortages worsen during Sri Lanka's economic crisis.

Residents of suburb of Colombo city protest on the street outside their home during a power cut.

People protest against economic mismanagement as Sri Lanka faces price rises, power cuts, and shortages of fuel and essential goods.

Tourists dancing at a bar at Mirissa beach.

Newly made prosthetic legs stand on the floor in the workshop of the Princess Diana Orthopaedic Centre. 70% of the clinic's patients are landmine victims. Twenty years after the end of its civil war,...

Magdalena Manuel, 30, carries her child as she practices walking with a new prosthetic leg at the Princess Diana Orthopaedic Centre. Manuel lost her leg after triggering a landmine on the way back fro...

A deminer detonates a South African-made R2M2 landmine discovered in a minefield outside the town of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola. Deminers have successfully destroyed thousands of landmines in the area, b...

Fog rises off the Cuito river in the early morning.

Drone operator Pedro Afonso Pacheco launches a drone during a survey of a suspected minefield.

Technicians assemble prosthetic legs at the Princess Diana Orthopaedic Centre. 70 percent of the clinic's patients are landmine victims. Twenty years after the end of its civil war, Angola remains one...

The section commander of a HALO Trust mine clearance team takes roll call during the morning parade in the town of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola. The town was the scene of heavy fighting between South Afric...

Drug users sleep, along with pet dogs, beneath a bridge in western Kabul where large numbers of addicts gather.The world's number one producer of opium, Afghanistan is the centre of the opium trade an...

A man hugs two framed portraits of Queen Elizabeth II on the first day of the reign of King Charles lll, as members of the public gather outside Buckingham Palace to mark the death of Her Majesty the...

A man breaks down in tears as people gathered outside Buckingham Palace raise their mobile phones to take pictures after a notice was attached to the palace railings announcing the death, at Balmoral...

Liz Truss, the British Foreign Secretary (who became Britain's third woman Prime Minister in September 2022) at the British Ambassador's residence in Washington DC.

People check their mobile phones while standing in front of a giant image showing the young Queen Elizabeth II displayed in Piccadilly Circus following her death in Scotland on the 8 September 2022 at...

Students throw their caps into the air on the steps of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University on graduation day. It is the oldest university in Georgia and the Caucasus region.

Trucks lined up along the Georgian Military Highway 25km south of the Kazbegi border crossing into Russia. Since Georgia's brief 2008 war with Russia in South Ossetia the GMH is the only route across...

Drug users, who have been caught in the streets by the the Taliban, sit beneath an old sign listing various anti-depression medications as they wait to be seen by staff at the Ibn Sina Drug Addiction...

Drug users, who have been caught in the streets by the the Taliban, undergo exercise at the Ibn Sina Drug Addiction Treatment Hospital where they have been placed under forced rehabilitation.~~The wor...

Drug users, who have been caught in the streets by the the Taliban, are placed under forced rehabilitation at the Ibn Sina Drug Addiction Treatment Hospital. The world's number one producer of opium,...

A giant image showing the young and elderly Queen Elizabeth II displayed in Piccadilly Circus following her death in Scotland on the 8 September 2022 at the age of 96.

A queue of people wait in line to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II, following her death on 8th September 2022. The queue stretched up to 10 miles along the South Bank of the Thames in Lo...

Locals wash, fish and play in the shadow of the Bokaro Thermal Power Plant on the Konar River, a tributary of the Damodar.Experts say river pollution poses a grave threat to India's health and prosper...

The Bokaro Thermal Power Plant on the Konar River, a tributary of the Damodar.Experts say river pollution poses a grave threat to India's health and prosperity. In June 2022, a study from the Centre f...

Sonia Devi (30) lives in the hamlet of Kathara Washery Basti, where residents walk for several kilometres to the Damodar River to collect water for drinking, washing and cooking. Experts say river pol...

Locals wash themselves and their motorbikes in the shadow of the Bokaro Thermal Power Plant on the Konar river, a tributary of the Damodar.Experts say river pollution poses a grave threat to India's h...

Vilde Boysen (18), an army conscript doing her military service.

Professional soldier, Tuva Nodeland, completed her compulsory military service and then enlisted in the CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards) as a Vice-corporal.

On a Friday (rest day) young people trampolining in Chaman-e-Hozori Park.

Migrants arrive in a canoe at Canaan Membrillo, an indigenous village largely cut off from the world. They are charged USD25 for each of the two boat trips to take them down the river.The Darien Gap i...

Migrants shelter beneath a raised wooden building in Canaan Membrillo. Until 2016, when the first migrants started to arrive here, Canaan Membrillo was an indigenous village largely cut off from the w...

A woman runs through the village of Bekinagua.

At the Canaan Membrillo migrant processing centre 21-year-old Venezuelan Wilmer arrives carrying Jennifer (23) to the medical centre. Jennifer collapsed suffering from exhaustion and dehydration. Wilm...

Nearing the end of her ordeal in the jungle an exhausted Venezuelan woman stands in line the Canaan Membrillo migrant processing centre.The Darien Gap is the missing link in the 17,000-mile Pan-Americ...

A child is given a health check during a visit by a mobile team from ACF (Action Contre la Faim), who come each week to check for malnourished children and to distribute food aid suppliments.

Fans cheer and dance during a community cricket match between the Beetles and the Jaloersbokkies in the Scottsdene neighbourhood.

Migrants arrive in the relative safety of Puerto Limon, a makeshift dock on the banks of the Chucunaque River where a steady stream of canoes drop off exhausted migrants recently-emerged from the jung...

Taliban fighters and tourists spending a Friday in paddle boats on one of the Band-e Amir lakes.

At 5am migrants leave the village of Canaan Mebrillo in the heart of the Darien Gap. They pay USD25 per person for each leg of a two-leg journey in dugout canoes.The Darien Gap is the missing link in...

Taliban fighters and tourists beside a waterfall at one of the Band-e Amir lakes.

Delegates in front of heart logo SPD Berlin at a party congress of the SPD Social Democratic Party.

Boys play in a stairwell in Cissie Gool House, an abandoned hospital now home to over 1,000 people. By painting, decorating and maintaining the building, its new residents have managed to turn it into...

Joakim Bern in Copenhagen. Joakim was told he was an orphan from Busan when in fact he had a mother in Seoul. He hasn't yet been able to discover the year he was born.Two of 300 adoptees in a campaign...

Territorial army recruits training on scrubland beside a railway line.

Dr Rusyn Anastia, at the Okhmadyt Children's Hospital, shows a CT Scan on her mobile phone of a 10 year old boy who was shot during the first days of the Russian invasion. The child survived two bulle...

A group of civillians walk over fields towards Kiev (Kyiv) from the suburb of Irpin under white flags as residents continue to try and evacuate the suburb that has been heavily bombed by invading Russ...

Mourners at the funerals of Colonel Oleg Yaseichin, Major Kyryle Viscivaniy, Major Segey Melaik and Yaroslav Romanciuk, killed fighting the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the Saints Peter and Paul Gre...

Weronika Sierogodskaya (17) and Liza Kochan (18) fled from Kharkiv together, but have now been waiting in a queue for 24 hours, in the hope of boarding a train to Poland. The train station at Lviv is...

People gather around a fire burning in an oil drum outside the train station at Lviv, the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine. Most of the refugees here are heading to Poland arriv...

Vita Boina with her young son Dennis in Palats Metro Station that has been used as a bomb shelter and home to several families for nearly three weeks. Vita lives on the 9th floor of a tower block but...

After a wait of many hours, people squeeze onto a carriage on a train which is heading to Poland. Huge numbers of people, mainly women and children, have gathered at the train station in Lviv, the mai...

A father holds his hands up to the window of a departing train to say farewell to his wife and child who are fleeing to safety in Poland.Under martial law, men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave U...

The station at Lviv is the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine. Most of the refugees here are heading to Poland arriving on trains that come from all over the country. The thousand...

Oksana Gonishuk, and her children Any (9) and Illa (13), say farewell to her husband, the children's father Yevgeni Gonishuk. The family have fled their home in Kharkiv and is now heading for safety i...

Stuffed animals and other items in Mykolaiv Zoo which has been hit by four Russian rockets.