In this photograph taken on October 11, 2021, Mullah Yacoub (3L), a Taliban member who claims to have lost his leg in an US force strike, tries on his new prosthetic leg at International Committee of Red Cross Rehabilitation Centre in Kabul. Just months ago they were fighting each other...

Sudanese youths confront security forces amidst tear gas fired by them to disperse protesters in the capital Khartoum, on October 27, 2021, amid ongoing demonstrations against a military takeover that has sparked widespread international condemnation. Security forces today made sweeping arrests of protesters who kept up demonstrations in the capital...

A Sudanese man inspects a house, damaged due to floods, in the al-Qanaa village in Sudan's southern White Nile state on September 14, 2021. Last year, Sudan was forced to declare a three-month state of emergency after facing “the worst flooding” in a century that killed around 140 people and...

Properties destroyed by the Lytton Creek wildfire on June 30 are seen as a pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, produced by the same fire rises in the mountains above Lytton, British Columbia, on Sunday, August 15, 2021. (Photo by Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP Phpto) The...

G9 coalition gang members ride a motorcycle through the Wharf Jeremy street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, October 6, 2021. While some gangs have turned to kidnapping, like those who captured 17 missionaries and their relatives, Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, a former policeman who leads the G9 gang coalition, has...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel waits for her certificate of dismissal, right, in Berlin, Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Merkel stays in office until a successor is elected. (Photo by Markus Schreiber/AP Photo) Queen Elizabeth II appears on a screen via videolink from Windsor Castle, where she is in residence, during a...

“Morning Fog”. This shot of a hilltop town in Italy on a foggy autumn day was named the winner. (Photo by Giulio Montini/Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather Photographer of the Year Awards) “Joy of Childhood”. Children from a village celebrate and play in the water in Chittagong, Bangladesh, during the monsoon....

A drone photo shows an aerial view of a flock of sheep on their way with breeders to back warmer places in Catak district of Turkey's southeastern province Van on September 24, 2021. Flocks of sheep being brought down from highlands by stock breeders to warmer stockyards before winter season....

Framed through a cave opening at Ita Pyta Punta or Cape Red Rock, empty boats sit moored on the banks of the Paraguay River, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Paraguay's crucial outlet to the sea fell to its lowest level the following day, in at least 117 years,...

Street photography – remarkable artwork – New York City²/Lost. “A lot of the people seem somehow lost to me, either geographically, mentally or even physically. It’s that second before they recognise you, taking the picture, somehow giving you an intimate moment with a person you never gonna see again in...

A woman crosses the street in the rain from Typhoon Mindulle as it moves off the coast Friday, October 1, 2021, in Tokyo. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo) TV sets show a live footage of Fumio Kishida as he is named as Japan's new prime minister, at an electric store...

Tourists go for a gondola ride by the 16th-century stone arch Rialto Bridge at the Grand Canal in Venice on September 7, 2021, within a ceremony after the bridge underwent major restoration. (Photo by Marco Bertorello/AFP Photo) Patchwork panels entitled “Bridges, Not Walls” by artist Luke Jerram cover Llangollen Bridge...