The Miss Talavera Bruce pageant is your average beauty contest, with the addition of armed guards, watchtowers and walls topped with barbed wire.
The northern hemisphere experiences first snowfall of the season, while Australia is in the grip of a heatwave.
Toxic mud from a collapsed iron mine dam has reached the Atlantic Ocean, killing fish and threatening endangered turtles.
Soldiers patrol the eerily quiet streets of Brussels, normally bustling in the run-up to Christmas.
People barred from crossing the Greece-Macedonia border protest against a policy of prioritising Syrian refugees over migrants from other countries.
Reclaim Australia rallies across the country descend into violence as anti-racism groups clash with far-right protesters.
Italian police document tattered possessions of migrants and refugees who died crossing the Mediterranean sea.
IBTimes UK presents some of the hottest cars at this year's Los Angeles Auto Show.
Desperately sad images show why Syrians are fleeing their country to find somewhere safe for their families.
Protesters attempt to disrupt APEC Summit in Manila, attended by world leaders.
An underwater photo of tadpoles silhouetted against the sky has won a science photography competition.
The Pentagon plans to expand combat air patrols flights by drones, or remotely piloted aircraft.
Photos of Hindu devotees making offerings to the sun god in rivers across India and Nepal.
Paris pays tribute to the victims of the deadliest assault on French soil since the Second World War.
The air strikes that helped to liberate the Yazidi town of Sinjar have reduced it rubble.
With just a few weeks left to enter the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards, we present a selection of early submissions.
Newcomers to the saga are Jessica Chastain as the Warrior Sara and Emily Blunt is the Ice Queen Freya.
After the downing of a Russian plane in Egypt and suicide bombings in Lebanon and Turkey, the Paris attacks signalled the group's global ambitions.
Eye-witnesses and local media have posted photos and videos from the scene as the 'nightmare' in Paris unfolds.
Kurdish peshmerga forces, backed by US air strikes seize the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State (IS).
A destructive wave of viscous red mud has all but erased the village of Bento Rodrigues.
Refugees and migrants cross Norway's border with Russia despite being inhospitable, cold and – very soon – permanently dark.
Violent clashes briefly broke out between police and demonstrators in Athens during a general strike.
US-led coalition air strikes pound Isis-held areas of Sinjar as around 7,500 fighters advance on the ground.
Diwali is celebrated by millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains around the world.
Reuters photographer Maxim Zmeyev records the lives of the few people who remain in remote snow-covered villages.
Victoria's Secret held its 20th annual fashion show in New York, featuring 47 models wearing barely-there lingerie.
Water from the flood in 10 November 1985 has receded revealing a lost Argentinian spa town.
The jury has narrowed down more than 42,000 entries to a shortlist of 25 images. Which one captures your imagination?
An expectant nation awaits victory for Suu Kyi and the weakening of the military-backed regime.