A 220-year-old time capsule left by US founding fathers Samuel Adams and Paul Revere is opened.
When Randall Park Mall opened in 1976, it was the world's largest shopping centre.
Christians celebrate Epiphany – when the Three Kings arrived in Bethlehem to give Jesus gifts.
Dogs destined for South Korean dinner tables are being put up for adoption as pets in the US.
Lucas Jackson captures the eerie beauty of deserted areas of the US Army base at Bagram Airfield.
Every winter, a magical city made of ice glows brightly in China's Heilongjiang province.
These photos show the daily lives of members of the all-female Mother Aisha battalion in Aleppo.
A huge fire destroys nearly a thousand homes and kills at least three people in Manila.
Residents and tourists have come to lay flowers at the site of the stampede in Shanghai.
Bodies recovered from the crashed AirAsia plane are identified and returned to their families.
A body recovered from the plane was wearing a life jacket, raising questions about what happened.
Winners of some of the year's biggest photography competitions.
At least 24 people killed in Malaysia and Thailand in the worst flooding for more than a decade.
Residents of the Spanish town of Ibi stage a mock coup, pelting each other with flour and eggs.
More than 160 people remain trapped on the smoke-filled vessel adrift in rough seas.
After 61 years, the US and Cuba are attempting to normalise relations. But it will be struggle for both countries
Mandy Rice-Davies, Julie Gayet, Monica Lewinsky were involved affair scandals with politicians.
Prince Harry turns photographer as he visits Lesotho to see work of charity Sentebale.
The vintage American automobiles in Havana are one of the most visible signs of the trade embargo.
A photo of a woman spotlit by the glow of her phone wins the 2014 National Geographic Photo Contest.
The first photographs of the school in Peshawar where the Taliban launched an attack.
Brazilian military police have evicted hundreds of families from an abandoned factory.
Photographers return to some of the worst hit sites in Indonesia and Thailand to see how they have recovered from the tsunami.
Wounded children are rushed to a hospital after Taliban gunmen took hundreds of hostages.
Once a small farming community, Dong Xiao Kou village is now little more than a huge rubbish tip.
Federal police and bystanders injured as a car is driven into them in Chilpancingo, Guerrero state.
AFP photographer Adrian Dennis dons waders and joins workers clearing fatbergs in London sewers.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong adopt the three-fingered salute from The Hunger Games.
Parents arrange marriages for their adolescent daughters without discussing it with them.
Reuters photojournalist David Gray documents the lives of Aboriginal crocodile hunters.