Photos of the battle for Raqqa, where the jihadists' last strongholds are a hospital and stadium, with hostages in both.
David Sim Oct 03, 2017
The holiest day in the Shia calendar is observed on the 10th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic year, to mourn the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
David Sim Oct 02, 2017
Tate Modern's new Turbine Hall installation should attract huge crowds keen to lie on the floor again, just as Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project did back in 2003.
David Sim Oct 02, 2017
David Becker, a photojournalist covering the country music festival in Las Vegas for Getty Images, braved machine gun fire to take photos of the mass shooting.
David Sim Oct 02, 2017
Barcelona partied into the night after provisional results of Catalonia's independence referendum indicated that 90% of voters had voted 'Yes'.
David Sim Oct 02, 2017
Spain's deputy prime minister praised the actions of Spanish police in cracking down on Catalonia's independence referendum.
David Sim Oct 01, 2017
The week's best photos, from Rohingya refugees and Mexico City earthquake, to Invictus Games, battle for Raqqa and Take a Knee protests.
David Sim Sep 29, 2017
The RPS has named four award winners in its 160th International Photography Exhibition, the world's longest running photographic exhibition.
David Sim Sep 29, 2017
The US territory of 3.4 million people has struggled through nine days with virtually no electricity and shortages of fuel and clean water in the wake of the most powerful storm to hit the island in nearly 90 years.
David Sim Sep 29, 2017
Catalonia's interior minister says the region's authorities are aiming to ensure that the disputed referendum will take place peacefully.
David Sim Sep 28, 2017
Vanuatu, home to about 260,000 people, is made up of about 65 islands on the geologically active Pacific Ring of Fire.
David Sim Sep 28, 2017
Reporters have finally been allowed to venture into Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, formerly home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled into Bangladesh.
David Sim Sep 28, 2017
Syrian Democratic Forces have seized 80 to 90 percent of the city and have hemmed the jihadists into a few districts in the north of the city.
David Sim Sep 27, 2017
Archaeologists found the remains of nine men, all between the ages of 25 and 30, who were sacrificed as part of a Sican ritual.
David Sim Sep 27, 2017
The number of refugees arriving in Bangladesh since 25 August has been estimated at 480,000 – 60% of them children.
David Sim Sep 26, 2017
Bali is being shaken daily by hundreds of tremors from the mountain, which volcanologists say indicates a high chance of an eruption.
David Sim Sep 26, 2017
The 2018 Sony World Photography Awards, one of the world's leading photography competitions, are now open for entries.
David Sim Sep 26, 2017
The storm-battered US island territory has struggled through days with virtually no electricity, and more misery could be on the way thanks to a dam that might fail at any moment.
David Sim Sep 25, 2017
Young Rohingya refugees' drawings are filled with traumatic scenes such as people being shot or burned alive by the military.
David Sim Sep 25, 2017
At least 200 NFL players knelt, sat, prayed or raised a clenched fist during the Star Spangled Banner. Three teams didn't even take the field until the national anthem was over.
David Sim Sep 25, 2017
The fighting in Marawi is so intense that it took soldiers a whole week just to cross one street in the embattled city.
David Sim Sep 25, 2017
Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico as the strongest storm to hit the US territory in nearly 90 years, even stronger than Irma.
David Sim Sep 21, 2017
Spain has cancelled all time off for police in Catalonia as tensions rise ahead of a planned referendum on the region's independence.
David Sim Sep 20, 2017
The Boxing Gogos (Boxing Grannies) don their gloves for twice-weekly training sessions at the A Team Gym in Cosmo City in Johannesburg.
David Sim Sep 20, 2017
Desperate parents join police, firefighters and volunteers as they work through the night in a frantic search for dozens of young children feared buried under a Mexico City school.
David Sim Sep 20, 2017
A family with a tiny baby living in a concrete pipe, and another family burying a 70-year-old woman who died just days after they'd carried her all the way from Myanmar.
David Sim Sep 19, 2017
Organisers estimate that Oktoberfest's seven million visitors will drink a similar number of litres of beer.
David Sim Sep 18, 2017
Over a 40-year career, Martin Parr has used humorous details to highlight a sense of hopelessness in British society.
David Sim Sep 18, 2017
The week's best photos from around the world, from Hurricane Irma and Mexico earthquake to the Rohingya crisis and Australia's same-sex marriage vote.
David Sim Sep 15, 2017
Spectacular space images from the winners of the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 competition.
David Sim Sep 15, 2017
