Huge rise in migrants trying to reach EU via Balkans instead of crossing Mediterranean [Photo report]
Migrants are trying to walk to western Europe by crossing into Serbia from Macedonia and Kosovo.
Please give us water: The desperate cries of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants adrift on boat turned away from Thailand [Photo report]
A wooden fishing boat carrying an estimated 400 migrants is adrift off the island of Koh Lipe.
Paulette Tavormina's sumptuous photos inspired by 17th Century Old Masters go on show in London
Paulette Tavormina's meticulously arranged photos look like still life paintings by the Old Masters.
Nepal: Buildings lean precariously in aftermath of second earthquake [Photo report]
The second earthquake brought down some buildings that were already fragile.
Philippines footwear factory fire: Bars on windows trapped workers on second floor [Photo report]
Police to open criminal investigation after reports that workers were trapped by bars on windows of factory.
Burundi coup: Celebrations in Bujumbura as general says he has deposed President Nkurunziza [Photos]
Photos of crowds celebrating after a general announced he had deposed President Pierre Nkurunziza.
Burundi: Terrifying mob attack on policewoman - photo essay by award-winning Goran Tomasevic
Goran Tomasevic talks about his photos of protesters attacking a female police officer in Bujumbura.
Shocking photos show the filthy conditions on boats used to transport Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants
Inside two filthy wooden fishing boats used to traffic Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants.
Isle Landers: What happens to migrants after crossing the Mediterranean to Malta? [Photo report]
Darrin Zammit Lupi's powerful photos of rescues at sea and life in detention camps in Malta.
Burundi protest photos: Bizarre masks, dead birds and faces covered in soot
Protesters wearing bizarre masks demonstrate against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term.
Gaza: Child conceived from a Palestinian jihadi's sperm smuggled out of Israeli jail [Photo report]
Hana al-Za'anin became pregnant using her husband's sperm smuggled out of an Israeli jail.
South-east Asia migrant crisis: Mass graves in Thailand and 6,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshis stranded at sea [Photo report]
An estimated 6,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are trapped in crowded, wooden boats.
Nigeria: Inside the towns recaptured from Boko Haram [Photo report]
Akintunde Akinleye photographed former Boko Haram strongholds in north-eastern Nigeria.
Macedonia: Terrorists from Kosovo blamed for Kumanovo gun battle, but residents are sceptical
Kumanovo's residents are deeply sceptical of claims that Kosovan terrorists were behind the attacks.
Portraits of Soviet WW2 veterans on the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany
Portraits of Second World War veterans from each of the 15 former Soviet republics.
Election 2015: A good night for Conservatives and SNP, disaster for Labour and LibDems [Photos]
David Cameron is set for a second term as prime minister, but Miliband and Clegg are poised to resign.
Nepal earthquake: Hundreds of people, many foreigners, buried in avalanche-hit village [Photo report]
Up to 300 people, many of them foreigners, are believed to have been buried by an avalanche in Langtang.
Election 2015: British democracy seen through lens of Washington photographer Chip Somodevilla
Award-winning American photojournalist Chip Somodevilla sees the UK election through the prism of a Washington lens.
VE Day 70th anniversary: A look at Germany's surrender in 1945 and the end of WW2 [Graphic images]
On 7 May 1945, Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, to take effect the following day, ending the second world war in Europe.
Burundi crisis: President Nkurunziza third term bid raises fears of civil war and genocide [Photo report]
Angry protests have plunged Burundi into its worst crisis since the 1993-2005 war.
Nepal earthquake: Moments of beauty in the rubble of Kathmandu [Photo report]
Getty Images photographers Chris McGrath and David Ramos capture people trying to rebuild their lives in the rubble of Kathmandu.
Boko Haram Nigeria: Women rescued from Islamist extremists tell of the horrors of captivity [Photo report]
Women rescued from Boko Haram's forest stronghold have been telling of the horrors they faced in captivity.
Mediterranean migrant crisis: Baby girl born on Italian navy ship as nearly 7,000 rescued in one weekend [Photo report]
A baby girl was born after her mother went into labour while being rescued from a boat in the Mediterranean.
Milan Expo 2015: May Day protesters torch cars and throw Molotov cocktails at police [Photo report]
Demonstrators torched cars and smashed bank windows during a protest against the opening of Milan's Expo 2015.
Istanbul May Day 2015: Tear gas, water cannon and petrol bombs as protesters battle for Taksim Square
Thousands of police manned barricades and closed streets to stop demonstrations at Taksim.
Berlin then and now: Photographer recreates photos taken as Soviet troops entered Hitler's capital in 1945
Photographer recreates photos taken as the Soviet army entered Hitler's shattered capital in 1945.
Nepal earthquake: Aerial photos of devastated villages clinging to remote terraced hillsides
People in remote regions of Nepal have had to walk 20 miles or more over mountainous paths to get help.
Ukraine: Bulent Kilic wins major photography award for dramatic Kiev revolution photos
AFP photographer Bülent Kiliç wins The John Faber Award for his series on the anti-government protests in Kiev.
Kurdish women fighters wage war on Islamic State in Iraq [Photo report]
Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih documents women Kurdish fighters on Mount Sinjar in Iraq.
Nepal earthquake rescues: Survivors pulled out of rubble in Kathmandu and Bhaktapur [Graphic images]
A teenager has been rescued from the rubble of a hotel in Kathmandu, five days after the earthquake.
