Best Picture Galleries of 2016

Every day, thousands of families are forced to flee war and violence, leaving everything behind – except their hopes and dreams for a safer future.

The park serves as a garden, gym, dance floor, rehearsal studio, prayer venue and place to socialise with friends and loved ones.

On 10 June 2016, Prince Philip turned 95, making him both the longest-serving spouse of a reigning British monarch and the oldest male British royal of all time.

Over 16,000 personal items belonging to the victims of the Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, are being returned to the Auschwitz museum memorial.

The world's biggest gathering of its kind, the Cumbria-based fair is expected to attract about 5,000 travellers and thousands of visitors.

At 8:15am on 6 August 1945, a 4,400kg nuclear bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 Superfortress bomber, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets.

The Best of Russia contest attracts thousands of entries from amateur and professional photographers across the country.

The European Union deal with Turkey has affected the flow of people who have been able to reach Greece.

Shelter Dogs in a Photo Booth features pictures of 100 dogs by Guinnevere Shuster, each accompanied by a short story about the dog's personality and history.

The exhibition explores daily life 90 years ago, revealing some intriguing similarities and some inevitable contrasts.

Harmony of the Seas is 361m long – 37m longer than the Eiffel Tower and more than three times the length of the Elizabeth Tower in London.

Now in its 69th year, the festival is the most dazzling events in the entertainment calendar.

Fascinating photos captured in the early years of the 20th Century by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, a photographer and chemist known for his pioneering work in colour photography.

The Grande Hotel da Beira was once the largest and most luxurious hotel on the African continent.

Photos show scenes of utter devastation, with homes levelled to the ground and street after street reduced to nothing more than blackened foundations.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the bombing campaign, IBTimes UK presents composite images showing bombed areas of London during the Blitz, merged with the same scenes today.

Award-winning photographer Kevin Frayer travelled to Cangshan in Sichuan province to watch the Jinyuan Opera Company perform.

Here at IBTimesUK, we've rounded up some of the funniest photos of the outgoing (in more ways than one) Mayor of London.

Incredibly detailed images of jewel-like insects reveal the beautiful, surprising, and often downright bizarre sculptural forms of some of the tiniest creatures on Earth.

Reuters photojournalist Gleb Garanich photographed the survivors as they visited the ghost town and the dusty derelict flats there that were once home.

Soviet authorities drafted hundreds of thousands of workers to assist with clean-up operations at the plant and in the surrounding areas

Iranian photojournalist Asghar Khamseh won the L'Iris d'Or Photographer of the Year for his powerful portraits of acid attack victims.

Iranian photographer Asghar Khamseh has been named L'Iris d'Or Photographer of the Year in the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards.

Dozens of tunnels have been found along the US-Mexico border in recent years, mostly in California and Arizona.

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-serving monarch, turned 90 on Thursday 21 April 2016.

The Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography has been jointly won by Reuters and The New York Times for images of the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East.

IBTimes UK presents a round-up of the best photos of the bands, the fans and the installations at the first weekend of Coachella 2016.

The Feria de Abril (April Fair) is in full swing as revellers flock to Seville to celebrate Andalusian culture.

IBTimes UK presents a gallery of Bhutan's phallic murals (they may be spiritual, but they're also probably NSFW).

The Marathon des Sables needs 120,000 litres of mineral water, 300 tents, 57 medical staff, 6.5km of plasters, 6,000 painkillers ... and a touch of madness.