Best Picture Galleries of 2016

The accident was a result of a mismanaged test at the Soviet nuclear plant, leaving clouds of nuclear matter spreading across the western USSR and Europe.

Alex Wheeler Apr 08, 2016

Over the course of 100 days in 1994, between 7 April and mid-July, up to a million people were killed in Rwanda, in a mass slaughter unparalleled in modern history.

David Sim Apr 07, 2016

Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, populations of some wildlife – such as wolf, elk and boar – are booming in the vast exclusion zone around the former reactor.

David Sim Apr 06, 2016

The tower opened on 31 March 1889, in time for the Exposition Universelle, of which the Eiffel Tower was the entrance.

Alex Wheeler Mar 31, 2016

Photographer Colin Garrett has shared his unique series of photographs of scarecrows that he took during his travels in the 1980s.

Alex Wheeler Mar 30, 2016

The winners of the Open and Youth sections of the 2016 Sony World Photography Awards have been announced.

David Sim Mar 29, 2016

In July 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the eastern Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica, which was a designated UN safe haven.

David Sim Mar 24, 2016

In this gallery, IBTimesUK looks at Holy Week processions in several cities around Spain.

David Sim Mar 24, 2016

Getty photojournalist David Ramos takes a look at the daily life of British expats and pensioners living in Spain.

David Sim Mar 24, 2016

IBTimes UK looks back at key events in the life of Fidel Castro and the relationship between the former Cold War foes.

David Sim Mar 22, 2016

Ten percent of the world's population do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.

David Sim Mar 20, 2016

AFP photojournalist Olivier Morin spent 10 days photographing surfers in the freezing water off the Lofoten archipelago, and was rewarded with several sightings of the northern lights (aurora borealis).

David Sim Mar 18, 2016

Hundreds have drowned trying to make it across the narrow stretch of the Aegean separating the island from Turkey.

Alex Wheeler Mar 11, 2016

Launched in 1959 by entrepreneur and inventor Ruth Handler, Barbie became one of the most iconic children's dolls of the 20th century.

Alex Wheeler Mar 10, 2016

A museum in the French capital is staging a huge exhibition paying tribute to an American style icon who has been at the forefront of fashion for nearly six decades: Barbie.

David Sim Mar 10, 2016

In this IBTimes UK gallery, AFP photographer Fred Dufour peers behind the curtain into the shadowy world of Chinese politics.

David Sim Mar 09, 2016

At 2.46pm on 11 March 2011, Japan was struck by an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 – the biggest in the nation's recorded history and one of the five most powerful recorded ever around the world.

David Sim Mar 08, 2016

When it comes to the city with the world's most beautiful metro system, there's a clear winner: Moscow.

David Sim Mar 07, 2016

Tight border patrols and tough new Hungarian laws punishing illegal entry and border fence vandalism slowed down the amount of refugees allowed through the borders.

Alex Wheeler Mar 07, 2016

Josef Schulz, a Polish-born photographer based in Germany, travelled around Europe to document disused border posts and checkpoints.

David Sim Mar 04, 2016

Homes have enormous holes blasted into their walls, ceilings have collapsed, windows are shattered and doors are hanging on their hinges.

David Sim Mar 02, 2016

The billionaire tycoon's chances of clinching the US Republican presidential nomination are looking more likely than ever.

Alex Wheeler Mar 01, 2016

Richard Tuschman's series Once Upon a Time In Kazimierz depicts a fictional Jewish family living in 1930s Poland.

David Sim Feb 26, 2016

The Syrian conflict has been going on for five years, killing more than 250,000 people and displacing millions.

David Sim Feb 26, 2016

Guantanamo Bay was opened with the intention to detain extraordinary, dangerous people, to integrate them in an optimal setting and to prosecute them for war crimes.

Alex Wheeler Feb 25, 2016

A river of rubbish snakes through Beirut's northern suburbs, and vast mountains of trash surround the Lebanese capital.

David Sim Feb 24, 2016

A moonlit image of refugees crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary has been selected as the World Press photo of the year.

David Sim Feb 18, 2016

The fierce battle to topple Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi began with anti-government protests in the eastern city of Benghazi, and a "day of rage" on 17 February 2011.

David Sim Feb 17, 2016

Photographer David Ramos travelled around Sweden to document the daily lives of people stuck in no-man's land during the cold Scandinavian winter.

David Sim Feb 17, 2016

The dolls are thought to invite benevolent spirits to possess them, with the hope that they will bring good luck, wealth and protection from harm.

Alex Wheeler Jan 27, 2016