Travel pictures

For four nights, London's dark streets are being lit up by more than 50 light-based artworks across the city as part of the Lumiere arts festival.

David Sim Jan 19, 2018

Activists on the 1,600-hectare site near the village of Notre Dame des Landes say they have developed it into a utopia.

David Sim Jan 18, 2018

The once-isolated Himalayan kingdom is changing, and bringing the modern world's problems in its wake.

David Sim Jan 18, 2018

Every year on the night of 17 January, horses are ridden through huge flames and clouds of smoke on the streets of the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares.

David Sim Jan 17, 2018

Devotees squeezed their way into the tightly packed mob and climbed on others in a desperate attempt to reach the carriage carrying the Black Nazarene through Manila.

David Sim Jan 09, 2018

Orthodox Christians in Russia, Greece, Ethiopia and other countries around the world celebrated Christmas Day yesterday (Sunday 7 January).

David Sim Jan 08, 2018

Today's RMT strike means some commuters face a denuded service, but London Underground was totally pants over the weekend.

David Sim Jan 08, 2018

The 34th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, in China's far northeastern Heilongjiang Province, has opened.

David Sim Jan 05, 2018

Children as young as three spend their days sitting in soot and breathing in coal dust and toxic smoke to make charcoal out of wood scavenged from rubbish dumps.

David Sim Jan 05, 2018

After battering Britain and Ireland, Storm Eleanor slammed into western Europe, derailing trains, toppling trees and halting flights.

David Sim Jan 04, 2018

Extreme cold weather has caused parts of the Niagara Falls to freeze as a massive winter storm, followed by possible record-breaking cold, moves up the eastern US.

David Sim Jan 04, 2018

Flach's new book, Endangered, features over 180 images of remarkable animals such as the mandrill and the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.

David Sim Jan 03, 2018

The bone-chillingly cold temperatures have frozen parts of Niagara Falls and caused a mile-long pile-up on Interstate 90 near Buffalo, New York.

David Sim Jan 03, 2018

Photographs show the extent of the fire at 1 Above Rooftop, with the entire Kamala Mills complex reduced to a blackened shell of twisted wreckage.

David Sim Dec 29, 2017

A reveller dressed as former Catalan president Charles Puigdemont was pelted with flour and eggs, and then the battered separatist was locked up up in a mock prison cell.

David Sim Dec 28, 2017

Award-winning wildlife, landscape, travel and news photography from around the world.

David Sim Dec 21, 2017

Australian photojournalist Ted McDonnell documents life in Happyland, a ramshackle collection of shelters built around a rubbish dump outside Manila.

David Sim Dec 14, 2017

Stunning wildlife, aerial, landscape and underwater photos in National Geographic's Nature Photographer of the Year contest.

David Sim Dec 13, 2017

The Art of Building photography competition finalists include an atmospheric French theatre and a bell tower that looks like an eye.

David Sim Dec 12, 2017

At least four major southern California wildfires have prompted the evacuation of about 200,000 people and destroyed hundreds of homes and buildings.

David Sim Dec 07, 2017

The town of Nueva Fuerabamba in Peru's southern Andes was built to house around 1,600 people who gave up their rural village to make room for a massive, open-pit copper mine

David Sim Dec 07, 2017

The Sony World Photography Awards is one of the world's biggest, most prestigious photography competitions, with a big cash prize and a hugely popular annual exhibition. And it's free to enter.

David Sim Dec 05, 2017

AFP photographer Ed Jones captures the harsh realities of life in the poverty-stricken rural villages along North Korea's eastern coast.

David Sim Dec 01, 2017

Britain's best Christmas lights and festive attractions, from laser shows at Kew Gardens and the Eden Project, to Dickens-themed attractions at Windsor Castle and Chatsworth House.

David Sim Nov 30, 2017

A new book, Masters of Landscape Photography, looks at 16 leading exponents of the genre, each with their own unique take on how, where and why to capture landscapes.

David Sim Nov 29, 2017

Subjects at the General Yermolov Cadet School in southern Russia include handling firearms, disarming landmines, forest survival training and learning Morse code.

David Sim Nov 28, 2017

Volcanologists say the volcano has entered a new phase with magma now visible at Agung's peak, meaning a greater risk of a larger eruption.

David Sim Nov 27, 2017

At least two died in the explosion, which brought down buildings, shattered windows and punched holes in the walls of properties nearly a mile away.

David Sim Nov 27, 2017

Balloons at Macy's 91st annual Thanksgiving Day parade in new York included the Pillsbury Dough Boy, Pikachu, Charlie Brown, Power Rangers, Scrat from The Ice Age and Olaf from Frozen.

David Sim Nov 23, 2017

Photographers around the world are invited to submit their work in any or all of four categories: Wildlife, Landscape, Underwater and Aerial.

David Sim Nov 16, 2017