Travel pictures

The overnight deluge hit the industrial towns of Nea Peramos and Mandra, about 27km (17 miles) west of Athens, trapping dozens of people in their homes or cars.

Using high-resolution cameras mounted to a stabilising gyro, Jeffrey Milstein leaned out of helicopters over Los Angeles and New York to capture dazzling aerial photos of each city.

A new book – I See a City: Todd Webb's New York – presents American photographer Todd Webb's exploration of New York in the years following World War II.

Award-winning photographer and zoologist Axel Gomille pays homage to the subcontinent's overwhelmingly spectacular natural heritage in his book Wild India.

The Waiapi live deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. Their way of life is closer to the Stone Age than the 21st century. Yet the modern world is barely a few hours' drive away, and getting closer.

Raisin Monday is the culmination of Raisin Weekend – an alcohol-fuelled rite of passage for new students at St Andrew's University in Scotland.

One person died in the fire which ripped through the traditional Burmese-style teak Kandawgyi Palace Hotel in Yangon before dawn.

Vanuatu, home to about 260,000 people, is made up of about 65 islands on the geologically active Pacific Ring of Fire.

Organisers estimate that Oktoberfest's seven million visitors will drink a similar number of litres of beer.

After the popular and critical success of his first book, Soviet Bus Stops, Herwig has returned to the former Soviet Union to hunt for more.

The stock includes a variety of period costumes such as doublets, cloaks, helmets, uniforms, codpieces and bum rolls.

Britain's Defence Minister Michael Fallon said his government's effort was "as good as anybody else's". But is it?

A snarling tiger cub, playful brown bears and a tiny seahorse clinging to a cotton bud are among the beautiful photos on this year's shortlist.

With communication cut to some of the Florida Keys, many are holding their breath for what daylight might reveal.

Seawater penetrated as much as half a kilometre (one-third of a mile) inland in places.

Smashed hotels, boats tossed into piles, and flooded streets and homes on Sint Maarten, the Dutch side of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.

Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history, barrels across the Caribbean en route to Florida.

Photos of Burning Man's art installations, temples and mutant vehicles in desert dust storms look like surrealist paintings by Salvador Dali.

This year's Burning Man festival in the middle of the Black Rock Desert of Nevada is expected to be the hottest ever.

The sounds of steel bands made London feel more exotic for a couple of days. Even the weather this year was tropical.

Berlin's huge Tiergarten park is crawling with a species of crayfish native to America's Deep South.

Russian photographer Denis Esakov presents Moscow from a different perspective – from above.

People are abandoning their villages and moving to cities, leaving only the elderly behind in crumbling houses.

The popular Italian tourist island of Ischia off the coast of Naples was hit by an earthquake, killing at least two people and injuring dozens.

The Elizabeth Tower, completed in 1859, is showing its age. The masonry is chipped and crumbling, and the clock faces are disintegrating.

Millions of Americans armed with protective glasses have staked out their positions for what should be the most observed and photographed eclipse in history.

The Palio di Siena has been held in the Piazza del Campo in the centre of the medieval town, twice a year, almost without fail since 1656.

More than 100 hot air balloons took to the skies over Bristol as dawn broke for the start of the 39th International Balloon Fiesta.

The origins of Puck Fair are unclear, but it dates back at least 400 years.

AFP photographer Ed Jones is one of the few Western journalists allowed to enter North Korea on a regular basis.