Nominees include a wheelchair that can climb stairs, the world's first translating earpiece, ink made from air pollution, and a robot that carries your stuff while rolling along behind you like R2-D2.
David Sim
Aug 16, 2017
The colours of the Indian flag were projected onto buildings and painted on the faces of children across the nation of 1.3 billion people.
David Sim
Aug 15, 2017
Thousands of fans have shrines to Presley in their homes and consider visits to Graceland a pilgrimage.
David Sim
Aug 15, 2017
Rail operators expected to hike fares by 3.5%, as trade unions complain of poor service for money.
Dan Cancian
Aug 15, 2017
More than 100 hot air balloons took to the skies over Bristol as dawn broke for the start of the 39th International Balloon Fiesta.
David Sim
Aug 11, 2017
The origins of Puck Fair are unclear, but it dates back at least 400 years.
David Sim
Aug 11, 2017
As we reach the 70th anniversary of partition, relations between the two nations are as broken as ever.
David Sim
Aug 11, 2017
Many of the images he took as a 22-year-old aspiring photographer lay forgotten until a history student chanced across them in 2011.
David Sim
Aug 10, 2017
AFP photographer Ed Jones is one of the few Western journalists allowed to enter North Korea on a regular basis.
David Sim
Aug 09, 2017
When the quake hit, the performers ran off the stage in terror and the audience thought the tremor was part of the show.
David Sim
Aug 09, 2017
The British Life Photography Awards, celebrating the diversity of life in Britain, are open to amateur and professional photographers of all ages.
David Sim
Aug 08, 2017
Voters formed long lines at many polling stations before dawn, waiting for their chance to cast ballots in the tightly contested race.
David Sim
Aug 08, 2017
The Yi have retained their language and traditions in a rapidly modernising country, but are among the poorest people in China.
David Sim
Aug 07, 2017
At least 53 people have lost their lives after parts of southeast Asia were inundated by flooding.
David Sim
Aug 07, 2017
Thai artists carve intricate floral and animal designs into a range of fruits and vegetables including watermelon, papaya and pumpkins.
David Sim
Aug 04, 2017
There are plans to rebuild Aleppo's great medieval mosques, souks, bath houses and citadel "with the same stones where we can".
David Sim
Aug 04, 2017
British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet urge passengers to get to airports well in advance not to miss their flights.
Dan Cancian
Aug 04, 2017
So many Haitian asylum seekers have arrived Quebec that Montreal has opened up its cavernous Olympic Stadium to house and process them.
David Sim
Aug 04, 2017
A heatwave is currently extending across the continent, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees in some areas.
David Sim
Aug 03, 2017
Mount Sinabung erupts again, spewing out a towering column of volcanic ash more than four kilometres (2.6 miles) high.
David Sim
Aug 03, 2017
A photograph of a lightning bolt striking within the ash cloud of an erupting volcano has won the 2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year contest.
David Sim
Aug 01, 2017
London City Airport security staff remove an average of four jars a day of the love-it-or-hate-it savoury spread.
Roger Baird
Jul 31, 2017
Grayling says Britain will be ready to implement new agreements with the US after it leaves the block.
Dan Cancian
Jul 28, 2017
The judges of the 2017 EyeEm Photography Awards have chosen 100 finalists from more than 590,000 entries.
David Sim
Jul 27, 2017
IAG and industry bodies have warned expansion could result in sharp increase in landing charges.
Dan Cancian
Jul 27, 2017
Hidden away within the walls of Tower of London is a private drinking hole for the 37 Beefeaters who live with their families in the fortified complex.
David Sim
Jul 27, 2017
Fires have ravaged tinder-dry vegetation in France, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Croatia and Montenegro and across southern Europe.
David Sim
Jul 26, 2017
Some of the most spectacular pictures entered into the 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
David Sim
Jul 26, 2017
More than ten villages in central Portugal have been evacuated as forest fires rage in the provinces of Castelo Branco and Santarem.
David Sim
Jul 26, 2017
Four firefighters have been injured as wildfires rage along the French Riviera and on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
David Sim
Jul 25, 2017