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Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
1/38Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
Displaced Iraqis arrive at refugee camp on October 22, 2016 in the town of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, as an operation to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group takes place. Picture: AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
2/38Displaced Iraqis arrive at refugee camp on October 22, 2016 in the town of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, as an operation to recapture the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group takes place. Picture: AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
A general view taken on March 31, 2016 shows a photographer holding his picture of the Temple of Bel taken on March 14, 2014 in front of the remains of the historic temple after it was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in September 2015 in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Picture: AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID
3/38A general view taken on March 31, 2016 shows a photographer holding his picture of the Temple of Bel taken on March 14, 2014 in front of the remains of the historic temple after it was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists in September 2015 in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Picture: AFP PHOTO / JOSEPH EID
A woman holds a banner during a protest in support of the Black lives matter movement in New York on July 09, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR
4/38A woman holds a banner during a protest in support of the Black lives matter movement in New York on July 09, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR
Newly displaced Iraqi’s who fled from the city of Mosul, Iraq’s last major Islamic State (IS) group stronghold, are reunited with their relatives who came two years ago to the refugee camp in the Khazir area, near near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aksi Kalak, some 40 kilometres east of Arbil following their arrival on October 26, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
5/38Newly displaced Iraqi’s who fled from the city of Mosul, Iraq’s last major Islamic State (IS) group stronghold, are reunited with their relatives who came two years ago to the refugee camp in the Khazir area, near near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aksi Kalak, some 40 kilometres east of Arbil following their arrival on October 26, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
Naked volunteers, painted in blue to reflect the colours found in Marine paintings in Hull’s Ferens Art Gallery, participate in US artist, Spencer Tunick’s “Sea of Hull” installation in Kingston upon Hull on July 9, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / JON SUPER
6/38Naked volunteers, painted in blue to reflect the colours found in Marine paintings in Hull’s Ferens Art Gallery, participate in US artist, Spencer Tunick’s “Sea of Hull” installation in Kingston upon Hull on July 9, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / JON SUPER
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content: The dead body of an alleged drug dealer lies on the ground on a street in Manila on July 12, 2016. The Philippine government’s top lawyer on July 11 called for police to kill more suspected drug criminals, as he defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on crime against mounting criticism. Picture: AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS
7/38EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content: The dead body of an alleged drug dealer lies on the ground on a street in Manila on July 12, 2016. The Philippine government’s top lawyer on July 11 called for police to kill more suspected drug criminals, as he defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on crime against mounting criticism. Picture: AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS
Outgoing British prime minister David Cameron speaks beside (L-R) his daughter Nancy Gwen, daughter Florence Rose Endellion, his wife Samantha Cameron and son Arthur Elwen outside 10 Downing Street in central London on July 13, 2016 before going to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. Picture: AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF
8/38Outgoing British prime minister David Cameron speaks beside (L-R) his daughter Nancy Gwen, daughter Florence Rose Endellion, his wife Samantha Cameron and son Arthur Elwen outside 10 Downing Street in central London on July 13, 2016 before going to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. Picture: AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF
People take over a tank near the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge during clashes with military forces in Istanbul on July 16, 2016. Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus, the strait separating the European and Asian sides of the city, have been closed to traffic. Picture: AFP PHOTO / GURCAN OZTURK
9/38People take over a tank near the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge during clashes with military forces in Istanbul on July 16, 2016. Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus, the strait separating the European and Asian sides of the city, have been closed to traffic. Picture: AFP PHOTO / GURCAN OZTURK
Women react during the funeral of a victim of the failed July 15 coup attempt in Istanbul on July 17, 2016. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Sunday to purge the “virus” within state bodies, during a speech at the funeral of victims killed during the coup bid he blames on his enemy Fethullah Gulen. Picture: AFP PHOTO / GURCAN OZTURK
10/38Women react during the funeral of a victim of the failed July 15 coup attempt in Istanbul on July 17, 2016. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Sunday to purge the “virus” within state bodies, during a speech at the funeral of victims killed during the coup bid he blames on his enemy Fethullah Gulen. Picture: AFP PHOTO / GURCAN OZTURK
A picture taken on October 28, 2016 shows the body of a Syrian child wrapped in shrouds at a make-shift morgue following government shelling on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Abd Doumany
11/38A picture taken on October 28, 2016 shows the body of a Syrian child wrapped in shrouds at a make-shift morgue following government shelling on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Abd Doumany
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a concession speech after being defeated by Republican President-elect Donald Trump, as former President Bill Clinton looks on in New York on November 9, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / JEWEL SAMAD
12/38US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a concession speech after being defeated by Republican President-elect Donald Trump, as former President Bill Clinton looks on in New York on November 9, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / JEWEL SAMAD
In this photo taken on July 21, 2016 inmates sleep on the steps of a ladder inside the Quezon City jail at night in Manila. There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space. Picture: AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS
13/38In this photo taken on July 21, 2016 inmates sleep on the steps of a ladder inside the Quezon City jail at night in Manila. There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space. Picture: AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS
A Gabonese woman takes cover protecting her mouth from the tear gas as supporters of opposition leader Jean Ping protest, trying to reach the electoral commission, in Libreville on August 31, 2016.Picture: AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
14/38A Gabonese woman takes cover protecting her mouth from the tear gas as supporters of opposition leader Jean Ping protest, trying to reach the electoral commission, in Libreville on August 31, 2016.Picture: AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
A specialist fumigates the Nueva Esperanza graveyard in the outskirts of Lima on January 15, 2016. Health officials fumigated the largest cementery in Peru and second largest in the world to prevent Chikunguya and Zika virus, which affect several South American countries. Picture: AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES
15/38A specialist fumigates the Nueva Esperanza graveyard in the outskirts of Lima on January 15, 2016. Health officials fumigated the largest cementery in Peru and second largest in the world to prevent Chikunguya and Zika virus, which affect several South American countries. Picture: AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES
Indian bystanders watch as a wild elephant with a tranquillizer dart in its back side walks along a street in Siliguri on February 10, 2016. The adult male elephant was tranquilised and captured by wildlife officials and transported to a nearby forest. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Diptendu Dutta
16/38Indian bystanders watch as a wild elephant with a tranquillizer dart in its back side walks along a street in Siliguri on February 10, 2016. The adult male elephant was tranquilised and captured by wildlife officials and transported to a nearby forest. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Diptendu Dutta
Rio de Janeiro state’s public servants protest against austerity measures in front of the Rio de Janeiro state Assembly (ALERJ), where lawmakers began discussing the measures promoted by the governor Luiz Fernando Pezao pushing budget cuts in response to nearly empty public coffers, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 16, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA
17/38Rio de Janeiro state’s public servants protest against austerity measures in front of the Rio de Janeiro state Assembly (ALERJ), where lawmakers began discussing the measures promoted by the governor Luiz Fernando Pezao pushing budget cuts in response to nearly empty public coffers, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 16, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA
A boy sits alone on the stands during a tribute to the players of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real who were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains, at the club’s Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on November 29, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Nelson ALMEIDA
18/38A boy sits alone on the stands during a tribute to the players of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real who were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains, at the club’s Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on November 29, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Nelson ALMEIDA
A student at the University of Witwatersrand offers flowers to South African anti-riot policemen during a running battle with the police forces on campus during a mass demonstration on October 4, 2016 in Johannesburg. Picture: AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
19/38A student at the University of Witwatersrand offers flowers to South African anti-riot policemen during a running battle with the police forces on campus during a mass demonstration on October 4, 2016 in Johannesburg. Picture: AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, rescue a boy from the rubble following a reported barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nairab neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 24, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / AMEER ALHALBI
20/38Syrian civil defence volunteers, known as the White Helmets, rescue a boy from the rubble following a reported barrel bomb attack on the Bab al-Nairab neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 24, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / AMEER ALHALBI
Demonstrators protest against US President-elect Donald Trump in front of Trump Tower on November 12, 2016 in New York. Americans spilled into the streets Saturday for a new day of protests against Donald Trump, even as the president-elect appeared to back away from the fiery rhetoric that propelled him to the White House. Picture: AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR
21/38Demonstrators protest against US President-elect Donald Trump in front of Trump Tower on November 12, 2016 in New York. Americans spilled into the streets Saturday for a new day of protests against Donald Trump, even as the president-elect appeared to back away from the fiery rhetoric that propelled him to the White House. Picture: AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content: Syrian rescue workers and residents try to pull a man out from under the rubble of a building following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Salhin in the northern city of Aleppo on March 11, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMED
22/38EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content: Syrian rescue workers and residents try to pull a man out from under the rubble of a building following a reported air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Salhin in the northern city of Aleppo on March 11, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMED
This picture taken on November 12, 2016 shows people protecting themselves from fireworks, being carried by a hot air balloon, that ignited before the balloon was at a sufficient height during the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival at Taunggyi in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan State. Picture: AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU
23/38This picture taken on November 12, 2016 shows people protecting themselves from fireworks, being carried by a hot air balloon, that ignited before the balloon was at a sufficient height during the Tazaungdaing Lighting Festival at Taunggyi in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan State. Picture: AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU
A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, as she waits for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint village of Shaqouli, about 35 kilometres east of Mosul, on November 10, 2016, after she fled her home with her children in the eastern Intisar neighbourhood of the embattled city to take refuge at a camp in Arbil. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN
24/38A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, as she waits for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint village of Shaqouli, about 35 kilometres east of Mosul, on November 10, 2016, after she fled her home with her children in the eastern Intisar neighbourhood of the embattled city to take refuge at a camp in Arbil. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN
Soldiers cry after the urn with the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro was driven through Santa Clara on December 1, 2016 during its four-day journey across the island for the burial in Santiago de Cuba. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Ronaldo SCHEMIDT
25/38Soldiers cry after the urn with the ashes of Cuban leader Fidel Castro was driven through Santa Clara on December 1, 2016 during its four-day journey across the island for the burial in Santiago de Cuba. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Ronaldo SCHEMIDT
Wrecked boats and thousands of life jackets used by refugees and migrants during their journey across the Aegean sea lie in a dump in Mithimna on February 19, 2016. The EU and Turkey will hold a special summit in early March to push forward a deal to stem the migration crisis, European Council President Donald Tusk said. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
26/38Wrecked boats and thousands of life jackets used by refugees and migrants during their journey across the Aegean sea lie in a dump in Mithimna on February 19, 2016. The EU and Turkey will hold a special summit in early March to push forward a deal to stem the migration crisis, European Council President Donald Tusk said. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content: A Turkish gendarme carries the body of a migrant child on beach in Canakkale’s Bademli district on January 30, 2016 after at least 33 migrants drowned when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece, Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Picture: AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
27/38EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content: A Turkish gendarme carries the body of a migrant child on beach in Canakkale’s Bademli district on January 30, 2016 after at least 33 migrants drowned when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece, Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Picture: AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE
This picture shows one stack of burning elephant tusks, ivory figurines and rhinoceros horns at the Nairobi National Park on April 30, 2016. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire on April 30, 2016, to the world’s biggest ivory bonfire, after demanding a total ban on trade in tusks and horns to end “murderous” trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild. Picture: AFP PHOTO / FREDRIK LERNERYD
28/38This picture shows one stack of burning elephant tusks, ivory figurines and rhinoceros horns at the Nairobi National Park on April 30, 2016. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta set fire on April 30, 2016, to the world’s biggest ivory bonfire, after demanding a total ban on trade in tusks and horns to end “murderous” trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild. Picture: AFP PHOTO / FREDRIK LERNERYD
A women and her children stand in the ruins of battle-damaged house in the Kurdish town of Silopi, in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq on January 19, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ILYAS AKENGIN
29/38A women and her children stand in the ruins of battle-damaged house in the Kurdish town of Silopi, in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq on January 19, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ILYAS AKENGIN
Waves crash over Newhaven Lighthouse on the south coast of England on February 8, 2016, as the latest storm hits the country. Heavy winds buffeted Europe’s northwestern flank on Monday, forcing road closures and disrupting rail and ferry services in southern England and prompting high wave alerts in France’s Brittany region. Picture: AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK
30/38Waves crash over Newhaven Lighthouse on the south coast of England on February 8, 2016, as the latest storm hits the country. Heavy winds buffeted Europe’s northwestern flank on Monday, forcing road closures and disrupting rail and ferry services in southern England and prompting high wave alerts in France’s Brittany region. Picture: AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK
Duane Ehmer rides his horse Hellboy at the occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on the sixth day of the occupation of the federal building in Burns, Oregon on January 7, 2016. The leader of a small group of armed activists who have occupied a remote wildlife refuge in Oregon hinted on Wednesday that the standoff may be nearing its end. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ROB KERR
31/38Duane Ehmer rides his horse Hellboy at the occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on the sixth day of the occupation of the federal building in Burns, Oregon on January 7, 2016. The leader of a small group of armed activists who have occupied a remote wildlife refuge in Oregon hinted on Wednesday that the standoff may be nearing its end. Picture: AFP PHOTO / ROB KERR
Colombian Magali Gonzalez Sierra (C), 15, speaks with her before her 15th birthday party in El Cabuyal, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on January 16, 2016. Magali suffers from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, a disease that causes premature aging in children, whose average lifespan is 13 years old. Picture: AFP PHOTO / LUIS ROBAYO
32/38Colombian Magali Gonzalez Sierra (C), 15, speaks with her before her 15th birthday party in El Cabuyal, department of Valle del Cauca, Colombia, on January 16, 2016. Magali suffers from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, a disease that causes premature aging in children, whose average lifespan is 13 years old. Picture: AFP PHOTO / LUIS ROBAYO
Father and grandfather of 15-year-old Shafiq mourn as Iraqi forces surround his body at an outdoor field clinic in the Samah neighbourhood in Mosul on November 13, 2016. Picture: / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN
33/38Father and grandfather of 15-year-old Shafiq mourn as Iraqi forces surround his body at an outdoor field clinic in the Samah neighbourhood in Mosul on November 13, 2016. Picture: / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN
A tornado rips through a residential area after touching down south of Wynnewood, Oklahoma on May 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Josh Edelson
34/38A tornado rips through a residential area after touching down south of Wynnewood, Oklahoma on May 9, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / Josh Edelson
Men look at a destroyed building in the town of Portoviejo, Ecuador, on April 21, 2016 almost a week after a powerful quake hit the country. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Juan Cevallos
35/38Men look at a destroyed building in the town of Portoviejo, Ecuador, on April 21, 2016 almost a week after a powerful quake hit the country. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Juan Cevallos
Migrants and refugees wrapped in survival foil blankets rest next to rescue members aboard the Topaz Responder ship run by Maltese NGO Moas and the Italian Red Cross after a rescue operation, early morning on November 5, 2016 off the coast of Libya. / AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO
36/38Migrants and refugees wrapped in survival foil blankets rest next to rescue members aboard the Topaz Responder ship run by Maltese NGO Moas and the Italian Red Cross after a rescue operation, early morning on November 5, 2016 off the coast of Libya. / AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO
Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo, on September 11, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / AMEER ALHALBI
37/38Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo, on September 11, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / AMEER ALHALBI
A French riot police officer is surrounded by flames, during a demonstration against the controversial labour reforms of the French government in Paris on September 15, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON
38/38A French riot police officer is surrounded by flames, during a demonstration against the controversial labour reforms of the French government in Paris on September 15, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON
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