These portraits will inspire people to give to the abbey's first public appeal in 30 years to raise funds for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries.
A 72-year-old man died from head wounds after falling from a police bus during violent protests. The circumstances of a second death are being investigated.
The sixth anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated swathes of Japan on 11 March 2011.
Iraqi forces are facing increasingly stiff resistance from Islamic State militants, who are using suicide car bombs and snipers to defend their last major stronghold in Iraq.
A strategically positioned, well hidden, sniper can pin down the advancing Iraqi forces for days.
First held in 1891, Crufts is said to be the largest show of its kind in the world, with thousands of dogs taking part each year.
The animals descended from the mountains and invaded residential areas after people were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe.
The fastest and most powerful Ferrari ever, McLaren's futuristic carbon-fibre sports car and much, much more.
The evacuation order for several towns in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is set to be lifted on 31 March.
Photographs show the isolated state's leader looking through binoculars and smiling as the four missiles were launched into the sea towards Japan.
Ethnic minority delegates and pretty hostesses pose for cameras on Tiananmen Square. Meanwhile, a quiet power struggle is taking place inside the Great Hall of the People.
Event takes places a few days before the main Hindu festival of Holi; known as the festival of colour, it begins on 12 March this year and ends the following night.
Situated in the village of Fangane, Aajibaichi Shaala teaches elderly women – six days a week, for two hours in just one room – to read during afternoon classes.
This year's 22 award-winning images include a 3D model of a pig's eyeball, a parrot's intricate system of blood vessels and a visualisation of tweets about breast cancer.
Miliants barricaded both ends of the tunnel, ripped up the tracks and built an assault course inside, on which to train their recruits.
Iraqi forces have faced their heaviest clashes in their battle to reclaim western Mosul from Isis.
This was the second time the ancient Syrian city, a Unesco heritage site, had been recaptured from the militants in the course of Syria's six-year war.
30 women in different jobs around the world share their experiences for International Women's Day.
Over 10,000 civilians have fled Isis-held districts since government forces breached the city's southern defences on 23 February.
Nearly 110 homes in Perryville, Missouri, were damaged or destroyed, as the twister battered the city.
Coming to the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, a range of photos from the W W Winter archive offers an important record of the city.
Mardi Gras – or Fat Tuesday – sees devotion to frivolity and partying in the final hours before Ash Wednesday, marking the beginning of Lent.
The UN humanitarian aid agency, OCHA, estimates that up to 250,000 people could flee the fighting in the coming days.
Documents, found by Reuters, include some of the first first-hand accounts from Isis suicide bombers to be made public, offering an insight into the mindset of young recruits.
The upper level of a huge float collapsed during the second night of Rio de Janeiro's world famous carnival parade, injuring at least 12 people.
'Ash Monday' or 'Clean Monday' celebrations are a way of using up leftover flour before the fasting period begins.
A selection of shortlisted images in the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2017.
The Sony World Photography Awards represents the world's finest contemporary photography captured over the last year, and displays a huge diversity of extraordinary images in terms of genres, styles and subject matter.
Here are some of the best pictures of political floats during carnival parades across Germany:
Paraiso de Tuiuti float crashed into a fence that separates the stands from the pavement, injuring spectators, revellers and journalists.
