PICTURES

The IDF's Desert Reconnaissance Battalion makes use of Bedouin soldiers' tracking skills.

Hundreds of thousands of grieving supporters wailed as actress-turned-politician Jayalalithaa Jayaram was buried in Chennai.

Kuwait: A Desert on Fire, sees Sebastião Salgado's travel closely with firefighters in one of the worst environmental disasters in living memory.

The assault on Pearl Harbor remained the deadliest attacks on US soil until 11 September 2001.

The building served as a base for the Ghost Ship Artists Collective, yet reports suggest people had also been living there despite its use being permitted only as a warehouse.

A blizzard hit the North Dakota camp where thousands of protesters have gathered to block the construction of an oil pipeline.

There is just one month left to enter the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards.

The warehouse served as a base for the Ghost Ship Artists Collective, one of many converted lofts in the city's Fruitvale district.

Jayalalithaa Jayaram, chief minister of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, known to many as 'Amma' or mother, died at the age of 68 after going into cardiac arrest.

Activists worry the decision could be reversed once President-elect Donald Trump takes over from Barack Obama on 20 January 2017.

The photos will be shown in an open-air exhibition as part of Amnesty International's I Welcome campaign and mark the lead up to Magnum Photos' 70th anniversary.

In probably the world's most frightening Christmas tradition, a beast named Krampus roams the streets looking for naughty children.

Bolivia's government declared a state of emergency on 21 November, in what has been the worst drought the country has seen in 25 years.

The cloudy skies act in favour for the militants as they hinder air strikes and blur the vision of Iraqi forces.

The scenes are reminiscent of the death of Bobby Kennedy as his body was transported by train to from New York City Washington, DC, in 1968.

The event will also include Chim's current exhibition Children's World, which is showing at the Magnum Print Room in London.

In the 1960s, Spain had more than 100,000 coal miners. Nowadays there are fewer than 3,000.

The UN is preparing for a worst-case scenario in which more than a million people are made homeless and food shortages set in.

Government officials say they want to 'liberate' area, calling the opposition fighters 'terrorists' and accusing them of holding civilians hostage.

The Dolly Parton Foundation will donate $1,000 a month to families in Sevier County for six months following the devastating blaze.

Protesters have spent months rallying against the pipeline project, saying it poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.

Models Kendall Jenner, Alessandra Ambrosio and Jasemine Tookes were among those booked for the runway show.

The Victoria's Secret fashion show is the the laciest and raciest catwalk event of the year.

Many Cubans were overcome with grief as the remains of the only leader they had ever known passed by.

Colombia's worst air disaster in two decades killed 75 people, including 19 of the 22 football players on board.

The scale of the loss was staggering in Chapeco, a city where it takes a tenth of the population to fill the small stadium's 20,000 seats.

The rate of deforestation in the Amazon is on the rise again. Over the past four years it has risen 35%.

The BAe 146 charter aircraft had split in two, with only the nose and wings recognisable and the tail end completely destroyed.

Relatives hold hands and try to embrace through the wire fence around the camp, lifting up new babies so that their families can meet them.