The celebrations saw crosses heavily adorned with flowers paraded throughout the towns.
Gisele Bundchen, Vin Diesel and Tilda Swinton watch Karl Lagerfeld show for Chanel on grand boulevard in Havana.
A 18-foot metal fence – fortified with sensors, lighting, radars and cameras – separates families on opposite sides of the US-Mexican border.
The 198-room building had been condemned by authorities but remained occupied.
Here at IBTimesUK, we've rounded up some of the funniest photos of the outgoing (in more ways than one) Mayor of London.
The theme was Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
Thirty-three lions that were rescued from circuses in Peru and Columbia have been airlifted to the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary in South Africa.
Horn of Africa endures famine and hunger as severe drought ravages land.
More than 750 dogs roam across the hills at Territorio de Zaguates in Costa Rica.
Twelve towering pyres of elephant tusks will be set alight in the largest single destruction of ivory in history.
The new law would make hiring and firing easier in a country where labor protection is sacrosanct and unemployment is above 10 percent
Air strikes and shelling have killed more than 60 people in less than 24 hours in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
Thousands of child refugees, rejected by Britain, have nowhere to turn.
As Prince William and Kate Middleton celebrate their wedding anniversary, we look back at the last five years in the lives of the royal couple.
Incredibly detailed images of jewel-like insects reveal the beautiful, surprising, and often downright bizarre sculptural forms of some of the tiniest creatures on Earth.
British news and documentary photographer Mary Turner spent some time in Zimbabwe looking at life after 36 years under Robert Mugabe.
The health secretary has refused to withdraw from his decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors.
Tapirs are classed as endangered and their population continue to decrease around the world.
IBTimes UK presents aerial views of Rio, showing the state of the venues with 100 days to go until the games begin.
Some 330 million people suffering from the severe water shortages – a quarter of the population.
The dogs had been confined in their cages from birth and the farm is just one of thousands in the country.
The Food Photographer of the Year 2016 winners have been announced.
One year ago, Baltimore was plunged into chaos after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American who died after suffering a spinal injury while in police custody.
Illegal gold mining is destroying swathes of the Amazon rainforest, poisoning the river and the people who live along it.
Tears of joy and sadness as Hillsborough inquest jury finally delivers justice for the 96.
The strike follows Jeremy Hunt's refusal to withdraw decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors
As Venezuelans struggle to find food and medicine, there are two more things they'll have to do without: electricity and beer.
Memorial services are held in Ukraine to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Reuters photojournalist Gleb Garanich photographed the survivors as they visited the ghost town and the dusty derelict flats there that were once home.
Interactive photos, taken a year apart, show areas of Nepal immediately after the quake and today.