PICTURES

Swedish photographer Jonas Gratzer has been named Photographer of the Year by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand.

Singer and presenter whose career spanned over 50 years, who fronted TV programmes Blind Date and Surprise Surprise, has died at the age of 72.

Aunt Leolah Brown launched into an angry tirade and had to be ejected from the funeral service.

It is the 25th anniversary of the war between a US-led coalition and Saddam's Iraq.

Refugees fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East continue to try to reach Britain despite police efforts.

Jewish settlers clash with border police as two apartment blocks in the occupied West Bank are demolished.

First observed in the 70s, there are almost 4,000 sinkholes along the shores of the salty sea today.

A dense layer of ivy covers the houses in the abandoned fishing village on a Chinese island.

Thousands of migrants in Calais are trying to reach England from France 'at all costs'.

The Shanghai Tower will be the world's second-tallest building when it opens later in 2015.

The Gaza Strip, home to 1.8 million people, has been experiencing up to 18 hours of power cuts a day.

With less than a year until the start of the Rio 2016 Olympics, many people fear the city won't be ready.

Benigno Aquino III's final state of the nation speech marked by torrential downpours and violent protests.

Daily Overview publishes an image of the Earth where human activity has shaped the landscape every day.

Hospitals are forced to turn away patients due to lack of everything from antibiotics to doctors.

The residents of Obama's ancestral village – and Africans in general – expected more from this US president.

Protesting farmers barricade roads, dump manure outside banks and set fire to rubbish outside supermarkets.

Tim Flach's portraits show how humans attribute emotions and thoughts to animals.

Giant trampolines, walkways, slides and tunnels are suspended inside a cavern twice the size of St Paul's Cathedral.

Houses left stranded in the middle of construction sites, like stubborn nails that can't be pounded down.

It cost more than a billion euros to build, but Spain's 'ghost airport' received just one bid of €10,000 at auction.

Gunfire echoed around the capital in a nation grappling with its worst crisis since a civil war ended in 2005.

Funerals are being held for the victims of an apparent Islamic State (Isis) suicide bombing in Suruc, Turkey.

How has the crackdown on drunken tourists affected nightlife in Magaluf? Not much.

The United States and Cuba have re-established embassies in each other's capitals, formally restoring diplomatic ties.

Revellers wrestle in huge pools of grey goo at South Korea's Boryeong Mud Festival.

Wildfires burning through woodland on hills are sending clouds of smoke billowing over the Greek capital.

South London girls' school, Airdrie cancer hospice and Manchester gallery all up for British architecture's top prize.

A look at how Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman, escaped from a high-security prison.