PICTURES

Photographers return to some of the worst hit sites in Indonesia and Thailand to see how they have recovered from the tsunami.

Wounded children are rushed to a hospital after Taliban gunmen took hundreds of hostages.

Once a small farming community, Dong Xiao Kou village is now little more than a huge rubbish tip.

Federal police and bystanders injured as a car is driven into them in Chilpancingo, Guerrero state.

AFP photographer Adrian Dennis dons waders and joins workers clearing fatbergs in London sewers.

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong adopt the three-fingered salute from The Hunger Games.

Parents arrange marriages for their adolescent daughters without discussing it with them.

Reuters photojournalist David Gray documents the lives of Aboriginal crocodile hunters.

Aerial photos of villages on Samar island show power of Typhoon Hagupit that slammed into the Philippines.

A selection of entries for next year's Sony World Photography Awards.

Parts of Scotland and northern England experience the first snow of the season.

On December 8, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

Typhoon Hagupit weakens to a tropical storm as it sweeps towards Manila.

Protesters in Berkeley, California hurl objects at police, who respond by firing tear gas.

In the wake of the Ferguson riots, local artists created murals on the plywood protecting storefronts

People of Thailand celebrate King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 87th birthday but fear for his health.

Authorities clear a homeless camp known as The Jungle, in California's affluent Silicon Valley.

Protests erupt after a white police officer was cleared in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

Pooping figurines of Madonna, C3PO, Captain America and Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Winged models wearing million-pound bras walk the catwalk as Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande perform.

A rare ice storm cripples parts of Europe, bringing down power lines and causing travel chaos.

Photojournalist Spencer Platt documents life in the divided city of Jerusalem.

Protesters stage mass die-ins over the Michael Brown shooting case.

Protesters smash shops over the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers.

The world's worst ever industrial disaster took place 30 years ago in Bhopal, India.

Photos of a private HIV hospice set up by a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition NLD party.

Pro-democracy activists clash with baton-wielding police outside government headquarters.

Camera traps set up in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have photographed many species of wildlife.

Photos of shoppers fighting for flat screen TVs at Asda in Wembley.