Travel pictures

Islamic State militants have seized part of Palmyra, home to a world famous archaeological site.

Kevin Frayer photographs a steam train where your fellow passengers may include poultry and pigs.

Transport for London seeks innovative uses for Down Street tube station, which closed in 1932.

Marius Jovaiša is the first artist to get government permission to fly over Cuba and photograph it from above.

Up to 300 people, many of them foreigners, are believed to have been buried by an avalanche in Langtang.

Entire villages have been reduced to piles of stone and splintered wood.

Calbuco volcano erupts, with lightning crackling in a dark sky turned reddish orange by the explosion.

Hundreds of retired commercial jetliners are held at the facility in Victorville in the Mojave desert.

The Hotel Gracery Shinjuku in Tokyo offers Godzilla-themed rooms and others with a view of the giant lizard.

Reuters photojournalist Lucy Nicholson flew over southern California to see the effects of the historic drought.

A scheme that sends busloads of single women to meet lonely men in rural areas in Spain has come under fire.

It's not exactly a muddy field in Glastonbury – more Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Huge tanks under Tokyo form the world's largest underground flood diversion facility.

The Poy Sang Long festival is a rite of passage held every year among the Tai Yai people of Myanmar and Thailand.

Crowds flock to Tokyo's Ueno Park for the start of the cherry blossom season, many of them armed with selfie sticks.

Christians around the world marked Palm Sunday, the day the Bible says Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.

The heaviest rainfall in 80 years has caused flooding in the Atacama region of Chile and landslides in Peru.

In this gallery, IBTimesUK looks at sinkholes and craters that have opened up around the world.

Thousands of people queue for hours to see King Richard III's coffin in Leicester cathedral.

A huge swathe of the interior of Spain is slowly dying as people migrate to cities and the coast.

Would you walk along this footpath suspended high above a dizzying gorge?

In the remote Japanese village of Nagoro, the young have been replaced by scarecrows.

Buddhists and tourists from around the world witness the unveiling of a giant painting of Buddha.

A remote island in southern Japan is home to 22 people and more than 120 cats.

Havana's annual cigar festival attracts aficionados from all over the world.

Manhattan is surrounded by ice, while Central Park looks like a polar ice cap.

Once a year, the elegant seaside Greek town of Galaxidi explodes into chaotic childishness.

Youssef Boudlal documents the lives of Berber people in the High Atlas mountains of Morocco.

A heavy winter storm has dumped snow on Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.

Beija-Flor has been crowned the champion's of Rio de Janeiro's Carnival.