Seeing The News

Seeing The News is a periodic selection of arresting visual topics around the world. What have we missed? Let us know, or tweet The World's Multimedia Editor @sdavy with your tips.
A ground-dwelling roadrunner bird is shown staring up at the US-Mexico border wall lined with razor wire.
Arts, Culture & Media
Award-winning photograph illustrates the US-Mexico border wall threat to biodiversity
A crowd of survivors are shown standing and sitting on a bridge with several damaged buildings in the distance.
Photography
The only known photos from Hiroshima taken on Aug. 6, 1945
A man dressed as a superhero stands outside near a car.
Global Hit
How Latin America’s protest superheroes fight injustice and climate change — and sometimes crime, too
Several people on motorbikes and wearing helmets are shown riding in front of an ambulance.
Seeing The News
PHOTOS: Bikers clear Indonesian streets for ambulances
A Maasai man receives a call on his mobile phone.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Wrong number? Let’s chat:’ Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials to make connections
Three young children are shown looking off to a room damaged by rocket attack.
PHOTOS: Shattered rooms show Gaza war’s toll on children
A radio telescope dish at sunset.
Arts, Culture & Media
How Australia helped show the world the live moon landing
Vitaliy Kudla is shown wearing a two-tone jacket and hat while sitting in a small room with a bed behind him.
Conflict & Justice
In shadow of war, Ukrainians seek to vote for peace
Protesters are shown with placards that read, "Climate change is worse then Voldemort."
Environment
‘Worse than Voldemort’ — global students’ strike targets climate change
A darkened supermarket is show with one lone flashlight being used by a worker.
Global Politics
Nerves fray, tempers flare as Venezuela blackout continues
A skinny and malnourished woman poses for a picture while sitting at a table at her home in Caracas, Venezuela.
Conflict & Justice
Malnourished Venezuelans hope urgently needed aid arrives soon
A market is shown in Tlaxiaco, Mexico, with vendors and shoppers.
Arts, Culture & Media
Photos: Welcome to Tlaxiaco, the small Mexican city where ‘Roma’ star Yalitza Aparicio grew up
A migrant is shown wrapped with a banner depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe in front of a riot police with shield in Tijuana, Mexico.
For many migrants trekking to the US, faith is their compass
Migrant Yoniel Torres is shown wearing purple pants and handcuffed at theChilean and Peruvian border in Arica, Chile.
Conflict & Justice
As Chile cracks down on migrants, many still try their luck
Customers are shown lining up at the side of Refuge Coffee Company's truck.
Global Politics
What the world can learn from Georgia: Democracy is a process
A protester holds a national flag while standing in front of a fire burning at the entrance of a building housing the magistracy of the Supreme Court of Justice, during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, June 12,
Conflict
Photos: A year of protests and crisis in volatile Venezuela
Inside the virtual reality exhibition The Enemy, an Israeli soldier and Palestinian fighter stand on opposite sides of the room
Arts
Can virtual reality change how people respond to war reporting? One photojournalist is trying to find out.
Yazidi rebaptism ceremony in Iraq
Conflict
Photos: Yazidi women undergo a rebirth ceremony after ISIS enslavement
When Yuji Onuma was a kid, he lived in Futaba, a part of Fukushima. Today, he has kids of his own — but they can’t go near Futaba. Here, he wears protective clothing during a visit to his old house.
Books
Photos: See Japan’s nuclear legacy — from Fukushima to Hiroshima
Excavating Henryk Ross’s buried box of negatives and documents in the ghetto, 1945. Henryk Ross (Polish, 1910–1991)
Arts
Unearthing photos and memories of life in the Lodz ghetto
Um Ala's youngest daughter Hala sits in the family's metal shelter in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp. Barely a year old when they left Syria, she doesn't remember the family's farm in Daraa's countryside.
Conflict
Photos: What do refugee parents tell their children about Syria?
Jacqueline, 24, a South Sudanese refugee living in Uganda receives a blessing from her minister.
Conflict
Photos: South Sudanese refugees struggle to overcome ethnic divisions as they pray for peace
A mother and child in the Bulengo internally displaced persons camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Conflict
Photos: Life for the internally displaced women of Congo
Demonstrators shut down the traffic loops at LAX International Airport and yell slogans during a protest against the travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump's executive order.
Culture
Photos: Thousands converge on US international airports to protest Trump’s travel ban
Denise, Yefri, & Angie from "Virgenes de la Puerta."
Arts
These photos show the courage and tragedy of LGBTQ life in Peru
A woman photographs herself with a cardboard figure of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Berlin, Germany, November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
Culture
PHOTOS: Surprise, anguish and celebration as the world watched Trump win the US presidency
This boisterous group jumped out at Oxford Circus. They walked toward me and started acting up for the cameras as they saw me taking pictures.
Lifestyle
What the London Tube looks like past midnight
headless swimmer selfie Rio 2016
Culture
We’re calling it: The Rio Games are the Selfie Olympics
headless swimmer selfie Rio 2016
Culture
We’re calling it: The Rio Games are the Selfie Olympics
Vendors sell bike rentals, guided tours and memorabilia outside the main entrance to Mezhyhirya.
Global Politics
The unusual things you’ll see while touring the lavish estate of Ukraine’s ex-president (PHOTOS)
Iceland's Aron Gunnarsson celebrates after the the Euro 2016 - Round of 16 game against England in Nice, France.
Sports
Iceland hands England an (embarrassing) exit
Iraqi counterterrorism forces pose for a picture in Fallujah, Iraq.
Conflict
PHOTOS: Iraqi security forces retake Fallujah from ISIS militants
A woman walks on the installation "The Floating Piers" by Bulgarian-born artist Christo Vladimirov Yavachev known as Christo, on Lake Iseo, northern Italy.
Culture
Walking on golden water — Christo’s magical ‘Floating Piers’
“In Tanzania, it is as if we don’t exist,” says Salumu Kundaya Kidomwita, a Barabaig cattle herder whose name translates to “Warthog.” At the age of 60, Kidomwita is facing his second eviction in the last decade. After being pushed out of his home by a ri
Conflict
PHOTOS: Members of evicted tribe say they’re left with nowhere to go
People attend a candlelight vigil in solidarity for the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub mass shooting, in Seoul, South Korea.
Justice
The world stands with Orlando (PHOTOS)
A beaver living in Vancouver's former Olympic Village
Environment
Vancouver’s former Olympic Village is now home to urban beavers
A student carries his classmate out of the Silver Spring Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya, after she collapsed inside her classroom.
Global Politics
Kenya’s riot police fired tear gas into a high school for no apparent reason (PHOTOS)
November 1945. Hiroshima, Japan.
Global Politics
Photos: Hiroshima after the atomic bomb
Immigrants leaving Idomeni camp earlier this week in an attempt to cross illegally into Macedonia in order to continue their journey toward Western Europe.
Conflict
Idomeni refugee camp may be emptying, but trauma of crisis is far from over
Sezar Hajmusa, 10, from Homs, Syria
Conflict
Photos: In Athens, an abandoned hotel has become a refuge for asylum-seekers
Iranian refugee families enjoy a Sunday picnic at Toronto Humber Bay Park.
Culture
What life looks like amid the Iranian diaspora in ‘Tehranto’
A worker paints a coffin at El Nuevo Renacer factory in Jucuapa, El Salvador.
Business
In one of the deadliest countries in the world, there’s one business thriving — the coffin industry
Ibrahim Abdulkareem
Conflict
This man lost his daughter to a Saudi bomb. Now he’s fighting back.
24-year-old Prapti Tamang's two-story house was destroyed during the 2015 earthquake.
Development
Portraits from Nepal: Survivors struggle to rebuild a year after the deadly quake
An Aymara indigenous woman practices climbing on the Huayna Potosi mountain, Bolivia April 2016.
Culture
Casting aside imposing summits, these women are scaling Bolivia’s peaks in their traditional ‘cholita’ clothing
"When you are pregnant you have pain and afterwards you have a baby that's there but when your baby died you have pain but are left with nothing." Saliha Ben Ali, 49, mother of 19-year-old Sabri Ben Ali, who died in Syria in December 2013. She's the lead
Conflict
These mothers lost their sons to ISIS. What have been their next steps?
On a train home from Lagos to Kano, a Hausa woman reads a romance novel with the flashlight of her phone.
Books
Amid religious violence, Nigerians are writing steamy romance novels
Tourists walk past life preservers on the beaches of Kos, Greece.
Conflict
Bikinis and lifevests: Indelible images from an island shared by tourists, refugees
Brazilians embrace at Piscinão de Ramos, an artifical lake next to Guanabara Bay.
Culture
Banned from the beach for pollution, these Brazilians brought beach culture to a lake
Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra
Health
Brazil’s microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
BB Bisma Ndoye defeats the wrestler Maraka Dji in the Demba Diop stadium in Dakar, Sierra Leone, 05 April 2015.
Media
The 2016 World Press Photo winners — in pictures
Ahmed Lababidi waits for the bus on Jeju Island. Lababidi left his war torn hometown, Aleppo, fleeing across the Turkish border in 2012. He followed his younger brother to South Korea and settled on Jeju.
Conflict
What the new life of a Syrian on Jeju Island looks like
Left: An Albanian woman from Italy at Ellis Island, 1905. At times the Island looked like a ball with the multicolored, multinational clothing. (Lewis W. Hine/NYPL) Right: Zeinab, 14, lives in Zaata
Conflict
2 eras, 1 dream: Photos of immigrants on Ellis Island and today’s Syrian refugees
Cows stand in a meadow in front of a 10.5cm gun at the former artillery fort of the Swiss Army in the town of Faulensee.
Culture
That picturesque barn in the Swiss countryside might be a former Army bunker
1976 Imraan Christian
Media
South African photographer Imraan Christian on why #FeesMustFall was just the beginning
The Temple of Bel in the historical city of Palmyra, Syria, August 4, 2010. UNITAR has confirmed with satellite images that ISIS has destroyed the ancient temple.
Conflict
ISIS continues its demolition of Syrian heritage with the destruction of the Temple of Bel
Smoke rises from shipping containers after explosions in Tianjin, China, August 13, 2015. Two massive explosions caused by flammable goods ripped through an industrial area in the northeast Chinese port city.
Development
After a massive explosion in China kills dozens and injures hundreds, authorities move to prevent secondary accidents
The historic Buddhas of Bamiyan statues have made a return to the Afghan valley as 3D light projections.
Culture
They were destroyed by the Taliban. But now the giant Buddha statues of Bamiyan have returned with 3-D light projection
Residents stand outside their homes as damaged cars are seen after a tornado hit the town of Ciudad Acuña, state of Coahuila.
Environment
Deadly tornado flips cars, wreaks havoc in Mexico. Across border, Texas faces flood.
The Wolf volcano spews smoke and lava on Isabela Island, May 25.
Environment
Galapagos islands’ Wolf volcano erupts — rare pink iguanas not in danger