Two teams face off during a basketball match in Bethlehem the sport is growing in the Palestinian territories.


Trayvon Washington 20 plays Pokemon Go while his friend Dre Horton 19 bounces a Pokemon toy ball in his hand while walking around NorthGate Center mall in Dallas.


Mitt Romney at the Massachusetts State House for his swearing-in on Jan. 2, 2003. Legislators came to regard him as aloof.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and New Jersey Gov Chris Christie.


Sasha Bryant left and her sister India Bryant walk in the Easter Parade along New York s Fifth Avenue.


Health workers visited the Pirituba neighborhood of São Paulo this month to vaccinate residents.


More than 2400 Iranian and 2800 foreign companies from 65 countries took part in the Tehran book fair in May.


Thailand s Prince Bhumibol left is seen with his brother Prince Ananda at school grounds in Lausanne Switzerland.


A worker removes pieces of a tree in Bryant Park on Friday afternoon after part of it broke off and injured several people.


Ukrainian government soldiers ride on a vehicle between Dabeltseve and Artemivsk.


Evan McMullin, an independent presidential candidate in Utah, at a rally last month in Draper.


Greece s prime minister Alexis Tsipras campaigns for a no vote in Sunday s referendum.


31 Dolphins Offense holds ball nearly two minutes fewer than any other team which makes Adam Gase s evaluation of Ryan Tannehill even tougher.


Two people have been killed in two separate lightning strikes in two days in Colorado.


Obama speaks about USLaos relations at the Lao National Cultural Hall in Vientiane.


Taliban prisoners released in Kabul, Afghanistan, last month.


Investigators continued to examine the site of a bombing in Nashville on Sunday.


A protester at Puerto Rico’s Capitol building last month. The territory has agreed to a deal with some of its bondholders to restructure debt.


Seven men from Kobane Syria talk about their former lives as they sit around a single candle at the Captain Elias hotel which has no electricity or running water.


The Communistera Palace of Culture and Science is lit up in Warsaw Poland.


Acres of farmland seen completely submerged in flood waters in the Lyth Valley on 10 December 2015 in Cumbria England.


The city's schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visiting 11th grade students in the Bronx on Wednesday.


Daniel Brown his son Jason and his exwife Melissa Brown after Jason passed his driving test earlier this year.


The burnt-out shell of Grenfell Tower in London in 2017. The fire, which killed 72 people, was the deadliest in Britain in generations.


Roberto Osuna center of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates their victory with Russell Martin.


The chancellor finds herself festooned with lories in a bird park in Marlow northern Germany in 2012.


A ProRussian activist holds a Russian flag as he stands on the roof of Sevastopol city hall building.


Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton during testing for the new F1 season in Barcelona on Saturday.


Damage is seen following a Saudiled airstrike in Yemen s northwestern city of Saada on May 22.


Pope Francis passes through the crowd in his popemobile as he arrives on Independence Mall in Philadelphia.


A group of people get a closer look at the floodwater surrounding Celebration Park in Vinton on Sunday Sept 25 2016.


Many bodies prepared for cremation last week in Kathmandu were of young men from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas.


Scottish Labor leader Jim Murphy and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon during a televised debate on this month in Edinburgh.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he hoped to “make history” on his visit to the White House this week.


Eto Nabuli is upended in Saturday s Test match between Fiji and Papua New Guinea at Cbus Super Stadium.


Mario M. Cuomo in a 1971 meeting with Corona, Queens, residents whose homes were threatened by school construction plans.


Reston resident Karen Wilson studies the Fairfax Connector schedule aboard the MATT bus.


Riot police officers lined the streets in Cairo on Sunday as they waited for protesters allied with the Muslim Brotherhood.


Kenyans lined up to view the bodies of those believed to have been the gunmen who killed nearly 150 people at Garissa University College in Kenya on Saturday.


The site of a bomb attack at a Baghdad market, one of a series of attacks in Iraq on Wednesday, some aimed at Christians.


Former President Bill Clinton spoke about Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday.


Mayor Rahm Emanuel at a news conference this month at City Hall in Chicago, during which he talked about the city’s police.


The 12th summer pavilion for London s Serpentine Gallery designed by Ai Weiwei with architects Herzog Meuron.


There were cheers of City trading floors when shadow chancellor Ed Balls lost his seat in Leeds to Andrea Jenkyns.


Workers throw flowers into a crusher after they did not sell at auction in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, on Friday.


The Egyptian Parliament at work in Cairo this week. Some lawmakers there have proposed that Egypt reject American aid.


The Celtic team that beat Barcelona on Wednesday was assembled from smaller leagues at bargain prices.


Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, left, at the High Point Market in 2014. The markets authority said it was facing a raft of cancellations for this years furniture show because of recent legislative actions.


Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, right, watched himself (17) in an electronic football game during a news conference last month in Austin.


Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on top of a building overlooking Aleppo on Monday during their assault to retake the city from rebel fighters. They made large territorial gains Monday.


In this Instagram photo provided by Andy Bartee a plume of smoke rises from a fertilizer facility fire in West Tex.


Chinese investors watch stock prices as a brokerage house in Beijing on 14 January as prices continue to fall.


The wilderness years Daniel Craig and Olga Kurylenko in MGM s Quantum of Solace James Bond s last outing Photo Sportsphoto LtdAllstarUnited Artists.


A Chinese consumer shops in a Walmart supercenter in Qingdao city eastern China s Shandong province in May.


A bicyclist at Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where a man was fatally struck by a car on Sunday morning.


Michael Traynor as Nicholas and Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee.


Hong Kong police remove barricades set up by prodemocracy protesters from the Occupy Central movement in the Central District in Hong Kong.


The Maldives former president Mohamed Nasheed who was forced to resign in February.


Ward 7 incumbent Yvette Alexander reacts after casting her ballot in the gymnasium at Highlands Elementary School.


Santander Spain Polish surfer Piotr Myszka competes in the men s RS X catehory during the fifth day of 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships.


April The Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in Iceland grounding air traffic over Britain Charles Arthur explained why flying through volcanic ash presents a hazard to aircraft.


Police fire tear gas as riot police spray a water cannon at demonstrators who remained defiant after authorities evicted the activists from Gezi Park near Istanbul s main Taksim Square.


Ed Miliband waves as he gets on board his battle bus in Pensby northern England.


President Obama greeting veterans Tuesday after his speech to the American Legion annual conference in Minneapolis.


The author with famous chimpanzee Toto as pictured in Photographing Wild Life Across the World by Cherry Kearton.


Leonard Casley has been leading the oldest micronation in Australia, Hutt River, since its creation on 18,500 acres of farmland in 1970.


Afghan soldiers on duty at a checkpoint at the northern end of the capital, Kabul, on Friday. The station monitors the road from Mazar-i-Sharif.


Sheldon G. Adelson, left, an American who is also a power in Israel, received a commendation in Jerusalem on Tuesday.


Top row three colours of Eumorpha achemon on grapevineBottom row three varieties of swallowtail caterpillar Papilio glaucus polyxenes and troilus.


German goalline technology is being used at the 2014 World Cup to prevent controversies such as this one from England s match against Germany in the last tournament.


A cargo ship in Qingdao, China. The president has raised American tariffs to a level not seen since the 1960s.


Supporters of Muriel Bowser cheer for her as she became the Democratic nominee for mayor in Washington.


The urban concept hydrogen car built by Team Schlucksspecht from the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg Germany.


Bernie Sanders was elected mayor of Burlington, Vt., in 1981, only to encounter strong resistance from the board of aldermen.


A rally demanding internet freedom in Moscow in April last year.


Afghans held a protest on Wednesday in the city of Kunduz in response to reports that recent American airstrikes in Kunduz Province caused civilian casualties. The American military insisted that only Taliban fighters were killed or wounded.


Members of the World Health Organization team that investigated the coronavirus’s origins gathered in Wuhan, China, last month.


A dog sleeps in front of Indians waiting in line to cast their votes outside a polling station in Gurdaspur district in the northern Indian state of Punjab.


Michael Ferguson and Seth Anderson, the first gay couple to receive a marriage license in Utah, in Salt Lake City on Monday.


Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said on the Senate floor on Tuesday that the country has a long way to go in terms of civil rights, and he mentioned his own experiences protesting segregation.


As the Royal Samoa Police Band play photos from the German era as well as video art by Michel Tuffery will be projected behind them.


A different perspective David Cameron and Barack Obama seem a little divorced at the start of the partners meeting at the Nato summit in Chicago.


Family members at the wake for Akai Gurley at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn on Friday evening.


Richard Jacobs left headteacher of the Chase Technology College in Malvern and Supt Mark Travis of West Mercia police speak to the press Photo Matt CardyGetty.


President Mauricio Macri of Argentina preparing to cast his vote during the primary elections in Buenos Aires on Sunday.


Jacob Lew, left, and Gov. Alejandro Garca Padilla visiting a school on Monday in San Juan.


Redemption on the international scene came in 2001 as first England tonked Germany 51 in a World Cup qualifier in Munich.


Making history the famous BedIn with John Lennon in 1969.


Clinton and Rep Harold Ford Jr DTenn greet supporters at a rally on primary night on Aug 3 2006 in Nashville Tenn.


Carol Morley photographed by Paul Stuart for the Observer New Review in London March 2015.


The actor and Kathryn Grayson in Andy Hardy s Private Secretary 1941.


Atlanta police officers standing watch as a burned-out Wendy’s restaurant is cleared of protesters and their belongings on Monday.


Eric F Trump Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr attend the Celebrity Apprentice All Stars Season 13 Press Conference at Jack Studios on October 12 2012 in New York City.


Jordan s Islamist candidates wave to the crowd during a campaign conference for the National Alliance for Reform in Amman s Sweileh district on Sept 16 2016.


Witnesses described the scene on Tuesday in Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan after at least 145 people were killed in a Taliban attack on a school.


So everyone got the memo about the dress code Marco Rubio Jeb Bush and Ben Carson at the August GOP debate in Cleveland.


The resund bridge between Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmo in Sweden.


Volunteers pose for a picture in front of the Olympic rings at Olympic Park in Sochi.


The Olympic Village in Turin Italy now houses refugees who have fled strife in parts of Africa.


A shop in Tahrir Square is spray painted with the word Twitter during the Egyptian uprising.


Alejandro Agag at Visa London ePrix launch in Battersea Park.


Rui Li s body was discovered concealed within a silver Fiat Punto in Bournemouth on Friday night.


A worker blasts graffiti from the pavement at Civic Center Park in Kenosha, Wis., Wednesday. The next step has left Kenosha a city divided.


Republican senatorial candidate Thom Tillis listens during a televised debate at WRAL television studios in Raleigh NC Wednesday April 23 2014.


Katy Perry performs during a rally for Hillary Clinton last year.


Gendarmes and rescuers from the Gendarmerie HighMountain Rescue Group work at the crash site near Le Vernet in the French Alps.


Jim Cutts a structural engineer who worked for years on the cathedral left and architect Tony Segreti inspect a fallen pinnacle on the roof.


The names of the fans killed at the Heysel stadium disaster 30 years ago are displayed by Juventus supporters at the Juventus Stadium last Saturday.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton finish their third debate.


Metro General Manager Paul J Wiedefeld held a recent news conference at Braddock Road station to discuss the impact of upcoming SafeTrack projects.


Sheen appeared in Spin City for seasons five and six which aired from 2000 until it was canceled in 2002.


Relatives waited Thursday at a morgue in Guatemala City to learn the names of girls who died in the blaze at the children’s home.


Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist at the Royal Palace in Stockholm.


Emily Burnett marks her numbers at the Eagle Market Store as she prepares to buy Powerball lottery tickets in Los Angeles.


Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said on Sunday that cases of the coronavirus in the state had reached 15,168, and called on New Yorkers to stop ignoring social distancing.


Arthur Miller in 1952 at 155 Willow Street in Brooklyn.


Demonstrators in New York protesting the police killing of George Floyd this year.


Dark instincts Kate Duchene as the Witch with Stuart the Bat in Hansel and Gretel at the National Theatre London.


Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati is ready to hold the midsummer classic.


Tourists in South Korea look into the North from the border city of Paju.


Protesters demanded the dissolution of the Parliament and the departure of the government on Friday in Amman, Jordan.


Members of Parliament applaud Kevin Vickers sergeantatarms during the reopening of Parliament Vickers shot and killed the gunman in Wednesday s shooting.


Smoke from a car bombing that proceeded an assault by gunmen on a government building in Baghdad on Thursday. The attack killed 22 people in addition to the gunmen and wounded 55 others, police said.


Demonstrators react to a speech delivered outside the Central Government Offices in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong.


Members of the Wajapi indigenous community in Brazil in 2017. Leaders of the community warned that the conflict between miners and members of remote villages in the northern state of Amapá risked turning into a blood bath.


Achocolatier puts the finishing touches to his work atChocolaterie Pascot in Geneva. Chocolate prices in some markets are 40 percent or more higher than this time last year.


Bernard Glesser, center, the director of human resources at Goodyear's plant in Amiens, France, leaves the factory on Tuesday after being held hostage by workers.


Todd Goldstein is denied a mark by Rory Lobb during the match between the Greater Western Sydney Giants and the North Melbourne Kangaroos at Spotless Stadium on Saturday.


Pekka Haavisto left and Sauli Niinisto pictured last month Niinisto has long been seen as presidentinwaiting.


Passengers on a subway train at Yonggwang station in Pyongyang Foreigners are usually only allowed to travel one stop from Puhung to Yonggwang on the northsouth Chollima line.


Golfer Tiger Woods hits out of a sand trap during a practice round of the 2014 Cadillac Championship golf tournament at Trump National Doral near Miami.


A Beijing doctor worked on a woman who wanted a new jaw line and chin. In 2009, China ranked third in the number of cosmetic surgeries.


A memorial at the Place de la Bourse for victims of Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels.


Craig McMurtrie, center left, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s editorial director, speaking to reporters as the police raided the public broadcaster’s headquarters in Sydney on Wednesday.


Bianco a male bulldog kisses employee Ivan Lee as he waits for adoption at the Humane Rescue Alliance in Washington Oct 21.


London 1972 A single mum living in a single room in Notting Hill.


Fighters with the rebel Free Syrian Army and others helped carry a wounded man to a hospital in Aleppo on Friday.


A policeman fire a tear gas canister to demonstrators during an antigovernment protest in Caracas Venezuela The writting on the wall in the background reads in Spanish No to dictatorship.


Colts quarterback Andrew Luck scores a touchdown on a keeper during the fourth quarter against the Texans.


Romain Duris Audrey Tautou and Omar Sy n Lecume des jours adapted from Boris Vian s classic novel.


Sadiq Khan with friends David Cohen and Dr Tom Coffey after the Hampton Court half marathon.


Actor Paul Reubens portrays Peewee Herman while promoting The Peewee Herman Show live stage play in Los Angeles.


The president of Rakuten, Hiroshi Mikitani, introducing the Kobo Touch e-reader in Tokyo in 2012.


Bagpipers enter TD Arena during a vigil for victims of the recent church shooting in Charleston South Carolina on June 19 2015.


Army personnel remove the bodies of victims who died in a fire at the Tazreen Fashion garment factory in Savar.


Protesters burn an effigy of Altaf Hussain the selfexiled leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement political party in Multan Pakistan on Tuesday.


Santorum kisses his daughter Sarah Maria during a March 24 2012 news conference in Green Bay Wis.


Michelle and Barack Obama paid of their student loans only 10 years ago according to the president.


Roy Keane is reported to have held talks with Celtic over their vacant manager s job following the departure of Neil Lennon.


Iowa Republican candidate for Senate Joni Ernst during a campaign stop at the train station in Osceola Iowa.


The scene outside the Playpen on Eighth Avenue in Manhattan one night earlier this month. Its kind of like a joke now, one dancer said. Men come in now and theyre like, They still have this?


A display of Samsung curved TVs at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.


The sun sets behind a windmill Monday Dec 17 2007 in Richardson Texas North Texas was mostly sunny and in the high 50s.


Celtic s Kris Commons left celebrates his second goal against St Johnstone with Gary Hooper.


President Obama delivers remarks on the shooting deaths of nine people in Charleston SC Vice President Biden stands next to him.


David Moore right talks with Rowan County Sheriff s Deputy Joe Cline.


Police dismantled the remains of the pro-democracy protest camp in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong on Thursday.


Village People 1979 New York Felipe Rose Victor Willis David Hodo Randy Jones Glenn Hughes Alex Briley.


Ted Cullinan in the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut Ronchamp France designed by Le Corbusier A wondrously calm place.


A protest in Hong Kong last month against a crackdown on illegal vendors of snacks viewed as emblematic of the local culture. Officials later said that food-hygiene officers had only been patrolling and were not enforcing laws.


Robert Rundo in Berkeley in 2017, as identified by ProPublica in this picture taken from a YouTube video. He faces federal charges of plotting riots and inciting violence, according to court documents.


A port in Tokyo. Japans economy, the third largest in the world, has been plagued by deflation since the 1990s.


A general view for the besieged Syrian town of Madaya Convoys carrying humanitarian supplies the second in a week were on their way to the town and two others.


The man and his muse Jane Birkin with Serge Gainsbourg in March 1969.


A Southwest Airlines jet waits to depart from SeattleTacoma International Airport on April 23 2013.


Cars drive past a campaign poster depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.


The Mitsubishi Shogun Elegance 32 Greener than its predecessor but that s a bit like saying Cairo is quieter than Lagos.


The Conception was operated by Truth Aquatics. On Tuesday morning, its surviving ships, the Vision and the Truth, were docked in Santa Barbara Harbor.


Sri Lanka this week sought to block access to Facebook in order to stem mob violence directed at its Muslim minority.


A Komondor named Chauncey waits to compete at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York.


President Trump at a rally on Thursday night in Las Vegas to support Senator Dean Heller of Nevada, who is facing a steep re-election battle.


John Key is said to made the offending remark when discussing a match between Beckham s LA Galaxy and the Oceania AllStars in 2008.


Egyptian soldiers beat a protester wearing a veil in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday. The graffiti depicts members of the military ruling council and says Killer.


Sound bet a hike on the Queen Charlotte track on the South Island will take you through one of New Zealand s most beautiful areas.


Afghan security officers at a Justice Ministry building in Jalalabad on Monday after it was stormed by Taliban insurgents.


The presidential hopeful Rick Santorum at a hotel in Maquoketa, Iowa, on Wednesday, ending his tour of Iowa's 99 counties.


The scene of a bomb blast in central Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday.


The main herd of elephants at Zakouma National Park in Chad in 2013 Ninety percent of the elephants in the park have been poached in the last decade.


Men play on a climbing structure at Riverview Park in Mesa Ariz while the moon rises Aug 9 2014 a day before the full supermoon is to appear.


Hillary Clinton attends the NewYork Historical Society 2014 History Makers Gala on November 21 2014 in New York City.


Terrill Thomas, at left, with Terrill Barnes, his son, in an undated photo. Mr. Thomas died of dehydration in a Milwaukee jail in 2016.


Supporters and opponents of abortion rights outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday during a hearing in a First Amendment challenge to a Massachusetts law.


Children play on a statue of Hans Christian Andersen in New York s Central Park But life for those who live in the South Bronx is no American fairytale.


People line up at a Universet food store in Leningrad USSR in 1991.


Joanna Shields who is to join Tech City Investment Organisation after moving to Facebook in 2010.


A state-run mass vaccination site at the Javits Center in New York earlier this month.


Justin Rose acknowledges the gallery on the 18th green at the end of his twounderpar second round.


Indonesian Muslims gather for special prayers near the Bajrah Sandhi monument in Denpasar on Bali island on July 28.


Athletes paddle to shore near the Olympic rings after a men s kayak double 1000meter heat on Aug 17.


Smog hangs over Kowloon and Hong Kong island background on Monday.


Sheep herders in a Cairo neighborhood. The economic frustrations that helped fuel last year's revolt have grown more acute.


The Rev. Joseph Leonard with Jacqueline Kennedy, then Bouvier, at All Hallows College in Dublin in 1950.


A maturing Subadult Harpy Eagle seen in the Amazon rain forest on Dec 30 2015.


Students were led out of Aztec High School in New Mexico after a deadly shooting on Thursday.


Greed is good the WeWork founders loved Wall Street starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko Now their HQ is in the office block where the film was shot.


Ben Carson takes a question in the spin room after the Republican debate in Houston on Feb 25 2016.


Cathie Vetrano, center, attending the trial of Chanel Lewis earlier this month in Queens. Mr. Lewis is charged with the murder of Ms. Vetrano’s daughter, Karina.


Demonstrators gather in front of the Capitol as part of the March On Washington For Gun Control January 2013.


Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign press conference at the Old Post Office Pavilion soon to be a Trump International Hotel in Washington on March 21.


Mayweather attends an NBA game between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center in Los Angeles.


The scene outside the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., last week, when Emantic Bradford Jr. was fatally shot by the police.


January 5, 2012 — Michael S. Schmidt reports from Baghdad on the sectarian violence and explosions that killed dozens in Iraq.


Former cricketer Imran Khan accompanied by his wife Jemima wipes his face during the funeral of Diana Princess of Wales at London s Westminster Abbey.


Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrives in New York where he will give an address to the UN General Assembly.


Corduroy is the oldest living cat in the world according to Guinness World Records The 26yearold feline lives in Oregon with his owner Ashley Reed Okura.


South Africa s Hashim Amla celebrates reaching his and his country s first Test triple century against England at The Oval.


Niklas Hjalmarsson of the Chicago Blackhawks fights for the puck against Jonathan Drouin and Brenden Morrow of the Tampa Bay Lightning.


Same-sex marriage proponents held a vigil Tuesday outside the houses of Parliament in London.


At least 87 people were killed in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, last week when the police and security forces reacted to attacks on two military camps.


A man jogged through Miami Beach on Friday. The five new Zika cases there included two Florida residents and three people who had traveled to the area, Gov. Rick Scott said.


This image provided by NASA was taken from 2947 miles above Enceladus s surface during Cassini s very close flyby.


Investigators on Sunday examined an Uber drivers car, which was damaged in the explosion in Chelsea. The driver had picked up a group of passengers moments before the bomb went off.


Murals at the 5Pointz complex in Long Island City, Queens, were whitewashed in 2013.


Nineyearold Ella Hubert of San Antonio sits with her family and show her support for Ted Cruz at a rally at the Shrine auditorium in San Antonio.


Oscar Pistorius is escorted by police officers as he leaves the high court in Pretoria South Africa earlier this year.


Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, center, in Budapest last year during a swearing-in ceremony of new border police officers.


A vehicle and the surrounding area are engulfed in flames after it was set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi Libya on Sept 11 2012.


Jalalabad Afghanistan A boy extracts raw opium to be processed into heroin in a poppy field Afghanistan is still listed as world s largest opium producer.


April 24 Rockies 6 Braves 5 Wilin Rosario slides into home plate for the gamewinning run as third baseman Jonathan Herrera looks on.


The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali Photograph courtesy of Salvador Dali Fundacio GalaSalvador Dali DACS 2007.


The Observer up 532 month on month but down 1559 year on year.


Three men jumped onto the tracks at a Manhattan subway station on Friday and rescued a man who had collapsed while standing on the platform.


An awning for Carpe Diem wine bar sits among rubble in Napa Calif following an earthquake Aug 24 2014.


Fernando Torres David de Gea and Rio Ferdinand look at referee Mark Clattenburg who will be embroiled in controversy following the Chelsea v Manchester United match.


Mulberry Street in New York s Little Italy circa 1900.


Tut or tosh Ben Kingsley Avan Jogia and Sibylla Deen bring some life and a lot of death to Channel 5 on Saturday evenings.


The veterans hospital in Roseburg, Ore., where doctors said administrators had turned away some patients to improve ratings. The veterans department said on Thursday that it would replace the hospital director, Douglas Paxton.


Afghan special forces on Thursday during a raid in a Taliban-controlled territory in Helmand Province. Afghan ground commanders are pleading for more help from American warplanes.


Chelsea Clinton introduces her mother Hillary Clinton on the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July.


A gunman, naked except for a jacket, opened fire on a Waffle House in southeast Nashville around 3:25 a.m. on Sunday. A customer wrestled away the rifle from the gunman, who remains at large, the police said.


Egyptians in a gas line on Saturday in the city of Luxor. Fuel shortages are plaguing the nation.


Debris covers the floor of the Miller s Mart food store in Mineral Va a small town northwest of Richmond near the earthquake s epicenter.


Chemical weapons experts, in Damascus on Thursday, are tasked with destroying stockpiles.


Riot police clashed with protesters in Cairo on Wednesday.


Steven Finn 53 wickets in 13 games for England may be frustrated by his absence from the Test scene.


Gerrard looks aghast Defeat today has ended all the debate about Liverpool s relatives success this season.


A rescue attempt on Tuesday after flash flooding in the Raganello Gorge, an area in southern Italy that is popular with hikers.


Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York discussed bipartisan legislation to combat heroin addiction and the illegal sale of opioids on Wednesday.


Officers Efrain Morales, left, and Joshua Jones with body cameras in 2014. Police labor unions and civil liberties lawyers plan to challenge a New York pilot program.


Thousands of people were camped out at a stadium Saturday to flee the fighting between government forces and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga in the Philippines.


A makeshift memorial to commemorate those killed in the mass shooting terror attack last week in Christchurch, New Zealand.


“I plan to take action to ensure that early voting becomes the law of the land in New Jersey,” Gov. Philip D. Murphy said on Friday.


Carly Fiorina speaks during the Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum on Jan 14 2016 in North Charleston SC.


Senator Cory Booker in Muscatine, Iowa, on Saturday. He has visited the state four times already as he campaigns for the Democratic nomination for president.


Beijing China Decorations go on sale for the year of the sheep celebrations on 19 February.


The second goal for Brazil looked like a training drill with Neymar and Jo lining up for a tap in.


Protesters on Monday in Baltimore after the death of a man who had been tackled by the police.


In a region where protest is rare, more than 100 people on Monday took to the streets of Hohhot, the Inner Mongolian capital.


Sam Burgess during England s training session at Pennyhill Park in Bagshot on Wednesday.


Supporters of Senator Antonio Trillanes in Manila. President Rodrigo Duterte had ordered his arrest, but he reversed the decision on Friday.


St Andrews hosts the Open every five years and is also the base for the game s joint ruling body the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.


Rubio makes a point during a debate for US Senate candidates at the studios of WFTV in Orlando.


Smog obscuring the Jakarta skyline, in 2018. The Jakarta metropolitan area, a megacity of more than 29 million people, suffers from inadequate roadways, huge  traffic jams and few green spaces.


The Mar Afram Syriac Orthodox Church in Kirkuk, Iraq, was one of many targets of violence across the country on Monday.


Mayor Donald Guardian of Atlantic City urged lawmakers to reject a state takeover plan at a news conference on Monday.


Game 1 in New York Pacers 102 Knicks 95 Pacers guard Lance Stephenson releases a vicious dunk.


San Jose Earthquakes Atiba Harris left and FC Dallas Matt Hedges jump for the ball.


Sharks center Patrick Marleau center James Sheppard and defenseman Brent Burns shake hands with Canucks left wing Daniel Sedin after beating Vancouver in overtime.


A northern cardinal perches in a tree during a snow storm in Lexington Kentucky US.


Loleatta Holloway had a string of disco hits in the 1970s and 80s.


Representative Tammy Duckworth of Illinois in Springfield last year.


Early morning sunrise before the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


The actress Fan Bingbing in Beijing. She disappeared for four months last year amid a tax scandal that has tarnished China’s entire film industry.


The perimeter fence along Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House is seen in Washington.


Keith Richards and Mick Jagger perform at San Siro Stadium in Milan Italy on July 11 2006.


Former Colorado State head coach Jim McElwain was hired as the new head coach of the Florida Gators The hiring was announced on Dec 4.


After 29 overs the heavens open and play is finished for the day England are 1333 after bowling Australia for 136.


Members of New Yorkers Against Fracking celebrated the governors decision outside his Manhattan office on Wednesday.


People protest outside a KFC in eastern China on Tuesday.


Yasuyuki Yoshinaga, the chief executive of Subaru Corporation, apologized on Friday at a news conference in Tokyo about the carmakers improper inspections.


Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks in New York in May 2014.


Paul Burrell the former butler of Diana Princess of Wales was left 50000 in her will.


A Red Cross volunteer distributes clothing to recently arrived refugees predominantly from Syria Iraq and Afghanistan in eastern Croatia in November.


A model of the aircraft flown by Colonel William John Pete Knight who set a world aircraft speed record for manned aircraft on October 3 1967 Sold for 7500.


Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernie Sanders wave after a candidates forum at Winthrop University in Rock Hill SC on Nov 6.


Fireworks display over the RSC Theatre in StratforduponAvon the ideal place to see a Shakespeare play in 2016 to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright s death.


Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on their thrones at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.


Nick Matthew of England in between James Willstrop of England and his reflection during the men s squash final.


In this March 30 2012 file photo Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accompanied by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep Paul Ryan.


Police officers escorted men arrested in a raid on a sauna at North Jakarta police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday.


Girls pose in front of an inflatable 8metre tall Snoopy in Shanghai China.


The Australianrun asylum seeker detention centre on Los Negros Island Manus province Papua New Guinea More than 900 men are still held here nearly three years after it reopened.


President Alexander Van der Bellen of Austria, right, and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz arriving for a news conference in Vienna on Tuesday.


Sheriff Joe Arpaio left federal court in Phoenix on Monday after a judge told him to comply with an order not to profile Latinos.


Paul and Ashby wave to supporters during an election night party in Bowling Green Paul beat Democrat Jack Conway to win a Senate seat.


President Obama speaks about the government s Ebola response from the East Room of the White House.


Gianluigi Donnarumma making his debut for Milan at just 16 years and eight months.


Investigators removed items from the Oslo home of Laila Anita Bertheussen and her partner, Tor Mikkel Wara, a former justice minister, in March 2019.


Taliban fighters stand next to their weapons as they join the Afghanistan government during a ceremony in Jalalabad capital of Nangarhar province on Sept 18 2012.


Former Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid poses with Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt.


Thousands marched through Sydney s CBD against the Abbott government s budget measures.


Ultra-Orthodox Jews mourned during a eulogy ceremony before the funeral of the rabbi Moshe Twersky on Tuesday in Jerusalem.


Beyonce Knowles arrives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating China Through the Looking Glass on Monday May 4 2015 in New York.


Steven Gerrard celebrates after scoring Liverpool s opening goal against Everton.


US Army soldiers patrol outside Contingency Operating Site Taji north of Baghdad Iraq on Aug 7 2011.


Leonard Riley, a member of the International Longshoremen’s Association, cheered a speaker at a meeting attended by Boeing workers at a hotel in North Charleston, S.C., on Monday. Workers at Boeing’s plant in that city will vote on whether to form a union.


Jeb Bush at the 2015 Iowa Ag Summit on Saturday in Des Moines.


The launch abort system test of Boeings CST-100 Starliner, a 16.5-foot spacecraft that can carry up to seven people, in New Mexico, on Monday.


Travellers at Paddington station London on Saturday where signs warned of disruption due to flooding.


Steven Finn bowls as the England coach Peter Moores looks on during a nets session in New Zealand.


Vanessa Gentleman-Cheatham with her children earlier this year in front of Ivy Hill Elementary School, one of the Newark schools that failed a water test for elevated lead levels.


The headquarters of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade Maryland USA.


Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia at an election event on Friday with the state’s other senator, David Perdue, and Vice President Mike Pence.


Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference in San Francisco of Feb 18.


Obama returns to the White House after a visit to a nearby Starbucks with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough left on June 9.


Secretary of State John Kerry talks with former President Jimmy Carter at the White House Aug 5 2014.


China is by far the world’s largest market for electric cars, with generous subsidies for ones that use Chinese-made batteries. Xu Liuping, chairman of the state-owned FAW Group, presented an electric concept car in Beijing on Wednesday.


Libyan protesters take part in a rally in Tripoli on 13 February in support of Libya Dawn which seized the capital last summer.


Federal agents investigate the offices of New England Compounding Center in Framingham Mass Tuesday Oct 16 2012.


President Maithripala Sirisena of Sri Lanka announced on Friday that he will release the maximum amount of funding needed to help those affected by landslides and flooding in his country.


Protesters walk through the streets in downtown Charlotte during another night of protests over the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.


General Alexander Haig speaking at a news conference at the Pentagon in 1978 when he was supreme allied commander in Europe.


Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens in the BBC production of Parade s End.


Execution chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville Ohio.


Joseph J. Lhota campaigning for New York City mayor in 2013.


Devotees waited with livestock to be slaughtered during the Gadhimai festival in Bariyarpur, Nepal, on Tuesday.


Performers during the Patum, a festival in Berga, Spain, on Sunday. Catalonia’s drive for independence has imbued the Patum, like so many other cultural symbols in the region, with ever greater nationalist significance for Catalans.


A proRussian separatist holds a stuffed toy found at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region July 18 2014.


Fauxfur slouchy jeans and hoodies Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater in True Romance.


Donald Trump speaks to the press after arriving at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday by selfbranded helicopter.


Rodrigo Duterte at a news conference in May in Davao City in the Philippines.


A demonstrator at a march against Egypts military-backed government in Cairo on Friday.


Misha Lyalin talking at the London launch of Cut the Rope Time Travel.


Didier Drogba right scores Chelsea s first goal against Napoli in the Champions League.


The House minority leader Nancy Pelosi comforts Melody McFadden and Stacy Hart holding a photo of her brother Timmy who was shot to death.


USA flag bearer Michael Phelps leads the team during the opening ceremonies for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Maracana Mandatory Credit.


Ed Westwick stars in ABC s dreadful new series Wicked City.


Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of The New York Times, in 2001 with Jiang Zemin, then the president of China, at China’s leadership compound in Beidaihe.


A man injured in one of two attacks Monday near Kabul’s international airport. One person was killed and 20 others wounded.


A shadow of a tree appeared to stretch its bare branches over Ruhi Mirza of Sterling as she made her way recently along North Columbus Street in Alexandria.


Children on Friday walked past the Dallas apartment complex where a man who was sickened with Ebola was living. Some parents have chosen to keep their children out of schools in the area.


Dining near the Shinjuku station in Tokyo on Friday. The Tokyo governor has asked people to refrain from going out at night, but said restaurants and bars may stay open until 8 p.m.


Mind the gap Boris Johnson with Indian dancers at a London Overground opening event in 2010.


Five Guerrilla Brothers from 1972 A threepart epic made to celebrate eternal president Kim Ilsung s 60th birthday the film tells the story of guerrilla fighters during the revolutionary struggle.


Refugees and migrants at the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, last month. It has 8,500 residents but the capacity for only 3,100, an aid groups report said.


Glowing example the National Theatre s production of The Comedy of Errors starring Lenny Henry.


Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of “Hamilton,” embracing Representative Adriano Espaillat on Friday night at Coogan’s restaurant in Washington Heights during a gathering to celebrate a new lease.


The police swarmed and repeatedly punched a man on Wednesday after a chase through two states ended in New Hampshire.


The River Thames flooded at Henley Bridge Flooding in Oxfordshire on 9 January 2014.


2009 Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins attend the Mandela Day A 46664 Celebration Concert at Radio City Music Hall.


Iraq s Kurdistan region s president Massoud Barzani center speaks during a news conference on the outskirts of Mosul.


Recovering the body of a victim killed in a truck bombing in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, Baghdad, in 2015.


Supporters of Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi gather with posters and US flags outside her house Monday awaiting the arrival of US President Obama.


Israelis in Tel Aviv take part in a protest against Israel s military operation in the Gaza Strip.


Republican presidential hopeful Sen Rand Paul RKy speaks at the Iowa Faith Freedom event in Waukee Iowa on April 25.


An honor guard member pauses to compose himself during the funeral of Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz at the Antioch Community High School.


Marine veteran Al Baldasaro defends the donations of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a May 31 news conference at Trump Tower in New York.


Scenes of crowded polling places and voters with ink-stained fingers dominated state television and online news sites during parliamentary elections on Friday in Iran.


Dietz Werland works on the assembly line at the Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo Ind in this February 2013 file photo.


The iReport button has prominent place in the baseline of CNN s iPhone app.


A family fleeing after a suicide bombers attacked Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday.


Indian citizens waited to exchange discontinued currency notes outside a bank in New Delhi in November 2016.


Jeannine Jackle cooled down Jockamo the anteater on Thursday at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston.


Tunisian mediators Wided Bouchamaoui left Houcine Abbassi Abdessattar ben Moussa and Mohamed Fadhel Mahmoud on Sept 21 2013.


Activists document and inspect a consignment of illegally logged timber in Prey Lang forest Cambodia on 23 April 2015.


Mario Balotelli right shares a joke with Claudio Marchisio during an Italy training session before Sunday s Euro 2012 quarterfinal against England.


Adil Rashid took four Durham wickets in this week s comfortable win at ChesterleStreet.


Fannie Lou Hamer of Ruleville Miss speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington on Sept 17 1965.


Recording We Are The World with Lionel Richie Daryl Hall Quincy Jones and Paul Simon 1985.


A demonstration on Monday in Managua Nicaragua protesting the scheduled execution of Bernardo Tercero.


President Trump addressed the Boy Scouts of Americas 2017 National Scout Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel National Scout Reserve in Glen Jean, W.Va., on Monday.


Suzanne Barr reads candidate information while Lucinda Dougherty 7 waits with her family and others in line to vote at Piney Branch Elementary School in Takoma Park.


A portrait of Alan Turing from an archive of papers relating to the development of computing at the National Physical Laboratory between the late 1940s and the early 1970s.


Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech during an election rally in Budapest.


White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett second from right speaks during the first meeting of the President s Advisory Council on Financial Capability.


Meet Miss New York 2016 Camille Sims Talent Jazz vocal Platform Encouraging Wellness and Fostering Food Dignity.


Ramesh Kumar Lili, center, a eunuch campaigning in the Mangolpuri neighborhood of New Delhi on Monday. Vying for the state assembly, Ms. Lili says eunuchs are morally superior.


An artist s drawing of Boeing s manned spacecraft next to the International Space Station.


Melissa Ives left and Teresa Cox Reading both of Houston celebrate as Ted Cruz takes the lead in the Texas primary.


A man in Cali Colombia reads a newspaper with a frontpage headline reading Final agreement in six months following the deal between the government and Farc rebels in Cuba.


General view of a flyover above Paul Brown Stadium during the playing of the national anthem prior to the game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the New York Giants.


Hillary Scott of music group Lady Antebellum arrives on the red carpet for The People s Choice Awards.


Taiwanese President Ma Yingjeou left shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before their historic meeting in Singapore in November.


Mayor Bill de Blasio at the Rikers Island jail complex on Thursday.


A woman s winter jacket made of hemp is on display at HoodLab Denver in Denver.


Cult classic Jonathan Ke Quan Sean Astin Josh Brolin Corey Feldman and Jeff Cohen in The Goonies Photographs Warner BrosEverettRex Features.


At 100 capacity Lake Hume stretches for 40km up the Murray and Mitta River valleys and can hold 3000000 megalitres of water approximately five times the volume of Sydney Harbour.


The Luna Rossa AC72 catamaran sails in the Hauraki Gulf in Auckland.


Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in shirtsleeves on Thursday.


Simon Keenlyside and Allison Cook in Wozzeck by Alban Berg at the Royal Opera House.


Demonstrators filled the city’s central commercial district Monday as part of an effort to overthrow Thailand’s prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.


Melania Trump, the first lady, met with students on Monday at Orchard Lake Middle School in West Bloomfield Township, Mich.


Gregory Peck stars as Captain Ahab in the film adaptation of Herman Melville s novel Moby Dick.


People sign their names and leave messages of hope and prayer on a poster outside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church on June 20 2015 in Charleston South Carolina.


Vehicles drive past an election campaign banner in support of President Omar alBashir in Omdurman which reads Nominating alBashir for stability and reconstruction.


August 3, 2011 - In a rare interview, the son of Libya's Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, remains defiant.


Russell Brand at the opening of the Trew Era cafe in Hackney.


Des Voeux Road Central at Central, Hong Kong, on Saturday.


Nancy Okail of Freedom House, a group chartered to promote democracy, read Orwell in a courtroom holding cage Sunday in Cairo.


A bucketwheel excavator operates at the Vattenfall mine Demand for coal in Germany has been rising ever since a May 2011 move to phase out nuclear power by 2022.


The site of a rocket attack at a house in Kabul, Afghanistan, last month. The government has tightened the control of information on civilian deaths in recent attacks.


Nasa unveiled a new highresolution photograph of Pluto sent back to earth from the New Horizons spacecraft View more detailed new images of Pluto and its moons here.


William M. Daley said Tuesday at a news conference in Chicago that he would not run for governor of Illinois.


Steve Longly with former Brighton players Paul Reid and Lloyd Owosu.


Kinross UK festivalgoers head home early because of rain and mud during T in the Park at Balado.


Eden Hazard celebrates after scoring the winning goal against Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge securing the Premier League title for Chelsea.


Steven McRae and Sarah Lamb in the Royal Ballet production of Kenneth MacMillan s version of Romeo and Juliet.


Graffiti equating President Emmanuel Macron to the king during the French Revolution, on the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris this week.


Alex McLeish won the Carling Cup with Birmingham City but his dedication to the club ended with his resignation email.


The Indian prime minister Narendra Modi with Australia s Tony Abbott and the returned Shiva sculpture.


Timothy M Kaine dances with his wife Anne Holton at the Friday Nite Jamboree in Floyd Va.


Kenyan women carry placards during a march to create awareness about HIV and AIDS during World Aids day in the Dandora slums in Nairobi in December.


Men assisted two distraught brothers of a minibus driver killed in Kabul on Tuesday.


Demonstrators march through the streets of Yerevan, Armenias capital, on Monday. Protests forced the resignation of its leader.


David Cameron watches a Eurofighter Typhoon during a visit to BAE Systems in Warton Lancashire.


Britain s Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip attend the Braemar Gathering in Scotland this month They are third cousins.


W.H. Christian & Sons, which supplies uniforms to thousands of building workers in the New York metropolitan area, was founded in 1924 by a Danish immigrant. His descendants still own and manage the company, which is based in a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.


A member of the Free Syrian Army opens fire during clashes with Syrian Army forces in Aleppo Syria.


St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City this month. The salary cuts announced by Francis affect employees of the Holy See, Vatican City and associated institutions.


Protesters stood near barbed wire and concrete blocks set up by the army to create a buffer zone between demonstrators and police officers defending the Interior Ministry in Cairo on Thursday.


Oklahoma State Cowboys running back Justice Hill runs the ball for a touchdown as Texas Longhorns linebacker Anthony Wheeler during the first quarter at Boone Pickens Stadium.


The Coop is to make all its bananas Fairtrade Other chains such as Sainsbury s and Waitrose have already converted their range.


Supporters of the LGBT community take part in the 14th annual LGBT pride march in Taipei Taiwan on Saturday.


Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, center, at the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture in Johannesburg on Monday.


Diana Smith crime scene technician for the Sanford Police Department shows the jury Zimmerman s gun which was collected as evidence at the crime scene.


Giorgia as Maleficent from Disney s animated film Sleeping Beauty.


John Kasich and Jeb Bush shake hands during the Republican presidential debate on Feb 6 2016 in Manchester NH.


President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan shook hands with Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday in Kabul.


Actress Kerry Washington arrives at the 26th Annual Glaad Media Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday.


Ed Ruscha poses for photographs in his studio in Venice 23 November 2009.


Jane Shilvock Early morning and low tide on the island of Lindisfarne Northumberland.


A US Park Police officer assists National Park Service employees in closing down the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial on the Mall.


Former Associated Press reporter Bob Lewis stands in front of the South Portico of the State Capitol in Richmond in this 2011 photo.


People in Kathmandu sought safety as a powerful earthquake shook Nepal on Tuesday.


Sean and next door neighbour Ciaran supporting Ireland against Romania.


Rep Jesse Jackson right raises hands with Brooke as the they speak to a campaign rally at City Hall Plaza in Boston.


Sen Bernie Sanders IVt waves to the crowd with his family and supporters in Burlington Vt after formally announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for president.


About 400 people turned out Wednesday for a meeting at a high school auditorium in Clintonville, Wis., to discuss mysterious night noises.


Tinamarie Spencer 42 sleeps every night with a blanket that bears an image of her slain son Robert Spencer who was killed the day after the Navy Yard shootings.


An ash plume at the Kilauea volcano on Friday on Hawaii. The governor declared a local state of emergency near the volcano after it erupted and prompted the evacuation of residents.


The Herald Sun denouncing political correctness at a newsstand in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday.


2002 Susan Sarandon with Tim Robbins and children on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame Los Angeles.


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on Tuesday.


Juan Montero, right, who works at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Manhattan, demonstrated outside a McDonald's on Madison Avenue on Thursday, as part of a new campaign to unionize fast-food workers in New York.


Dancing on Ice Yuna Kim of South Korea competes in the Figure Skating Ladies Short Program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.


In this 1991 file photo Iraqi troops emerge from heavily protected bunker to surrender to guntoting Saudi soldiers during Operation Desert Storm in southeast Kuwait.


A squirrel clutches a nut in Saski Park in Lublin Poland.


Demonstrators on Sunday protested the presence of militias in Tripoli, where Libyas deputy intelligence chief was kidnapped.


Kip Holden mayorpresident of East Baton Rouge Parish speaks at a news conference at Baton Rouge police headquarters.


Damian Andrade from the Sequoia National Forest Cobra 4 hand crew pauses on the northern edge of the blaze near French Meadows Reservoir.


Newly naturalized citizens recite the Oath of Allegiance in federal court in Brooklyn. They were among the 685 people who became United States citizens in New York City on Friday.


Rebel fighters watched as smoke rose from an explosion on Misurata's western front line on Saturday.


Lady Warsi with Samantha and David Cameron at the Conservative party conference in Manchester in October 2011.


An American military trainer instructs an Iraqi soldier in using his weapon during an exercise on approaching and clearing buildings at the Taji base.


Bruce and Vicki Heyman, right, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, in Ottawa in 2016.


A rally for Corey Jones, who was shot and killed by Nouman K. Raja, an off-duty police officer, in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2015. Mr. Raja is seeking Stand Your Ground protection in the killing.


Madonna performed to support Hillary Clinton at Washington Square Park in New York on Monday with her touring guitarist, Monte Pittman, and her son, David Banda.


The former congressman and presidential candidate Beto ORourke spoke during a protest in Austin on Saturday against voting restrictions nearing passage in the Texas Legislature.


Former President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany as they left the stage after a panel discussion at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Thursday.


Katinka Hosszu in the women s 400m individual medley final during the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Olympic Aquatics Stadium.


A police officer, left, filmed a foreign journalist as street cleaners swept water to keep passersby moving and a plain clothes officer, right, watched pedestrians on Sunday along Wangfujing Street in Beijing, where a protest had been called.


Alonzo Brooks was last seen alive at a party in La Cygne, Kan., in 2004.


Upper West Side of Manhattan is one of the most livable neighborhoods AARP says.


Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond scores on a wild pitch by Braves relief pitcher David Carpenter giving Washington a 30 lead.


Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa of the University of Texas, center, last year in Austin.


The Fiat 500L is shown at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles.


Nuns waded into the water at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.


A banner for the Cambodian Peoples Party, led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, in Phnom Penh, the capital. Cambodias only well-known opposition party was shut down by a court last year.


From left Laura Kurzawski Elizabeth Kurzawski and Bridget Kurzawsk at Elizabeth s retirement party in 2004.


A taxi driver plied through flood waters outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on Friday.


Law enforcement investigators at an Extra Space Storage location in Staten Island on Thursday.


A boat of the type seized by Iran in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday. The sailors aboard are expected to be returned soon.


A view of Christie’s in New York this month, with Willem de Kooning’s “Untitled XXV” at center rear. The work sold for $66.3 million against an estimate of $40 million.


Five people died when a small plane crashed on Sunday at Bartow Municipal Airport in Polk County, Fla.


Students exit the cafeteria of The Rise Academy in Newark NJ on March 14.


This photo from the Iranian government shows US Navy boats in custody of the guards in an undisclosed location in Iran.


Representative Elissa Slotkin of Michigan explained her decision to vote to impeach President Trump during a meeting with constituents on Monday.


Carmen Brown, left, welled up with tears and embraced Leonel Frage on Friday after a Miami court restored her ability to vote.


Tensions escalated Sunday at Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, which houses sites holy to Muslims and to Jews.


Rescue efforts were underway near Bahcesehir, Turkey, on Wednesday.


A portrait of Donald J. Trump hanging in the bar at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The club was built by the cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, who sold it to Mr. Trump in 1985.


The Women’s March 4 Justice in Brisbane, Australia, last month.


Republican Ed Gillespie during the 2014 race for US Senate.


China’s top trade envoy, Liu He, met with President Trump on Friday afternoon where the two sides announced an interim agreement that will help defuse trade tensions between the world’s largest economies.


Arnheim takes pride in the custom loft stairs built by Hyattsville metalsmith Jesse Robinson.


The mayor’s ban on sales of freshly cooked foods like steak and shrimp on the sand will hit Copacabana beach later this month.


Hillary Clinton is shown after a community meeting at the House of Prayer Missionary Church in Flint Mich on Sunday.


Fred Hoyle in his laboratory at the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy in 1967.


Officials counted ballots in Amman, Jordan, on Tuesday at a polling station for parliamentary elections.


Loyalton, Calif., with a population of just over 700, has just four municipal retirees. When its City Council pulled out of the state public employees’ retirement system in 2012, its bill amounted to more than its total expenditures that year.


The ELF is a sunpowered electric trike produced by Organic Transit in Durham NC.


Capitol Police responded to a report of shots fired on Capitol Hill on March 28 2016.


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad watches from a control room as nuclear fuel rods are loaded into the Tehran Research Reactor in Tehran.


A member of an Afro-Brazilian drum group at a parade in Salvador on Sunday.


Zummar Iraq A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter launches mortar shells towards Zummar controlled by Islamic State near Mosul.


Members of the Liberian police force arrest and beat a man who was accused of stealing household items before taking him to a station on Sept 1 2003 in Monrovia.


Dipti Sharma waits with others at a Manhattan job fair on Jan 17 2013 in New York City.


West Indies fans show off their flamboyant headwear ahead of the match with India at the Waca.


President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt Ty Carter at the White House on Aug 26 for his actions during 2009 in Afghanistan.


A crowd outside Senator Bernie Sanders’s field office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Sunday.


Aaron Cruden completes New Zealand s perfect season with the winning kick against Ireland in added time.


Dustin Johnson putts on the ninth hole during the first round.


Rescuers worked on a collapsed building in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City on Tuesday.


The rapper Rejjie Snow performing at the Olympia Theater in Dublin this month.


Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks to the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in New Orleans Monday Jan 27 2014.


Kofi Annan and his wife leave the World Economic Forum with Pitt and Jolie in January 2006 The couple s daughter Shiloh Nouvel was born in May 2006 in Namibia.


Cellphone users in Jodhpur, India, where Google sent a researcher this week to get feedback about apps. Google is changing core products in India to use less data and work better on low-end smartphones.


Nuts for sale at a shop in Iran A pistachio nut collected in Iran in 1929 eventually became the foundation of a competitive pistachio market in the United States.


One in 200 pregnancies in the UK ends in stillbirth.


These days heroes are either mythic or historical characters Brad Pitt as Achilles in Troy.


With help from friend Paul Thorpe left Congressmanelect Paul Ryan wheels a desk out of his campaign headquarters in downtown Janesville on Dec 23 1998.


Mourners carried coffins during the funerals for protesters killed during clashes in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday.


Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff left and the summit s host Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela take part in the CEO Summit of the Americas.


In this Feb 27 file photo Virginia Gov Terry McAuliffe gestures as he talks with members of the House and Senate adjournment committee at the Capitol in Richmond.


Pakistani fishermen pull their net out of the sea onto the beach in Karachi Pakistan.


Men on Monday working on a new drill which will be used in the rescue operation in Copiapo, Chile.


Asa Butterfield as Hugo and Sacha Baron Cohen as the Montparnasse station inspector.


A view over Kiev s Maidan during proEuropean Union protests in December 2013.


People gather to watch the arrival of US President Barack Obama while buses are parked blocking the view of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park outside the park in Hiroshima.


Jourdan Dunn who won Model of the Year on the red carpet for the British fashion awards.


Cuomo marches with City Council Speaker Christine C Quinn and Lee during the Gay Pride parade on June 26 2011 in New York City.


Pluto s largest moon Charon is seen in an image captured by the New Horizons spacecraft that was released Sept 15.


Houston police officers blocked an intersection while they responded to a shooting on Sunday.


Oscar Pistorius rubs his eyes in court in Pretoria South Africa 2014 Pistorius is charged with the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.


A child cools off near a plastic pool as he takes part in a holiday camp for children at Petare in Caracas Venezuela.


Fire investigators at the site of burned cars and trucks on Sunday after the gas tanker explosion in Accra, Ghana.


Women voted Wednesday at a polling station inside a Tripoli school as Libyans elected members of a new Parliament.


At full stretch Russian Julia Lipnitskaia competes in the short programme for ladies free skating category of the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Budapest.


Donald Trump speaks at the Treasure Island hotel and casino in Las Vegas.


1988 Despite their constant bickering Vera and Jack had a loving relationship Here they are pictured in the Rovers Return then owned by Bet and Alec Gilroy.


Nwankwo Kanu celebrates Portsmouth s FA Cup victory in the 2008 final against Cardiff City.


French president Francois Hollande during a press conference in Paris France 14 January 2014.


House Speaker John Boehner looks on as President Obama meets with members of Congress in the cabinet room of the White House on Sept 3 2013.


Louisville Cardinals guard Peyton Siva shoots against Duke Blue Devils forward Mason Plumlee.


Chinese President Xi Jinping right and Taiwanese President Ma Yingjeou shake hands in Singapore on Nov 7.


The primary results in Virginia on Tuesday might serve to empower hard-liners like Senator Ted Cruz, left, and imperil the immigration overhaul plan developed by Senator Marco Rubio, right.


In Brooklyn in 1971, people honor the six black prisoners killed at Attica Correctional Facility with the black power salute.


Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu center Interior Minister Efkan Ala left and Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz right pray at the site of a bombing in Ankara in February.


During the Asian Cup in Australia Iran s fans included thousands of women who were free to show up in Australia without any dress restrictions.


Mitt Romney weighs in on the Republican presidential race during a speech at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on March 3.


The Great Depression 1930 unemployed Americans queuing at a breadline in Los Angeles.


Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, right, and Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson at a news conference on Wednesday in Moscow.


Thousands of Egyptian protesters march toward the presidential palace in Cairo.


A rally for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in Atlantic, Iowa, on Sunday.


North Korean triplets sleep at a governmentrun baby home in Wonsan city Kangwon province in 2004.


Christian Benteke s goals have dried up for Aston Villa he has not scored in 11 hours and 59 minutes of football.


Derrick Dewayne Charles is the seventh prisoner put to death this year in the nation s busiest capital punishment state.


A man carried the bodies of people killed in fighting between Iraq security forces and the Islamic State in Mosul last week.


Brandi Wilson left and her daughter Trisha Wilson 15 right embrace Trish Hall a mother waiting after the shooting.


More than 250 people have died trying to climb Everest since the first recorded ascent in 1953.


Women demonstrated in Sana, Yemen, on Saturday, demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.


Sunny outlook with London mayor and keen cyclist Boris Johnson before setting off on our solarpowered world cycling trip.


The Uber Technologies Inc logo is seen on the ground at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington on Nov 26 2014.


Members of the Finance Ministrys cleaning staff clashed with the police in Athens on Thursday. Nearly 400 laid-off workers want their jobs back.


Vice President Mike Pence at the Western Wall in Jerusalems Old City on Tuesday.


Laurent Gbagbo was defeated in recent presidential elections, but has refused to relinquish power, resulting in sanctions, asset freezes and financial interdictions in the hope of dislodging him from power. A soldier passes by an image of Mr. Gbagdo on a banner at a rally in Abidjan on Saturday.


Officials with portraits of the late King Sihanouk in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Friday.


A line outside a pharmacy selling legal marijuana last month in Montevideo, Uruguay.


People standing in line at a gas station in Mexico City this week.


Gerald Goines, a former Houston police officer, turned himself in at Houstons Civil Courthouse last year.


Dustin Johnson plays a shot from the rough on the fifth hole during the first round of the 2015 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits.


Pedestrians and members of the news media gathered near the Time Warner Center in Manhattan shortly after the building was evacuated Wednesday. A pipe bomb was sent to CNNs offices there.


Idina Menzel performs Let it Go at the Academy Awards in March.


Luigi Ventura, the apostolic nuncio to France, has been the Vatican’s diplomatic representative in Paris since 2009.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport in Melbourne Fla on Sept 27.


Fire masks Hampstead London 1941 One of Miller s most famous war shots this was part of a Vogue feature to show how British women were coping with the war.


An Iraqi police officer shifts debris off the main road following the double explosion in Sadr City Baghdad.


President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland, right, and two predecessors, Aleksander Kwasniewski, standing, and Lech Walesa, at Mass on Friday.


Narendra Modi and David Cameron on stage at a rally at Wembley Stadium in London.


Johnson cleans four memorial stars after carving them out of marble They were given to four families whose members died in the line of duty for the CIA.


President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, center, at his inauguration ceremony on Monday at the presidential palace in Kabul.


Chelsea Henning shields herself from pelting snow while walking to work with Josh Summers both of Lincoln Neb on Wednesday.


This year s Strictly Come Dancing celebrity lineup includes Katie Derham Jeremy Vine Ainsley Harriott and Peter Andre.


Oscar Pistorius checked his cellphone on Wednesday as he returned to court in Pretoria, South Africa.


Daniel Turissini owner of recharj relaxes in one of the powernap cocoons in Washington.


At a San Francisco concert in 2010, marijuana use was general while signatures were collected for a measure to decriminalize it.


Elie Wiesel attends Time s 100 most influential people in the world gala with his wife Marion Erster Rose at the Lincoln Center in New York.


Supporters of Donald J. Trump outside a campaign event in Janesville, Wis., on Tuesday.


Jordanians gather in Amman following the reported killing of Kaseasbeh.


Fernando Botero s outsized figures adorn a wall in Medellin with the Andes in the background.


Smoke rose from the site of a bombing that targeted the convoy of Afghanistan’s senior vice president, Amrullah Saleh, in Kabul, the capital, on Wednesday.


Oprah Winfrey left and Forest Whitaker star in The Butler the fictional story of a domestic worker who served at The White House in seven presidential administrations.


Los Angeles CaliforniaMiley Cyrus the host of this year s MTV Video Music Awards performs on stage See more highlights from the show in our gallery.


Felix Hernandez was scheduled to receive 195 million this season and 20 million in 2014.


Christie s employees take notes during the auction sale of six bottles of 1999 Domaine de la RomaneeConti.


Grant Ginder, a novelist who lives in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn, calls the Saturday farmers’ market “the hottest club in New York.”.


From left, Senators Lindsey Graham, John McCain, John Hoeven, Richard Blumenthal and Jeff Sessions in Cairo on Monday. The prosecution of Americans angered many in Congress.


A Kashmiri Muslim protester jumps over a burning tire set up as a road block during a protest in Srinagar India.


At Public School 19 in the East Village on Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced slightly improved test scores for New York City’s students, saying they showed his policies were working.


Ferenc Snétberger, center, performing on Thursday at a gathering in Berlin in honor of the new European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture.


The attack on Wednesday at a railroad station in Urumqi killed three people and wounded at least 79, reports said.


In 2017, Two Forks restaurant in Manhattan stopped accepting cash as payment.


The opposition Damas de Blanco group march during their weekly protest in Havana after church last Sunday.


Barack Obama hugs atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima Japan.


Presidential candidate Sen John Kerry and his wife Teresa at a fundraiser on April 16 2004 in Philadelphia.


The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger took part in an AMA.


Floodwaters cover a street in Simbach am Inn southern Germany.


Alabama s Kirby Smart makes almost 1 million in his job as defensive coordinator.


Pope Francis talks with a nun of the Missionaries of Charity at the end of the canonization Mass.


Supporters ofthe Union for a Popular Movement celebrated election results in Paris on Sunday.


Joan Baez performs at an antiVietnam war demonstration in Trafalgar Square in 1965.


Bad fashion remains an issue the victorious European team at the 2012 Ryder Cup donned these regrettable jackets.


An installation at the Smithsonian Craft Show from glass artist Dale Chihuly s Macchia series will feature 12 sculptures never before displayed in the District.


Police tent at the Mansfield house where the remains of William and Patricia Wycherley were found.


French police officers stood guard at the site of an attack near the entrance of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Tuesday.


Skipaholic Katharine Hibbert in her London squat surrounded by some of the stuff she got for free.


President Ashraf Ghani, center, at the opening ceremony in Herat, Afghanistan, on Thursday for a key economic initiative. Videos that emerged from the event were far less flattering.


Julia Child and her husband, Paul, built their cottage, La Pitchoune, in the mid-1960s on property in Provence, France, that belonged to Simca Beck, her collaborator on “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.”.


Adam Scott and Justin Rose wait for the ground crew to remove standing water from the 18th tee.


Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shake hands after the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on Sept 26 2016 in Hempstead NY.


The All Souls Procession in Tucson has grown into a citywide celebration with a 2mile procession involving up to 150000 participants.


With old-fashioned detective work and newer DNA tests, the New York City medical examiners office has made about 50 identifications since it began the project in 2010.


A car bomb Tuesday in front of a busy restaurant in Mogadishu Somalia killed at least 10 people.


Cyclists take to the street during one of Bogota s Ciclovia days when cars are banned.


Brenda Atkins director of plant operations the Seminole Electric coal fire generation power plant sits outside the plant in Palatka Fla.


President Obama gestures to the crowds gathered for his second inauguration on Jan 21 2013 in Washington.


Jon M. Huntsman Jr. and his wife, Mary Kaye, at an event Friday in New Hampshire, where Mr. Huntsman has put his focus.


Andrea Harrison a member of the Prince George s County Council gives Jolene Ivey a kiss outside Charles H Flowers High School.


Patients and family members outside a hospital following an aftershock on Tuesday in Cebu City, Philippines.


An image taken and posted by astronaut Reid Wiseman to social media on Oct 29 2014 shows a sunrise captured from the International Space Station.


President Chavez meets Pope Benedict XVI on May 11 2006 in Vatican City.


An anti-American mural in Tehran on Wednesday. Some American lawmakers are seeking a new, tougher stance against Iran.


Bishop James Hogan right and Pope John Paul II in Rome.


In this March 29 1989 file photo Chinese American architect IM Pei bursts out laughing while posing in front of the Louvre glass pyramid in Paris 2015.


Pictured Nonso Anozie as Abraham and James Wolk as Oz on the CBS television series ZOO.


A bed made from Siamese rosewood reportedly sold for US 1m in Shanghai in 2011.


Forces loyal toPresident Bashar al-Assad in the village of Al Samsam, Syria, on Saturday.


Dineshbhai Makwana reads the Gujaratilanguage Western Times in Shilaj India.


President Obama steps into a golf cart with NBA player Ray Allen while golfing on Martha s Vineyard.


Satsuki Ina at a protest on Saturday against the United States’ plan to house migrant children at Fort Sill, which was formerly the site of a Japanese internment camp.


War Horse opened in London in 2007 Now it is performed in Berlin the first play about the first world war to be staged there.


Mikio Watanabe holds a portrait of his late wife Hamako at his home at Yamakiya district in Kawamata town Fukushima prefecture in this June 23 2014 file photo.


Carl Kruger, the former State Senate leader who pleaded guilty to corruption charges, arrived for sentencing on Thursday at federal court in Manhattan.


Ed Miliband outlines his party s position on Britain s international role and responsibilities at Chatham House London.


Say cheese by Yanai Bonneh third place Cheetahs jumped on the vehicle of tourists in Masai Mara national park Kenya.


The best books on Mexico Down the Rabbit Hole The Years With Laura Diaz and Mexico Democracy Interrupted.


Most of the victims of the fatal bus collision on Friday were from Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps, France, a village of 600 in the southwest. Residents plan to gather for a march.


Paul Kalanithi at the Stanford Hospital and Clinics in 2014.


US flags decorate a door frame on board USS Theodore Roosevelt Sept 10 2015.


From left, Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat; Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican candidate; and Bo Dietl, an independent, at the first general election debate in the race for New York City mayor on Tuesday.


Steve Lonegan, left, the Republican nominee for the Senate from New Jersey, with Gov. Chris Christie last week.


Passengers descending into the Oxford Circus station in central London on Friday night.


A young man spraypaints a graffiticovered portion of the original Berlin Wall the day before the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall.


Mike Huckabee former governor of Arkansas speaks during the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines on Jan 24.


Pedestrians walk past a mural in favor of same-sex marriages in Dublin on May 21, 2015.


During a protest in Athens last week a youth wrote "burn it" on the facade of the Bank of Greece building as Molotov cocktails burned.


David Cameron s pledge to raise the personal allowance to 12500 won the support of eight out of 10 respondents.


Volunteers pitch in to help residents along River Road near Oakbourne as the Vermilion River spills over the top of levee Monday.


Heat forward Rashard Lewis gets around Raptors center Aaron Gray during Sunday s 10085 win.


A Husky dog on the pitch as Crewe Alexandra host Brentford in League One at the Alexandra Stadium.


The Hong Kong police used tear gas on Wednesday as protesters approached the Legislative Council, where lawmakers had been scheduled to debate the extradition bill.


Members of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department patrol the Rio Grande along the border in Hidalgo County.


Ian Rankin 50 today on a balcony overlooking the city in which his Inspector Rebus novels are set.


Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia, now an opposition candidate for the post, in the western town of Sekinchan last month.


Firefighters last year in the Fountaingrove section of Santa Rosa. The state has accused two nursing homes in the area of abandoning some residents during the fire and wants to strip the managers of their licenses.


Milos Saljic, the lawyer for Ratko Mladic, spoke to members of the news media on Friday in Belgrade, outside the court where the former general and war crimes suspect is being held.


BEVERLY HILLS CA JANUARY 11 Actress Lupita Nyong o attends the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 11 2015 in Beverly Hills California.


A closeup of baby Charlotte in a car seat carried by Prince William from the hospital to the car on the day of her birth.


Yemeni protestors climb the gate of the US Embassy during a protest Sept 13.


Eric Schmidt, left, Googles executive chairman, and President Franois Hollande of France signed the agreement this month.


Former British tennis number one Tim Henman will take the winner on a VIP tour of the All England Tennis Club which hosts the Wimbledon Championships.


Secretary of health and human services Kathleen Sebelius and treasury secretary Timothy Geithner at a press briefing on the social security and Medicare trustees reports 5 August 2010.


Protesters block Interstate 277 during a third night of unrest following last week s police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte A demonstrator Justin Carr was killed.


A firefighter outside 1354 Beach Avenue in the Bronx, where a fire killed a woman on Saturday.


New York state senators during the legislative session this week.


Vaccinations underway at a hospital in Piacenza, Italy, last month.


Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch has steadfastly refused to support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.


PortauPrince Haiti A man carries a coffin through the streets Nine months on from the earthquake which devastated parts of the city more than a million Haitians are still homeless.


Sun Wenlin, left, and his boyfriend, Hu Mingliang, in Changsha, China, on Wednesday.


The crowd listens to Pope Francis at St Peter s Square on Feb 22 at the Vatican.


Former Maryland governor Martin OMalley poses for a picture with a supporter at the South Carolina Democratic Party state convention in Columbia.


Lai Chi-wai climbing a Hong Kong skyscraper on Saturday. When gusts grew stronger, Mr. Lai, a former champion rock climber, began to fear for his life and called off the ascent.


Migrants found at sea on a boat collect rainwater at a temporary refugee camp in northern Rakhine state Burma in June 2015.


In a test of wills that seemed to be approaching a crucial juncture, hundreds of thousands of people crammed into Cairo's vast Tahrir Square on Tuesday, seeking to muster a million protesters demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.


Wayne Rooney heads in England s goal against Ukraine to earn a Euro 2012 quarterfinal against Italy.


Kamala D. Harris, the California attorney general, went to a county jail last week to talk about Back on Track, her pilot program to reduce recidivism.


A police officer about to throw a teargas canister to disperse demonstrators in Ferguson Missouri on Sunday night.


Week 1 Broncos 19 Ravens 13 Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning throws a pass during the second half against the Baltimore Ravens at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.


President Obama and his family join entertainers at last year s annual lighting of the national Christmas tree.


Property owners Steve Lane left and John Wells right look at several buildings their company owns near the corner of Davis and Main streets in Culpeper Va.


Sheriff s deputies set in place a model of the house on Cleveland s Seymour Avenue where Castro held three women.


A cruise ship lies on the roof of a two storey building in Otsuchi after the tsunami disaster in 2011.


Carly Fiorina holds Coffee With Carly at Blake s Restaurant on Feb 8 2016 in Manchester NH.


Bus commuters in downtown Seattle on Tuesday. Customers who qualify for the new program will pay $1.50 per ride, less than half the regular maximum fare.


Rurik George Caton Jutting, right, in a police van earlier this month after appearing in a Hong Kong court in connection with the deaths of two women.


Mohamed Badie, center, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, with other members during a trial in Cairo in June 2015. Mr. Badie has been sentenced to death or life in prison in different cases.


The eye of Typhoon Maysak category 5 storm as it headed towards the Philippines.


Snow covers tree branches in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London in February 2009.


Pakistani rescue workers moved the body of a victim from the site of a suicide bombing in a busy neighborhood of Lahore on Monday.


Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton tosses the ball to running back Jeremy Hill.


Victoria Nuland the US assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs right distributes cakes to riot police at Independence Square in Kiev.


Clinton greets supporters following a campaign rally in West Palm Beach Fla on Nov 3 1996.


Taulupe Faletau had another impressive outing for Wales but there was a glaring lack of invention from Warren Gatland s side.


The pedestrian bridge and the HOV ramp remain under construction at Seminary Road and I395.


Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, on Wednesday with his wife, Jackie, and their daughter Christina.


The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres welcomed the permanent truce agreement between the two main warring factions in Libya on Friday, and said it was a “fundamental step” toward ending the conflict.


Supporters wait to see the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump, at a campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C., last week.


A Chinese taxi driver used a Didi smartphone app in Beijing last year.


Frances Perkins speaks before the House naval committee in Washington on March 24 1942.


A banner with the Twitter logo hangs on the facade of the New York Stock Exchange in November 2013.


In a 2012 photograph, a glacier on the Quelccaya ice cap in Peru, the largest piece of ice in the tropics, which is melting at an accelerating pace. Many see the ice cap as a symbol of global warming.


Roger Federer of Switzerland acknowledges the cheers after his 64 76 62 victory against Milos Raonic of Canada.


Afghan men gather around as Farkhunda s body is set on fire in Kabul.


Milan fans welcome Barcelona to the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in November 2011.


This is a cleverly candid portrait using the mirror in the AlFishawy Cafe in Cairo Egypt to focus on the subjects.


The Audi R8 Spyder is pictured during the New York International Auto Show on March 23 2016.


A polling place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Sunday. About 91 percent of eligible voters participated.


In New York City Howl at the Moon offers a Honey Mango Margarita made with Maestro Dobel tequila triple sec and Monin Honey Mango Sour.


Devon Smith thanks fans after the GWS Giants victory over the Melbourne Demons at Star Track Oval in Canberra.


Manoj Mishra, a district education officer, right, talked to a school principal in Deoria, India, this month.


An investigator at the scene of an explosion in Kiev on Wednesday that wounded Ihor Mosiychuk, a Ukrainian lawmaker, and killed his bodyguard.


David Cameron meets pupils at the Harris academy in London The PM has said he wants to place education into the hands of headteachers rather than bureaucrats.


Emergency workers treat a man injured in an explosion in Lyon on Friday.


A man practices with an RPG rocket launcher during a rebel military training session in Misrata Libya on Tuesday.


Workers making swimwear at a factory in Jinjiang, China, this month.


This semidetached threebedroom house at 1721 Monroe St NE in DC s Brookland is listed for sale at 499900.


Umbrellas are opened as tens of thousands come to the main protest site one month after the Hong Kong police used tear gas to disperse protesters.


Christie s New York auction for the 1969 painting by Francis Bacon which sold for 142m.


From left former first lady Laura Bush first lady Michelle Obama President Obama Rep John Lewis.


Relatives of missing passengers block a car carrying South Korean Prime Minister Jung Hongwon during a protest in Jindo to demand a meeting with President Park Geunhye.


Rochel Berman explained traditional Jewish burial shrouds to students from Yeshiva High School during a visit to the Gutterman Warheit Memorial Chapel in Boca Raton, Fla., on Tuesday.


Geert Wilders, center, a far-right icon and one-man political party of the Netherlands, greeting supporters during a campaign stop in Spijkenisse this month.


The World Trade Center burns in New York on Sept 11 2001 after terrorists crashed two planes into the towers causing both to later collapse.


A cluster bomb was spotted at the Taftanaz air base in Syria after rebels seized the site last year.


Vanessa Rodriguez, a University of Texas student, at a protest outside the Texas governors mansion in Austin on Monday. The gathering was to protest Texas new law banning so-called sanctuary cities.


Massachusettsbased iRobot Inc sent two Packbot and two Warrior robots to Japan to help measure radiation in contaminated areas.


A 51-page report Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to reveal Thursday solidifies his stance on closing the troubled jail complex on Rikers Island.


President Obama and the Rev. Al Sharpton on Friday at the National Action Network convention in New York City.


Onboard Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing Louis Sinclair Daryl Wislang and Phil Harmer get the fire hydrant at eye level during a gybe in the Southern Ocean.


Jenny Cunningham 33 on her way back from counting shore birds on the arctic coastal plain near Barrow.


Melinda Gates accompanied President Obama on a visit to classrooms at TechBoston Academy in Boston in 2011.


People tried to recover indoors after the Turkish riot police fired tear gas at antigovernment protesters in Istanbul on Friday.


Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the DreamForce Conference in San Francisco in October.


Harvey Weinstein arriving on Friday at State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his rape trial.


Mike Baird makes an earlymorning visit to Flemington markets in Sydney on Thursday.


Migrants from Pakistan demonstrate in front of Macedonian police officers while waiting to cross the GreeceMacedonia border Sunday.


Students painted faces on the eve of India s Independence Day in Mumbai.


A Yazidi man carries a young woman into Iraq from the Syrian border.


President Obama meets with Ebola survivor Nina Pham in the Oval Office of the White House.


Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, in Connecticut's State Capitol this week.


We received more shots of Regent Street than any other London is always great to walk around particularly at Christmas writes Fi_Bee of this rainy shot.


MiniWinnie a dachshund puppy was born in Seoul South Korea after Rebecca Smith from west London won a competition to have her pet cloned.


Focaccia the second of two new cookstrips from Len Deighton exclusive to Observer Food Monthly.


The newborn daughter of an HIVpositive mother receives the antiretroviral drug Nevirapine at the Paarl Hospital in South Africa.


Sanford A. Rubenstein, left, with his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, at a news conference on Monday. The Manhattan district attorneys office declined to charge Mr. Rubenstein after investigating a complaint of sexual assault.


John Isner left and Nicolas Mahut met again at Wimbledon on Tuesday having played in a 183game epic last year.


A United Nations military official greeted Tanzanian peacekeepers wounded in a deadly assault against their mission last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain arriving at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday.


Lorretta Holloman embraces her daughter Dionna Dawkins 18 as she returns from her first day at college in front of their apartment building.


Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders at the Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Mich., on Sunday.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives at the Orlando Sanford International Airport in Sanford Fla on Tuesday.


Adriano D. Espaillat, at an event in Washington Heights on Thursday, talked about the importance of immigration reform.


The Russian student and blogger Yegor Zhukov outside a court in Moscow on Friday after the verdict was announced.


Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the former president of Brazil, at a news conference Thursday in So Paulo a day after being convicted of corruption and money laundering.


Alec Stewart joins the England coach Trevor Bayliss in the Kia Oval nets on Tuesday.


A woman walks through a pile of thousands of discarded life vests dumped in a valley in hills above the town on March in Mytilene Greece.


Iranian women in Tehran last month. With the onset of higher spring temperatures, some women have sought to shed all or parts of the often stifling Islamic uniform, which has brought the morality police back onto the streets of the capital.


President Obama and Mitt Romney debate in Hempstead NY on Tuesday.


President Trump met with Chinese officials including President Xi Jinping on Saturday during the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany.


Andrea Riseborough as Margaret Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley.


Airplanes sat idle on a flooded tarmac at Don Muang airport in Bangkok on Wednesday.


The relative of a student killed in Thursday s attack carries her picture at Chiromo Mortuary in Kenya s capital Nairobi.


Yemeni deminers collect mines and explosives at the scene of an airstrike allegedly carried out by the Saudiled coalition on a nearby Houthi controlled missile depot in Sanaa.


Protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi are seen in front of murals of people killed during Egypt s uprising at Mohamed Mahmoud Street near Tahrir Square in Cairo.


Tribesmen loyal to Sadiq al-Ahmar, a tribal confederation leader, patrolled outside his house in Sana, Yemen, on Thursday. Tribal forces led by the Ahmar family are battling the government.


Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago last week at a town-hall-style meeting to discuss the city's latest budget.


The funeral of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Congo’s best-known human rights activist, was held on Saturday.


Arjen Robben playing for Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga.


Monte Piana Italy High wire an athlete balances on webbings between rockfaces during the International Highline Meeting in the northern Italian Alps.


Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia waved to his supporters after Friday Prayer in Kuala Lumpur, the capital.


Faithful react after the announcement that their Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope Francis at Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires.


Capitals right wing Justin Williams is pushed away from the goal by Pittsburgh defenseman Ben Lovejoy as goalie Matt Murray looks on.


Game 4 in Los Angeles Clippers 128 Rockets 95 Houston defender Dwight Howard clobbers Los Angeles forward Blake Griffin on a secondhalf dunk attempt.


South Korean rescue helicopters coming to the aid of a sinking ship carrying about 450 people off the coast of South Korea on April 15 2014.


Renault F1 s Robert Kubica at last year s Monaco Grand Prix.


Members of Afghanistan s minority Hazara community demonstrated last month in Ghazni to demand the rescue of 31 men and boys kidnapped by masked gunmen in February.


A man and his child wearing masks to protect against heavily polluted air in Beijing last week.


Boris dangles in midair after getting stuck while riding a zip wire as part of the London 2012 Olympic celebrations.


The McLaren 570S Sport Series the company s first sports market car derived from racing technology is unveiled at the New York International Auto Show Wednesday April 1 2015.


Rupert Graves and James Wilby in a 1987 film adaptation of Maurice.


A man cast his ballot in Banten Province on Wednesday.


This November 2012 photo shows American journalist James Foley covering the civil war in Aleppo Syria.


Lynne Millard of Pierpont Township Ohio tries to balance packages on Thanksgiving night shopping trip to WalMart in Ashtabula Township.


Israel s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement to the media at his Jerusalem office on June 6 2012.


SherwinWilliams has developed a product called Paint Shield which kills infectioncausing bacteria after two hours.


Modi offers rose petals as he pays tribute at Rajghat the memorial of Mahatama Gandhi in New Delhi on May 26.


Prime Minister Brian Cowen of Ireland said on Sunday that the country's circumstances had changed, so its policies had to.


President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta at a polling station in Bamako during Sunday’s runoff election.


Police officers outside an apartment in Rotterdam on Thursday, as part of a coordinated operation against what the authorities said was a terrorist cell planning a multisite attack in the Netherlands.


Captain Bart leaves the docks at 4 am for lobsters so patrons will get the freshest catch each day like the signature hot lobster roll with butter.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes a photo with supporter Sharon Coleman of Winterset at the John Wayne Museum on Saturday June 27 2015.


Pedestrians walk in Vastra Hamngatan in Gothenburg Sweden on Dec 8 2008.


State Treasurer Jeff DeWit addresses delegates to the Arizona Republican Party Convention in Mesa on Saturday.


President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke Friday at a rally for Republican candidates in Baton Rouge, La., a state heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry.


Volodymyr Zelensky, center, a comedian, waiting for voting results at an election night gathering Sunday in Kiev.


Valerie Fortune center votes at Charles H Flowers High School in Springdale.


The police stood guard in front of Peru’s Congress in Lima after interim President Manuel Merino announced his resignation on Sunday.


Joe Johnson from Miami Heat to Utah Jazz via free agency.


Wellington New Zealand Protesters prepare to march to the Israeli embassy.


Minsk Belarus Women place candles near an Orthodox church in Minsk to protest against abortion which is legal in Belarus.


Collins was traded midseason from the Celtics to the Wizards in a deal also including Leandro Barbosa and Jordan Crawford.


SITTING PRETTY A Laysan albatross with its chick at Kaena Point, Hawaii, on Oahu, where a mesh fence erected last year has kept predators out.


The Los Angeles 2020 Commission presented a catalog of failings by the city, including too many residents living in poverty: both those unemployed and those earning low wages. Here, the belongings of homeless people line a sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles.


The couple attends the Hennessy Artistry 2009 Series at Terminal 5 in October 2009 in New York City.


A mourner, Michael Garwood, visited a memorial near the Umpqua Community College campus in Roseburg, Ore., where Christopher Harper-Mercer killed nine people Thursday.


Joffrey Baratheon falls victim to The Strangler a nasty poison in his wedding chalice on Game of Thrones Photo by Macall B Polaycourtesy of HBO.


Prince Juan Carlos and General Franco in 1974 To some the whole thing was a sham the continuation of the dictatorship under a new name.


Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of the lower house of Congress, arrived for a news in Brasília on Thursday.