23 February 2012 Last updated at 11:04 ET

Day in pictures 24 hours of news photos: 23 February 2012 Anti-riot policemen walk through fires burning in a street

The Ruins of Detroit On show for the first time in the UK Melted Clock, Cass Technical School, 2008

Final call Simon Annand backstage with the stars Matt Lucas, Les Miserables, Queen's Theatre, 2011

Supporting a family Life in war-torn Mogadishu Faduma Aden Mohamud's children eating outside their house in a displacement camp in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia

Buenos Aires train crash The worst train crash in Argentina in 40 years Trapped passengers from a commuter train that crashed into the Once train station being helped from the wreckage

Day in pictures 24 hours of news photos: 22 February Smoke billows from a fuel tank supplying NATO troops, after it was set on fire by protesters during a demonstration in Jalalabad

Afghan protests Protests by people angry at the burning of Koran Afghan protesters hold rocks during a protest near a U.S. military base in Kabul (22 Feb 2012)

Phil Coomes Article written by Phil Coomes Phil Coomes Picture editor

The story behind the World Press Photo

01:51 UK time, Wednesday, 22 February 2012

A photograph by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda of a mother and son in Yemen was recently awarded first place in the World Press Photo Award. The mother, Fatima Al Qaws, talks about the moment she was pictured.

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