In Pictures

The best news photos from the past week

A selection of the best news photographs from around the world, taken over the past week.

Image gallery

Turning around the lives of people with dementia

Confronting the stigma and isolation people face in some communities around the world.

Africa's top shots

Wedding feasts and threading beads

  • 21 September 2018
  • From the section Africa

My holiday with the Afghan mujahideen

A man's neighbour invited him on holiday to war zone in Afghanistan for an extraordinary experience.

Challenging African-American stereotypes

The portrait photographers examine how African-Americans are perceived in art, the workplace, and through their physical appearance.

Hurricane Florence hits the US east coast

A selection of striking images from the day Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina.

Features

Why we're proud of our fat bodies

  • 21 September 2018

The women unsafe in their own homes

  • 7 September 2018

I'm 24, but I’m not ready to 'adult' yet

  • 12 July 2018

The children shunned for being 'witches'

  • 26 June 2018

Living on a rock in the North Atlantic

  • 22 May 2018

What some women have to put in their underwear

  • 12 April 2018

Our Experts

A suitcase full of photographic wonder

A treasure trove of quirky street photographs by John Turner capture London's past.

30 May 2018
Phil Coomes Picture editor

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