In Pictures

Freak hailstorm puts Rome on high alert

The Italian capital is hit overnight with flash flooding and giant hail in a wave of extreme weather.

  • 22 October 2018
  • From the section Europe

When women got pills for hysteria

A new exhibition charts the strange, sometimes disturbing history of women's healthcare

  • 20 October 2018
  • From the section Health

The best news photos from the past week

News photos from around the world

A bustling rural market

Photographer Damian Drohan reveals the hubbub of Bandon's cattle market.

In pictures: Migrants face border tear gas

Migrants trying to breach the bridge between Guatemala and Mexico meet tear gas and riot police.

Wigs, tussles and collapsing bikes

A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week

  • 19 October 2018
  • From the section Africa

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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