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  • One of the storage rooms in Aden where de-mining teams have collected and array of more then a thousand Soviet, home made and U.S. mines. The stock is set to be destroyed by controlled explosion.
    One of the storage rooms in Aden where de-mining teams have collected an array of mines
  • Friends, family and colleagues of aid workers killed in the course of humanitarian work lay a rose with the name of their loved one during a memorial outside Westminister Abbey in London on 18 August 2015 in the lead-up to World Humanitarian Day.
    Flowers laid in London ahead of World Humanitarian Day in tribute to aid workers killed
  • A screenshot from IRIN's film Gaza Fire
  • Villagers displaced by fighting in Kachin state between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army fled to makeshift shelters in the jungle
    Villagers displaced by fighting in Kachin State now live in makeshift shelters in the jungle
  • Children and women queue at a water point, in Jamam refugee camp, Republic of South Sudan.
    Des femmes et des enfants font la queue à un point d’eau du camp de réfugiés de Jamam, au Soudan du Sud
  • Some of the approximately 1,4000 who fled fighting in Kachin state in July 2015 and took shelter in makeshift camps in the jungle
  • Unloading and distribution of humanitarian supplies from #UNICEF in the hospital number 4, #Donetsk.
    Unicef workers unload goods in Donetsk
  • Kachin Independence Army soldiers at a checkpoint near their capital Laiza in April 2015
    Kachin Independence Army soldiers at a checkpoint near the KIA capital Laiza in April 2015
  • Flooded house in Mercedes, in Buonos Aires province of Argentina
    More than 10,000 people were evacuated from the province
  • The salvaged contents of a living room after floods struck Mercedes in Argentin'a Buenos Aires province
  • Civilians in Kachin state fled their village of Lawt Kawng during flighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army on 22 July 2015
    Civilians in Kachin state fled their village of Lawt Kawng during flighting between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army on 22 July 2015
  • One of the storage rooms in Aden where demining teams have collected an array of more than a thousand Soviet, home made and U.S. mines. The stock is set to be destroyed by controlled explosion
  • Shiek Zaid Tabet, head of the Mine Action Programme in Aden, stands amid some of the land mines found by his teams since mid-July in Yemen
    Shiek Zaid Tabet, head of the Mine Action Programme in Aden, stands amid some of the land mines found by his teams since mid-July
  • A UAE vehicle destroyed by a land mine in Green City district of Aden, Yemen.
    A UAE vehicle destroyed by a land mine in Green City district of Aden, Yemen
  • A gas canister converted into a mine or improvised explosive
    A gas canister converted into a mine or improvised explosive
  • A child with eye injuries lies on a bed.
    It is not clear if Faiz al-Olfi will be able to see again
  • Displaced people in Peshawar
    People displaced by conflict in Pakistan prepare to return home from a camp in Peshawar
  • Participants at the latest round of the United Nations facilitated Libyan political dialogue which concluded in Geneva on 12 August 2015.
    The latest round of UN-facilitated Libya talks ended last week without a deal
  • Just 10 kilometres separate the Greek island Lesvos from Turkey. In the early morning, when the sea is calmest, small, inflatable dinghies can be seen approaching the island’s northern shores of Molyvos and Skala Sykaminias.
More than 150 migrants are
  • A migrant family comes ashore at Sklala Sykaminias. The majority of arrivals to Greece are Syrians, followed by Afghans.
    Greece has become an increasingly popular destination for migrants and asylum seekers arriving by sea.
  • Migrants begin the 60 kilometre trek from Skala Sykaminias to Mytilene. Locals who offer them lifts risk being charged with human smuggling. Greece.
  • Agriculture in North Korea relies heavily on manual labor with few machines in sight. During harvest season, students and pupils are often drafted in from cities to help bring in the crops in time before the autumn rains.
    Agriculture in North Korea relies heavily on manual labor with few machines in sight. Food production has been further hampered by poor rains over the past 18 months.
  • Aisha Kargbo sits besides her newborn child at the PCMH (Cottage) Hospital in Freetown.
  • A model of an Aedes mosquito and its larvae used in public education programmes about dengue in Malaysia where it affected record numbers of people in 2015
    A model of an Aedes mosquito and its larvae used in public education programmes about dengue in Malaysia
  • Ayad Salih works to build information about life under the rule of the Islamic State
    M. Youssef est chrétien, mais il avait beaucoup d’amis musulmans à Mossoul avant l’arrivée de l’État islamique
  • Four young Ethiopian Oromo men, aged 14-17, on their way from Hargeisa to Berbera in late July. They will try to find work in Berbera for a couple of months to save for their journey to Yemen. The war in Yemen won't deter them, they say
    Four young Ethiopian Oromo men, aged 14-17, on their way from Hargeisa to Berbera in late July. They will try to find work in Berbera for a couple of months to save for their journey to Yemen. The war in Yemen won't deter them, they say
  • Anti-dengue volunteers check corridors for stagnant water and deliver leaflets to residents of apartments near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia where people were dying in record numbers from the virus in 2015
    Anti-dengue volunteers check corridors for stagnant water and deliver leaflets to residents of apartments near Kuala Lumpur
  • A member of the anti-dengue squad takes a photo of water that has pooled on a roof in Malaysia where record numbers of people are dying from the virus in 2015
    A member of the anti-dengue squad takes a photo of water that has pooled on a roof
  • Air strike (for generic use)
    Turkey has carried out air strikes against both the Islamic State and Kurdish separatists
  • A United Nations helicopter takes off from Chautara, in Nepal's Sindhupalchok District, to transport roofing material to a remote village to rebuild homes damaged in the earthquakes of April and May 2015.
    A United Nations helicopter takes off from Chautara, in Nepal's Sindhupalchok District, to transport roofing material to a remote village
  •  Abdessalam, 15 years old, was wounded in the head and abdomen by anti-aircraft bullets in Sana’a. "I was in the street with two kids and my elder brother when the antiaircraft bullets fell back. We didn’t feel it until it came besides us and exploded

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