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Sri Lanka's cancer patients struggle amid economic chaos
Priyantha Kumarasinghe starts his day in the small Sri Lankan town of Maharagama with a breakfast of two biscuits and a small glass of tea, followed by a round of cancer medicines.
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/sri-lankas-cancer-patients-struggle-amid-economic-chaos
No energy worries for Italy's 'harmonious walnut tribe'
Fabrizio Cardinali, 72, does not crave the bright city lights.
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/no-energy-worries-for-italys-harmonious-walnut-tribe
Air pollution blights India’s capital
A smoky haze hangs over India's northern plains and its capital, New Delhi, every year as winter sets in, raising fears for the health of many millions of people as authorities order fixes that d...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/air-pollution-blights-indias-teeming-capital
A Ukrainian woman's harrowing quest to find her family
Nina Melenets finally buried her son in November, more than seven months after she said he was killed by shelling in their village in eastern Ukraine.
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-ukrainian-womans-harrowing-quest-to-find-her-family
"Music is their language": school gives autistic Chinese youth a voice
Almost three years of pandemic restrictions have been hard for 23-year-old Chinese villager Zu Wenbao, but thanks to Beijing-based Chen's Studio, music has become his saving grace.
Bordering Georgia's breakaway regions, villagers fear Russia's next steps
For displaced villagers living near the border of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, the war in Ukraine has brought back terrifying memories of Russian bombardments.
Middle East's Fertile Crescent dries up as rains fail
Abbas Elwan drilled well after well in a desperate bid to find water for his family's parched farmlands in southern Iraq. After yet another attempt failed in August, he took a gun from the kitche...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/middle-easts-fertile-crescent-dries-up-as-rains-fail
The sisterhood of Muslim women uniting football and faith in London team
On a soccer pitch in a central London park, Sisterhood Football Club - a Muslim women's team - is making a substitution.
To the sea: The final journey of a victim of Thailand's nursery massacre
A boat bobbing on the Gulf of Thailand carried the ashes of four-year-old Pattanan Mumklang.
First heat, then floods wipe out farms in Pakistan's chili capital
Near Kunri, a southern Pakistani town known as Asia's chili capital, 40-year old farmer Leman Raj rustles through dried plants looking for any of the bright red chillis in his largely destroyed c...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/pakistani-farmers-fight-a-losing-battle-to-save-chili-crop
Fire-bombing of a seaside English migrant centre
“I heard this bang and I thought it was a bird scarer," Reuters photographer Peter Nicholls recalls, describing the moment a man fire-bombed the gates of a centre for processing migrants in the...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fire-bombing-of-a-seaside-english-migrant-centre
In Africa’s monkeypox outbreak, sickness and death go undetected
At a village clinic in central Congo, separated from the world by a tangle of waterways and forests, six-year-old Angelika Lifafu (above) grips her dress and screams as nurses in protective suits...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-africas-monkeypox-outbreak-sickness-and-death-go-undetected
As seas rise, Bangladesh farmers revive floating farms
Mohammad Mostafa, a farmer in the low-lying deltas of southwestern Bangladesh, has revived his forefathers’ farming practice of growing crops on floating rafts as rising seas and storm flooding...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-seas-rise-bangladesh-farmers-revive-floating-farms
Burned-out young people in Hong Kong are escaping to the peaceful island of Peng Chau
Something clicked instantly for Zero Chan when she first set foot on the island of Peng Chau, a short ferry ride from Hong Kong's central business district, at a time when she was feeling burnt o...
Gaza struggles to accommodate the living and the dead as population grows
In the densely populated Gaza Strip, a battle for space is pitting the living against the dead as homeless squatters settle in the area's cemeteries while authorities grapple with the growing dem...
Deep underground, Mexican coal miners remember those who never came back
Each time Juan Briones descends deep into the ground of northern Mexico to dig for coal he knows he must balance earning a living and avoiding death.
As grocery bills soar, hungry Brazilians may seal Bolsonaro’s fate
The specter of hunger hangs over Brazil's presidential race this year like few before it.
In Mexico, more loved ones go missing. Their families keep searching
Manki Lugo (above) no longer remembers how many dead bodies she has found in the seven years she has searched across northern Mexico for her son.
Climate change means the Inuit do what they've always done: Adapt
Rex Holwell has spent his life on the sea ice that forms each winter off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada. Like other Inuit, he learned to hunt seals and fish from his fat...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/climate-change-means-the-inuit-do-what-theyve-always-done-adapt
Black Brazilians in remote 'quilombo' hamlets stand up to be counted
For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the "quilombo" communities founded by runaway slaves.
The queen's queue: A portrait of our times
The death of Queen Elizabeth has drawn people from across Britain and the world to queue through the streets of London to pay their respects - a melting pot of nationalities, religions, ages and ...
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-queens-queue-a-portrait-of-our-times
Ukraine seeks to trace thousands of 'orphans' scattered by war
Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them.
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukraine-seeks-to-trace-thousands-of-orphans-scattered-by-war
Streaming to survive: Thailand's out-of-work elephants in crisis
In the northeastern village of Ban Ta Klang in Thailand, Siriporn Sapmak starts her day by doing a livestream of her two elephants on social media to raise money to survive.
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/streaming-to-survive-thailands-out-of-work-elephants-in-crisis
Cuban scientists race to save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles
Shirtless and waist-deep in the dark waters of Cuba’s palm-speckled Zapata Swamp, researcher Etiam Perez releases a baby crocodile confiscated from illegal hunters back into the wild.
Ukraine firefighters adapt to working in war zone
Firefighters in Ukraine used to have the protocols, the experience and the kit to deal with whatever blaze they encountered. When the war with Russia broke out, that all changed.
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukraine-firefighters-adapt-to-working-in-war-zone