APU Gallery

The bodies two children killed in a missile strike on Gaza City, Palestinian Territories are carried to a mosque for their funeral.

Rebel soldiers capture two suspected government informants and interrogate them for 48 hours before releasing them.

A Free Syrian Army fighter takes up position in the Sulemain Halabi district, a rebel stronghold, during clashes with government forces.

Aida cries as she recovers from severe injuries sustained during a Syrian military bombardment of her home. Her husband and two children were killed in the attack.

Uprooted pine trees still lie strewn over a beach in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture. A year after the March 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the Japanese government was still struggling to dispose of rubble and help rebuild livelihoods.

A competitor and his charges reach the finish of a bull race, in Batu Sangkar, West Sumatra.

Years of training, thousands of battles, and hundreds of victories prepared fencing competitors for the opportunity to stand on the piste at the 2012 London Olympic Games to fight for gold.

Young women risk their lives to play basketball in Somalia. A guard, provided by the Somali Basketball Association, watches over a women’s team as they practice, to protect them from attacks.

A woman sits on bags of waste she has salvaged, at the Dandora municipal dump, outside Nairobi, Kenya. She said that she enjoys looking at books, even industrial catalogues, as a break from picking up garbage.

Phan Thi Thuy Vy (20, left) and Dang Thi Bich Bay (20), both students, relax at the end of the day watching television. They have been together for a year. In 2012 the Vietnamese government announced it was considering recognizing same-sex marriage.

The photographer’s family, early one morning on summer holiday in northern Italy.

Mirella was married to her husband Luigi for over 40 years. At the age of 65, Luigi began to show symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. For six years, Mirella cared for Luigi herself, at home in Rome.

Kayla stands with her American Girl doll, in front of a portrait of her ancestors at home in Boston. The dolls come in a range of different ‘characters’, with varying skin tones and hairstyles, that customers can choose from.

Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.

Makone Soumaoro (30) suffers from a goiter. Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the world, and many people cannot afford to pay for medical treatment.

A southern cassowary feeds on the fruit of the blue quandong tree. Cassowaries are an endangered species, with around only 1,500 left in the wild. The birds are crucial to the ancient rainforest of northern Queensland, because they carry large seeds in their stomachs for long distances.

Swimming emperor penguins shoot to the water’s surface. The flightless emperor penguin is capable of becoming airborne, by swimming at up to three times its normal speed, and launching itself from the water to clear the edge of a shoreline. Recent research shows that the penguins do this by releasing air from their feathers, in the form of tiny bubbles.