February 28, 2017 – Somero, Finland – Finnish freediver Johanna Nordblad, 42, swims under ice during an under-ice free diving training session. The ice is about 45cm thick, water temperature +1 degree Celsius. Johanna Nordblad holds the world record for free diving 50m under the ice in a swimsuit. © AFP / OLIVIER MORIN
July 7, 2017 – Hamburg, Germany – (L-R) French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump confer at the start of the first working session of the G20 summit. © AFP / JOHN MACDOUGALL
June 21, 2017 – New York, USA – People take part in the 15th annual yoga event in Times Square celebrating the Summer Solstice with a class in the middle of the square. The event also marks International Day of Yoga. © AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY
July 8, 2017 – Oroville, USA – Firefighters remove a US flag as flames from the « Wall Fire » close in on a luxury home. The first major wildfires after the end of California’s five-year drought raged across the state as it was gripped by a record-breaking heatwave. © AFP / JOSH EDELSON
July 20, 2017 – Budapest, Hungria – This picture taken with an underwater camera shows swimmers practicing ahead of the Women’s Free Combination preliminary round of the synchronised swimming competition at the 2017 FINA World Championships. © AFP / FRANÇOIS-XAVIER MARIT
July 25, 2017 – La Croix-Valmer, France – People enjoy the beach as they look at a forest fire. Firefighters battle blazes that consumed swathes of land in southeastern France for a second day, with one inferno out of control near the chic resort of Saint-Tropez. © AFP / VALÉRY HACHE
April 19, 2017 – New York, USA – Images are projected onto the Empire State Building, celebrating Harper’s Bazaar magazine’s 150th anniversary. © AFP / KENA BETANCUR
August 5, 2017 – London, UK – US athlete Justin Gatlin kneels before Jamaica’s Usain Bolt after winning the men’s 100m finals at the 2017 IAAF World Championships. Bolt took third place. © AFP / JEWEL SAMAD
July 5, 2017 – Hamburg, Germany – Performer smeared with clay protest in the art action « 1000 Gestalten » ahead of a G20 summit of leaders of the world’s top economies. © AFP / ODD ANDERSEN
May 3, 2017 – Caracas, Venezuela – A demonstrator catches fire after the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded during clashes in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. © AFP / JUAN BARRETO
May 31, 2017 – Panthau, South Sudan – Nyibol Lual, 13 years old, helps her family to prepare the land for cultivation. The family has a small land where they cultivate sorghum. © AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN
November 10, 2016 – Shaqouli, Iraq – A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, as she waits for transport at an Iraqi-Kurdish checkpoint village, some 35 kilometers east of Mosul. She fled her home with her children to take refuge at a camp in Arbil. © AFP / ODD ANDERSEN
October 5, 2016 – Mogadishu, Somalia – Somali school girls play football during lunch break at the Howlwadag Primary School in Howlwadag District south of Mogadishu. © AFP / MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
September 25, 2016 – Kibbish, Ethiopia – Children from the Suri tribe pose in Ethiopia’s southern Omo Valley region. The construction of the Gibe III dam has an impact on tribes living in the Omo Valley who depend on the river for their survival and way of life. © AFP / CARL DE SOUZA
September 21, 2016 – Llanos del Yari, Colombia – Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla dance during a cultural event held at their encampment. © AFP / LUIS ACOSTA
October 26, 2016 – Calais, France – Migrants look on as smoke rises from the “Jungle” migrant camp, during a massive operation to clear the squalid settlement where 6,000-8,000 people lived in dire conditions. Fires were started deliberately overnight, sending migrants fleeing for safety as firefighters battled the flames. © AFP / PHILIPPE HUGUEN
June 9, 2016 – Aleppo, Syria – Syrian rescue workers and citizens evacuate people from a building following a barrel bomb attack by Syrian government forces on the rebel held Al-Fardous neighborhood of the northern city of Aleppo. © AFP / AMEER ALHALBI
October 22, 2016 – Qayyarah, Iraq – A father and his two children arrive at a refugee centre. 10,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since the ground offensive began on October 17. The thick black smoke on the horizon is from oil fields set alight by Islamic State group. © AFP / BULENT KILIC
October 4, 2016 – Off the Libyan coast – Migrants wait to be rescued by members of the NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya. © AFP / ARIS MESSINIS
July 27, 2017 – Pyongyang, North Korea – A young girl cleans steps as people bow before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il-Sung (L) and Kim Jong-Il (R) as the country marks “Victory Day”, the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. © AFP / ED JONES