Alan Taylor
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Kyodo / Reuters Images of the Destruction Left by Typhoon Jebi in Japan
Yesterday, the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years tore through the western part of the country with heavy rain and violent winds.
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Leo Correa / AP In Photos: The Smoldering Remains of Brazil's National Museum
Photos from the scene of a fire that burned through the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, destroying countless artifacts.
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Ahn Young-joon / AP Photos of the Week: Bog Snorkeling, Air Guitar, Canadian Calf
Competition in the 2018 Asian Games, the new tallest statue in the world under construction in India, memorials for both Aretha Franklin and Senator John McCain, and much more
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Lukas Bischoff Photograph / Shutterstock Photos: Along the Namibian Coast
Namibia has nearly a thousand miles of coastline, shaped by the winds and largely unpopulated, where the Namib Desert meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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Francisco Robles / AFP / Getty Sinkholes: When the Earth Opens Up
The solid ground beneath our feet can, on rare occasions, simply open up without warning, dropping whatever it was supporting into an unpredictably deep hole.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Daily Life in Maine, as Photographed by Robert F. Bukaty
Based in Portland, the photographer Robert F. Bukaty has been working for the AP since 1993, making thousands of photos of Maine’s people, landscape, wildlife, and, of course, its ever-changing seasons.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters A Look Back at Hurricane Harvey: One Year Since Landfall
A year ago this weekend, Hurricane Harvey, one of the costliest tropical cyclones in history, roared into Texas and Louisiana.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Photos of the Week: Silent Sam, Turbine Down, Mutton Bustin’
A dance on the beach in England, international competition at the 2018 Asian Games, the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, night patrol in El Salvador, Hurricane Lane seen from orbit, agricultural drones in Japan, and much more
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Asia Sports Ventures / Action Images via Reuters The Athletic Acrobatics of Sepak Takraw
A sport in which athletes launch themselves into the air to volley or block a ball over a five-foot-high net using their feet, legs, head, back, or chest—anything other than their arms or hands
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Sivaram V / Reuters Devastating Monsoon Floods in Kerala, India
India’s southern state of Kerala is suffering its worst flooding in a century, with more than one million people displaced, and more than 400 reported deaths in the past two weeks.
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Luis Robayo / AFP / Getty Fleeing Venezuela’s Crushing Economic Crisis
Hyperinflation, rationing, shortages of power, water, and medicine, low wages, lack of jobs, and years of a worsening crisis have driven hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to leave their ailing country behind.
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Libor Hajsky / Reuters Photos: 50 Years Since a Soviet Invasion Ended the Prague Spring
In August 1968, the Soviet Union sent 2,000 tanks and thousands of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia to seize control and put down its growing pro-democratic government.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Photos of the Week: Sun Biter, Solar Probe, Belgian Bovines
Flowers carpet Brussels, a farewell is bid to Aretha Franklin, abandoned share bikes find homes in Germany, a cardboard Viking church collapses in Liverpool, a bridge collapses in Italy, and much more.
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Walter Iooss. Jr. / Getty Photos: The Queen of Soul's Amazing Career
A collection of images of Aretha Franklin’s incredible life of performance, spanning the past five decades.
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Fiona Goodall / Getty for Lumix A Visit to Tuvalu, Surrounded by the Rising Pacific
Fiona Goodall, a photographer working with Getty Images, recently visited the tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, a country battling rising sea levels with limited resources.
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Peter Morgan / Reuters Photos: 15 Years Since the 2003 Northeast Blackout
On August 14, 2003, more than 50 million people across eight U.S. states and parts of Canada were left without power for days in the most widespread blackout in North American history.
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FTCS (SS) Bob Nguyen / U.S. Navy Photos of the Week: Robot Cat, Purple Water, Tunnel of Love
Missiles fly between Israel and Gaza, dizzying views in Hong Kong, a migrant family is reunited in Guatemala, a boisterous rodeo in Australia, wildfires intensify in California, and much more.
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Tatan Syuflana / AP Images From the Lombok Island Earthquake
On the Indonesian island of Lombok, near Bali, at least 250 deaths and many hundreds of injuries have been reported, and tens of thousands have been left homeless.
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Bettmann / Getty Historic Cat Photos on International Cat Day
Fashions and technologies may change over time, but cats never go out of style.
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Vadim Razumov / Wikipedia Photos of Abandoned Russia
For years, photographers have traveled across Russia finding and photographing intriguing ghost towns, empty Soviet factories, toppling houses, and crumbling churches.
