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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Toni Frissell / Library of Congress The Works of Photographer Toni Frissell
A collection of images by Toni Frissell, a talented photographer who covered fashion, war, celebrity, and ordinary life from the 1930s to the 1960s.
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Reuters The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles
Gigantic piles of impounded, abandoned, and broken bicycles have become a familiar sight in many Chinese cities, after a rush to build up its new bike-sharing industry vastly overreached.
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