Tyrone Siu / ReutersWong, a 71-year-old retiree, reacts after saying that his wife was trapped inside Wang Fuk Court during a major fire, in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on November 26, 2025. Wong had stepped out to pick up his granddaughter from school, returning to discover the apartment complex on fire. His wife is still missing, listed among 30 others still unaccounted for. The fire has been blamed for more than 150 deaths so far. More on this photo and event from Reuters.Umit Bektas / ReutersPolice officers use pepper spray on a demonstrator who wears dervish clothes, during a protest on the day that Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu was jailed as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, on March 23, 2025.Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / GettyAn aerial view shows the wooden Kiruna Church, a 113-year-old Sami-style Lutheran church, being transferred to its new location, in Kiruna, Sweden, on August 19, 2025. 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Israel’s blockade of most food and aid, along with distribution difficulties inside the Gaza Strip, drove many of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians to the brink of starvation.Nichole Ayers / NASAGreen-and-red displays from the southern lights, or aurora australis, appear above the Earth, from the International Space Station orbiting south of Australia, on April 21, 2025.Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyA home is engulfed in flames during the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, California, on January 8, 2025. More than a dozen wildfires, driven by an extreme autumn drought and fierce Santa Ana winds, raged across Southern California for several weeks in January, killing dozens and destroying more than 18,000 homes.Ezra Acayan / GettyWilliam Gregorio and his son Yamry pose for a portrait where their ancestral home used to stand, now submerged in seawater amid rising tides, on August 12, 2025, in Pugad Island, Hagonoy, Philippines. In the Philippines’ coastal communities, water has been rising for years because of climate change. But residents say the sharpest surge came because of large-scale reclamation and other man-made coastal developments, which have altered currents and forced the tide farther inland. Now even the gentlest tide can unleash deep floods, drowning streets and homes within minutes.Allison Joyce / ReutersMelissa Truesdale plays the fiddle before a candlelight vigil for victims of Hurricane Helene in Green Mountain, North Carolina, on February 15, 2025. Helene, which made landfall in September of 2024, was responsible for more than 250 deaths in the United States.Kim Kyung-Hoon / ReutersAIREC, an AI-driven humanoid robot, demonstrates a caretaking maneuver to change a diaper and prevent bedsores, with a researcher at Waseda University’s laboratory in Tokyo, on February 17, 2025.Etienne Laurent / AFP / GettyProtesters carry signs, flags, and a large balloon with an image of President Donald Trump during one of the nationwide “Hands Off” protests against Trump and his adviser Elon Musk, in downtown Los Angeles, on April 5, 2025.Angela Weiss / AFP / GettyTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2025.Alex Brandon / APAs prisoners stand, looking out from a cell, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025.Ryan Murphy / GettyA person is detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents inside a fast-food restaurant under construction in Charlotte, North Carolina, on November 19, 2025. 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Anti-government protests in Nepal, which began after a ban on social-media apps was put in place, were met with deadly force by riot police. Reacting to that violence, demonstrators returned the next day, burning many government buildings and forcing the prime minister to resign.
