See 10 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has captured another remarkable shot, this one showing the Betsiboka River estuary in Madagascar.

Crossing borders and traversing the world’s most remote corners, the People Photography Award celebrates our shared ...

Around the globe, Associated Press photographers in 2024 documented what scientists on Friday said was the hottest year on record, the latest in a long string of heat milestones that have been ...

Here’s how it works. Humans are destroying forests all over the world in a process called deforestation. Forests are cleared to make space for agriculture, and so humans can use the wood to make ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Major retrospective exhibition celebrating Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana opens in ...

From pilgrims on the Hajj in Saudi Arabia shielding themselves from relentless sun to campers in Ohio trying to get relief from a small fan, photojournalists around the world captured how daily ...

Photos: Screenshots from videos on Venacio Mondlane ... escape of more than 1 000 maximum-security prisoners on Christmas Day. The commission said it had already visited two prisons and that ...

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS via AP) This photo combo from images provided by NASA shows Perseverance rover ... (AP) — NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars ...

I first became acquainted with Tillandsia circa 2007, when I was invited to tour the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival at Walt Disney World in Florida ... of growing in soil — they cling to ...

Some of the victims have now been named. Images show how the horror unfolded, as officials piece together the deadly attack. FBI agents work to gather evidence from the early morning attack ...

Thailand’s feisty Moo Deng became a social media sensation in 2024, taking the world by storm with her knee-biting and hose playing antics. Now, pygmy hippo enthusiasts in the United States don ...