http://widerimage.reuters.com/ In-depth visual reports from across the world by Reuters, the world's largest news agency. Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2022 Thomson Reuters For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the "quilombo" communities founded by runaway slaves. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/black-brazilians-in-remote-quilombo-hamlets-stand-up-to-be-counted Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:00:34 +0000 The death of Queen Elizabeth has drawn people from across Britain and the world to queue through the streets of London to pay their respects - a melting pot of nationalities, religions, ages and backgrounds. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-queens-queue-a-portrait-of-our-times Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:00:55 +0000 Ukraine says it dismissed nearly 100,000 children from institutional care. With help from U.N. child agency UNICEF, it is still trying to reach some 26,000 of them. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukraine-seeks-to-trace-thousands-of-orphans-scattered-by-war Mon, 12 Sep 2022 08:19:32 +0000 In the northeastern village of Ban Ta Klang in Thailand, Siriporn Sapmak starts her day by doing a livestream of her two elephants on social media to raise money to survive. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/streaming-to-survive-thailands-out-of-work-elephants-in-crisis Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:00:35 +0000 Shirtless and waist-deep in the dark waters of Cuba’s palm-speckled Zapata Swamp, researcher Etiam Perez releases a baby crocodile confiscated from illegal hunters back into the wild. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cuban-scientists-race-to-save-one-of-the-worlds-rarest-crocodiles Mon, 05 Sep 2022 11:00:17 +0000 Firefighters in Ukraine used to have the protocols, the experience and the kit to deal with whatever blaze they encountered. When the war with Russia broke out, that all changed. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ukraine-firefighters-adapt-to-working-in-war-zone Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:00:57 +0000 In her outstretched palms, 49-year-old Nilanthi Gunasekera holds her family’s last remaining handful of dried fish – a reminder of Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in decades. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/last-handful-of-fish-crisis-pushes-more-sri-lankans-into-poverty Mon, 29 Aug 2022 22:45:26 +0000 Frustrated by what they felt were misperceptions of people with disabilities, Logan Kelble began posting dance videos on TikTok and bold, colorful fashion and makeup looks on Instagram – often with their feeding tube on full display. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/young-adults-with-disabilities-find-community-on-social-media Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:45:02 +0000 A Nepali mother of two, Parwati Sunar finds herself attending the same school as her son after returning to an education system she fled at the age of 15, when she eloped with a man seven years her senior. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/nepali-womans-quest-to-learn-takes-her-back-to-school-with-son Wed, 17 Aug 2022 22:45:38 +0000 Najib Mohammadi (pictured above) had high hopes for his life in the United States when he, his pregnant wife Susan and two small children left Afghanistan in July 2021. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-year-of-struggle-as-an-afghan-family-builds-a-new-life-in-california Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:45:59 +0000 Cuban 8-year old Kevin Kindelan, a hot-handed shortstop for a Central Havana junior league baseball team and teammate and first baseman Leoni Venego, 7, both dream of stardom. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/young-cuban-ballplayers-dream-of-us-major-leagues Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:45:27 +0000 After surviving World War Two, Maria Nikolaevna lived a busy and fulfilling life, raising two children, working as an engineer in the Soviet aerospace industry and cultivating a beautiful garden at the family home in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/world-shrinks-to-a-basement-in-ukraine-for-grandmother-92 Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:50:52 +0000 Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji's Serua Island, where water breaches the seawall at high tide, flooding into the village. Planks of wood stretch between some homes, forming a makeshift walkway as saltwater inundates gardens. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/rising-sea-levels-are-forcing-fijis-villagers-to-relocate-they-want-polluters-to-pay-instead Mon, 01 Aug 2022 22:45:46 +0000 Andras Eordogh admiringly watches his dozen foals as they frolic and kick up dust on his farm in the scorching summer heat and laments that he will have to sell most of them because of the changing climate in this rural southeast corner of Hungary. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/i-want-to-breed-horses-not-camels-hungarian-farmers-battle-historic-drought Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:45:47 +0000 Mulazim Hussain is proud of the trees he has planted. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/pakistanis-plant-trees-to-provide-relief-from-scorching-sun Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:00:25 +0000 The United States in May acknowledged the damage inflicted on generations of children at federal Indian boarding schools, a system built to assimilate indigenous kids into white society by cutting them off from their parents and tribes. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/native-american-survivors-of-alleged-boarding-school-sex-abuse-want-justice Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:45:51 +0000 Barely a kilometre from Russian positions defending the captured eastern city of Izium, Ukrainian and foreign fighters hunker in a dank basement. Artillery rains down on them most nights, shaking loose the plaster and filling the air with dust. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-ukrainian-nationalists-standing-in-russias-way-on-eastern-front Mon, 25 Jul 2022 09:45:33 +0000 Tammy Suomi's Duluth, Minnesota living room is filled with memories of her daughter Jackie Defoe and her grandson Kevin Shabaiash Jr. Teddy bears line the couch. Photos of her smiling loved ones cover a coffee table and kitchen island. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/americas-deadly-epidemic-violence-against-women Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:45:26 +0000 Feeling cooped up by the Chinese capital's partial COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year, which shut gyms, parks and other venues, Beijing resident Mina Zhao came across surfskating on social media and decided to give it a try. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/amid-covid-shutdowns-chinese-women-flock-to-skateboarding Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:45:19 +0000 In the last specialist maternity ward still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Donbas region, the windows are packed with sandbags. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/last-maternity-clinic-in-ukraine-controlled-donbas-a-lifeline-as-war-closes-in Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:54:14 +0000 The largest tropical forest in North America yields to perfect rows of corn and soy. Light-haired women with blue eyes in wide-brimmed hats bump down a dirt road in a horse and buggy, past simple brick homes and a whitewashed schoolhouse: A Mennonite community in southern Mexico. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/gods-will-or-ecological-disaster-mexico-takes-aim-at-mennonite-deforestation Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:45:04 +0000 For half a century, Takeo Nakajo has been catching katsuo, or skipjack tuna - indispensable in Japanese cuisine whether eaten raw, dried or used as a base for the broth. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fatty-katsuo-fish-may-foreshadow-climate-change-threat-to-japans-sushi Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:45:41 +0000 American Heather Kaye and her family, including cat Mochi, are part of a wave of residents departing Shanghai, leaving behind their homes and memories, driven out by two years of strict COVID-19 curbs, including a crushing two-month lockdown. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/goodbye-shanghai-after-16-years-covid-curbs-send-american-family-packing Wed, 06 Jul 2022 22:45:37 +0000 For Indonesian teachers Sutrisno and Sri Wahyuningsih, embarking on the once in a lifetime haj pilgrimage stirs bittersweet emotions. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/resumption-of-haj-pilgrimage-brings-joy-and-sorrow-for-indonesians Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:50:59 +0000 Heavily pregnant Sonari (pictured below) toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-hottest-city-on-earth-mothers-bear-brunt-of-climate-change Tue, 14 Jun 2022 04:44:59 +0000