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) 2021 Thomson Reuters At 9:59 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, the World Trade Center South Tower fell. About 15 minutes later, photographer Shannon Stapleton scrambled over debris, peering through dust and smoke for pictures near the still-standing but crippled North Tower. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/september-11-attacks-fuse-photographer-and-survivor-in-trauma Thu, 09 Sep 2021 09:35:15 +0000 Pushed into a degraded corner of their ancestral lands, the Xokleng people of southern Brazil anxiously await a Supreme Court ruling that could restore territory they lost decades ago. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brazils-indigenous-rights-hinge-on-one-tribes-legal-battle Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:47:41 +0000 After half an hour's windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to the school he attends in remote southern Chile, Diego Guerrero can finally access the internet. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/elon-musks-satellites-beam-internet-into-chilean-boys-life Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:45:53 +0000 A hyena may not be your average house pet, but in northern Nigeria some men keep the creatures in their homes, display them at festivals and even use their dung or saliva to make remedies. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/nigerias-hyena-men-put-maligned-animals-centre-stage Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:45:01 +0000 Yemeni lumberjack Ali al-Emadi (pictured below) spends hours chopping down an acacia tree with an axe as his 12-year-old nephew helps out splitting logs. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/we-are-scared-the-country-will-become-a-desert-yemens-forests-are-next-casualty-of-war Wed, 11 Aug 2021 08:49:34 +0000 Photographing the Olympic Games comes with highs and lows: the tedium of long journeys to and from the stadiums, managing with the restrictions of following COVID-19 protocols, setting up equipment, the thrill of getting the right shot. Reuters photographers do not just capture the action at the venues. They are also producing a set of pictures showing their own quirky view from behind the scenes as they travel in Tokyo to cover the events. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/tokyo-2020-olympics-from-the-sidelines Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:03:00 +0000 Every night Moussa Kamara (seen below) works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves but at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job - hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/senegalese-plant-circular-gardens-in-green-wall-defence-against-desert Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:45:07 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/grim-aftermath-of-ethiopian-battle-offers-rare-clues-of-brutal-war Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:32:28 +0000 Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters journalist killed in crossfire on Friday covering the war in Afghanistan, was a largely self-taught photographer who scaled the heights of his profession while documenting wars, riots and human suffering. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/obituary-reuters-photographer-danish-siddiqui-captured-the-people-behind-the-story Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:35:05 +0000 The ranch hand walks along rocky ground, the beam of her flashlight cutting through the moonlit night. She holds a shotgun loosely at her side during her patrol of an alpaca ranch founded as a haven for transgender and non-binary people. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-tenacious-unicorn-ranch-made-a-transgender-haven-then-the-violent-threats-began Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:35:20 +0000 After his work as a taxi driver dried up because of Indonesia's new coronavirus restrictions, Ardi Novriansyah offered his driving skills to help his home city's buckling medical system. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/volunteer-undertakers-bear-the-dead-from-indonesian-homes-as-covid-deaths-rise Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:25:42 +0000 Felipe Luther spends his afternoons studying for a degree from one of Brazil's top universities, tucked in the green hills of Rio de Janeiro above the ritzy beaches of Leblon and Ipanema. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/scholar-by-day-street-sweeper-by-night-one-black-man-navigates-rios-racial-divide Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:35:15 +0000 As documentary filmmaker Kiwi Chow walked through a pedestrian tunnel in Hong Kong on a recent day, he spotted a team of cleaners scraping off glue left by illegal ads and scrubbing the walls clean with mops. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-a-scarred-hong-kong-beautiful-things-are-gone Mon, 28 Jun 2021 22:35:06 +0000 The Tokyo Tower and other landmarks were lit in special Olympic colours in April to mark 100 days before the Summer Games opened, but were shrouded in clouds of mist when rain enveloped the Japanese capital that night. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/postcards-from-tokyo-light-and-shadow-ahead-of-pandemic-olympics Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:45:00 +0000 As visitors to China's Xinjiang enjoyed new theme park-style tourist centres showcasing the region's Muslim Uyghur culture on a recent national holiday, signs of heavy security and state surveillance were never far away. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-chinas-new-xinjiang-patriotic-tourism-police-and-propaganda Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:55:11 +0000 Daniela was 11 years old when a doctor told her she would not live more than another six or seven years. Weighing 75 kilos (165 lb), about twice the recommended weight for her age, the Mexican girl had just suffered a minor heart attack. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/temptation-everywhere-mexican-children-struggle-with-obesity Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:35:28 +0000 From the shores of Indonesia's Bangka island, miners like Hendra head out by boat every day to scores of crudely built wooden pontoons dotted off the coast that are equipped to dredge the seabed for lucrative deposits of tin ore. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/mining-tin-from-the-sea Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:45:14 +0000 Covering the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic as it tore through Indian cities, towns and villages was overwhelming at times. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/witnessing-covid-chaos-in-indias-hospitals-graveyards-and-crematoriums Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:15:04 +0000 After a hard morning planting fresh shoots in the dunes on the edge of the Gobi Desert, 78-year-old farmer Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his shed, sits down beneath the fiery midday sun, and starts to play. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-great-green-wall-chinas-farmers-push-back-the-desert-one-tree-at-a-time Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:35:36 +0000 One young woman grew alarmed when she saw Confederate flags pop up around her small town. Another student often quietly knitted to persevere through stress. A Black teenager in the South feared racist violence more than a virus. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-the-us-students-confronting-racism-injustice-and-a-pandemic Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:20:02 +0000 Each morning, Ko Phyo washes himself and his two-year-old son while seated on a chair, a plastic bag covering what remains of a thigh that he says was shattered by a bullet fired by a Myanmar soldier. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-fallen-souls-a-survivor-says-myanmar-fight-must-go-on Fri, 28 May 2021 22:45:54 +0000 Pramila Devi's shrouded body lay on a bier, resting on a rock on the banks of a muddy Ganges. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/death-in-the-himalayas-poverty-fear-stretched-resources-propel-indias-covid-crisis Thu, 27 May 2021 04:26:11 +0000 Wooded areas up and down the U.S. East Coast are breaking into a deafening buzz. After 17 years spent alone underground, billions of red-eyed cicadas are emerging for their final act: to meet a partner, breed and die. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/getting-up-close-with-cicadas-to-find-climate-change-clues Wed, 26 May 2021 12:45:24 +0000 Trainee flight attendant Ghenwa, engineering student Ali and electronic music DJ Jawad are among a generation of young Syrians to have come of age during the war. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/generation-crisis-young-syrians-come-of-age-in-a-decade-of-conflict Tue, 25 May 2021 15:09:51 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-the-streets-of-tokyo-22-residents-weigh-up-the-olympic-games Thu, 20 May 2021 22:45:19 +0000