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) 2020 Thomson Reuters Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is due to cross 100,000 imminently. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/indians-share-the-stories-of-loved-ones-they-lost-to-the-pandemic Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:14:33 +0000 Red coal trucks zip up and down narrow dirt tracks, churning up clouds of dust in China's remote Gansu province. Nearby, the towering stanchions of a new railway bridge rise out of a muddy river winding through the hills. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/energy-security-and-economic-fears-drive-chinas-return-to-coal Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:35:10 +0000 In the flames, they are finding redemption. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/oregon-inmates-find-redemption-in-fighting-wildfires Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:31:45 +0000 Strangely, I can’t clearly picture the face of the surgeon who changed my family’s life. I’m not sure I’d recognize him if I bumped into him in the street. And yet I can vividly recall his face turning pale the instant he looked at the X-rays of my 14-year-old daughter’s shoulder. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-pandemic-a-deadly-cancer-and-my-14-year-old-daughter Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:25:42 +0000 In the forests and on remote offshore islands of Taiwan, a group of conservationists are racing to collect as many rare plant species as they can before they are lost to climate change and human encroachment. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/taiwan-plant-hunters-race-to-collect-rare-species-before-they-are-gone Mon, 21 Sep 2020 07:45:41 +0000 As anti-government protesters in Haiti's capital blocked principal roads and clashed with police last year, Stanley Joseph and Daphne Gerard (below) used the city's winding and potholed backroads to make it to church for their wedding, decked out in all their finery. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/haitis-brides-beat-hurricanes-power-cuts-and-protests-to-wed-in-style Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:43:35 +0000 A fire has been burning since mid-July in the remote wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving in its wake a vast charred desolation bigger than New York City. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-brazil-its-not-just-the-amazon-thats-burning-the-worlds-largest-wetland-is-on-fire-too Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:58:29 +0000 In a room inside a hillside Taoist monastery in China's Shandong province lies a collection of 558 memorial tablets inscribed with the names and hometowns of people who died after contracting the coronavirus or while battling the pandemic. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/taoist-priest-honours-chinas-coronavirus-dead-with-memorial-tablets Thu, 10 Sep 2020 02:30:26 +0000 Xita, a tiny monkey with sad brown eyes, clutches her newborn tight. Both are fighting for their lives. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-mission-to-save-the-amazons-animals Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:45:13 +0000 For Ricardo Moraes, a veteran photographer who for 11 years has documented for Reuters life in Rio de Janeiro's often dangerous cinderblock slums known as "favelas", work began at about 6 a.m. on Thursday, when he heard a radio report of a hostage situation in Sao Carlos, a sprawling tangle of hillside homes near the city center. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-despair-of-a-rio-widow-in-a-city-struggling-with-violence Sat, 29 Aug 2020 21:48:11 +0000 Growing up in the coastal capital of Dakar, Khadjou Sambe never saw a Black woman surfing the Atlantic swells. As Senegal's first female professional surfer, Sambe is now inspiring the next generation to defy cultural norms and take to the waves. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-senegals-first-female-pro-surfer-inspiring-girls-to-take-to-the-waves Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:25:53 +0000 Store windows in the five-storey Huqiu Wedding Dress Mall in the Chinese city of Suzhou gleam with the reflection from rows and rows of elaborate gowns to entice potential buyers. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/coronavirus-dampens-celebrations-in-chinas-wedding-gown-city Sun, 23 Aug 2020 22:35:02 +0000 Just a few months after arriving in Sydney for a planned two-year stay, university students Maggie Zhang and boyfriend Sunny Gu (pictured below) sat down to make a "pros and cons" list about life in Australia. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chinese-students-in-australia-head-home-as-coronavirus-upends-study Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:40:19 +0000 Beirut's catastrophic port explosion has demolished Rita Faraj Oghlo's house, left her family stranded and may cost her husband Adel his leg. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/stranded-and-injured-lebanese-family-reels-from-blast Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:01:54 +0000 Claudette Halabi cried out from beneath the rubble of her house for an hour before she died. The neighbours couldn't save her. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/we-lost-everything-grieving-beirut-neighbourhood-struggles-to-rebuild Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:40:31 +0000 Guards armed with rifles escort Dr. Kumar Gaurav as he makes the rounds at his hospital on the banks of the Ganges River. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/pandemic-pushes-indian-hospital-to-the-brink Wed, 12 Aug 2020 22:25:25 +0000 When he first felt the ground shaking, Reuters photographer Mohamed Azakir thought Beirut had been struck by an earthquake. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/capturing-a-beirut-rescue Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:02:59 +0000 At 96, Giuseppe Paterno has faced many tests in life - childhood poverty, war and, more recently, the coronavirus pandemic. Now he has sailed through an exam that makes him Italy's oldest university graduate. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-italys-oldest-student-surviving-ww2-and-a-pandemic-to-graduate-at-96 Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:45:53 +0000 It is the only property outside of Britain that Queen Elizabeth called home. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/step-inside-the-crumbling-villa-where-queen-elizabeth-spent-her-20s Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:25:13 +0000 The scene inside United Memorial Medical Center in Houston has become all too familiar: Overwhelmed medical staff fighting to curb the wave of COVID-19 patients that come through the hospital’s doors every day. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/i-cannot-save-everybody-houston-doctor-fights-newest-covid-19-surge Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:44:51 +0000 Mansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi (pictured below) have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at an enormous landfill site on the outskirts of New Delhi for nearly 20 years. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fear-will-not-fill-our-bellies-why-indian-scavengers-risk-their-lives-amid-coronavirus-debris Fri, 24 Jul 2020 06:45:42 +0000 For Valentine’s Day this year, Henry Tong gave his wife, Elaine To, a photo book. It holds the memories of their life together: their first date six years ago, kissing in front of a pro-democracy “Lennon wall”; the tattooed bands on their ring fingers, symbolizing a bond not easily erased; and their wedding day last year, when he vowed to her, “Not even a nuclear explosion could break us apart.” https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/on-trial-on-riot-charges-hong-kong-newlyweds-prepared-for-life-apart Fri, 24 Jul 2020 05:47:03 +0000 Ikuko (pictured below), the "big sister" of Tokyo's Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel coronavirus pandemic has made her fear for her centuries-old profession as never before. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/itll-take-all-of-our-body-and-soul-geisha-struggle-to-survive-in-the-shadow-of-coronavirus Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:25:50 +0000 At an open-air, riverbank factory where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet in Sudan, Mohamed Ahmed al Ameen (pictured below) and his colleagues mould thousands of bricks every day from mud deposited by summer floods. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fears-at-niles-convergence-in-sudan-that-new-dam-will-sap-rivers-strength Thu, 09 Jul 2020 09:25:01 +0000 The fine white dust that shrouds much of his northern Myanmar village also covers sculptor Chin Win as he leans over a half-finished Buddha statue. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/carving-buddha-in-myanmar-village-blessed-with-marble-bounty Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:35:24 +0000