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) 2017 Thomson Reuters After many false starts, plans to resurrect a railway in Pakistan's teeming metropolis of Karachi are moving ahead with the help of Chinese cash. Not everyone is happy. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/karachi-rail-revival-faces-shanty-town-delay Wed, 16 Aug 2017 14:48:53 +0000 Children with disabilities being treated at Brazil's hospitals, where economic hardship has crimped services, are getting an emotional lift from a mythical creature of the sea: a mermaid. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/splash-life-as-a-mermaid Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:46:39 +0000 The Libyan coastguard intercepted a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, ordering it to sail to Tripoli or risk being targeted, Reuters photographer, Yannis Behrakis, aboard said. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/spanish-migrant-rescue-ship-threatened-by-libyan-coastguard Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:30:43 +0000 Bosnia's religious leaders say politicians are standing in the way of peaceful coexistence between Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities trying to forgive and forget after the atrocities of a devastating 1990s war. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/faith-history-and-community-in-bosnia Wed, 09 Aug 2017 15:15:26 +0000 Kenyans go to the polls next week to choose a new president, members of parliament and regional authorities, with many jittery about the potential for violence after the vote. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fashion-and-fairways-slice-of-life-in-nairobi Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:43:05 +0000 Fabiana Silva called the streets of São Paulo home for 16 years as one of hundreds of people trapped in cracolândia, the open-air drug markets in South America's biggest city. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/former-crackland-addict-turns-trash-into-livelihood Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:02:17 +0000 In 1517, Michelangelo climbed Mount Altissimo in Tuscany and found the marble of his dreams. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/carving-out-michelangelos-marble-dream Wed, 02 Aug 2017 10:45:45 +0000 For more than a decade, Shamil Zhumatov has photographed spacecraft taking off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome. After dozens of launches, he says the challenge is to find new and better ways of taking pictures. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/spacecraft-blast-off-on-the-edge-of-day-and-night Mon, 31 Jul 2017 17:06:26 +0000 A man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl was executed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday in front of hundreds of onlookers, the first public execution there since 2009. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/execution-in-yemen Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:22:48 +0000 In a vast network of tunnels carved into the rocks under the Maltese capital Valletta, faded maps of the Mediterranean hint at the place's role in directing key battles in World War Two. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/shadows-of-history-in-maltas-war-tunnels Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:45:25 +0000 As Middle East summer temperatures soar above 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit), Gazans are struggling to stay cool amid a power crisis, with less than four hours of electricity a day and little chance to run fans and air-conditioners. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/gaza-living-with-blackouts Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:45:44 +0000 Yemen's cholera outbreak is so widespread that just drinking water can lead to death. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/yemens-deadly-cholera-outbreak Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:00:16 +0000 Rosa Sabido stares out a church window pondering her future and worrying about her ailing mother. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-church-sanctuary-colorado-woman-defies-ice Wed, 26 Jul 2017 13:45:40 +0000 Irish racehorse trainers and breeders fear a Brexit that impedes the free movement of animals could threaten its success on the track and position as Europe's largest producer of thoroughbreds. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brexit-all-bets-off-for-irish-horse-racing-industry Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:45:21 +0000 Clad in a pink tank top and shorts, her face made up with rouge and red lipstick, transgender Muay Thai fighter Nong Rose Baan Charoensuk is a formidable opponent. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/transgender-boxer-fights-for-acceptance Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:45:52 +0000 A collection of yawing mouths and extracted teeth, booming stereo speakers and colourful hookah pipes adorn shop fronts in Somalia, a colourful contrast to the airbrushed artworks of big business. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/drawing-in-the-customers-in-mogadishu Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:50:46 +0000 When Muslim elders called for a "Day of Rage" on Friday to protest at new Israeli security measures at Jerusalem's holiest site, photographer Ammar Awad knew where he had to be. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/tear-gas-scene-from-jerusalems-day-of-rage Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:22:46 +0000 A Chinese female blogger who posed as a man's Lunar New Year girlfriend says her experience illustrates the generational tensions over finding a marriage partner in China. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hopes-and-expectations-the-journey-of-a-fake-girlfriend Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:45:40 +0000 The sound of bodies slapping against each other rocks the stifling sumo "stable" in the central Japanese city of Nagoya, as 11 gigantic wrestlers wearing only loincloths take turns throwing each other out of a ring of sand. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/getting-to-grips-with-sumo Tue, 18 Jul 2017 21:45:08 +0000 Hyenas roam the streets of the ancient walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia every night, seeking scraps of meat to drag to the nearby caves. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hyenas-spark-admiration-not-fear-in-ethiopias-harar-city Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:47:35 +0000 Joking with clients and colleagues, Mehrunnisha Shokat Ali might be mistaken for any other patron of the Social watering hole in the Indian capital's swanky Hauz Khas neighbourhood. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/new-delhi-woman-bouncer-pulls-no-punches Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:45:52 +0000 South Sudanese activists are using music, poetry, theatre, comedy, dance and fashion to preach tolerance in the world's youngest nation which has been divided by years of civil war. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/south-sudanese-youth-turn-to-art-to-push-for-peace Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:45:38 +0000 A screaming father running down a rubble-strewn street in Mosul carrying his distressed daughter was one of the most powerful Reuters images taken during the Iraqi-led assault to remove Islamic State from its stronghold. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-battle-for-mosul-urban-warfare-and-civilian-exodus Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:26:15 +0000 India's holy Ganges begins as a crystal clear river high in the icy Himalayas but pollution and excessive usage transforms it into toxic sludge on its journey through burgeoning cities, industrial hubs and past millions of devotees. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dying-mother-ganges-holy-river-succumbs-to-pollution Mon, 10 Jul 2017 07:45:56 +0000 Security forces using shotguns to disperse crowds of stone-throwing young people in the Indian-ruled region of Himalayan Kashmir have killed more than 100 people, blinding hundreds and maiming thousands over the past year. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/kashmirs-stone-pelters-face-off-against-pellet-guns Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:45:47 +0000