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 China's snow sports industry is pinning its hopes on people like Shi Haoping, 32, who takes to the slopes to de-stress from his job as head of an online education company. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chinas-winter-sports-industry-hopes-olympic-games-will-yield-white-gold Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:45:37 +0000 Fifteen-year-old Francesca Cesarini was born with no hands and with only one leg. So her mother was more than a bit surprised when her daughter told her she wanted to be an acrobatic pole dancer. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-the-italian-teen-with-one-leg-and-no-hands-finding-freedom-in-acrobatic-pole-dancing Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:45:31 +0000 From migrants trying to reach Europe and the United States to armed conflicts and protests around the globe, Reuters photographers witnessed some of the most important events of the year. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-picture-and-its-story-2021-part-two Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:45:41 +0000 From migrants trying to reach Europe and the United States to armed conflicts and protests around the globe, Reuters photographers witnessed some of the most important events of the year. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-picture-and-its-story-2021-part-one Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:45:21 +0000 A couple of days after migrants started to set up tents in a new location along an old rail line in Dunkirk in northern France last week, Dawan Anwar Mahmud quickly took the opportunity to build the make-shift camp’s first restaurant. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-a-french-migrant-camp-a-man-sells-sandwiches-to-raise-smugglers-fee Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:40:33 +0000 Bundled from the cold in black wooly hats and puffy coats, some in red life jackets, the migrants hauled the rubber dinghy on their shoulders and heads under a steely November sky, over the dunes towards the beach. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-tragedy-strikes-channel-migrants-another-journey-has-safe-landing Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:23:36 +0000 Scientists are combing Ireland's west coast for seaweed to feed to cattle and sheep after research showed it could stop them breathing out so much climate-warming methane. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/sea-superfood-can-seaweed-help-solve-irelands-cow-methane-problem Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:43:38 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-father-and-sons-ice-age-plot-to-slow-siberian-thaw Thu, 04 Nov 2021 07:35:47 +0000 To fill her days and keep her mind occupied, university student Hawa sits by the window in her Kabul home and pores over a book. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dreams-on-hold-afghan-girls-and-women-are-desperate-to-get-back-to-class Tue, 02 Nov 2021 23:26:50 +0000 When a storm hits their village in northeastern Spain, Marcela and Maria Cinta Otamendi rush to the coast, day or night, to check on their restaurant and rice fields, fearing the sea may have swallowed them. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/spanish-villagers-fear-their-homes-will-be-abandoned-to-the-sea Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:45:31 +0000 Chen Ing-wen strides up to a rocky outcrop some 3 km (1.9 miles) from China's coast on Taiwan-controlled Kinmen island and demonstrates how as a soldier he used to shoot from there at Chinese trawlers that got too close. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/model-soldiers-and-secret-bunkers-on-taiwans-front-line-with-china Mon, 25 Oct 2021 23:00:26 +0000 When a big chief dies on the Xingu indigenous reservation, its tribes gather for a unique funeral ritual called the Kuarup. Wearing body paint and bird feathers, they join in ceremonial dances, combat and feasts to celebrate life, death and rebirth. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/rare-access-captures-dances-and-feasts-of-amazonian-chiefs-funeral-ritual Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:35:11 +0000 Ahmad Khalil Mayan, programme director at a large Kabul orphanage, says he is cutting back on the amount of fruit and meat he gives the children each week because the home is running out of money. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/this-kabul-orphanage-is-struggling-to-feed-its-children-as-it-runs-low-on-cash Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:45:28 +0000 On an island surrounded by the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in southern Iraq, Sabah Thamer al-Baher rises with the sun to milk his herd of water buffalo. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/our-whole-life-depends-on-water-climate-change-pollution-and-dams-threaten-iraqs-marsh-arabs Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:45:07 +0000 Chien Shun-yih looks out over his withering tea fields in Taiwan's picturesque southern Meishan township and lets out a sigh. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/climate-fuelled-drought-forces-taiwan-tea-farmer-in-search-of-water Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:45:40 +0000 Just outside the one-room cabin that gives her a 360-degree panorama of the Montana wilderness below, Samsara Duffey peers into a pair of binoculars. All around her, the parched mountains are shrouded in smoke blown over from blazes in Idaho and Oregon. Under that gray veil, the Rockies look mystical, almost ethereal. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-love-but-apart-as-they-fight-fires-in-the-american-west Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:45:32 +0000 To visit the Indian village of Malana deep in the Himalayas, a COVID-19 vaccination team scrambled over a landslide that blocked the road the day before, scaled a retaining wall and then began a three-hour trek down and up a river valley. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/doctors-scale-rockslides-invoke-gods-to-vaccinate-himalayan-villages Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:49:56 +0000 Anaira Jules, who lived her whole life in a small hamlet in rural Haiti, had never set foot on a plane. But for her last journey, she was sent off in a gleaming white, plane-shaped coffin complete with a wing-tail and illuminated portholes. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-haiti-festive-wakes-and-voodoo-undertakers-help-mourners-say-their-last-goodbyes Tue, 21 Sep 2021 07:51:47 +0000 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