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Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2021 Thomson Reuters I took the first photo of my daughter, Rebecca, moments after she was born on August 3, 2005. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-first-photo-i-ever-took-of-my-daughter-and-the-last Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:45:35 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-faces-in-the-fog-of-long-covid Mon, 12 Apr 2021 09:45:35 +0000 Nine-year-old Thai kickboxer Pornpattara "Tata" Peachaurai is eager to get back in the ring after coronavirus curbs brought his fight season to a halt more than five months ago. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/punching-out-of-poverty-despite-risks-nine-year-old-thai-fighter-eager-to-return-to-ring Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:45:27 +0000 In his white doctor's jacket, psychiatrist Flavio Falcone could not get homeless drug addicts to talk. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/clowning-is-serious-business-for-doctor-to-homeless-in-brazils-crackland Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:45:57 +0000 Seen from the air, the fragility of humanity as it must have been in the Holy Land in centuries past is plain to see - ancient monasteries clinging to precipices, tiny fishing boats on the Sea of Galilee, deserts gnawing at the edges of towns. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-drones-eye-view-of-the-holy-land-as-christians-look-to-easter Wed, 31 Mar 2021 13:09:47 +0000 Shade Ajayi had never set foot in a classroom until middle age. Now 50, the businesswoman is happily learning to read and write alongside students nearly four decades younger than her. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/its-never-too-late-to-learn-says-50-year-old-nigerian-school-pupil Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:45:09 +0000 The dusty buses keep coming, dozens a day, mattresses, chairs and baskets piled on top. They stop at schools hurriedly turned into camps, disgorging families who describe fleeing from ethnic Amhara militia in Ethiopia's Tigray region. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/you-dont-belong-land-dispute-drives-new-exodus-in-ethiopias-tigray Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:39:49 +0000 After losing her husband, two young sons and her home, Noor Banu (pictured below) thought she had seen the worst of life. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cant-take-this-pain-rohingya-mother-searches-for-son-after-refugee-camp-blaze Fri, 26 Mar 2021 15:54:52 +0000 Researchers wearing headlamps and protective suits race to untangle the claws and wings of bats caught up in a big net after dark in the Philippine province of Laguna. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/by-catching-bats-these-virus-hunters-hope-to-stop-the-next-pandemic Mon, 22 Mar 2021 22:45:59 +0000 About 4 billion people experience severe water shortages for at least one month a year and around 1.6 billion people - almost a quarter of the world's population - have problems accessing a clean, safe water supply, according to the United Nations. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/seen-from-the-sky-polluted-waters-around-the-world Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:42:32 +0000 "Here it is, the truffle, a blessing from God!" Zahra Buheir (pictured below) carefully digs out a desert truffle from the sandy earth and shows it off between her calloused fingers. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/here-it-is-the-truffle-a-blessing-from-god Tue, 16 Mar 2021 09:39:08 +0000 At 10 years old, Lyoo Chan-hee wishes he wasn't one of the last three schoolkids left playing on the beaches of Nokdo island. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-last-children-on-south-koreas-ageing-island Mon, 15 Mar 2021 22:45:56 +0000 A year ago at The Shay, home to fifth-tier English soccer club Halifax FC, fans followed time-honoured traditions - they walked to the match from local pubs and queued for pie at half time. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-year-without-fans-lays-bare-soccers-true-soul Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:14:40 +0000 Despite many sleepless nights on Spain's COVID-19 frontline, Dr Navid Behzadi Koochani of Madrid's regional ambulance service goes to work smiling almost every day. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-best-job-in-the-world-a-madrid-ambulance-doctors-dedication-after-a-year-of-covid Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:35:22 +0000 Lying patiently in the long grass near the Rio Grande in Texas on Tuesday, Reuters photographer Adrees Latif was watching and waiting. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/capturing-the-moment-a-us-border-patrol-agent-reaches-out-to-a-young-migrant Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:08:43 +0000 Behind Tayyibe Demirel's olive groves in southwest Turkey lies a vast, grey expanse, stripped bare by a coal mine eating into the rolling hillside. On the horizon, heavy smoke billows from three giant chimneys of the power plant by the town of Yatagan. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/turkish-olive-farmer-battles-to-save-her-land-from-coal-mine Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:19:36 +0000 During the early months of Brazil's COVID-19 pandemic, Rio de Janeiro police detective Fernanda Fernandes (pictured below) was certain that cases of domestic abuse were rising, but there was little she could do about it as few women came forward to file a report. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/brazil-women-suffer-in-silence-as-covid-19-sparks-domestic-terror Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:55:31 +0000 In a garden on a hill, under the wide boughs of a cherry tree, a white phone booth glistens in the early spring light. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japans-tsunami-survivors-call-lost-loves-on-the-phone-of-the-wind Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:45:25 +0000 A decade ago, Sakae Kato stayed behind to rescue cats abandoned by neighbours who fled the radiation clouds belching from the nearby Fukushima nuclear plant. He won't leave. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-man-who-saves-forgotten-cats-in-fukushimas-nuclear-zone Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:45:27 +0000 Kenya is battling some of the worst locust plagues in decades, but start-up The Bug Picture hopes to transform the pests into profits and bring "hope to the hopeless" whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by the insects. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/farmers-fight-back-making-animal-feed-from-a-locust-plague Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:56:02 +0000 A head shorter than his peers, Fallou Diop quickly vanishes into the crowd of jockeys preparing for early morning drills in the western Senegalese village of Niaga. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-the-teenage-senegalese-jockey-racing-to-fame Fri, 19 Feb 2021 08:45:55 +0000 Sunday is traditionally a quiet day for Chuck Pryor's Houston funeral home, but on this Sunday in February, almost a year after the global pandemic reached Texas, the phone was still ringing. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/i-just-ask-god-to-help-me-texas-funeral-home-crushed-by-death-as-us-covid-toll-nears-500000 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 14:45:29 +0000 In the past decade, Wang Yunxia, 30, spent her adult life largely on a factory floor in southern Guangdong, far away from her daughter in central China, and even farther away from her husband in Beijing, where he was also a migrant worker. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/ive-let-them-down-beijings-migrant-workers-miss-family-reunions-on-lunar-new-year Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:43:00 +0000 Zoltan Berki (pictured below) usually wakes up before dawn, as his five small children sleep next door, to feed the old iron furnace that stands in a wall cavity to warm up both rooms. This is the only part of his house that he can afford to heat during winter. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hungarys-poor-burn-plastic-bottles-to-stay-warm-creating-deadly-smog Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:44:09 +0000 Reena Jani rose early, finished her chores in the crisp January cold and walked uphill to the road skirting her remote tribal hamlet of Pendajam in eastern India. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-1700km-journey-to-deliver-coronavirus-vaccine-to-indias-rural-health-workers Mon, 25 Jan 2021 03:45:20 +0000