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 On Indonesia's Sumba island, the motifs displayed on traditional textiles produced by its weavers often depict animals, including the area's famed Sandalwood breed of horses. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-crops-fail-indonesias-sumba-seeks-lifeline-in-weaving-fishing Tue, 02 Jun 2020 22:35:35 +0000 After putting a coronavirus patient onto a ventilator to help him to breathe, Dr. Zafia Anklesaria noted to herself that her baby never kicked during emergency procedures. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-pregnant-doctor-navigates-covid-19-fight-in-low-income-la Tue, 26 May 2020 06:44:12 +0000 Valnir da Silva died on the streets of a poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood on Saturday. His body lay on the sidewalk for 30 hours, according to relatives and neighbors. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/corpse-lay-on-the-street-in-coronavirus-racked-rio-for-30-hours Thu, 21 May 2020 16:48:20 +0000 For Reuters photographer Hannah McKay, a recent trip to take pictures at a hospital in northern England required the kind of planning more typical of a foreign assignment. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-photographer-captured-baby-image-in-coronavirus-lockdown Wed, 20 May 2020 12:30:00 +0000 When a group of villagers in the Ecuadorean fishing community of El Real came down with coughs and fevers in early April, nobody was sure if they had the coronavirus - and no health workers were available to diagnose or treat them. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/rural-ecuador-faces-coronavirus-outbreak-without-doctors Wed, 20 May 2020 11:38:25 +0000 For Yerbin Estrada (pictured below), the worst part of the day is when the sun begins to set. The hundreds of inmates of La Esperanza prison in central Honduras must leave its small courtyard and file back to their cramped cells. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cut-off-by-coronavirus-hondurans-in-packed-prison-suffer-mental-toll Thu, 14 May 2020 13:30:05 +0000 Vicente Piratapuia, 69, of the Piratapuia tribe (pictured below), had a high fever and could hardly breathe, but he refused to leave his home on the outskirts of the Amazon rainforest's biggest city. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-the-amazon-an-indigenous-nurse-volunteers-in-coronavirus-fight Thu, 07 May 2020 14:43:51 +0000 The young woman is pressed to the ground next to a riot police shield. Detained by Hong Kong authorities, she screams her name out to friends so they can call a lawyer to help. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/reuters-pulitzer-team-captures-hong-kongs-descent-into-chaos Tue, 05 May 2020 16:02:29 +0000 Catholic priest Eduardo "Ponpon" Vasquez has worn a hazmat suit more than a vestment this past month. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hazmat-suits-and-holy-water-two-priests-bring-faith-to-philippines-lockdown Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:41:10 +0000 Even in Italy, where extended family relations run deep,  Marzio Toniolo's tale of a coronavirus lockdown is unusual - four generations cooped up in one house. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-italy-four-generations-in-a-coronavirus-lockdown Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:30:54 +0000 Children confined to their homes under lockdown are drawing what they miss most - friends at school, grandparents, football and green open spaces. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/childrens-drawings-from-lockdown-show-the-world-what-they-miss-most Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:31:11 +0000 There are 48 bodies in the basement of the funeral home in Harlem. Forty are in cardboard boxes, ready for cremation. The other eight are in the refrigerator, to be embalmed and buried. It will be weeks or months before they get either. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dealing-with-the-dead-the-female-undertakers-of-harlem Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:41:53 +0000 In homes that are cramped, stuffy and increasingly low on food, residents of Mumbai's huge Dharavi slum are struggling under India's nationwide lockdown. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/indians-build-their-own-lockdown-barricades-in-the-countrys-slums Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:35:18 +0000 As a first-time mother with no idea what to expect, Nancy Pedroza was convinced the hospital was the safest place to have her baby. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-home-to-hospital-giving-birth-during-the-us-coronavirus-outbreak Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:35:32 +0000 The shifts are long and the scenes are heartbreaking inside a Maryland hospital where nurses and doctors have been treating coronavirus patients for weeks, unable to let family inside to visit loved ones on their death beds. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-day-fighting-the-coronavirus-us-hospital-staff-share-hardest-moments-on-shift Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:46:40 +0000 For several years, Fawn Sharp (pictured below) has seen her tribe on the coastline of Washington state lurch from crisis to crisis: rising sea levels have flooded the Quinault Indian Nation’s main village, and its staple sockeye salmon in nearby rivers have all but disappeared – a direct hit to the tribe’s finances and culture. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-us-tribes-uphill-battle-against-climate-change Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:25:46 +0000 Tentative signs of normal life are returning to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic was first documented, after a 76-day lockdown that turned it into a virtual ghost town. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/before-and-after-life-is-slowly-reemerging-in-wuhan Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:50:42 +0000 When President Trump announced the ban on travel from Europe last month, I was more than 3,000 miles away from my Norwegian childhood home, a 24-year-old photographer creating a life of my own in New York City. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/quarantine-millennials-face-bedtimes-and-old-rules-as-they-move-home Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:34:56 +0000 Lockdowns to halt the spread of the coronavirus have brought an uncanny silence to some of the world's busiest places. Transport hubs that should be teeming with travellers such as New York's Grand Central station or Istanbul's Eminonu ferry docks are all but deserted. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/high-noon-in-a-coronavirus-stricken-world Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:38:51 +0000 When casino owner Kang Qiang (pictured below) looks out the window of his 20th floor office in this city on the remote Cambodian coast, he sees construction cranes sitting idle. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-cambodian-casino-town-chinese-bet-on-future-after-coronavirus Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:41:34 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-schools-in-shanghai-to-picnics-in-caracas-how-coronavirus-is-moving-global-life-online Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:45:17 +0000 Lori Spencer had an uneasy feeling after dropping her 81-year-old mother off at the Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland, Washington on Feb. 26. She felt even worse the next day, when her mother, Judie Shape, threw an uncharacteristic tantrum - begging to leave the facility. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/inside-one-familys-coronavirus-nightmare-at-seattle-area-nursing-home Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:00:15 +0000 A short stretch of the meandering Rio Grande - the river that marks the border between the United States and Mexico - has been for a long time a focal point for migrants looking to head north, seeking a better life. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-year-documenting-migration-on-rio-grande Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:35:52 +0000 The central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus is believed to have originated, remains under lockdown after more than 50 days, even as the world's attention has shifted to other hotspots. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/life-under-lockdown-wuhans-windows-balconies-and-rooftops Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:48:17 +0000 Whirling, spinning, reaching, grasping - Japanese wheelchair dancer Kenta Kambara's emotive performances are wordless testimony to artistic passion and possibility. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-the-japanese-wheelchair-dancer-who-dreams-of-performing-at-olympics-ceremony Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:50:54 +0000