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) 2018 Thomson Reuters One of the first things any traveller to North Korea notices is a huge portrait of Kim Il Sung, pictured in front of an airplane and workers alongside the road as you drive out of Pyongyang International Airport. It's an image that soon becomes very familiar. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/portraits-of-a-dynasty-north-koreas-ever-present-kims Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:45:09 +0000 He fled hardship and unrest in Congo Republic with nothing but his ball and a change of clothes. Now, not yet 18, Christ Wamba is training with a professional basketball club in Europe. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-migrants-journey-congo-to-a-greek-hoop-dream Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:30:30 +0000 Yeimy sobbed with her head in her hands as she described how her husband was tied to a pole, gagged and made to watch as she was raped by four fighters from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 12 years ago. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-colombia-victims-of-sexual-abuse-speak-out Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:45:11 +0000 Three days after Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, I was documenting the damage to Wilmington and communities to the south when I was tipped that volunteer rescuers were headed to a Leland church where people were isolated by rising floodwaters. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dogs-rescued-as-floodwater-rose Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:45:45 +0000 Perched on a cliff above Greenland’s Helheim glacier, I tried calling my wife in New York on a satellite phone. Before I could leave a message, an explosion broke the arctic silence. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-greenland-a-glaciers-collapse-shows-climate-impact Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:47:32 +0000 Rosanne Stuart recalls attending an annual fashion parade with her daughter, Madeline, in their hometown of Brisbane, Australia, in 2015. In the midst of the high-energy glamour on the runway, Madeline, who has limited speech, turned to her mother and firmly announced that she would like to be a model. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/model-with-downs-syndrome-makes-strides-worldwide Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:45:17 +0000 Yellow flowered vines crawl through empty window frames and up crumbling brick walls. Electricity poles are slanting along the road, cables hanging dead from their arms. The sign for Malakal's city council is riddled with bullet holes. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-south-sudan-ghost-town-peace-deal-not-yet-a-reality Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:44:24 +0000 In the Malian capital of Bamako, donkey carts driven by young men like 19-year-old Arouna Diabate play a vital role battling the fast-growing city's waste problem. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-mali-donkeys-help-with-the-fight-against-waste Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:46:17 +0000 It is an image that became a symbol of the global financial crisis -- about 20 bankers, their backs turned to the window, attending an emergency meeting at the London office of Lehman Brothers as the firm slid towards collapse. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/rebuilding-lives-10-years-after-lehmans-fall Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:45:59 +0000 Tilak Raj Bathla's tiny weaving factory (pictured below) is one of the few still humming on a once busy road in the northern Indian city of Panipat, known as the country's "textile city". https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thousands-laid-off-as-india-pushes-biggest-tax-reform Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:45:45 +0000 New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world and when it kicks off Fashion Week on September 6 stylists, buyers, fashion enthusiasts and celebrities will be keen to see what has been declared "in style" for the spring and summer seasons. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/new-yorkers-strut-street-style Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:45:23 +0000 June Haimoff first stumbled across a loggerhead turtle on Turkey's southern coast more than 30 years ago. It was a chance encounter that changed her life and the future of the beach she was wandering along. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/saving-turkeys-turtles-from-builders-and-boats Tue, 04 Sep 2018 12:45:22 +0000 In a mountain village in southwest China's Sichuan province, authorities have demolished seven small dam projects this year along a river to clear illegal developments in a new nature reserve. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/dam-nation-china-crackdown-spares-big-hydro-projects Thu, 30 Aug 2018 22:46:00 +0000 As wildfires scorched California yet again this summer, Jose Dariush Leal da Costa, a Bay Area native with Portuguese roots, was harvesting his first almonds in a sun-drenched, watery oasis in southern Portugal. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/portugal-seduces-parched-investors-with-water Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:45:24 +0000 Every year, Indonesians from teens and grandads, to mechanics and students, gather in eastern Java to celebrate their love of the iconic Italian Vespa scooter. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/extreme-vespa-enthusiasts-rev-up-at-indonesian-festival Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:45:41 +0000 On the plain of Arafat, I stood among hundreds of thousands of people who were all trying to reach the top of Mount Mercy, whilst covering my first haj after 20 years as a photographer for Reuters. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/attending-my-first-haj Fri, 24 Aug 2018 13:53:14 +0000 On Yemen's western coast, Mohammed al-Hosami (pictured below) receives support from the people of his village in al Mahwit to pay for his mother's cancer treatment in a clinic in nearby Hodeidah city. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/cancer-patients-the-other-victims-of-yemens-war Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:43:26 +0000 Bernie (pictured below) and Tom Byrne can barely conceal their excitement as they prepare for a visit to Ireland by Pope Francis that they hope will bring back the young believers that have deserted the Catholic church after decades of scandal. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/irelands-catholics-prepare-for-a-visit-from-the-pope Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:45:56 +0000 Jittery Venezuelans on Friday rushed to shops and formed long lines in preparation for a monetary overhaul that will remove five zeros from prices in response to hyperinflation that has made cash increasingly worthless. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/venezuelans-rush-to-shops-before-monetary-overhaul Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:19:52 +0000 Tamara and Yuri Baikov knew it was time to move away from their village when one of their ducks wandered into a neighbour's plot of land, only to return with a wire deliberately threaded through its beak. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/no-people-no-problem-for-forest-dwellers-in-belarus Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:45:55 +0000 Muslims in Buddhist-majority Myanmar usually keep a low profile for fear of intimidation, but Win Lae Phyu Sin, one of the community's rare bloggers on beauty care, has gone the other way. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/myanmar-blogger-battles-bias-with-beauty-campaign Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:45:03 +0000 The wreck of the raft was a dot on the sea but as our rescue boat approached we saw a woman make an effort to wave, so at least there was life. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/spanish-rescue-boat-finds-life-and-death-off-libya-coast Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:17:33 +0000 Their slogan is Orthodoxy or Death. They are convinced Russia should be ruled by an autocratic monarch. They believe the coming of a new tsar may be imminent. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/russian-orthodox-nationalists-hope-for-tsars-return Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:50:09 +0000 Six weeks covering Native Americans at Standing Rock, North Dakota, protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline presented a unique opportunity to get to know many of the people who took a stand there. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/riding-with-native-americans-to-mark-pact-anniversary Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:45:02 +0000 From ground level, Australia's drought looks like a featureless, brown dustbowl, but from the air it transforms into an artistry of colour and texture as the land cracks under a blazing sun. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/australias-drought-the-cancer-eating-away-at-farms Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:45:08 +0000