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 The 57 men stumbled out of the back of a dark police truck into the glare of a sunny courtyard and a phalanx of cameras. Some clutched another’s hand, as if for comfort. They lined up on wooden benches in the dirt, almost all of them trying to hide their faces, and not succeeding. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-police-raid-viral-videos-and-the-broken-lives-of-nigerian-gay-law-suspects Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:45:23 +0000 The number of chinstrap penguins in some colonies in Western Antarctica has fallen by as much as 77% since they were last surveyed in the 1970s, say scientists studying the impact of climate change on the remote region. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/on-board-the-antarctic-expedition-that-reveals-dramatic-penguin-decline Mon, 10 Feb 2020 23:45:27 +0000 Like many of Siberia's homeless, Alexei Vergunov (pictured below) survives freezing night-time temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius by sleeping under an industrial heating pipe for warmth. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/how-to-survive-a-siberian-winter-with-no-home Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:51:49 +0000 In northeastern Syria, prisons and detention camps hold thousands of men, women and children whose lives are in limbo nearly a year after the final defeat of Islamic State to which they once belonged. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/inside-the-prisons-where-remnants-of-islamic-state-are-held-in-limbo Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:54:39 +0000 When the 56-year-old mother-in-law of David Sanchez Luna (pictured below) was tortured and killed after venturing out of her small Mexican community encircled by drug cartels, he let his seven- and ten-year-old daughters receive military-style weapons training. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/under-siege-inside-the-mexican-village-where-children-are-armed Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:03:39 +0000 After making sure everyone's face mask is on and sanitizer is to hand, the Qiao family (below) heads out to Jingshan Park, a former royal sanctuary beside the Forbidden City in China's capital Beijing. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-chinese-cities-become-ghost-towns-some-seek-out-the-space Sun, 09 Feb 2020 00:45:59 +0000 Even as a fierce bushfire bore down on the rural Australian community of Wytaliba, Gary Wilson and his partner Julie Willis decided not to flee their timber home - they had a house full of orphaned baby kangaroos to protect. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/at-home-with-couple-who-saved-baby-kangaroos-from-the-fires Thu, 06 Feb 2020 22:35:28 +0000 Latinos in Iowa, overlooked as a political force for years in the state that kicks off the U.S. presidential race, have been getting unprecedented attention in a too-close-to-call Democratic White House nominating fight. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/why-speaking-spanish-matters-to-presidential-hopefuls-in-iowa Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:48:05 +0000 The protests outside New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University on Thursday started out small and relatively low-key - another show of anger by students who oppose a citizenship law they say discriminates against Muslims. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-gunman-shoots-at-new-delhi-protesters Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:18:46 +0000 A masked protester stretches his arm out through a cloud of tear gas, trying to reach a comrade fatally injured by a blow to the head during clashes with security services in Iraq. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/young-man-killed-as-baghdad-protests-rage Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:46:39 +0000 The soporific buzz of bees fills the abandoned train station at Kiu, a two-hour drive from Kenya's capital Nairobi. Rusting rail sleepers lay on the grass outside; a slender snake slithers away after footsteps disturb his sunbaked snooze. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/some-kenyans-say-chinese-built-railway-leaves-them-in-the-dust Wed, 22 Jan 2020 11:45:56 +0000 For two weeks, builder Rod Dunn (pictured below) has been living at a showground in a borrowed caravan, wearing an old coat donated by a friend. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-australian-bushfire-ashes-a-community-rises-in-solidarity Thu, 16 Jan 2020 22:45:12 +0000 Dotted around Taiwan lie the remains of abandoned bunkers originally built to repel an invasion from China, during a period in the island's history when it was under martial law and fear of a Chinese attack was a part of daily life. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-tool-of-war-to-photo-op-taiwanese-repurpose-old-bunkers Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:35:38 +0000 More than two decades after Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997, a long border fence still threads between mainland China and the city today. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-hong-kongs-tranquil-borderlands-two-systems-co-exist Mon, 06 Jan 2020 00:15:32 +0000 On the east side of Houston, the white plumes of the Texas oil and chemical refineries are a constant backdrop for residents of the Manchester neighborhood. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/these-houston-residents-dream-of-moving-to-where-the-air-is-clear Fri, 03 Jan 2020 11:40:01 +0000 Yang Zhaoyu quit his job in a big Chinese city nine months ago and moved to a small community that preaches sustainable living and mindful consumption. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/city-dwellers-find-simpler-life-in-rural-china-commune Mon, 30 Dec 2019 00:15:59 +0000 Surrounded by dozens of his descendants, Adrian LeBaron gave thanks to God as he prepared to celebrate Christmas for the first time since suspected Mexican drug cartel hitmen murdered his daughter and four grandchildren last month. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/mexico-mormon-family-has-tearful-christmas-after-cartel-murders Fri, 27 Dec 2019 18:25:59 +0000 For decades it was known as Little Shanghai, a gritty, waterfront neighbourhood that was the landing spot for many mainland Chinese emigrating to Hong Kong. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/young-democrats-shake-up-hong-kong-politics Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:45:08 +0000 Chinese-ruled Hong Kong introduced a bill into the legislature in February that would have allowed the extradition of defendants to mainland China for the first time to face trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/hong-kong-protest-tide-turns-into-sea-of-flames Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:26:08 +0000 Protests swept the globe in 2019, with millions of people taking to the streets from Catalonia to Colombia, and Haiti to Hong Kong. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/portraits-from-the-frontlines-of-global-protests Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:21:01 +0000 After wading through mudflats, Fan Xinde, a 36-year-old fisherman (below), sifts old copper coins from the debris scooped from the bed of a dwindling river that feeds China's biggest freshwater lake, the Poyang. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/fishermen-cry-foul-as-china-bids-to-fix-drought-hit-lake Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:14:57 +0000 Last August, Francys Rivero, an unemployed single mother of four, feared for her baby's life. Two months after his birth, even though she was breastfeeding him regularly, Kenai de Jesus wasn't gaining weight. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/malnutrition-curses-the-children-of-venezuela Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:45:29 +0000 History has marched on since they arrived in the middle of the last century, seeking refuge for what they thought would be a few weeks, but staying for a lifetime. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/side-by-side-glimpses-of-palestinian-refugee-camps-then-and-now Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:40:55 +0000 From the protests convulsing Hong Kong to that exchange between U.S. First Lady Melania Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Reuters photographers covered the biggest news stories of 2019, and captured some of its most viral moments as well. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-picture-and-its-story-2019-part-two Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:06:19 +0000 From the protests convulsing Hong Kong to that exchange between U.S. First Lady Melania Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Reuters photographers covered the biggest news stories of 2019, and captured some of its most viral moments as well. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-picture-and-its-story-2019-part-one Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:05:37 +0000