China International Press Photo (CHIPP) announced the results for its annual photojournalism contest and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.
The winning images are featured below.
Lefteris Pitarakis | War and Conflict News Singles – Silver Medal for “Over the Fence”
A Syrian refugee carries a baby over the border fence into Turkey from Syria in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, June 14, 2015. Thousands of Syrians cut through a border fence and crossed over into Turkey on Sunday, fleeing intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and jihadis.The flow of refugees came as Syrian Kurdish fighters closed in on the outskirts of a strategic Islamic State-held town on the Turkish border. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A Syrian refugee carries a baby over the border fence into Turkey from Syria in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, June 14, 2015. Thousands of Syrians cut through a border fence and crossed over into Turkey on Sunday, fleeing intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and jihadis. The flow of refugees came as Syrian Kurdish fighters closed in on the outskirts of a strategic Islamic State-held town on the Turkish border. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Jerome Delay | War and Conflict News Stories – Gold Medal for “Burundi Unrest”
This series chronicles the political unrest in the African nation of Burundi. Men duck for cover as shots are fired in Bujumbura, Burundi, Monday, May 4, 2015. Anti-government demonstrations resumed in Burundi’s capital after a weekend pause as thousands continue to protest the president’s decision to seek a third term. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Jean Claude Niyonzima, a suspected member of the ruling party’s Imbonerakure youth militia, pleads with soldiers to protect him from a mob of demonstrators after he came out of hiding in a sewer in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 7, 2015. Niyonzima fled from his house into the sewer under a hail of stones thrown by a mob protesting President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a third term in office. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Demonstrators sing the national anthem in front of a line of riot police in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Friday May 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Demonstrators corner a suspected member of the ruling party’s Imbonerakure youth militia at his home in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A demonstrator seriously wounded by live ammunition waits for treatment in a small clinic in the Musaga district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Monday May 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Demonstrators topple a burnt out car in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Friday May 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A protester lays dead after being shot in the Kinama district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Thursday May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
People set up a barricade in the Musaga district of Bujumbura, Burundi, Saturday May 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Demonstrators face off with police in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, Wednesday May 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Jafeh Hakizimana shows his wounds in the rural Bujumbura village of Kamesa, Burundi, Monday May 18, 2015. Hakizimana is one of three wounded during an attack of his village by Imbonerakure pro-government militias. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Peter Dejong | General News Singles – Gold Medal for “Panic in Paris”
A man carries two children after panic broke out among mourners who payed their respect at the attack sites at restaurant Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia) and the Carillon Hotel in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. Panic broke out as the crowd heard someone screaming from another location around the corner. Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris on Sunday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected suicide bomber involved in the country’s deadliest violence since World War II. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
A man carries two children after panic broke out among mourners who payed their respect at the attack sites at restaurant Le Petit Cambodge (Little Cambodia) and the Carillon Hotel in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015. Panic broke out as the crowd heard someone screaming from another location around the corner. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Darko Bandic | General News Singles – Award of Excellence for “On the Move”
A column of migrants moves through fields after crossing from Croatia, in Rigonce, Slovenia, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
A column of migrants moves through fields after crossing from Croatia, in Rigonce, Slovenia, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Santi Palacios | General News Stories – Award of Excellence for “Coming Ashore”
Series chronicling the migrant crisis in Europe and the influx of them coming ashore in Lesbos, Greece. More than 500,000 people have arrived in the European Union this year, seeking sanctuary or jobs and sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades. Tens of thousands of people trying to escape conflict and poverty in places like Syria and Afghanistan have been making their way across Europe this summer and fall, embarking on grueling journeys that typically start with a short boat trip from Turkey to Greece, then continue north and west on foot and by bus and train. Afghan migrants disembark safely from their frail boat in bad weather on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean see from Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
A man holds three children wearing thermal blankets after their arrival in bad weather from Turkey on the Greek island of Lesbos , Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Greece’s government says it is preparing a rent-assistance program to cope with a growing number of refugees, who face the oncoming winter and mounting resistance in Europe. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Migrants disembark from a dinghy on a beach after arriving from the Turkish coast to the village of Skala Sikaminias on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. Greece is the main entry point for those fleeing violence at home and seeking a better life in the European Union. More than 500,000 people have arrived so far this year on Greece’s eastern islands, paying smugglers to ferry them across from nearby Turkey. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Paramedics and doctors try to revive a young boy after a boat with refugees and migrants sank while crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. The condition of the child is not known. The Greek coast guard said it rescued 242 refugees or economic migrants off the eastern island of Lesbos Wednesday after the wooden boat they traveled in capsized, leaving at least three dead on a day when another 8 people drowned trying to reach Greece. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
An Afghan woman holding her child reacts after arriving from Turkey at the Greek island of Lesbos, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Greece’s government says it is preparing a rent-assistance program to cope with a growing number of refugees, who face the oncoming winter and mounting resistance in Europe. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
An Afghan boy tries to warm up next to a bonfire at night in Moria village on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. European leaders pressed ahead with efforts to discourage people from heading to Europe to find work and kept seeking ways to send back home thousands who don’t qualify for asylum. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Afghan migrants on an overcrowded inflatable boat approach the Greek island of Lesbos in bad weather after crossing the Aegean see from Turkey, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Greece’s government says it is preparing a rent-assistance program to cope with a growing number of refugees, who face the oncoming winter and mounting resistance in Europe. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
A volunteer holds up a baby as others help migrants and refugees to disembark from a dinghy after their arrival from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Lesbos, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. About 5,000 migrants reaching Europe each day over the so-called Balkan migrant route. The refugee crisis is stoking tensions among the countries on the so-called Balkan migrant corridor — Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
The lifeless body of an elderly unidentified man is seen on the beach after washing up on the shoreline at the village of Skala, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. Authorities recovered more bodies on Lesbos and the Greek island of Samos Sunday as thousands continue to cross from the nearby coast of Turkey despite worsening weather. Greece is pressing the European Union for additional support for their massive daily search and rescue operations. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Refugees and migrants are covered with thermal blankets after their arrival on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the Skala Sykaminias village on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. The International Office for Migration says Greece over the last week experienced the largest single weekly influx of migrants and refugees this year, at an average of some 9,600 per day. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
Alvaro Barrientos | Science, Technology and Culture News Singles – Gold Medal for “San Fermin”
A cow jumps over a group of revelers in the bull ring, at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Revelers from around the world arrive in Pamplona every year to take part in some of the eight days of the running of the bulls. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
A cow jumps over a group of revelers in the bull ring, at the San Fermin Festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Revelers from around the world arrive in Pamplona every year to take part in some of the eight days of the running of the bulls. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Oded Balilty | Science, Technology and Culture News Stories – Gold Medal for “Horse Hospital”
At Israel’s main equine hospital, the animals can be wild patients, creating some unique challenges for the veterinarians treating them. “They are not good patients,” said Dr. Gal Kelmer, who heads the large animal department at Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine. “I get a lot of satisfaction when things work.” Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month, most of them pleasure and show horses. In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 photo, a horse owner waits outside the clinic as veterinarians examine her horse at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month, most of them pleasure and show horses. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, a horse is hoisted onto an equine operating table ahead of a surgery at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. Horses are prone to galloping off the operating table as soon as anesthesia wears off, requiring veterinarians to rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 photo, a veterinary technician feeds a horse at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month and rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms).(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 photo, Dr. Gal Kelmer, head of the department of large animals, unties a horse after its operation at the University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. “Horses have an instinctive response of flight from danger,” Kelmer said. “The minute they wake up they start trying to stand and run, even if they don’t have control of their limbs. So then they fall.” (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Monday, Nov. 23, 2015 photo, a horse receives medication in his recovery stall after a surgery at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month and rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 photo, veterinarians and students operate on a horse with a broken leg at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. “They are not good patients,” said Dr. Gal Kelmer, who heads the large animal department. “I get a lot of satisfaction when things work.” (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 photo, a horse and her one day old foal rest in their recovery zone, as other horse receive treatment at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month and rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms).(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, veterinarians examine a horse after his surgery at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month and rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015 photo, a horse stands in a stall after leg surgery at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. Veterinarians at the hospital operate on about two dozen horses a month and rely on elaborate tools and an army of volunteers to safely treat animals that can weigh more than 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms). (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, a horse is supported in a recovery room after a surgery at the Hebrew University’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. To restrain a flighty horse, Dr. Gal Kelmer, who heads the large animal department, straps the animal into a sling that suspends it from the belly and lifts it into the air, keeping the mouth closed and tail tied as the horse gradually regains control of its body.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Kamran Jebreili | Science, Technology and Culture News Stories – Award of Excellence for “Manhattan of Arabia”
Dubai’s rapid transformation from a desert outpost into one of the world’s most architecturally stunning cities is mapped out in the Marina. Where just 15 years ago there was empty, flat land, today a bustling neighborhood thrives centered around a canal and an impressive skyline that pierces through the clouds. A blanket of early morning fog partially shrouds the skyscrapers of the Marina and Jumeirah Lake Towers districts of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this April 6, 2015 photo, with the Marina skyline as a backdrop, a Muslim man performs the afternoon prayer on Jumeirah Palm Island’s walkway, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. High-rise buildings, stacked row after row, make up this 50 million sq. foot (4.65 million sq .meter) waterfront neighborhood that is built around a man-made canal where the wealthy park their yachts. To mark its place in the world, the Dubai Marina boasts the world’s tallest residential building. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this Sept. 22, 2015 photo, a laborer carries his lunchbox as he leaves a construction site for the day at the Palm Jumeirah opposite the Marina district, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Armies of low-paid migrant workers, many of them from the Indian Subcontinent, leave behind families and travel to Dubai to build soaring towers like those in the Marina. While the wages they come for offer hope of a better life, they are far too meager for most to ever dream of calling the Marina they built home. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this Friday, April 10, 2015 photo, people use recreational vehicles opposite the Marina district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s year-round sunshine gives Marina a summer-vibe throughout the winter months, when temperatures rarely drop below a comfortable 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 Celsius) during the day. On weekends, alcohol-fueled party boats ferry Russian and Western expatriates down the canal as speed boats and jet skis come out for a ride. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this Sunday June 21, 2015 photo, a woman takes selfie at a swimming pool area on top of a residential building overlooking the Marina Waterfront and Sheikh Zayed highway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.(AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this March 25, 2015 photo, tourists of different nationalities board a dhow for a cruise as the sun sets in the Marina neighborhood of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s year-round sunshine gives the Marina a summer-vibe throughout the winter months, when temperatures rarely drop below a comfortable 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 Celsius) during the day. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this May 1, 2015 photo, two men play backgammon while smoking a shisha, or water pipe, at a restaurant overlooking the canal and the Marina neighborhood. Surrounding Marina’s canal is an oasis of trendy restaurants and bars that serve an array of fusion-style cuisines that reflect the myriad of cultures and people drawn to Dubai, a modern city-state in the United Arab Emirates where foreigners far outnumber the locals. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this March 25, 2015 photo, men work out in a gym along the Marina waterfront in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Marina neighborhood is one of many clusters of neck-bending skyscrapers built throughout Dubai, but its real power lies behind the gated privacy of its most luxurious towers. Owning an apartment in one of these towers means access to skyline pools, concierge services and grand apartments that cater to the region’s royalty, as well as the world’s wealthiest businessmen and women. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this April 22, 2015 photo, guests dance on the GuGu boat during a private party opposite the skyline of the Marina Waterfront in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s year-round sunshine gives Marina a summer-vibe throughout the winter months, when temperatures rarely drop below a comfortable 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 Celsius) during the day. On weekends, alcohol-fueled party boats ferry Russian and Western expatriates down the canal as speed boats and jet skis come out for a ride. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
In this Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 photo, the sun sets behind the skyscrapers of “Marina Waterfront” and “Jumeirah Lake Towers” districts as the skyline has seen from the sand dunes in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In about 15 years after the inauguration of the Marina water canal more than 150 high rises were built on a piece of 3.5 square kilometres of empty land in Marina and more than 60 high rises in Jumeirah Lake towers. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Daniel Ochoa de Olza | Economic News Stories – Gold Medal for “Greece: A Financial Crisis”
Series chronicling Greece’s financial crisis. A pro-Euro demonstrator is silhouetted behind a Greek flag during a rally outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Monday, June 22, 2015. Thousands of people gather to show support for the country’s future in the eurozone and the European Union. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A butcher wait for clients in a market in Athens, Tuesday, June 23, 2015 . Greece this week offered a series of measures, including multiple tax increases, to persuade its creditors to release bailout funds and keep the country from defaulting on its debts as soon as next week. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A man carry a box into the only shop open of an Athens street, Thursday, June 25, 2015. The ECB approved a request from Athens to increase the amount of emergency liquidity Greek lenders can tap from the country’s central bank. Worried Greeks have been withdrawing their money from their country’s banks, fearing the imposition of restrictions on banking transactions. An estimated more than 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) left Greek banks last week. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A man walks down a street with a turned upside down mural inspired on “The Praying Hands” by artist of the Renaissance Albrecht Durer, in Athens, Friday, June 26, 2015. The bitter standoff between Greece and its international creditors was extended into the weekend, just days before Athens has to meet a crucial debt deadline which could decide whether it goes bankrupt and gets kicked out of the euro currency club. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A woman withdraws money from ATM machine from the National Bank branch while another reacts behind her in central Athens on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Germany’s vice chancellor says that a Greek referendum on the bailout talks could in principle make sense, but notes that it should be clear to voters what they will be deciding on. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A man counts coins inside his house in the Anafiotika neighborhood in Athens, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has arrived in Brussels to meet with the heads of the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the European Union’s executive Commission, the meeting is meant to smooth over some differences on the reforms that Greece proposed to creditors in exchange for rescue loans that it needs to not default on a debt payment June 30. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Pensioners line up as the wait to be allowed into the National Bank Of Greece in Athens, on Thursday, July 2, 2015 , and withdraw a maximum 120 euros for the week, during capital controls in Greece. Greece braced for more chaos on the streets outside its mostly shuttered banks Thursday, as Athens and its creditors halted talks on resolving the country’s deepening financial crisis until a referendum this weekend. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Pensioners try to get a number to enter inside a bank in Athens, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. About 1,000 bank branches around the country were ordered by the government to reopen Wednesday to help desperate pensioners without ATM cards cash up to 120 euros ($134) from their retirement checks. Eurozone finance ministers were set to weigh Greece’s latest proposal for aid Wednesday. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A woman leaves a croissant next to an sleeping man living in the streets of central Athens, Thursday, June 25, 2015. The ECB approved a request from Athens to increase the amount of emergency liquidity Greek lenders can tap from the country’s central bank. Worried Greeks have been withdrawing their money from their country’s banks, fearing the imposition of restrictions on banking transactions. An estimated more than 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) left Greek banks last week. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
A pig’s head hangs from a hook in a market in central Athens on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Germany’s vice chancellor says that a Greek referendum on the bailout talks could in principle make sense, but notes that it should be clear to voters what they will be deciding on. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
Andres Kudacki | Economic News Stories – Silver Medal for “Spain Evictions”
Police stand guard outside Asuncion Juanilla Frias’ apartment during her eviction in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. The unemployed woman, 57 years old, lost her foreclosed apartment to a moneylender because she could not afford the pay a loan of euro 50.000 ($56,252) she used to start a business that went bankrupt. The eviction was postponed with a help of anti-eviction activists that gathered inside the apartment surrounded by riot police. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Rosario Echevarria Pedrezuela, left, her sister, right, and a housing right activist, centre, look at the police cordon the area around the apartment to evict her in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The apartment occupied by Echevarria Pedrezuela, her husband Angel Echevarria Gabarri, 35, and their two children, aged 5 and 8 belongs to Bankia bank, after the previous owner was unable to continue paying the mortgage. The family occupied the foreclosed apartment ten months ago after they were evicted from their previous home. With both Echevarria Pedrezuela and her husband being unemployed and the family’s sole income being a state benefit of euro 530 ($ 604), they could not afford to pay rent. Attempts to negotiate a low rent with the bank were turned down, resulting in the family’s eviction by police. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Police enter the apartment of Emilia Montoya Vazquez by forcing their way in between furniture after they broke down the main door to evict her and her family in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Montoya, who lived with her son and daughter in law, both unemployed, and three grandchildren of 7, 6, 3 years old, had accumulated a debt with the (EMV) City Hall Housing Company as she could not afford to pay rent due to her only income which is a state benefit of 460 euros ($522) a month. The eviction was carried out in spite dozens of housing right activists who gathered inside the apartment and blocked the main door. EMVS, a state company with an aim to give housing solutions for people in need, sold 1.860 state apartments to private investors, last year. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Juan Montiel, centre, suffers an epileptic seizures as his wife Marivi Leon del Valle, top, and his sister Maria Luisa Montiel, 47, right, help him during their eviction in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Maria Montiel, a former geriatric assistant, was living in a Bankia bank-owned apartment with her brother, Juan Montiel, 56, who has 46 percent disability, his wife, Marivi Leon del Valle, 54, who also has health problems and a friend, Jose Antonio Garcia Mendoza, 64. Out of work and dependent on small state benefits, they had been living on the street before renting a room in the apartment, which had been occupied by others that later left. The family tried to pay a token rent but the bank insisted on their eviction. Dozens of riot police carried out the eviction despite protests by housing rights activists. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Furniture are packed behind the main door to stop riot police to enter the apartment as Cecilia Paredes and her husband Wilson Ruilova prepares to leave with their baby Dilan during their eviction in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. Paredes, 43, and her unemployed electrician husband Wilson Ruilova, 35, both from Ecuador, have three children: Dilan, a baby born less than two months ago; Andres, 16, and Miguel, seven. They have been unable to pay their rent after she lost her job as an elderly care assistant two years ago. The government company that owned the apartment sold it last year to an investor group along with more than 1,800 other apartments built for the needy and the new owner sought the family’s eviction. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Riot Police remove housing rights activists as they tries to stop Luisa Gracia Gonzalez and her family’s eviction and the demolition of their house by a forced expropriation in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. Madrid authorities say 11 people were arrested after several dozen protesters clashed with police who were carrying out an eviction order. A city spokeswoman said seven people were arrested for throwing gasoline at police officers, though she said the fuel was not set alight. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with city hall rules. Evictions in Spain have soared since the country’s economic crisis began in 2008 and increasing numbers of people were unable to meet mortgage payments. Protesters regularly try to prevent evictions, but Friday’s clash was particularly tense after a campaign to keep the family in its home. The house was expropriated for demolition as part of new urban project. Some 30 protesters tried to stop it, accusing authorities of real estate speculation.(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Riot Police remove a housing rights activists who claimed a bulldozer as they triy to stop Luisa Gracia Gonzalez and her family’s eviction and the demolition of their house by a forced expropriation in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. Madrid authorities say 11 people were arrested after several dozen protesters clashed with police who were carrying out an eviction order. A city spokeswoman said seven people were arrested for throwing gasoline at police officers, though she said the fuel was not set alight. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with city hall rules. Evictions in Spain have soared since the country’s economic crisis began in 2008 and increasing numbers of people were unable to meet mortgage payments. Protesters regularly try to prevent evictions, but Friday’s clash was particularly tense after a campaign to keep the family in its home. The house was expropriated for demolition as part of new urban project. Some 30 protesters tried to stop it, accusing authorities of real estate speculation.(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Carmen Rives, 50, centre, gestures as riot police enter her apartment to evict her in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. The unemployed woman lost her foreclosed apartment to a moneylender because she could not afford the pay her debt due to her financial situation. The eviction was carried out by dozens of riot police who arrested at least 12 anti-eviction activists. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
A bulldozer demolish, police stand guard and workers remove furniture during Luisa Gracia Gonzalez and her family during eviction and the demolition of their house by a forced expropriation in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. Madrid authorities say 11 people were arrested after several dozen protesters clashed with police who were carrying out an eviction order. A city spokeswoman said seven people were arrested for throwing gasoline at police officers, though she said the fuel was not set alight. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with city hall rules. Evictions in Spain have soared since the country’s economic crisis began in 2008 and increasing numbers of people were unable to meet mortgage payments. Protesters regularly try to prevent evictions, but Friday’s clash was particularly tense after a campaign to keep the family in its home. The house was expropriated for demolition as part of new urban project. Some 30 protesters tried to stop it, accusing authorities of real estate speculation. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
In this picture taken Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, Diana Sofia Meliton, 2 years old, sits outside together with belongings after her and her family got evicted by the police and watches a housing right activist re-opening her apartment for them to live in Madrid, Spain. Pablo Enrique Meliton, 39 years old, his wife Damaris Varela Rivera, 36 yeas old , and their daughter Diana Sofia Meliton, 2 years old, rent a room in a occupied Bankia bank apartment one year ago as they could not afford to pay rent and stay occupying the apartment after the rest of the occupants left. They have now an income of euro 790 ($893) and they have tried to negotiate to pay a low rent but the Bankia bank demanded their eviction. Housing right activists tried to stop the process but the police evicted the family.(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Felipe Dana | Daily Life Stories – Bronze Medal for “Faces of Crackland”
“Cracolandia” or crackland,” is an open-air crack cocaine market where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This portrait series chronicles some of the people in crackland. In this March 17, 2015 photo, Sancler Rodrigues, 32, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rodrigues said he has been smoking crack for 7 or 8 years. “I didn’t think my old black shirt would look good in your photo, so I borrowed this from friend,” Rodrigues said. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 18, 2015 photo, Patricia Sebastiao, 22, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Patricia, who has a 2-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, is pregnant with her third child. She said she is 6 or 7 months pregnant, but was not exactly sure. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 14, 2015 photo, Andre Oliveira, 32, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Andre makes a living by collecting discarded, recyclable items on the streets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 17, 2015 photo, Jose Mauricio Oliveira, 41, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Individually, the epidemic is comprised of people from all walks of life, some of whom once held jobs, some with loving families, who harbored dreams of a better existence, all lost to their addiction. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 18, 2015 photo, Douglas Wallace, 26, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Collectively, the estimated 1 million crack users in Brazil are a frightening blight that’s deeply troubling to government officials, whose programs have done little to halt the drug’s march across the nation. Some recent studies have shown that Brazil now consumes more crack than any other country.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 17, 2015 photo, Eduardo Santos de Souza, 46, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Souza, a father of 8 children, with 4 different women, says he has cut down on his drug use and has a life outside crackland. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 14, 2015 photo, Jorge, 35, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Teenage mothers, truck drivers, fathers, homeless, those struggling with mental illness – all manner of person can be found in Rio’s cracklands. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 17, 2015 photo, Anderson Pereira, 23, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pereira wears a T-shirt with a message that reads in Portuguese; “Nothing should seem natural.” (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 17, 2015 photo, Renato Dias, 39, writes in his notebook as he poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dias, who has been using crack for about 4 years, says he uses his notebook as a form of distraction. He writes about super heroes and dreams of becoming one. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
In this March 17, 2015 photo, Daniela Pinto, 39, poses for a portrait in an open-air crack cocaine market, known as a “cracolandia” or crackland, where users can buy crack, and smoke it in plain sight, day or night, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Daniela who has been a crack user for 4 years, says she has been living in this crackland for about 4 months. She says she wants freedom, peace and love, but most importantly she wants to be freed from her addiction. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Kin Cheung | Daily Life Stories – Award of Excellence for “No Space to Die”
In overcrowded Hong Kong both the living and dead are facing a shortage of space. In tightly-packed city the dead are causing a problem for the living. In this Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. photo, graves cover a hillside next to apartment buildings at a cemetery in the Kowloon City district of Hong Kong, where both the living and dead are facing a shortage of space. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015 photo, graves cover a hillside next to football pitch and apartment buildings in the Kowloon City district of Hong Kong, where both the living and dead are facing a shortage of space. In tightly-packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 photo, the funeral shop owner Cheng Chi-kit holds incense sticks at a funeral parlor with a wall of temporary storage niches for cremated remains in the background in Hong Kong. The ashes are awaiting a proper burial spot in space starved Hong Kong, where there’s a shortage of space for both the living and dead. In tightly-packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 photo, a bus drives passes a cemetery in the Kowloon City district of Hong Kong, where both the living and dead are facing a shortage of space. In tightly-packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 photo, boxes of storage with niches for cremated remains are seen at a public columbarium in Hong Kong. In tightly-packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 photo, a general view of an apartment building in Hong Kong where both the living and the dead compete for space in the densely populated southern Chinese city. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015 photo, graves cover a hillside in front of apartment buildings in Hong Kong, where both the living and dead are facing a shortage of space. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Sunday, Nov. 22 photo, A man walks past a wall of niches for cremated remains in the background at a public columbarium in Hong Kong. In tightly-packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Friday, Nov. 27, 2015 photo, A general view of apartment buildings in Hong Kong where both the living and the dead compete for space in the densely populated southern Chinese city. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
In this Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015 photo, graves are placed next to apartment buildings at a cemetery in the Kowloon City district of Hong Kong, where both the living and dead are facing a shortage of space. In tightly-packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Matthias Schrader | Sports News Singles – Award of Excellence for “Judging”
In this Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015 photo, United States’ Sarah Hendrickson jumps past judges looking out of their tower windows during the Mixed Team Ski Jumping competition at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Falun, Sweden. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
In this Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015 photo, United States’ Sarah Hendrickson jumps past judges looking out of their tower windows during the Mixed Team Ski Jumping competition at the Nordic Skiing World Championships in Falun, Sweden. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Robert F. Bukaty | Nature and Environment News Singles – Award of Excellence for “Robbed Herring”
A gull flips a herring in order to swallow it whole while flying away with a meal robbed from a delivery truck, Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Rockland, Maine. Herring is primarily used for lobster bait, with a small percentage of it going to the sardine industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
A gull flips a herring in order to swallow it whole while flying away with a meal robbed from a delivery truck, Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Rockland, Maine. Herring is primarily used for lobster bait, with a small percentage of it going to the sardine industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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