March 31, 2016

March 30, 2016

Hunger Spreads in Yemen

The baby was born in war, even as planes blasted his village in Yemen. Five months later, Udai Faisal died from war: His skeletal body broke down under the ravages of malnutrition, his limbs like twigs, his cheeks sunken, his eyes dry.

March 29, 2016

Stars Live Monkishly at Kenyan Running Camp

Photos by Ben Curtis The hand-written roster — misspelled “rosta” — tells the runners when it’s their turn for communal chores. Stephen Kiprotich’s name is on it. So is Eliud Kipchoge’s.

In Good Company: Retirement Community Boasts 6 Centenarians

Photos by Steven Senne With roughly 72,000 centenarians in the United States, it’s not all that unusual to find several clustered in the same city.

March 28, 2016

Pictures of the Week

Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

Art And Art Lovers Blend Together In Hong Kong

Photos by Kin Cheung Asia’s biggest exhibition of modern and contemporary art brought together 239 galleries from 35 countries and territories in Hong Kong, which has emerged as the region’s top art trading hub.

March 25, 2016

Purim in Israel

Photos by Oded Balilty & Ariel Schalit The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the Jews’ salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther.

Blasphemy Cases Rise in Egypt and Christians Bear the Brunt

Photos by Thomas Hartwell In the video, the Egyptian Christian teens laugh playfully as a couple of them kneel down, imitating Muslim prayers, then another slides his hand under one boy’s neck, imitating the trademark beheadings of the Islamic State group.

March 24, 2016

North Korea Forsaken Remains

The village elder put his shovel aside, stooped down by a scraggly bush and pulled a sack from the freshly turned dirt.

March 23, 2016

Worldview: Washington D.C. Daily Life

For this installment of Worldview: Daily Life, we focus on Washington D.C. 

March 22, 2016

Pictures of the Week

Highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

March 21, 2016

Breaking Taboo, Hindu Widows Celebrate Festival of Colors

Photos by Manish Swarup Aruna Samaddar threw fistfuls of colored powder into the air. Blue and red and green, the cheerful colors settled on her white sari and all over other women nearby.

Greece Hopeless On The Border

Photos by Petros Giannakouris Hamo had already walked 17 kilometers (10 miles) that day, pushing his 8-year-old daughter, Sidra, in her wheelchair, when he stopped in a field to ask directions to the Idomeni refugee camp.

AP Monthly Staff Photo Contest

Each month The Associated Press management honors photographers for outstanding coverage while on assignment.

March 18, 2016

March 17, 2016

A Traditional Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Wedding

Photos by Oded Balilty The marriage ceremony is perhaps the greatest highlight in the life of an ultra-Orthodox Jew. And when it comes to the community’s most prominent members, it turns into a public spectacle.

March 16, 2016

World In Review

World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries curated by Associated Press photo editors from each region of the world: Asia, Europe and Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States.