Push to Create Utah Monument

Photos by Rick Bowmer

Laminated sheets of papers held in place by rocks rest inside ancient cliff dwellings nestled underneath a spectacular red rock overhang in southeastern Utah.

Divided America: Bridging the Gap Between Police and the Policed

This story is part of Divided America, AP’s ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society.

World in Review

World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries featuring the best of this past month’s coverage 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.

China’s Changing Sports Culture

Photos by Ng Han Guan

In a room full of bright-colored cubes and giant mattresses, giggling children climb bars, try somersaults and walk gingerly on a low balance beam.

July 12, 2016

Divided America: Urban vs. Rural

Photos by Brennan Linsley

This story is part of Divided America, AP’s ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society.

Life on the Line in Venezuela

Photos by Ariana Cubillos

The people waiting for hours in front of the drugstore were dazed with heat and boredom when the gunmen arrived.

July 11, 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.

July 8, 2016

Bolivia’s Donkey Milk

Photos by Juan Karita

The cold cuts to the bone and little puffs of steam escape from the mouths of people stopping on their walk to work to drink a glass of fresh donkey milk, believing it will fight respiratory problems during the raw winter of the Bolivian Andes.

July 7, 2016

Colombia’s Coca Paste

Photos by Rodrigo Abd

In bright green Andean mountains wrapped in clouds, a country family produces the coca paste that is used to make cocaine at a humble home in territory controlled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or the FARC.

July 6, 2016

Islamic State Tightens Grip on Women Held as Sex Slaves

The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is “Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old…. Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.”

Muslims Celebrate Eid, Marking Ramadan’s End

Muslims around the world are celebrating the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a time for family and feasting, to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan and its daytime fasting.

Athletes Vie For US Paralympic Team Spots

Photos by Chuck Burton

Regas Woods headed down the runway for his first attempt at the long jump as fast as he could on his two prosthetic legs.

Dry Conditions in Turkey Affect Nomadic Lifestyle

Photos by Bram Janssen

Every spring Hasan Bacak, his wife, Emine, and their 1-year old son, Mehmet, migrate for weeks in search of higher ground for their livestock to graze.

Petros Giannakouris’ Greece Migrant Crisis Instagram Takeover

This week, AP staff photographer based in Greece Petros Giannakouris took over our Instagram feed with photos from Europe’s migrant crisis. 

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.

Animals Head for Freedom as Argentina Closes Zoo

Photos by Natacha Pisarenko

Animals by the hundreds are being set free as Buenos Aires closes its 140-year-old Palermo zoo.

July 1, 2016

Lowering the Flag

Nearly every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the most significant official gestures of mourning and respect, an Associated Press analysis found.

Fidel Castro’s Home

Photos by Ramon Espinosa

At the end of a dirt road lined with fields of sugar cane, royal palms and tropical fruit trees, a cluster of wooden houses painted in brilliant yellow, blue and white draws thousands of Cuban and international tourists a year.

June 30, 2016

Tourism in Peru’s Shanty Town

Photos by Rodrigo Abd

Shacks cling precariously to sandy hillsides. The flat roofs of board-and-tin hovels stretch as far as the eye can see on treeless moonscapes.

Sports in Review: June 2016

Over the last month, we have gathered a selection of some of our favorite sports moments captured by AP photographers.

June 29, 2016

Paraguay’s Caimans

Photos by Jorge Saenz

Dozens of caimans are on the verge of death because of a harsh drought that has hit a wide desert zone of Paraguay known as the Chaco Boreal.

June 28, 2016

Argentina’s Stolen Babies

Photos by Natacha Pisarenko

Pedro Sandoval stopped celebrating Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and even his own birthday after he found out the truth: The mom and dad he knew growing up had stolen him from his biological parents, who were kidnapped, tortured and never heard from again during Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

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.

The Things They Carried

Photos by Maya Alleruzzo

Sgt. Ahmed Abdelaziz, with Iraq’s special forces, has been almost continually deployed fighting the Islamic State group ever since the militants overran nearly a third of Iraq in the summer of 2014.

June 24, 2016

June 23, 2016

AP Monthly Staff Photo Contest

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

June 22, 2016

June 21, 2016

Freedom Summer Murders of 1964

One day before the 52nd anniversary of the slayings, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood announced he is closing the investigation into the killings of three civil rights workers in 1964 — a case which served as the basis for the movie “Mississippi Burning.”

June 20, 2016

Divided America: Gun Views Fractious Even as Fewer Bear Arms

This story is part of Divided America, AP’s ongoing exploration of the economic, social and political divisions in American society.

World Refugee Day

Imagine the entire population of Britain uprooted: The U.N. refugee agency says just over that number — 65 million people — were displaced worldwide by the end of last year, easily setting a new postwar record, as it warned that European and other rich nations can expect the tide to continue if root causes aren’t addressed.

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.

World in Review

World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries featuring the best of this past month’s coverage 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.

No Food, No Teachers, Violence in Failing Venezuela Schools

Photos by Ariana Cubillos

Maria Arias slipped her notebooks into her backpack, scrounged for a banana to share with her brother and sister, and set off for high school through narrow streets so violent taxis will not come here for any price.

June 16, 2016

Britain EU Immigration

Photos by Matt Dunham

On a clear day, the coast of France is visible from Dover’s famous white cliffs, and they provided a vital vantage point for the early spotting of German bombers heading toward London during World War II.

US Hardware Arrives in Cuba to Protect Hemingway Possessions

Photos by Desmond Boylan

Just before noon outside Ernest Hemingway’s Havana estate, a metallic screech cut through the chirping of tropical birds and the sound of a live band entertaining tourists.

June 15, 2016

June 14, 2016