The year in pictures
Conflict, migration, conflagration, international politics, a royal wedding and sporting drama caught the camera’s eye.
Conflict, migration, conflagration, international
1. A debris-covered man intones, “We belong to God and to God we return”, as rescuers go to his aid after a bombing raid in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, on January 9. 2. A US Border Patrol agent on September 10 near the body of a Guatemalan migrant who died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. 3. A Palestinian demonstrator hit in the face by a tear-gas canister fired by Israeli troops at the Israel-Gaza border on June 8. 4. Film producer Harvey Weinstein arrives at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on May 25.
5, 6 & 7. From left, fires rage near the Ortega Highway in California in August, the English moors between Dovestones and Buckton Vale, Greater Manchester, in June, and Nairobi’s Kijiji slums on January 28.
1. North and South Korean leaders Kim Jong-Un, left, and Moon Jae-in meet before a summit in April. 2. Kim and US President Donald Trump in Singapore on June 12. 3. US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifying in September. 4. CNN reporter Jim Acosta riles Trump in the White House on November 7. 5. Russia’s Vladimir Putin with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in November. 6. Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected President of Brazil, reacts after being stabbed during a campaign rally on September 6.
1. Mother of the bride Doria Ragland, Prince Charles and Camilla after the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May. 2. The newlyweds. 3. Brexitbeleaguered UK Prime Minister Theresa May. 4. Tennis star Serena Williams on her way to losing the US Open in September. 5. Paris’ Champs-Élysées ablaze during November protests. 6. Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter bikes to hospital to give birth in August. 7. Ex-offender Shaan Henry helps Kiwi concrete company manager Tim Walters cope with a labour shortage.