In the photo above, a woman carries her child through a field of debris near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013, after a massive tornado struck the Oklahoma City suburbs.
Photograph by L'Osservatore Romano, AP
A day after his March 13 election to head the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis stops to pick up his luggage and pay his bill at Rome's Domus Internationalis Paulus VI hotel, where he stayed as a cardinal before entering the conclave.
Photograph by Jae C. Hong, AP
Enlisted to help battle the massive Rim Fire blaze—one of the largest wildfires in California's history—prison inmates walk along Highway 120 near Yosemite National Park on August 25. More than 550 inmates cut lines alongside elite "hot shot" civilian crews as part of a rehabilitation program that stations minimum-security inmates at fire camps around the state.
Photograph by Oded Balilty, AP
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish wedding takes place near Tel Aviv,
Israel, in this photo published in the March 2013 issue of
National Geographic magazine. Viznitz Hasidim gather around the chief rabbi (center, in white) and the groom (center, left). Men and women stay on separate sides of the wedding hall during the ten-hour ceremony.
Photograph by Stringer, Reuters
A survivor awaits treatment a day after a 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck central China on July 22. At least 95 people were killed and more than a thousand injured in Gansu Province in the country's northwest.
Photograph by Taslima Akhter
Victims of a collapsed textile factory in
Bangladesh are captured in a final embrace in this haunting portrait taken in the aftermath of the April 2013 disaster near the capital city of
Dhaka (map).
Storm Coverage
Photograph by Joe Penney, Reuters
Wrapped in a shawl, a woman carries her baby through a sandstorm in Timbuktu on July 29. A World Heritage site, the ancient city in the desert of northern Mali was once a center of trade and learning and today is home to rare Islamic manuscripts that in 2013 came under threat from Islamist fighters.
Photograph by Tyrone Siu, Reuters
Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman's beloved "Rubber Duck" met an untimely end while afloat in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, where the traveling exhibit was installed in May. The 54-foot (16-meter) joy of joys needed to "freshen up," according to exhibition organizers, and was back in bright-yellow form within the month.
Living That Fantasy
Photograph by Kirsty Wigglesworth, AP
Britain's Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, pose with the newborn Prince George of Cambridge outside St. Mary's Hospital on July 23, a day after the royal heir's birth at the London hospital. The young prince, whose full name is George Alexander Louis, is third in line to the British throne. (See
what's in a royal name.)
Clashes in Cairo
PHOTOGRAPH BY MOHAMMED ABDEL MONEIM, AFP/GETTY
An Egyptian woman confronts a military bulldozer as a wounded youth lies on the ground during clashes between Egyptian security forces and supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi at a protest camp near a Cairo mosque on August 14.
The protest camp organized by the Muslim Brotherhood was stormed by security forces in a confrontation that left more than 500 dead
