Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2024
Alan Taylor
(c) Max Wood / British Wildlife Photography Awards
Organizers of the 2024 British Wildlife Photography Awards just announced their collection of winners and runners-up. More than 14,000 images were submitted in 11 different categories, celebrating the wildlife and wild spaces found across the United Kingdom. Competition or...
What's Happening in Russia Is Not an Election
Brian Klaas
If you read global news, you'll be told that Russia is holding an election this weekend. That's not true. Millions of Russians will be voting, but not in an election: Call it an "election-style event."Terminology matters. Many people wrongly see elections as synonymous with democracy because the same word is used to refer to wildly different events. A genuine election, when it takes place, is one of the fundamental pillars that uphold democracy. But a rigged contest marks the death of democracy a...
Gaza on the Brink of Famine
Alan Taylor
Mohammed Salem / Reuters
The United Nations is warning that famine in Gaza is "almost inevitable." Palestinians living in Gaza are struggling with extreme shortages of food, clean water, and medicine. Several countries, including Jordan, France, Egypt, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates, and now Germany, are coordinating...
Winners of the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition
Alan Taylor
(c) Ian Ford, 2024 Sony World Photography Awards
The top entries in the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition have been announced, and competition organizers were once more kind enough to share some of the winning and shortlisted photos from their 10 categories: Architecture, Creative, Landscape, Lifestyle, M...
Photos of the Week: Snowy Soccer, Crouching Spider, Pain Simulator
Alan Taylor
Peter White / Getty
Humanitarian aid air-dropped into Gaza, the funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, a skijoring competition in Colorado, a blizzard in California, scenes from Paris Fashion Week in France, a sinking cargo ship off the coast of Yemen, thousands of cross-country ski racers in Swed...
The Houthis Are Very, Very Pleased
Robert F. Worth
The Leader is a man of about 40, with a smooth, youthful face and a thin beard and mustache. In televised speeches, he wears a blazer with a shawl over his shoulders, his dark eyes menacing and humorless. Apart from that, so little is known about him that he might as well be a phantom. He has no birth certificate or passport and is said to have spent his formative years living in caves. No foreign diplomat has ever met him in person. He presides over a starving, brutalized people in northern Yeme...