Winners gallery

A Dinka man stands in front of his house in Akkach, South Sudan.

People re-enact the self-portraits they took for the social networking site MySpace.

The sister of Feroz Ahmad Malik wails as she clings to the bed carrying his body, at his funeral in Palhalan, near the city of Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il attends a military parade, together with his youngest son and designated successor Kim Jong-un, in Pyongyang on 10 October.

Mount Merapi, in Central Java, Indonesia, erupted in late October, blasting hot rock and volcanic ash a kilometer and a half into the air, in what was said to be its largest eruption since the 1870s.

A girl looks on as the Marché Hyppolite in Port-au-Prince burns, six days after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.

The head of a man, who was ambushed while driving with his family, lies beside the road on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, in northern Mexico.

The number of targeted shootings in the Karachi area of Pakistan escalated in 2010, with over 1,100 violent deaths recorded by October.

A man falls to his death from a turret of Liberty Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, after covering himself in flammable liquid and setting himself alight.

People press through the crowd at the Love Parade in Duisburg, Germany, in a crush that left 21 dead and more than 500 injured.

Red Shirt protestors clash with Thai government forces in mid-May, in the Silom commercial district of Bangkok.

A daylight shootout on the Avenida Brasil, a busy shopping area in Rio de Janeiro.

Nguyen Thi Li, aged 9, who lives in the Ngu Hanh Son district of Da Nang in Vietnam, suffers from disabilities believed to be caused by the defoliating chemical Agent Orange.

Every year, thousands of people risk their lives crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen to escape conflict and poverty in the Horn of Africa.

Each year, at least 2,600 Kenyan women die after illegal abortions and 21,000 are hospitalized with complications from unsafe procedures.

A man carries a shark through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, in September.

An overcrowded train approaches a railway station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as more passengers wait to board.

Pademba Road Prison, in Freetown, Sierra Leone was built to accommodate around 300 prisoners, but now holds more than 1,100, including many juveniles.

A Cape gannet comes in to land during the summer nesting season.

The lava lake of Mount Nyiragongo, in the Virunga National Park, bubbles at the bottom of the volcano’s immense crater.

Whooper swans are a northern hemisphere swan, with a range from Iceland to beyond Japan.

Joséphine Nsimba Mpongo, 37, practices the cello in the Kimbanguiste neighborhood of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Actor Fabian Lopez on set in Tijuana, playing the lead in the film El Baleado 2.

Freestyle wrestling, or lucha libre, one of the most popular entertainments in Bolivia, was once the domain of men only.

The Netherlands’ Demy de Zeeuw is accidentally kicked in the face by Uruguay’s Martin Caceres during a World Cup semi-final soccer match in Cape Town, South Africa on 6 July.

Swimmers participate in the Cole Classic ocean race at Manly Beach, Australia on 7 February.

A small community of motor enthusiasts in Mexico devote much of their spare time to restoring, fine-tuning and customizing their cars before meeting for informal races.