World Press Photo 2011

World Press Photo 2011 A portrait of 18-year-old Afghan Bibi Aisha, whose nose and ears were cut off by the Taliban husband she'd fled, is the subject of the World Press Photo organization's 2010 Photo of the Year. South African photographer Jodi Bieber's picture, made for Time magazine, became controversial when it appeared on that publication's cover in July 2010. Spot News A man leaps to his death from Freedom Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, after setting himself on fire on May 22, 2010, in this picture captured by Hungarian photographer Péter Lakatos. An anti-government protester takes aim during a riot in Bangkok, Thailand, in May 2010. The image is one in a series of pictures by French photographer Corentin Fohlen. Last year's mass demonstrations in Bangkok lasted more than two months and resulted in nearly 90 deaths. Arts and Entertainment Carmen Rosa and Yulia la Pacena, two of Bolivia's "Flying Cholitas," entertain spectators during a fund-raising benefit for school bathrooms in La Paz on June 26, 2010. In a photo-essay, Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni captured the increasingly popular cholitas, or women wrestlers, in and out of the ring. People in the News In the shadow of an army relief helicopter, flood victims in Dadu, Pakistan, attempt to reach food supplies on September 13, 2010. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces reporters in London on September 30, 2010, in this picture by Irish photographer Seamus Murphy. Late last year, the 39-year-old Australian became the focus of widespread media and law enforcement attention after his website released thousands of classified U.S. State Department cables. Kemal Jufri from Indonesia takes the eruption of Mount Merapi, Central Java, Indonesia, in November 2010. Nature Whooper swans end the day on a frozen stretch of Notsuke Bay off Hokkaido, Japan, in this picture by Italian photographer Stefano Unterthiner. Photographing for National Geographic magazine, Unterthiner revealed the migratory waterfowl in both labored flight and elegant repose. Atlantic sailfish feed on Spanish sardines in this picture taken by German photographer Reinhard Dirscherl off Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Sailfish can reach lengths of up to 8 feet (2.4 meters). They use their bills to slice through schools of sardines, which the sailfish drive toward the water's sunlit surface for easier feeding. Christophe Archambault won with his dramatic series shot in the ash-covered village of Cemoro Lawang near the Mount Bromo volcano in Indonesia's Java island. An Indonesian man is shown wearing a mask to avoid inhaling volcanic ash Daily Life A man carries a shark in Mogadishu, Somalia, on September 23, 2010, in this picture by Somali photographer Omar Feisal. Conflict between insurgents and the Somali government have caused more than half of Mogadishu's civilian residents to flee the capital city since early 2007. Many of those who remain live in crushing poverty. Dutch photographer Martin Roemers captures life in growing cities in a photo-essay entitled "Metropolis." The world population will reach seven billion this year. Most of the world's 21 megacities are in developing countries and are expected to absorb much of the rising population. Reuters photographer Andrew Biraj, based in Bangladesh, won with this picture of an overcrowded train approaching a station in Dhaka, 16 November 2010 General News Fire engulfs the interior of the old Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 18, 2010. The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, destroyed more than 97,000 homes and damaged more than 188,000 structures, displacing 1.3 million people. Local government estimates put the death toll at more than 220,000 people. Bodies pile up at a morgue in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during the aftermath of the January 12, 2010 Contemporary Issues Somali refugees rest in the desert in breakaway Somaliland on March 15, 2010, after traveling through the night en route to Yemen. Canadian photographer Ed Ou documented the flight of refugees from Somalia in his winning photo-essay. In addition to conflict among Islamic militias fighting for control, terrorism and drought in parts of Somalia have caused the displacement of more than a million people. Suffering from a disability that may be an effect of Agent Orange, nine-year-old Nguyen Thi Ly was photographed in Da Nang, Vietnam, by U.S. photographer Ed Kashi. During the Vietnam War, U.S. forces stripped jungle foliage by spraying large doses of Agent Orange, a defoliant containing dangerous dioxins believed—though not certain—to cause genetic disorders such as Fraser syndrome, whose symptoms can include malformed eyes. Sport stories Adam Pretty photographed Thomas Daley of Britain competing in the preliminary of the men's 3m springboard diving event during the Youth Olympics at Toa Payoh swimming complex, Singapore Netherlands Demy de Zeeuw is kicked in the face by Uruguay's Martin Cáceres during World Cup semi-final, Cape Town, 6 July, photographed by Mike Hutchings.