Pictures of the year 2019

Megan Rapinoe of the U.S.
celebrates scoring her team's first
goal against France in the Women's
World Cup quarter final in Paris,
France, June 28, 2019. The
Americans went on to win their
fourth championship.
REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Police fire tear gas at anti-extradition
bill protesters during clashes in
Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong, China,
August 14, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas
Peter

Research technician Danielle
Lasseigne cuts a Pseudodiploria
strigosa coral with a steel chisel to
remove the portion of the animal
being killed by stony coral tissue loss
disease (SCTLD) near the University
of the Virgin Islands campus in St
Thomas

First lady Melania Trump kisses
Canada's Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau next to U.S. President
Donald Trump during the family
photo at the G7 summit in Biarritz,
France, August 25, 2019.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Smoke billows as fire engulfs the
spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in
Paris, France April 15, 2019.
REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

The bodies of Salvadoran migrant
Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and
his daughter Valeria lie in the Rio
Bravo river in Matamoros,
Tamaulipas state, Mexico June 24,
2019. REUTERS/Stringer

A protester walks in front of
demolished metal fencing during a
demonstration by the "yellow vests"
movement in Paris, France, March
16, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

A tract of Amazon jungle burns as it
is cleared by farmers in Rio Pardo,
Rondonia, Brazil September 15,
2019. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

A relative puts soil on her face as
she mourns at the crash site of
Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302, near
the town Bishoftu, near Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia March 14, 2019.
REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

An opposition demonstrator is struck
by a Venezuelan National Guard
vehicle on a street near the
Generalisimo Francisco de Miranda
Airbase "La Carlota" in Caracas,
Venezuela April 30, 2019.
REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

People run after collecting food aid
from a South African National
Defence Force (SANDF) helicopter in
the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in
Nhamatanda village, near Beira,
Mozambique, March 26, 2019.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Members of the ShieldWall Network
hold up balloons decorated as the
face of Adolf Hitler and give a
white-power hand signal as they
celebrate the German fascist's
birthday outside Atkins, Arkansas,
April 20, 2019. REUTERS/Jim
Urquhart

People run as Haiti's Senator Jean
Marie Ralph Fethiere (PHTK) fires a
gun in the air, injuring Associated
Press photographer Chery
Dieu-Nalio, while facing opposition
supporters in the parking lot of the
Haitian Parliament and Senate, as
the

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda
Ardern leaves after Friday prayers at
Hagley Park outside Al-Noor mosque
in Christchurch, New Zealand March
22, 2019. A lone gunman killed 51
mosque worshippers in attacks in
two Christchurch mosques.

Keegan, 8, who identifies as gender
creative and performs under the
drag name Kween-Kee-Kee, poses for
a photograph after completing his
first drag performance during the
Austin International Drag Festival
2018 near Austin, Texas, November,
18, 2018.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, holds
her son Archie Harrison
Mountbatten-Windsor next to her
husband Prince Harry at the
Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy
Foundation in Cape Town, South
Africa, September 25, 2019.
REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool

Swedish environmental activist Greta
Thunberg (2nd R), with Ivy-Fleur
Boileau, Virgile Mouquet, Adelaide
Charlier and Alicia Arquetoux, French
activists from the Youth for Climate
movement, attends the question
session at the National Assembly in

A rainbow is seen as demonstrators
protest against Chile's state
economic model in Santiago, Chile
October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan
Alvarado

People are evacuated by a member
of security forces during an al
Shabaab attack that killed 21 people
at the Dusit hotel compound, in
Nairobi, Kenya January 15, 2019.
REUTERS/Baz Ratner

A boy looks at the camera near
Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria
March 5, 2019. REUTERS/Rodi Said

A dead red-tailed monkey hangs by
its tail above the ground, in order to
keep it away from ants, in the forest
near Mbandaka, Democratic Republic
of the Congo, April 5, 2019.

Security officials stand next to dead
bodies after a bomb blast inside a
church in Negombo, Sri Lanka April
21, 2019. Islamic State claimed the
Easter Sunday bomb attacks on
churches and hotels that killed more
than 250 people. REUTERS/Stringer

Juan Guaido, president of
Venezuela's National Assembly,
holds a copy of the Venezuelan
constitution during a rally against
President Nicolas Maduro's
government and to commemorate
the 61st anniversary of the end of
the dictatorship of Marcos Perez

A Turkana tribeswoman reacts after
an accidental fire in a shelter in the
Ilemi Triangle, Kenya, July 15, 2019.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

U.S. President Donald Trump meets
with North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un at the demilitarized zone
separating the two Koreas, in
Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30,
2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters
are seen during an offensive in the
village of Yabisa, near the
Turkish-Syrian border, Syria, October
13, 2019. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Huang Wensi in action during her
final training session in Ningbo,
Zhejiang province, China, before she
headed to Taiwan for her Asia
Female Continental Super Flyweight
Championship match, September 23,
2018.

Fireworks explode over Tiananmen
Square as performers take part in
the evening gala marking the 70th
founding anniversary of People's
Republic of China, on its National
Day in Beijing, China October 1,
2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
arrives at the Westminster
Magistrates Court after he was
arrested in London, Britain April 11,
2019. Assange skipped bail in Britain
to avoid possible extradition and
took refuge in the Ecuadorian
embassy in 2012.

Wounded Palestinian boy Mohammad
An-Najjar, 12, is evacuated during a
protest at the Israel-Gaza border
fence, in the southern Gaza Strip,
January 11, 2019.
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

A demonstrator fires a homemade
weapon during a protest against
Ecuador President Lenin Moreno's
austerity measures in Quito, Ecuador
October 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ivan
Alvarado

A destroyed house is seen in the
wake of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh
Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas,
September 8, 2019. REUTERS/Loren
Elliott

A frog is pictured on a lotus leaf after
rain at a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal
September 26, 2019.
REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

A man jumps off the Tower Bridge in
London, Britain, June 1, 2019.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

Models present creations by Dutch
designer Iris van Herpen as part of
her haute couture spring-summer
2019 collection in Paris, France,
January 21, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit
Tessier

Tiger Woods of the U.S. celebrates
on the 18th hole after winning the
Masters at Augusta National Golf
Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 14,
2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

X-Raid's driver Orlando Terranova
and co-driver Bernardo Graue in
action during stage 2 of the Dakar
Rally from Pisco to San Juan de
Marcona, Peru, January 8, 2019.
REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe
of Britain compete in the women's
duet free preliminary at the FINA
World Swimming Championships in
Gwangju, South Korea, July 16, 2019.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

A woman reacts to the sun coming
out of the clouds during the annual
Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival on
Fifth Avenue in New York City, April
21, 2019. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

British Prime Minister Theresa May
reacts as she announces she would
step down as leader of the
Conservative Party, triggering a
contest for a new prime minister, in
London, Britain, May 24, 2019.
REUTERS/Toby Melville

A riot police officer hits a migrant, as
migrants and refugees argue with
riot police officers next to a camp in
the town of Diavata in northern
Greece, April 4, 2019.
REUTERS/Alexandros Avramidis

Fatima Ibrahim Hadi, 12, who is
malnourished and weighs just 10 kg,
sits on a bed at a clinic in Aslam, in
the northwestern province of Hajjah,
Yemen, February 17, 2019.
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro
arrives at an inauguration ceremony
of the new president of the
Parliamentary Agricultural Front
(FPA) in Brasilia, Brazil February 19,
2019. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

A Sudanese protester wearing a Guy
Fawkes mask waves a national flag
outside the defense ministry
compound in Khartoum, Sudan, April
24, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Orangutans gather as smoke from
forest fires covers Salat Island, which
is used by Borneo Orangutan
Survival Foundation as a pre-release
island for orangutans, in Pulang
Pisau regency near Palangka Raya,
Central Kalimantan province,
Indonesia,

A boy sits by the swimming pool at
the Israeli settlement of Vered
Yericho in the occupied West Bank
September 11, 2019. REUTERS/
Ronen Zvulun

The injured grandmother of Shaini,
13, who died as bomb blasts ripped
through churches and luxury hotels
on Easter Sunday, mourns at her
wake in Negombo, Sri Lanka April 22,
2019. REUTERS/Athit
Perawongmetha

Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters
assist their injured fellow fighter near
the border town of Tal Abyad, Syria
October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Khalil
Ashawi

Slum dwellers gather near their
shelters after a fire in Dhaka,
Bangladesh, August 17, 2019.
REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

A girl plays with a rifle after a
Memorial Day ceremony for the
fallen soldier at Latrun's armored
corps memorial site, Israel May 8,
2019. REUTERS/Corinna Kern

A masked Kashmiri man with his
head covered with barbed wire
attends a protest after Friday
prayers, during restrictions following
the scrapping of the special
constitutional status for Kashmir by
the Indian government, in Srinagar,
October 11, 2019.

A recortador jumps over a bull during
a contest in a bullring at the San
Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain,
July 13, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Guatemalan migrant Ledy Perez
embraces her son Anthony while
praying to ask a member of the
Mexican National Guard to let them
cross into the United States, as seen
from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico July 22,
2019. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

A riot police officer on fire reacts
during a protest against Chile's
government in Santiago, Chile
November 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge
Silva

Police use a water cannon to
disperse demonstrators during a
protest against the replacement of
Kurdish mayors with state officials in
three cities, in Diyarbakir, Turkey,
August 20, 2019. REUTERS/Sertac
Kayar

Car lights are seen on one of the
main roads of the city during the
second day of a blackout in Caracas,
Venezuela March 9, 2019.
REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

Indian Air Force (IAF) soldiers march
as advanced light helicopters fly
during the Indian Air Force Day
celebrations at the Hindon Air Force
Station on the outskirts of New Delhi,
India, October 8, 2019.
REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

Buildings damaged during Cyclone
Kenneth are seen from the air in a
village north of Pemba, Mozambique,
May 1, 2019. REUTERS/Mike
Hutchings

Iraqi demonstrators carry away a
boy affected by tear gas during
anti-government protests in
Baghdad, Iraq November 3, 2019.
REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

Sweden's Armand Duplantis in action
during the men's pole vault final at
the Athletics Championships in Doha,
Qatar, October 1, 2019.
REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

Models present creations from Oscar
de la Renta before the show during
New York Fashion Week in New York,
February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Gaia
Squarci

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
perform "Shallow" from their film "A
Star Is Born" at the Academy Awards
in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California,
February 24, 2019. REUTERS/Mike
Blake

People queue to pay tribute to late
French President Jacques Chirac
during a popular national tribute at
the Hotel des Invalides in Paris,
France, September 29, 2019.

Smoke billows during a fire in an
area of the Amazon rainforest near
Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil,
August 17, 2019. REUTERS/Ueslei
Marcelino

Anti-government protesters protect
themselves with umbrellas amid tear
gas during a demonstration near
Central Government Complex in
Hong Kong, China, September 15,
2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Demba, 8, a Koranic student, called
a talibe, attends karate training in
the courtyard of Maison de la Gare,
an organization that helps talibe
street children reintegrate into
society, in Saint-Louis, Senegal,
February 8, 2019.

Representative Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wipes away
tears as Representative Ilhan Omar
(D-MN) talks about her own
experience as a refugee during a
news conference to call on Congress
to cut funding for Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Participants kiss as they take part in
the WorldPride parade and mark the
50th anniversary of the Stonewall
uprising in New York, June 30, 2019.
REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

A player with Fuwaku Rugby Club
tackles another club team player
during their match in Kumagaya,
Saitama Prefecture, Japan, May 3,
2019.

Riot police detain a woman as
anti-government protesters gather at
Sha Tin Mass Transit Railway station
to demonstrate against the railway
operator, which they accuse of
helping the government, in Hong
Kong, China September 25, 2019.

A displaced woman looks at her
child, hiding behind her dress, in a
school now occupied by internally
displaced people after heavy rains
and floods forced hundreds of
thousands of people to leave their
homes, in the town of Pibor, Boma
state, South

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi
waves towards his supporters during
a roadshow in Varanasi, India, April
25, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Members of a morenada dance
fraternity shoot a music video at a
cottage in the village of Lipari, on
the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia
December 11, 2016.
REUTERS/Manuel Seoane

Military delegates arrive before a
military parade marking the 70th
founding anniversary of People's
Republic of China, on its National
Day in Beijing, China October 1,
2019. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Bolivian President Evo Morales,
presidential candidate for the
Movement for Socialism (MAS) party,
offers fruit to residents on a street in
Shinahota in the Chapare region,
Bolivia October 19, 2019.
REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

German Chancellor Angela Merkel
and Britain's Prime Minister Boris
Johnson meet at the Chancellery in
Berlin, Germany, August 21, 2019.
REUTERS/Axel Schmidt

A whirlwind of hot ash and embers
moves through the Cave Fire,
burning in the hills of Santa Barbara,
California, November 26, 2019.
REUTERS/David McNew

An injured demonstrator is carried by
members of the security forces
during a protest against Chile's
government in Santiago, Chile
November 14, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge
Silva

Whitby Town fans, 10-year-old Dylan
Locker and his dad Danny Locker,
pose for a picture during the soccer
match between Whitby Town F.C. and
Basford United at the Turnbull
Ground in Whitby, Britain March 2,
2019. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Demonstrators throw stones during a
protest against Ecuadorian President
Lenin Moreno's austerity measures in
Quito, Ecuador October 11, 2019.
REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

Mourners arrive at Rufaro stadium in
Mbare township, where the body of
Zimbabwe's founder Robert Mugabe
will lie in state, Harare, Zimbabwe,
September 12, 2019.

Huawei Technologies Chief Financial
Officer Meng Wanzhou leaves her
home to appear for a hearing at
British Columbia Supreme Court, in
Vancouver, Canada September 23,
2019.

Migrants from Syria walk back
through the woods after trying to
cross the border with Croatia on the
hills near Vucjak camp near Bihac,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 30,
2019. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

A guest is seen on the red carpet
through a rain-covered tarp at a
screening of "Frankie" during the
Cannes Film Festival in France, May
20, 2019. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw
Soe Oo gesture as they walk to
Insein prison gate after receiving a
presidential pardon and being freed
in Yangon, Myanmar, May 7, 2019.
REUTERS/Ann Wang

Supporters of former Bolivian
President Evo Morales take cover
from tear gas while carrying coffins
of people they say were killed during
clashes with security forces in
Senkata, as they take part in a
protest in La Paz, Bolivia November
21, 2019.

A car drives along a
five-kilometer-long road, which is
supervised by regional traffic
services to connect the banks of the
ice-covered Yenisei River during
winter season, south of Krasnoyarsk,
Russia March 3, 2019. REUTERS/Ilya
Naymushin

Hindu devotees sit together on the
floor of a temple to observe Rakher
Upabash, in Narayangonj near
Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 5,
2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir
Hossain

Demonstrators sit atop a statue on
Martyrs' Square during ongoing
anti-government protests in
downtown Beirut, Lebanon, October
26, 2019. REUTERS/Alkis
Konstantinidis

Andy Ruiz Jr (R) fights Anthony
Joshua for the WBA Super, IBF, WBO
& IBO world heavyweight titles
at Madison Square Garden in New
York, June 1, 2019. Ruiz won the
match with a technical knockout in
the seventh round.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson
attends the annual CBI Conference in
London, Britain November 18, 2019.
REUTERS/Simon Dawson

A riot police officer runs towards
separatist demonstrators during
clashes after a verdict in a trial over
a banned independence referendum
in Barcelona, Spain, October 15,
2019. REUTERS/Albert Gea

Children play as caked clay is seen in
the dried-up municipal dam in
drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South
Africa, November 17, 2019.
REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

A woman and a child ride an electric
tricycle in the old town of Luoyang,
Henan province, China January 21,
2019. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Kim Jae-hoon drinks water as he sits
in his cubicle, called a goshi-won,
where he lives in Suwon, South
Korea, November 7, 2019.
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

A firefighter works at the site of a
building collapse in Shanghai, China
May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song

A Russian Army member, dressed in
historical uniform, looks on before a
rehearsal for a military parade to
mark the anniversary of a historical
parade in 1941, when Soviet soldiers
marched towards the front lines, at
the Red Square in Moscow, Russia

A snow-covered landscape is seen
near Menzingen, Switzerland
February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd
Wiegmann

People look at their smartphones in
Times Square in New York City, May
8, 2019. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

President Donald Trump is
silhouetted against a U.S. flag as he
holds a campaign rally in Lake
Charles, Louisiana, October 11,
2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis