The year's best photojournalism
A solitary chamois, mud-covered rescuers, and more

Rescuers are tended to by firefighters following flooding in Las Tejerias, Venezuela. (October 10)
REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria

Horses during a traditional game of kokpar in Almaty, Kazakhstan. (November 5)
REUTERS/Konstantin Chalabov

Water buffaloes are seen near an oilfield in Basra, Iraq. (July 18)
HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images

A man takes a quail out of a net in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip. (September 20)
REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

A chamois is silhouetted during sunset in Pontechianale, Italy. (August 11)
MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images

A bullet-riddled wall of a house damaged in a gunbattle in Srinagar, India. (March 16)
AP Photo/Dar Yasin

A child looks at a giant papier mache jack-o-lantern in Valletta, Malta. (October 24)
REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi

A schoolgirl runs in Dobryanka, Ukraine. (February 21)
AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak

A boy runs towards a United Nations helicopter in Bunia, eastern Congo. (February 22)
AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa

Ukrainian soldiers try to receive mobile service near Kharkiv, Ukraine. (November 10)
IHOR TKACHOV/AFP via Getty Images

A statue of Dante Alighieri is covered with sandbags in Kyiv. (March 23)
AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda

A girl sleeps while covered with sand on a beach in Karachi, Pakistan. (October 25)
ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images