World Press Photo of the Year

A photograph of a Honduran toddler crying as a U.S. Border Patrol officer pats down the child's mother in Texas was named as the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year at a ceremony on April 11.

New photos showing Turkish policeman Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş hours before he killed Andrey Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Ankara, have been revealed. 

The Russian Embassy in Ankara on Feb. 14 expressed anger over the awarding of the prestigious World Press Photo Award for an image of an off-duty Turkish policeman assassinating the Russian envoy to Turkey last year.

Agence France-Presse photographer Bülent K?l?ç was honoured Sept. 5 at photojournalism's biggest annual festival for dramatic images of refugees fleeing across the Turkish border. K?l?ç, 35, won the Visa d'Or for News, the most prestigious award handed out at the "Visa Pour L'Image" festival in Perpignan, southwestern France.
 

An image of a gay couple locked in a tender embrace won the prestigious World Press Photo award on Feb. 12, highlighting the plight of sexual minorities in Russia.
      
But organisers said at least a quarter of all pictures reaching the penultimate round of the 58th edition of the contest were rejected because they were digitally enhanced, the organisers said.