The best of World Press Photo Awards 2013

The World Press Photo of the Year 2013 by John Stanmeyer, USA, VII for National Geographic, shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti city at night, raising their phones in an attempt to capture an inexpensive signal from neighboring Somalia in Djibouti City, Djibouti. (AP)

The 2nd prize in the People Staged Portraits Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Denis Dailleux, France, Agence Vu, shows Ali, a young Egyptian bodybuilder, posing with his mother in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)

The 3rd prize in the Nature Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Christian Ziegler, Germany, for National Geographic Magazine, shows a five-year-old bonobo of a wild group of bonobos near the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. (AP)

The 1st prize in the Nature Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Steve Winter, USA, for National Geographic, shows a cougar walking a trail in Los Angeles' Griffith Park captured by a camera trap, Los Angeles, USA. To reach the park, which has been the cougar’s home for the last two years it had to cross two of the busiest highways in the US. (AP)

The 3rd prize in the Sports Action Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Quinn Rooney, Australia, Getty Images, shows Daniel Arnamnart of Australia competing in the men's 100-meter backstroke during day two of the Australian Swimming Championships on April 27, 2013 at SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Adelaide, Australia. (AP)

The 1st prize in the General News Single category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Alessandro Penso, Italy, OnOff Picture, shows Military Ramp, an emergency refugee center in an abandoned school in Sofia, Bulgaria. The center provides housing for about 800 Syrian refugees, including 390 children. (AP)

The 2nd prize in the General News Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by William Daniels, France, Panos Pictures for Time, demonstrators gather on a street in Bangui, Central African Republic to call for the resignation of interim President Michel Djotodia following the murder of Judge Modeste Martineau Bria by members of Seleka. (AP)

The 1st prize in the Spot News Single category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Phillipe Lopez, France, Agence France-Presse, shows survivors of typhoon Haiyan march during a religious procession in Tolosa, on the eastern island of Leyte, Philippines. One of the strongest cyclones ever recorded, Haiyan left 8,000 people dead and missing and more than four million homeless after it hit the central Philippines. (AP)

The 2nd prize in the Spot News Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Tyler Hicks, USA, The New York Times, shows a woman and children hiding after gunmen had opened fire in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 21, 2013. They escaped unharmed. At least 39 people were killed in one of the worst terrorist attacks in Kenya’s history. (AP)

The 1st prize in the Spot News Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Goran Tomasevic, Serbia, Reuters, shows Syrian rebel fighters take cover amid flying debris and shrapnel after being hit by a tank shell fired towards them by the Syrian Army in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (AP)

The 1st prize in the Contemporary Issues Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, USA, for Time, shows: As the fight continued to rage, Shane told Maggie that she could choose between getting beaten in the kitchen, or going with him to the basement so they could talk privately, Lancaster, USA. (AP)

The 3rd prize in the Contemporary Issues Single category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Christopher Vanegas, Mexico, La Vanguardia/El Guardian, shows police arriving at a crime scene where two bodies hang from a bridge and another three are on the floor. They had been killed by organized crime in retaliation against other criminal groups in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. (AP)

The 1st prize in the Daily Life Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Fred Ramos, El Salvador, El Faro, photo description: Date found: 1 February 2013. Time 3:45 P.M. Location: a sugar plantation in Apopa, San Salvador, El Salvador. Sex: Female. Age: Between 17 and 18 years old. Time of disappearance: not available. The North Central American Triangle (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) is one of the most violent regions in the world. In many cases, clothes that are found become the only means to identify victims, San Salvador, El Salvador. (AP)

The 1st prize in the Daily Life Single category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Julius Schrank, Germany, De Volkskrant, shows Kachin Independence Army fighters drinking and celebrating at a funeral of one of their commanders who died the day before, Burma. (AP)

The 2nd prize in the Sports Action Single category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Andrzej Grygiel, Poland, for PAP-Polska Agencja Prasowa, shows a competitor at a slalom contest in Szczyrk, Poland. (AP)

The 1st prize in the People Observed Portraits Single category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Markus Schreiber, Germany, The Associated Press, shows a woman reacting in disappointment after access to see former South Africa President Nelson Mandela was closed on the third and final day of his casket lying in state, outside Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa. (AP)

The 1st prize in the Sports Feature Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Peter Holgersson, Sweden, shows Swedish athlete Nadja Casadei feeling better just before her last treatment in Lidingo, Sweden. Casadei has participated in the World and European Championships in heptathlon. In autumn 2013, she was diagnosed with cancer and by Jan. 2014 she completed her chemotherapy. She has continued to train throughout her illness, hoping to be healthy and ready by the summer for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. (AP)

The 1st prize in the People Observed Portraits Stories category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Carla Kogelman, the Netherlands, shows Hannah and Alena, two sisters living in the rural village of Merkenbrechts, Austria, July 19, 2012. (AP)

The 1st prize in the People Staged Portraits Single category of the 2014 World Press Photo Contest by Brent Stirton, South Africa, Reportage by Getty Images, shows a group of blind albino boys photographed in their boarding room at the Vivekananda mission school for the blind in West Bengal, India. (AP)