Journalism of Courage
Hong Kong Ocean Park worker poses with a pygmy marmoset, the world's smallest monkey, in Hong Kong, China February 2, 2016. The Chinese New Year of the Monkey falls on February 8, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Members of the Shanxi Folk Dance and Music Troupe perform during a rehearsal before a show at the Orient Museum in Lisbon February 1, 2016. The show is part of the Chinese New Year Celebrations program of Orient Museum in Lisbon. (Source: Reuters)
Muslims pray at the top of Mount Al-Noor during their Umrah Mawlid al-Nabawi "Birthday of Prophet Mohammad" in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia January 16, 2016. Muslims believe Prophet Mohammad received the first words of the Koran through Gabriel, at the top of Mount Al-Noor in the holy city of Mecca. Picture taken January 16, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Muslims pray as they visit the Hira cave at the Mount Al-Noor during their Umrah Mawlid al-Nabawi "Birthday of Prophet Mohammad" in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia January 16, 2016. Muslims believe Prophet Mohammad received the first words of the Koran through Gabriel, at the top of Mount Al-Noor in the holy city of Mecca. Picture taken January 16, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Waves crash over the lighthouse at Porthcawl, Wales, February 1, 2016. Gale force winds are affecting parts of Wales. (Source: Reuters)
Plants are seen after snowfall in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, January 31, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Afghan girls stand at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan February 1, 2016. Ten people were killed and 20 wounded, most of them civilians in Monday's suicide bomb attack outside a police station in a busy area of western Kabul, Afghan Deputy Interior Minister Ayub Salangi said in a Twitter post. (Source: Reuters)
Folk artist Zhao Yongqi paints a monkey mask at his studio, in Beijing, China, January 29, 2016. With the arrival of this year's new Chinese zodiac animal, however, Zhao has been painting more of his favourite subject matter--monkey masks. Originally from a poor mountain village in nearby Hebei province, Zhao migrated to Beijing for work in the 1980s where he began training under an uncle who specialises in Peking Opera makeup. It was then that he discovered his passion for painting monkey masks. Picture taken January 29, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
A reveller walks in front of police during the start of the street carnival in Cologne, Germany, on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. After a string of robberies and sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in the city that police say were committed largely by foreigners, German authorities are keen to avoid a repeat of those events during the five-day street party. (Source: AP)
Revellers take part in the traditional "Weiberfastnacht" (Women's Carnival) celebration in Mainz, Germany, February 4, 2016. Germany is celebrating its traditional carnival with tight security after assaults on women during New Year's Eve celebrations across the country. (Source: Reuters)
Dancers of the Wiener Staatsballett (state ballet) perform during a dress rehearsal the day before the traditional Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, February 3, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
A woman inspects damage at a camp for internally displaced people after it was hit by what residents said was shelling carried out by government allied forces, near the Syrian-Turkish border in Jabal al-Turkman, Latakia province January 31, 2016. Picture taken January 31, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
A health worker fumigates a house as residents wait outside during a campaign against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases at Carabayllo district on the outskirts of Lima, Peru February 1, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
A man carries luggages as he leaves from a railway station in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, January 31, 2016. According to traffic police, over 2.9 billion trips will be made around China during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush started on January 24. (Source: Reuters)
A woman wearing a flower-shaped costume takes part in a parade during the Carnival of Malaga, southern Spain, January 31, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Revellers are seen walking during one of the many pre-carnival parties to take place in the neighbourhoods of Recife, Brazil, January 31, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
A participant competes in the "Farinato Race" winter extreme run competition in Gijon, northern Spain, January 31, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
A shrine in honor of El Salvador's former President Francisco Flores is seen in front of a private hospital where he was admitted, in San Salvador, El Salvador January 30, 2016. Flores, 56, died on Saturday after suffering a stroke as he waited to face trial over embezzlement charges. (Source: Reuters)
Revellers in costumes dance during a carnival parade in Berlin, Germany, January 31, 2016.(Source: Reuters)
Serbia's Novak Djokovic kisses the men's singles trophy after winning his final match against Britain's Andy Murray at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park, Australia, January 31, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
A female reveller celebrates in front of the cathedral during the start of the street carnival in Cologne, Germany, on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. After a string of robberies and sexual assaults on New Year's Eve in the city that police say were committed largely by foreigners, German authorities are keen to avoid a repeat of those events during the five-day street party. (Source: AP)
A memorial for Robert “LaVoy” Finicum is seen where he was shot and killed by law enforcement on a highway north of Burns, Oregon January 30, 2016. Four armed anti-government protesters held their ground at the remote Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon on Saturday, two days after the FBI released a video of the fatal shooting of one of the group's spokesmen during a traffic stop. (Source: Reuters)
Men fish on an ice-covered bay of the Yenisei River in front of the city's cargo port, with the air temperature at about minus 24 degrees Celsius (minus 11.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 30, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Storm clouds gather over Shell's Pulau Bukom oil refinery in Singapore January 30, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Sheep for sale lie on the ground at La Saline slaughterhouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 4, 2015. Reuters photographer Andres Martinez Casares: "The grunts of a pig or the bleating of a goat are one thing. Then there's the sound of animals about to be killed. That's something else. If you haven't heard that before, it's quite something. It's very early in the morning when this happens, well before dawn. Day after day, it's the same toil over and over again. The market of Croix des Bossales, in an area that once held a slave market, stands among impoverished Haiti's interim parliament compound, shipping ports, and downtown Port-au-Prince. The outdoor slaughterhouse of La Saline, which supplies the market, is mired in mud and littered with rubbish. It's a cluster of shacks, some with tin roofs, other with tarpaulins. It isn't among the best neighbourhoods, so to start with it was complicated being there. Little by little people became more trusting and let me work in peace to document the daily grind of killing and preparing the market. Smell is one of the most basic associations we have, taking us back to childhood or reminding us of a loved one. The stench produced from burning animal skins is very distinctive. But the smell that best defines this place is a mix of damp earth, animal dung and blood, which you can savour from the road when you pass by. If in the future I happen to chance on that kind of smell again, I am sure it will take me back to Port-au-Prince in the hours before dawn." (Source: Reuters)
FILE - In this May 21, 2015, file photo, workers prepare an oil containment boom at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., two days after a ruptured pipeline created the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years. Exxon Mobil Corp. won approval Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, for its plan to use trucks to move more than 17 million gallons of oil stranded in storage tanks after the spill, despite concerns from an environmental group that highway safety could be jeopardized. (Source: AP)
A Vietnamese woman, wearing the traditional "ao dai" long dress, poses for photos along peach blossom flowers ahead of the Vietnamese "Tet" (Lunar New Year festival), in a field in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 2, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Migrant children from Iraq sit on beds inside the sports hall of the Jane-Addams high school which has been transformed into a refugee shelter in Berlin's Hohenschoenhausen district, Germany, February 2, 2016 (Source: Reuters)
A girl completes her homework itting at her father's stall on a street of Bashantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal February 2, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
The exhumed body of the mystic saint Padre Pio lies in a glass sepulchre 40 years after his death, in the crypt of Santa Maria delle Grazie in San Giovanni Rotondo, southern Italy in this April 24, 2008 file photo. The body of one of the most popular Roman Catholic saints, the mystic monk Padre Piobegan, began an overland journey in a crystal coffin on February 3, 2016 to go on display at the Vatican. (Source: Reuters)
Performance monkeys take a break on bricks next to their trainer during a daily training session at a monkey farm in Baowan village, Xinye county of China’s central Henan province, February 2, 2016. Baowan village of China’s central Henan province appears to be your average farming community from the surface, but at a closer look, one can hear monkey hoots from every direction. Although no official number exists, villagers say that they have been a breeding ground for both monkeys and monkey trainers for centuries. (Source: Reuters)
A passenger sleeps on the floor at Guangzhou Railway Station, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, February 3, 2016. More than 50,000 passengers were stranded at a railway station in the Chinese city of Guangzhou on Tuesday because of weather delays, state media said, an inauspicious start for some as the country embarks upon its annual lunar new year travel rush. (Source: Reuters)
British veteran rockers The Rolling Stones' singer Mick Jagger sings during a concert on their "Latin America Ole Tour" in Santiago, Chile February 3, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
The larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquito are seen inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil, February 2, 2016. Brazil's health minister on Wednesday urged Latin American countries to work together in the fight against the Zika virus and said U.S. experts would arrive next week to begin work on finding a vaccine. (Source: Reuters)
Nippon Steel's facility is seen through cherry blossoms in full bloom in Kamaishi, Iwate prefecture, more than one month after the area was devastated by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami, in this April 20, 2011 file photo. (Source: Reuters)
Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan, left, watches a ball go in along with Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl- Anthony Towns during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Los Angeles. The Timberwolves won 108-102. (Source: AP)
Linda Farley, a supporter of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, sits in her car decorated with patriotic items outside a campaign event in Jefferson, Iowa, United States, February 1, 2016. (Source: Reuters)
Dancers are transported in an open trailer during carnival celebrations in Ituren February 1, 2016. Bell carrying dancers known as Joaldunak from Zubieta and neighbouring Ituren visit each other's villages performing a ritual dance to ward off evil spirits and awaken the coming spring. Alongside the dancers, villagers dress in bizarre and frightening costumes to harass and scare visitors. (Source: Reuters)
