Journalism of Courage
Hot lava flows from Mount Sinabung volcano during an eruption in the danger zone area at the empty village of Bekerah in Karo Regency, North Sumatra province, Indonesia, June 25. More than 10,000 people from 12 villages, who are living around the slopes of Mount Sinabung, left their homes and moved to refugee camps, local media reported. (Source: Reuters)
A Kashmiri woman walks on a footbridge as it rains in Srinagar, June 24. This year's monsoon rains in India are officially forecast to be only 88 percent of the long-term average. (Source: Reuters)
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal waves to the crowd with his wife Supriya Jindal after he announced his candidacy for president in Kenner, La., Wednesday, June 24. (Source: AP)
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's children, Slade Jindal, Shaan Jindal and Selia Jindal, watch a promotional video of their father, at an event where he announced his candidacy for president in Kenner, La., Wednesday, June 24. (Source: AP)
Vicunas are herded into a catch pen as men dressed as Inca servants standby to capture the animals for their shearing during the national "Chaccu," or annual roundup of vicunas, at the Pampa Galeras National Reserve, in the Peruvian state of Ayacucho, Wednesday, June 24. Once extinct, Peru's vicuna population has risen aided by a combination of conservation measures, regulations and economic incentives for highland villagers to shear wool without killing the animals and the regulation of markets for the product. (Source: AP)
Colorful Umbrella's decoration at Shivaji Park, Dadar, Mumbai on Tuesday, eve of Monsoon season organized by Sandeep Deshpande. (Source: Express Photo by Vasant Prabhu)
Participants of the International Yoga Day during the full dress rehearsal for the event at Rajpath in New Delhi on June 19. (Source: Express Photo by Ravi Kanojia)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes part in the session of International Day of Yoga at Rajpath in New Delhi on June 21. (Source: Express Photo by Neeraj Priyadarshi)
Sister Mary Prema Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity waits outside mother house to receive the body of Sister Nirmala. Body of Sister Nirmala being taken to Mother House from St Jhon's church Sealdah where it was kept for public to pay homage. Sister Nirmala who had succeeded Mother Teresa as the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity in 1997 and served 12 years in the past. (Source: Express Photo by Partha Paul)
Around 5000 N.C.C. cadets (from different school an college) performed Yoga on the occasion of International Day of Yoga, at brigade parade ground (Maidan), back drop of iconic Victoria Memorial Kolkata, on Sunday June 21,organised by N.C.C. directorate of West Bengal and Sikkim. (Source: Express Photo by Partha Paul)
Heavy Rain in Matunga, Sion, Dadar, Parel area, Mumbai on Friday. (Source: Express Photo by Prashant Nadkar)
Relatives sit beside a body of a deceased who died due to an intense heat wave, while waiting for an ambulance, at Edhi Foundation morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, June 22. An intense heat wave killed more than 400 people over the weekend in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, officials said on Monday, as the electricity grid crashed during the first days of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Source: Reuters)
Volunteers search for the bodies of deceased among people who died due to an intense heat wave, at Edhi Foundation morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, June 22. (Source: Reuters)
Members of parliament are evacuated after an attack on the Afghan parliament building in Kabul, Afghanistan June 22. A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the militants as they intensified a summer offensive. (Source: Reuters)
An Indian devotee touches to worship an idol of a Hindu deity at the Kamakhya Hindu temple during the annual Ambubasi festival in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, June 24. Hundreds of Hindu holy men have arrived to perform rituals at the temple during the five-days long festival that began Monday. (Source: AP)
Fire retardant is dropped on a hillside above Foothill Drive near homes that have been evacuated in Antioch, Calif., Wednesday, June 24. Wildfire are sweeping through several dry Western states. (Source: AP)
A tree frames the smoke as it billows in the back ground from a fire Thursday, June 25, in Pioneertown, Calif. A huge forest fire that has been burning through rugged terrain in the San Bernardino Mountains for more than a week forced evacuations as it stretched northeast into the desert. (Source: AP)
President Barack Obama walks with Vice President Joe Biden back to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 25, after speaking in the Rose Garden after the Supreme Court upheld the subsidies for customers in states that do not operate their own exchanges under President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. (Source: AP)
An Indian girl takes a selfie with a boy dressed as Hindu god Shiva at the Kamakhya Hindu temple during the annual Ambubasi festival in Gauhati, India, Wednesday, June 24. Hundreds of Hindu holy men have arrived to perform rituals at the temple during the five-days long festival that began Monday. (Source: AP)
Mount Sinabung spews volcanic materials and hot molten lava from its crater as seen from Tiga Pancur, North Sumatra, Indonesia, early Thursday, June 25. The volcano has spewed hot lava almost daily since its alert status was raised early this month to the highest level. Thousands of villagers whose homes are in the danger zone have been evacuated since then to safer areas. (Source: AP)
A woman and her daughter walk on a road as Mount Sinabung releases volcanic material into the air in Gamber, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, June 25. The volcano has spewed hot lava almost daily since its alert status was raised early this month to the highest level. Thousands of villagers whose homes are in the danger zone have been evacuated since then to safer areas. (Source: AP)
Air force personnel carrying rescue operations after floods hit the Amreli district due to heavy rains in Gujarat on Thursday. (Source: PTI)
A boy, who was wounded by what activists said was violence caused by Islamic State fighters in Kobani, waits inside a vehicle to cross into Turkey at the Syrian-Turkish border crossing of Tel Abyad, Syria June 25. Syrian state television said on Thursday that Islamic State fighters who carried out a deadly assault on the predominantly Kurdish border town of Kobani had entered Syria from Turkey. (Source: Reuters)
An Afghan woman adjusts the pin on curtains at a kiosk during the inauguration of "Spring of Holy Quran" exhibition during the month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan June 25. (Source: Reuters)
A reveller sleeps as the sun rises during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, Britain, June 25. (Source: Reuters)
Chilean fans climb onto the monument of national hero Manuel Baqueano during celebrations after Chile's victory over Uruguay in their Copa America 2015 quarter-finals soccer match in Santiago, Chile, June 24. (Source: Reuters)
