One Extraordinary Photo

An AP Photographer picked his own path when trying to make the perfect Mud People Festival photo

Aaron Favila has been working for The Associated Press in the Philippines for 26 years, covering everything from politics to crime to sports to disasters to everyday people.

An AP photographer explains why a good action photo is often about the cropping

An AP photographer was looking for a cricket match but instead found a most intriguing kids game

Here’s how an AP photographer found the extraordinary in a red hat

How a photographer used a stray flash to make star Greta Gerwig look ethereal

India celebrates T20 World Cup final triumph over South Africa

NEW DELHI (AP) — Cricket fans across India came out onto the streets, waving the national flag and setting off firecrackers to celebrate the national team’s seven-run win against South Africa in a gripping final of the Twenty20 World Cup on Saturday.

Euro 2024 Second Week in Pictures: drama, emotion and selfies as the group stage ends

BERLIN (AP) — The group stage of Euro 2024 offered exciting soccer and colorful celebrations among fans criss-crossing Germany to support their national teams.

These women are back at Woodstock after 55 years to glamp and relive the famous festival

Beverly Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock festival in August 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW Microbus and pitched a pup tent.

Philippine villagers smear mud on their bodies to show devotion to St. John the Baptist

BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — It is well before daybreak in Bibiclat, a village in the northern Philippines surrounded by rice fields.

AP Sports Week in Pictures: Kylian Mbappé's face mask grabs the spotlight

AP photographers are making the most of the European Championship in Germany to take spectacular shots capturing the excitement of this major soccer tournament.

Euro 2024 First Week in Pictures: Germany’s bright opening, records set, Mbappé the masked star

The Associated Press photographers were there across Germany for the first week of the European Championship in men’s soccer.

It’s the longest bridge ever built in Peru, and so far, it goes nowhere

It is the longest bridge ever built in Peru, a massive structure of cement and iron spanning the Nanay River as it connects to untouched areas of the Peruvian Amazon.

AP Week in Pictures: Global

June 14-20, 2024

People protested during a general strike in Panama, Muslim pilgrims gathered in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited North Korea and Vietnam.

Thousands of refugees in Indonesia have spent years awaiting resettlement. Their future is unclear

Hundreds of refugees are living in community housing on an island in northwestern Indonesia while waiting for resettlement in a third country.

AP Sports Week in Pictures: Clutch putt at US Open, blocked shot in WNBA, disallowed goal at Euros

The Associated Press photographers were there when Bryson DeChambeau made the winning putt on the 18th green at the U.S.

Muslim pilgrims wrap up the Hajj with final symbolic stoning of the devil and circling of the Kaaba

Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the Hajj pilgrimage in the deadly summer heat with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, in the city of Mecca.

People in an Indian city swallow live fish as a ‘miracle cure’ for asthma

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A mother encourages her daughter to fully open her mouth to swallow a live fish holding “the medicine” she believes will help cure her child’s asthma, as scores clamor about, gulping down their own fish and hoping for the best.

A street in The Hague gets an all-encompassing orange facelift for Euro 2024

The fluttering of 64 kilometers (40 miles) of orange bunting and a hammer driving a nail into a wall to hold up an orange tarp are the sounds of a Dutch summer of soccer in a normally drab suburban street in The Hague.

Nomadic Muslim devotees throng a forest shrine in disputed Kashmir

Tens of thousands of men in vibrant attires, henna-dyed beards and bright headgears thronged the Muslim shrine nestled at the base of a mountain to pay their obeisance last week.

Cambodian village prays for good fortune, prosperity, and rain in ‘He Neak Ta’ ritual

PHUM BOEUNG, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of Cambodian villagers on Tuesday took part in a rare traditional guardian spirit ceremony praying for good fortune, rain and prosperity, as they aimed to preserve this ancient tradition.

A look at the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy

Veterans from the U.S., Britain and Canada, more than two dozen heads of state and countless others took to the beaches of Normandy and elsewhere this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France.

AP Sports Week in Pictures: Real Madrid’s victory toss, rainy French Open and U.S. Women’s Open

The Associated Press photographers were there when Real Madrid’s players tossed coach Carlo Ancelotti in the air after winning the Champions League final soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid at Wembley stadium in London.

In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation

A female-led group of forest rangers in Indonesia are defying social norms to lead patrols in the jungle to combat deforestation.

The world’s largest elections come to a close in India

New Delhi (AP) — The 6-week-long election in India closed on Saturday. The world’s largest election could also be one of its most consequential.

Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels

The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades.