From Trump supporters storming the US Capitol, the fall of Kabul to Taliban to the refugee crisis on the Belarus-Poland border – a wrap of the best pictures.
Shredded trees and the shells of homes lie half-buried in mud near the Taal
volcano almost a year after it erupted in Batangas province, a popular tourist
destination just south of Manila, Philippines, on January 10, 2021
[Aaron Favila/AP Photo]
Supporters of former US President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the
US Capitol in Washington, DC as they try to storm the building on January 6,
2021, while congressional leaders inside prepared to affirm President-elect
Joe Biden's election victory. [Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo]
A train passes a railway crossing surrounded by floodwaters from rain and melting
snow in Nidderau near Frankfurt, Germany, on February 3, 2021.
[Michael Probst/AP Photo]
Stephen Mudoga, 12, tries to chase away a swarm of locusts on his farm as he
returns home from school, at Elburgon, in Nakuru county, Kenya, on March 17,
2021. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
A child weeps as he is unloaded from an inflatable raft after being smuggled
across the Rio Grande into the US, in Roma, Texas, on March 28, 2021.
[Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Photo]
People wait to cremate victims who died due to COVID-19 at a crematorium ground
in New Delhi, India, amid a brutal second wave of the pandemic, on April 23, 2021.
[Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]
A blast from an Israeli air raid on a building in the besieged
Gaza Strip throws dust and debris around the neighborhood during the
Muslim holy month of Ramadan on May 13, 2021. [Hatem Moussa/AP Photo]
Performers dressed as rescue workers gather around the Communist Party flag during
a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese
Communist Party in Beijing, on June 28, 2021. [Ng Han Guan/AP Photo]
Taliban fighters take control of Afghanistan's presidential palace after President
Ashraf Ghani flees the country, in Kabul on August 15, 2021. [Zabi Karimi/AP Photo]
A home is engulfed in flames as the Dixie fire rages south of
Janesville in Northern California, US on August 16, 2021.
[Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gather at the Belarus-Poland border
near Grodno, Belarus, on November 8, 2021, after Poland increased security
along European Union's eastern border. [Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA/AP Photo]
Shredded trees and the shells of homes lie half-buried in mud near the Taal volcano almost a year after it erupted in Batangas province, a popular tourist destination just south of Manila, Philippines, on January 10, 2021 [Aaron Favila/AP Photo]
Supporters of former US President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the US Capitol in Washington, DC as they try to storm the building on January 6, 2021, while congressional leaders inside prepared to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's election victory. [Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo]
A train passes a railway crossing surrounded by floodwaters from rain and melting snow in Nidderau near Frankfurt, Germany, on February 3, 2021. [Michael Probst/AP Photo]
Stephen Mudoga, 12, tries to chase away a swarm of locusts on his farm as he returns home from school, at Elburgon, in Nakuru county, Kenya, on March 17, 2021. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
A child weeps as he is unloaded from an inflatable raft after being smuggled across the Rio Grande into the US, in Roma, Texas, on March 28, 2021. [Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Photo]
People wait to cremate victims who died due to COVID-19 at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, amid a brutal second wave of the pandemic, on April 23, 2021. [Danish Siddiqui/Reuters]
A blast from an Israeli air raid on a building in the besieged Gaza Strip throws dust and debris around the neighborhood during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on May 13, 2021. [Hatem Moussa/AP Photo]
Performers dressed as rescue workers gather around the Communist Party flag during a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, on June 28, 2021. [Ng Han Guan/AP Photo]
Taliban fighters take control of Afghanistan's presidential palace after President Ashraf Ghani flees the country, in Kabul on August 15, 2021. [Zabi Karimi/AP Photo]
A home is engulfed in flames as the Dixie fire rages south of Janesville in Northern California, US on August 16, 2021. [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]
Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on November 8, 2021, after Poland increased security along European Union's eastern border. [Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA/AP Photo]
