Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past ...

Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes, read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish ...

and once when he had been on a visit in a small town in the South he had been the guest of the president of the local Chamber of Commerce. He had sat next to an Italian on one side and a Jew on ...