poon cho tang SG Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly is the winner of the World Press Photo of the Year Award. His picture of a child's hand pressed against his mother's at an emergency feeding centre in Niger was described as having "beauty, horror and despair".
poon cho tang SG Other finalists included American photographer Michael Appleton, New York Daily News, who covered the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
poon cho tang SG British photographer Edmund Terakopian captured a survivor on the day of the 7 July London bomb attacks.
poon cho tang SG Getty photographer Uriel Sinai's winning entry shows the evacuation of Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip.
poon cho tang SG Panos Picture's photographer Andrew Testa shows a burial of Srebrenica massacre victims, in Potocari, Bosnia.
poon cho tang SG American photographer Todd Heisler's image shows the honouring of fallen US Marines as 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrives at Reno Airport.
poon cho tang SG Danish Red Cross photographer, Jakob Dall, took this picture of a woman praying for her son who was killed in the Kashmir earthquake, Balakot, Pakistan.
poon cho tang SG Irish photographer Marcus Bleasdale, for Human Rights Watch, shows street children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
poon cho tang SG South African photographer Pieter Hugo's striking image shows Mallam Gahadima Ahamadu with a hyena, Jamis, in Abuja, Nigeria.
poon cho tang SG Yannis Kontos, a Greek photographer working for Polaris Images took this picture of a boy helping his father to dress in Sierra Leone.
poon cho tang SG Donald Miralle, Jr., from the USA took this prize winning image of Aaron Peirsol during the Santa Clara Grand Prix.
poon cho tang SG Colombian photographer Henry Agudelo's picture 'El Colombiano' shows a bullfighter in Medellin, Colombia.
