The practice of breast-ironing
Images of survivors of “breast-ironing”, Cameroon’s tradition of forcibly flattening young girls’ breasts using a hot stone in the hopes of averting sexual advances and teen pregnancies.
5 facts: Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons
Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons
2013 Year in pictures
Here is our choice of the 50 best pictures of 2013, covering the big events of the year, from the military takeover in Egypt to operations to stabilise countries in central Africa, taking in the plight of the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar, the worsening civil war in Syria, and natural disasters from earthquakes in southwest China to Typhoon Haiyan which devastated the central Philippines.