In Photos: World Press Photo Contest 2018

Photo of the year nominee

José Víctor Salazar Balza catches fire amid clashes with riot police during a protest against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Caracas
Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP

Photo of the year nominee

A passerby comforts an injured woman after a car was driven into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Photo of the year nominee

Civilians line up for aid in Mosul during the battle to retake the city from Islamic State
Photograph: Ivor Prickett/The New York Times

Photo of the year nominee

A boy is carried out of the last Islamic State-controlled area of Mosul
Photograph: Ivor Prickett/The New York Times

Photo of the year nominee

Bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after the boat in which they were trying to flee Myanmar capsized
Photograph: Patrick Brown/Unicef