From a blindfolded competitor who races against the clock to solve a Rubik’s cube in an event at the World Cube Association World Championships to Radio City Music Hall, these photos of the day will inform you about everything important…

From police officers who try to stop a protest in the state of Karnataka after the chief minister gathered with coalition leaders in a final attempt to save his 13-month-old alliance government to whale sculptures made from plastic waste…

From people who bow before statues of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung (left) and Kim Jong-il as the country marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Kim Il-sung to cyclists who ride among wheat-fields during the third stage of…

On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13, forcing American astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise to act quickly in order to save the spacecraft as well as their own lives. The explosion forced the crew to…

From Hindu pilgrims who cross a snow-covered mountain to reach the Amarnath cave shrine, where they will worship an ice stalagmite as the symbol of Lord Shiva to a veteran who kneels at a memorial for seven bikers killed in a collision…

Sam Edmonds, an Antarctic tour guide and photographer, took these images from a helicopter along the Eastern coastline between Cape Adare and the Cooperation Sea during summer. The continent’s vastness and the scale of the climate…

From Maryln Rich, suspended by a helicopter over the skyscrapers of Manhattan who performs stunts on behalf of the American Relief for Korea organization, on August 27, 1951 to the motorcycle racer Roland Free who lies horizontally on his…

From a young USA fan who smiles ahead of the Concacaf Gold Cup semi-final football match against Jamaica to a boy who watches a fireworks display during Independence Day celebrations, these photos of the day will give you the information…

Donald Trump is overseeing Fourth of July celebrations with a speech about patriotism and a show of military might that critics say is politicizing an important holiday and wasting taxpayers’ money. The president has dismissed concerns…

From gannets that nest at the RSPB nature reserve at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, as more than 250,000 seabirds flock to the chalk cliffs to mate and raise their young to a six-year-old Amur tiger that lies in an open-air cage, lit to…