For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China has passed like any other weekday. And that’s just how the ruling Communist Party wants it.

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anne Marie Belgrave, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

On May 29, Mallam Hassan Umar stood waist-deep and barefoot in muddy water, his eyes on the remnants of his Arabic school, now ...

Israel has recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack that ignited the ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...

A man posing as a gardener to get close to a group in Boulder holding their weekly demonstration for the release of Israeli ...

Democracy team reporter Ali Swenson took a daily news development and turned it into a deeply reported enterprise piece ...

Lee Jae-myung, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he ...

European club soccer’s grandest prize has a new home after Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 in Saturday’s final ...

Muslims from around the world are in the Saudi city of Mecca for the Hajj, one of the Five Pillars of Islam. In the coming ...

Maja Stark has lost her confidence heading into the U.S. Women's Open. Her decision to stop worrying about that sparked her ...