This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anita Baca, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or ...

Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025, with thousands of revelers counting down to the new year and cheering at colorful fireworks launched from New Zealand's tallest structure, Sky ...

New year celebrations have reached most of the Americas, as Australasia, Asia, Europe and Africa all marked the start of 2025 ...

Nineteen-year-old Charles Owino was killed by a gunshot to the head during a day of anti-government protests near Nairobi in July, according to an autopsy ...

Protests have started in Nairobi following the surge in abductions and enforced disappearances across the country. A group of ...

Kenyan President William Ruto has promised to stop abductions of government critics, in an apparent change of stance for a leader who has previously called the wave of disappearances “fake news.” ...

Kenyans expressed optimism for the new year even as they braced to persevere through challenges. Fireworks, shouts of joy, ...

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at ...

The New Year’s Eve ball dropped in soggy Times Square, where thousands of revelers stuck it out in heavy rain to celebrate the start of 2025 in New York City ... And in Nairobi, Kenya, scattered ...

Police in Nairobi on Monday lobbed tear gas at protesters demonstrating in the city centre over rising cases of abduction and enforced disappearance of government critics.

Nairobi, people took to the streets to protests against endemic violence against women under the banner End Femicide Kenya. Roman Pilipey/AFP A man fills bottles with water in the city of Pokrovsk ...