In pictures: World press photo award 2005
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Canadian photographer Finbarr O'Reilly is the winner of the World Press Photo of the Year Award. His picture of a child's hand pressed against his mother's at an emergency feeding centre in Niger was described as having "beauty, horror and despair". -
Other finalists included American photographer Michael Appleton, New York Daily News, who covered the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. -
British photographer Edmund Terakopian captured a survivor on the day of the 7 July London bomb attacks. -
Getty photographer Uriel Sinai's winning entry shows the evacuation of Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip. -
Panos Picture's photographer Andrew Testa shows a burial of Srebrenica massacre victims, in Potocari, Bosnia. -
American photographer Todd Heisler's image shows the honouring of fallen US Marines as 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrives at Reno Airport. -
Danish Red Cross photographer, Jakob Dall, took this picture of a woman praying for her son who was killed in the Kashmir earthquake, Balakot, Pakistan. -
Irish photographer Marcus Bleasdale, for Human Rights Watch, shows street children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. -
South African photographer Pieter Hugo's striking image shows Mallam Gahadima Ahamadu with a hyena, Jamis, in Abuja, Nigeria. -
Yannis Kontos, a Greek photographer working for Polaris Images took this picture of a boy helping his father to dress in Sierra Leone. -
Donald Miralle, Jr., from the USA took this prize winning image of Aaron Peirsol during the Santa Clara Grand Prix. -
Colombian photographer Henry Agudelo's picture 'El Colombiano' shows a bullfighter in Medellin, Colombia.