Activist Ieshia Evans, 28, offers her hands for arrest during a July protest against the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by two Louisiana police officers. 

A woman at a hospital holds her two-year-old nephew, who was injured in a bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, in March.

Students of a gymnastics school in Xuzhou, China, perform toe-pressure training in July.

A sea turtle ensnared in a fishing net swims off the coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, in June.

Inmates sleep on the steps of a ladder inside the overcrowded Quezon City jail in Manila, Philippines, in July. The jail was built to house 800 inmates, but held 3,000 more than that. 

Jockey Nina Carberry flies off her horse during April’s Grand National steeplechase in Liverpool, England.

A Uyghur woman carries money in her stockings while riding a train from Kashgar, China, in June. 

Gaël Monfils of France dives for the ball during the Australian Open.

A woman strokes a girl’s head in a police station in Camagüey, Cuba, in December.

Monarch butterflies cover the forest floor of a Mexican butterfly sanctuary after a March snow storm. 

Maha, 5, lies on a dirty mattress in a refugee camp after she and her family fled from her village outside of Mosul, Iraq, in September. 

An 11-year-old Nigerian girl (left) cries next to her 10-year-old brother aboard a rescue boat north of Sabratha, Libya, in July. 

Usain Bolt of Jamaica beams as he wins the 100-meter semi-final sprint at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil. 

A girl, injured in reported government airstrikes on the rebel-held town of Douma, Syria, cries in a makeshift hospital in September. 

Children react as Iraqi Special Operations Forces in Mosul search for ISIS members in November.

Hellen, 41, is photographed in South Sudan in April. She suffers from a mental health problem which developed later in her life.

A wild leopard walks through Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, India, in September.

Two Nigerian refugees cry and hug in August at a refugee center in Surman, Libya.

Lawyers attend to injured colleagues after an August bomb explosion in Quetta, Pakistan. The crowd had gathered to mourn a lawyer who had been assassinated hours earlier.

Two men support a woman crossing a river on the Greek-Macedonian border in March as refugees try to reach Macedonia on a path that would avoid a border fence.

A car bomb explodes next to Iraqi special forces armored vehicles as they drive toward ISIS-held territory in Mosul, Iraq, in November.