A fire in Valparaiso, Chile on 12 April 2014. Authorities decreed a red alert for the area after the fire consumed more than 100 houses
Photograph: Alberto Miranda/AFP/Getty
Residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in Damascus, Syria queue for food on 31 January
Photograph: UNRWA
A pillar of light shoots into the London sky to commemorate the first world war. The work, entitled Spectra, was created by Japanese sound and light artist Ryoji Ikeda
Photograph: Julian Abrams
Pro-democracy protesters open their umbrellas on 28 October for 87 seconds, marking the 87 rounds of tear gas that were fired by the Hong Kong police at unarmed student protesters in the same location one month previously
Photograph: Alex Hofford/EPA
World champion Christian Sprenger of Australia swims during a lesson for children with special needs on the rooftop pool of the Marina Bay Sands resort hotel, Singapore, on 20 May
Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
Fans arrive before the start of the first outdoor hockey game held at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, between the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks on 25 January
Photograph: Mark J Terrill/AP
A woman stands near a makeshift memorial on 24 February in homage to anti-government protesters killed in clashes with riot police in Kiev’s Independence Square
Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
The new Markthal in Rotterdam became the first indoor fresh food market in the Netherlands, and contains 228 apartments in the walls and roof
Photograph: Michel Porro/Getty Images
A train passes through slums in central Dhaka, with the buildings of the Karwan Bazaar district rising up in the background, on 18 March
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
A wall of snow looms over Buffalo and Lake Erie, New York on 18 November. The autumn blizzard dumped a year’s worth of snow in three days
Photograph: Lindsay DeLario/Reuters
Nik Wallenda walks blindfolded on a high wire between the Marina towers in Chicago, Illinois, more than 500ft in the air, on 2 November
Photograph: Tim Boyles/Getty Images
Taxis blockade Whitehall in London on 11 June, in protest against the Uber taxi app
Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
People cluster around a TV to watch the World Cup match between Brazil and the Netherlands at Mare favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images