A selection of images chosen by the WTX News picture desk for a special feature – The world in pictures. Each image vividly captures the story, and in this case a picture paints a thousands words.
The World in Pictures
As Ukrainians protest again the war in their country the President is on the verge of a major diplomatic catastrophe, although he may not want to, but he needs to make good with US or they will find another way of recouping $500bn from Ukraine.
For instance, agreeing to get it from the Russians in exchange for Ukrainian territory.
Pictures tell personal stories!
Colourful Ukrainians in Dublin
Uriivna Olena from Ukraine Rivne region joins people taking part in a demonstration outside the GPO in Dublin
The Memorial wall in Kyiv
A serviceman mourns at the Memorial Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine in Russian-Ukrainian War in Kyiv
Can anything be salvaged from the diplomatic ruins?
Keir Starmer at the White House – BFFs for now!
The Prime Minister hands President Trump an invitation from King Charles at the White House
The Genocide in Gazaand the West Bank – Palestine, but not sure for how long.
Palestinians disperse as Israeli tanks enter the Jenin camp for refugees in the occupied West Bank.
Freed Palestinian detainees are greeted in Khan Younis after being released from an Israeli prison following the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel.
Lava flows from a fracture on Mount Etna on February 14, 2025.
Wildlife pictures
Spring in Herbert Park, DublinJapanese Macaque mother and infant enjoying the outdoor hot baths at Nagano, Japan
After almost two weeks of rain and overcast skies, the sun shone on The Lough in Cork today.
A Lyle’s flying fox hangs upside down in an enclosure at the Biotropica Zoological Park in Val-de-Reuil, France, on February 19, 2025.
Winter weather snaps – Pictures tell personal stories, tell us what you see below.
A family walks by a snow-covered model of a dinosaur outside the National Geological Museum in Bucharest, Romania, on February 16, 2025A man pulls a child on a sled during a snowfall in Bucharest on February 17, 2025.With temperatures below zero, steam rises over Lake Michigan on February 18, 2025, in MilwaukeeA VW van sits among burned out homes,Feb 19, 2025, in Malibu, CalifBarry Pert from Falkirk spotted this carrion crow enjoying an ice cream at Crammond Beach, Edinburgh. sunrise in Inverlochy near Fort William.
Ramadhan 2025
A worshipper reads the Quran while waiting to break her fast during the first day of Ramadan, at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia
