World Press Photo award 2016

A man handing a baby under a barbed wire fence on the Serbian-Hungarian border has won the prestigious World Press Photo Award. The black-and-white image highlights Europe's worst migration crisis since World War II. The picture uses moonlight to capture the drama faced by more than a million people crossing borders into Europe to flee war, famine and conflict in 2015.

Lima snapped this photo on August 01, 2015 in Syria. It received 1st prize in the competition’s general news category. The photo shows a doctor rubbing ointment on the burns of a 16-year-old Islamic State fighter in front of a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, at a YPG hospital compound in Hasaka, Syria.

This is northern China’s Tianjin city cloaked in haze on December 10, 2015. The photo, commissioned by the Tianjin Daily, bagged top prize in the contemporary issues category.

Chinese men pull a tricycle in a neighborhood next to a coal-fired power plant in Shanxi, China, on November 26, 2015. The photo was selected for 1st first prize in the daily life category. China is the source of nearly a third of the world's total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, due to its dependency on burning coal for energy.

This photo, captured on March 21, 2014, received top prize in the long term projects category. The picture shows Natasha Schuette (21), who was rewarded by the US Army for her courage in reporting an assault by her drill sergeant during basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

No time for panic! A sunbather was reading while a massive 'cloud tsunami' loomed over Sydney's Bondi Beach in Australia on November 6, 2015. The photo placed top in the nature category.

In the people category, a photo related to Europe’s refugee crisis collected 1st prize. The photo captured a child covered with a raincoat while waiting in line to register at a refugee camp in Preševo, Serbia, on October 7, 2015.

Walgram took this photo on February 15, 2015 at the FIS World Championships held in the US. The photo, which took top honors in the sports category, shows the Czech Republic's Ondrej Bank crashing during the downhill race of the Alpine Combined event in Beaver Creek, Colorado.