This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Anne Marie Belgrave, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide published by The Associated Press in the past week.

The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants ...

A former student opened fire at a school in Austria’s second-biggest city Tuesday, killing 10 people and wounding 12 others ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war passed 55,000, the Gaza Health ...

Digging deep into free-speech precedents in recent American history, a federal appeals panel handed The Associated Press an ...

Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted Wednesday of one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial but ...

Israel has recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack that ignited the ...

AP’s visual journalists led global news coverage over the weekend with standout reporting from the ground during protests in ...

Los Angeles leaders imposed a downtown curfew Tuesday on the fifth day of protests against President Donald Trump's ...

Their faces, hats and flamenco dresses caked in dust, hundreds of pilgrims gathered around an ox-driven carriage with their icon of ...

It was a lead that was supercharged, soared high—and then blew up. White House reporter Michelle Price’s sharp and memorable ...

Gary Fields was on duty the weekend of the late March “Friday night massacre” at the U.S. Institute of Peace—an evening when ...