Image: Ana Carolina Fernandes

Cameramen film as the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew blasts off from its launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome, 15 May 2012. Image: Shamil Zhumatov

The tailor takes a measure of a new summer uniform for a Swiss guard in Vatican City. Image: Stefano Dal Pozzolo

15 May is Nakba Day, for the Palestinians it is the annual day of commemoration of the displacement that followed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. Image: Geert van Kesteren

A homeless man and his dog in the garden of a disused house on the edge of London Fields, Hackey, London. Image: Zed Nelson

Aurora over Icecube Lab, which is a huge Neutrino Detector, I cubic km in size, buried deep in the Antarctic ice observing the universe by studying neutrinos. Image: Sven Lidstrom

Cabin crew prepare the evening meal on a flight from London to Singapore. Image: Nick Rains

An Iranian woman walks past the former US embassy in central Tehran. Image: Morteza Nikoubazl

I don't remember much of my grandmother, I was 6 when she died. There are many pictures of her in our flat and the one I love the most is this portrait. I am always told I look like her and that we have common character. Image: Tatevik

Children watching a spider. Image: Jonas Bendiksen

Sisters Image: Alexander Kladov

Qori and Maki

Decontamination Workers change from protective clothing in IItate Fukushima, a farming community more than 30 km from the destroyed Fukushima Diachi Nuclear Power complex. More than a year since a snow storm dumped high levels of Radioactive contamination on the farming community. the town has since been under an evacuation order with many areas in the village will remain uninhabitable for decades to come. Image: Peter Blakely

Baby born at 17.15, 15 May 2012. Images: Rey Espineuva

"On 2 April, my father Jesus Ramirez (74) was hospitalized in the Intensive Care unit of the Hospital Infanta Luisa in Sevilla, Spain because one of his metal heart valves implanted in 1989 had dislodged itself from the heart causing internal bleeding. Less than one week later he would undergo his third open heart surgery of his life. On this day Jesus had been close to death on three occasions since, due to post surgery complications in his kidneys and lungs which were both struggling to dispose of an edema causing him breathing complications. He was not eating at all and became malnourished. Drainage to his right lung was necessary two weeks after surgery and then a blood clot formed that required surgery again. Although he could now breath, in the days that followed his conditioned worsened and respiratory failure set in. In this image after another puncture to his left lung and four days connected to a respiratory assistance Jesus has begun to breath again slowly on his own. A total now of six weeks in hospital has kept his family and him on the edge. Image: Carlos Cazalis

Baby Atlas is given bath by his grandparents. Image: Sfukada

Image: Сергей Музыка

"Basudev Upadhya, Consultant at Asia Pacific Mountain Network at his desk in ICIMOD. He put on the colorful T-shirt just before I photographed him. Kathmandu, Nepal. 15th May 2012". Image: Nabinphotos

A woman carries containers of water to her home in the town of Ponto do Sol on the Island of Santa Antao in Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa. Water is in short supply on the volcanic islands and much of the population collects their supply from communal pumps or reservoirs. Image: Finbarr O'Reilly

A group of retired denizens playing domino at Largo da Catedral Metropolitana, traditional site for senior citizens, where they often go to play and chat. Image: Caio Cezar

"In this cafe it's a daily view to such old men... they just have to sit there in first half of the day" Image: rawad.bara

"Sofia lives alone with her 11 year old daugter in a small studio in Lisbon,Portugal. She takes her child to school at 8 in the morning. She works in a public office where she earns €600 a month and she will be unemployed next month.Sometimes at noon she takes her daughter to lunch with her in the office cantina. In the evening she helps her to do the homework and she prepares a meal.When her child sleeps she makes some freelance design work". Image: Céu Guarda

Image: Julien Goldstein

"Corporate-wear just 'hangin' out together' in the foreground, worker at the dhobi-ghats in the background" Image: TinaNandi

Image: Leila Ghandi

"A tattoo that reads 'Freedom' is seen on the hand of a man who was released from jail after doing his 5th term in Lod, central Israel. Lod is a city 20km south of Tel Aviv with a high crime rate with a mixed ethnicity of Jews and Arabs and parts of it suffer from many years of neglect through the years." Image: Nir Elias