The best 20 photos selected from the world’s leading photojournalists’shoots.
Islamic State militants were being photographed the moment an air strike explosion goes off on 23 October 2014
A Palestinian boy looks out of his family’s damaged house in Gaza on 12 October 2014
A young girl is pictured after being wounded during clashes between riot police and protestors in Istanbul on 12 March 2014
Brazilian fans celebrate during the World Cup match between Brazil and Croatia in Sao Paulo on 12 June 2014
Uruguay’s Luis Suárez reacts after clashing with Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup match in Natal on 24 June 2014
Umu Fambulle stands over her husband Ibrahim after he staggered and fell, knocking him unconscious in an Ebola ward in Monrovia, Liberia, on 15 August 2014
A South Sudanese man from the Dinka ethnic group stands among cattle in Yirol on 12 February 2014
Police block a road in Kiev, Ukraine, on 24 January 2014
Protesters march as lightning flashes in the distance in Ferguson, Missouri, on 20 August 2014 after a police officer shot unarmed Michael Brown
A plain-clothes detective, who had been marching with demonstrators, aims his gun at the crowd after someone identified him in Oakland, California, on 10 December 2014
Oscar Pistorius is photographed in a police van after his sentencing at the North Gauteng high court in Pretoria on 21 October 2014
The main peloton rides towards the amphitheatre of Buttertubs Pass as the Tour de France’s départ got under way in Yorkshire
Residents emerge to receive food aid distributed by the UN Relief and Works Agency at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp in Syria on 31 January 2014
People flee Bangui for Cameroon in a container on 22 February 2014
Damaged goods lie in a shelled kitchen in Donetsk, Ukraine, on 26 August 2014
The shadow of an aircraft is seen in low cloud cover on a search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean
Mount Sinabung volcano erupts in North Sumatra, Indonesia, on 8 October 2014
People run for shelter from a hailstorm on the beach at the river Ob in Siberia, Russia, on 12 July 2014
A woman cries as she stands on the road with her luggage after she left her home near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, on 2 August 2014
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/dec/27/the-20-photographs-of-the-year