The world’s best pictures of 2013

Embraced in death. The bodies of these garment factory workers were found after a building collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taslima Akhter

A survivor walks among the debris of houses destroyed by typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, the Philippines. Noel Celis / AFP

Protesters hide from security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo. Khalil Hamra / AP

A Syrian rebel aims his weapon during clashes with government forces in the streets near Aleppo’s international airport in northern Syria. Stephen Boitano / AFP

Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Nairobi’s Westgate shopping centre. Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

People watch participants from balconies as they run in front of Alcurrucen's bulls during the first bull run of the San Fermin Festival, on July 7 in Pamplona, northern Spain. Pedro Armestre / AFP

A Bangladeshi soldier following the announcement of his death penalty at a special court in Dhaka. The court sentenced at least 150 soldiers to death and jailed hundreds more over a 2009 military mutiny that left scores of top officers massacred. Munir uz Zaman / AFP

Pakistani women grieve over the coffins of their relatives killed in a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar. Muhammed Muheisen / AP

Amina, a Syrian woman who fled fighting in Aleppo, takes shelter inside an abandoned building with her sick five-month-old daughter, Asma, on the outskirts of Saraqib, southwest of Aleppo. Giovanni Diffidenti / AFP

US President Barack Obama (right) and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a selfie with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (centre) as US First Lady Michelle Obama follows late South African president Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. Roberto Schmidt / AFP

Visitors take pictures of tidal waves during Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Chance Chan / Reuters

Mnikelo Ndagankulu overlooks former South African president Nelson Mandela’s final resting place in his ancestral home of Qunu. Roberto Schmidt / AFP

Afghan boys play with toy guns on the first day of Eid Al Adha in Jalalabad. Parwiz / Reuters

The Costa Concordia lies on its side next to Giglio Island before being rolled off the seabed and onto underwater platforms. Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters

A Syrian man with more than half of his body burnt from an airstrike leaves a field hospital to return home in Idlib province, northern Syria. AP

An Egyptian woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded youth as Egyptian security forces moved in to disperse supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi. Mohammed Abdel Moneim / AFP