Rajani, 5, India. Long after midnight, Rajani is roused from sleep and carried by her uncle to her wedding. Child marriage is illegal in India, so ceremonies are often held in the wee hours of the morning. It becomes a secret the whole village keeps, explained one farmer.

ER Doctor after losing a 19-year old patient

Realities of War

A billboard in Zambia

Four Syrian rebels at the exact moment they were hit by a tank shell

ISIS throws man accused of being gay off a building

Homeless man cries while explaining what it feels like to be called a bum. “I’m not a bum, I’m a human being”

A mother shows a picture of her son to a returning prisoner of war, 1947

Dog guarding his friend the day he passed away, then laying where he had been the day after. Dogs mourn too

Picture of a man being told he was innocent after 40 years in prison

Letter found by rescuers in the Fraterville Mine in the aftermath of the Fraterville Mine explosion of 1902. 216 perished

A weeping Jennelyn Olaires hugs partner Michael Siaron, 30, a pedicab driver and alleged drug pusher, who was shot and killed by motorcycle-riding gunmen near Pasay Rotonda, Philippines

Two thieves (they stole 20 dollars to help pay for their mother’s kidney surgery) seconds before getting hanged. One of them cries in shoulders of the man who is going to hang him.

Mother financed addiction by letting drug dealer rape her child

The town’s police K-9 died this morning. This is his caretaker/partner saying goodbye one last time

Suicide note of a transgender women

Kelly Thomas begging for his life while getting beat to death by police officers