George Burke

The Olympic opening ceremony presents the host country with the opportunity to wow the world with a uniquely spectacular show.

The opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was just that - the organisers ditched the traditional ceremony, and became the first Games to hold the opening event within a city as a whole rather than in a stadium.

Thousands of athletes and performers paraded along the River Seine on a wet evening, before the night sky and the Eiffel Tower were lit...

Mosques attacked with bricks and stones. Marchers chanting “we want our country back.” And a man’s head reportedly stamped on during a racist attack.

These scenes from the past week in England and Northern Ireland have sparked painful memories among British Asians who remember the 1970s and 80s, when racist violence was widespread and the National Front was on the rise.

Harish Patel, in his 70s, says it broke his heart.

He says teenagers will...

Sky gazers around the world have been treated to a blue supermoon, which made a spectacular appearance for the first time since 2009. A blue Moon occurs when the pattern of days in a year means there are 13 full Moons instead of the usual 12. This blue Moon is also a supermoon - when the Earth's only natural satellite appears brighter than usual because it is at its closest point in its...

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have won seats from the Conservatives in two out of the three by-elections held on Thursday, with the Tories narrowly retaining the third. The by-elections, in Selby and Ainsty, Somerton and Frome and Uxbridge and South Ruislip were triggered by the resignations of all three sitting Conservative MPs, including former PM Boris Johnson. Labour leader Keir Starmer said his party "can win anywhere" after Keir Mather overturned a Tory majority of 20,137 in the Nort...

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

People around the world are observing Eid al-Adha, one of the most important Islamic festivals in the Muslim calendar. Meaning the "feast of the sacrifice", Eid al-Adha commemorates the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son on God's orders and is marked by special prayers and feasts. This year, it begins on 28 June. The festival coincides with the end of the Hajj - the annual Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Below is a selection of images showing people marking the f...

A star-studded Coronation concert took place this evening in the grounds of Windsor Castle, after a day of street parties and Big Lunch events around the UK. Members of the Royal Family watched from the Royal Box at Windsor Castle, alongside special guests including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Baroness Scotland. Thousands also gathered to watch the spectacle as the sun went down, with performances from Olly Murs, Lionel Ritchie, Katy Perry and Paloma Faith among others...

King Charles has been in Germany this week, on his first state visit since becoming monarch. The three-day trip began on Wednesday, with the King and Camilla, the Queen Consort, arriving at Berlin Brandenburg Airport, in Schönefeld. The royal limousine and King's convoy, along with a police escort, made their way towards the Brandenburg Gate for a ceremonial welcome. There, the King and Queen Consort met German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and first lady Elke Büdenbe...

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.

“The sun is our father, the moon is our mother, the stars are our brothers and sisters.” This is something that people say before meals in communities for those with special educational and mental health needs in Georgia. Instead of having a family that supports and cares for them, many such Georgians have been exploited, kicked out to the streets, or end up in institutions where they have only two options. To be abused, or to become the abusers themselves.

Nowadays, many are living in commun...

Following an extended build-up, April 6, 2019 marked an acute change in the lives of many Sudanese individuals. A resilient uprising that profoundly shook the ambitions, sentiments, and prospects of the people.

A crude, collective act of resistance and revolution leads to a sit-in protest in Khartoum. As an active participant, I see it as a concentrated manifestation of a fragile, wounded nation. A diverse country experiencing a moment of flux; simultaneously in a state of breakthrough and sk...

This series is an ongoing photographic journey that began over three separate trips to South Korea. I first visited the country in 2014, aged 22, where I met my maternal family for the first time. We then reunited for a second time three years later, in 2017. The third visit, in 2019, was unplanned due to the sudden passing of my grandfather. My mother accompanied me each time, and we always stayed at her parents’ home – usually for about one to two months at a time. During these trips, we sp...

I found photography through skateboarding. Growing up, it provided a means to document friends skating in the streets of our hometown, or to capture moments when we travelled to certain skate spots. While skating and skate culture have remained constants throughout my life, the places I skate and the people I skate with have changed over time. This project is an attempt to represent that dual change.

Skateboarding by nature must exist within space. But there are infinite possibilities for ska...

The Baikonur Cosmodrome – the oldest and largest space launch facility in the world – is located about 20 miles (32 kilometers) outside the Russian-administered town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Once a clandestine Soviet-era missile testing site, it sits within the expansive semi-desert of the Kazakh Steppe and is jointly maintained by the Kazakh and Russian governments. Having once served as the launch pad for both the first satellite and the first human to ever enter space, it is now mostly used to send Soyuz astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Social and environmental documentary photographer Andrew Aitchison has captured daily life in a range of prisons around the UK, from high security closed facilities to open prisons and prisoner resettlement centres. According to Aitchison, working on the series alongside inmates and prison officers at times felt like "going into a different country…you need your passport to get in". Click through for an intimate portrait of daily prison life around the U.K.