A couple push a pram as they go to check their house following an air strike on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma. Despite UN resolution 2139 ordering all sides to end their indiscriminate employment of weapons in populated areas, including shelling and aerial bombardment, such as the use of barrel bombs, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights has documented the killing of 5,812 civilians, including 1,733 children, 969 women and 3,110 men in barrel bombings and (other) air raids over the past year.
Photograph: Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty
In Ukraine, an emptied cluster munitions container is stuck in the ground outside apartment blocks in the town of Yenakiieve. Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of firing rockets and artillery at villages in south-eastern Ukraine and, in doing so, contravening the week-old ceasefire deal.
Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters
A fighter of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units fires an anti-aircraft weapon from the village of Tel Tawil in the direction of Islamic State militants positioned in the countryside near the town of Tel Tamr. The Islamic State militants kidnapped 90 Christians in north-east Syria as the jihadis retreated in the face of the Kurdish counter-offensive.
Photograph: Rodi Said/Reuters
Protesters take part in a demonstration against the killing of Avijit Roy, a US citizen of Bangladeshi origin. Roy founded the Mukto-Mona blog site which championed liberal secular writing in the Muslim-majority nation. He was hacked to death with machetes by unidentified assailants in Dhaka.
Photograph: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty
Christopher Furlong photographed the Falinge Estate in Rochdale, which has been identified as being as one the most deprived areas in England for five years in a row.
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