August marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

As the number of cases globally soars, many countries build temporary hospitals for patients.

Every year the last remaining Inca rope bridge still in use is cast down and a new one erected across the Apurimac river in the Cusco region of Peru. The Q'eswachaka bridge is woven by hand and has been in place for at least 600 years. Once part of the network that linked the most important cities and towns of the Inca empire, it was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2013.

More than 100 years ago acoustic mirrors along the coast of England were built with the intention of using them to detect the sound of approaching German zeppelins. The concave concrete structures were designed to pick up sound waves from enemy aircraft, making it possible to predict their flight trajectory, giving enough time for ground forces to be alerted to defend the towns and cities of Brita

For more than 20 years, the green plains of Holderness, East Yorkshire, were the secret location of underground bunker RAF Holmpton, where radars watched the skies amid the threat of the Cold War. During the uncertain years of the Cold War, when nations prepared for the prospect of a devastating nuclear war, Britain created a defensive radar programme called Rotor, involving 70 radar stations dott

Shah Marai, the chief photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Kabul, has been killed in a bombing in the Afghan capital. Here we present a small selection of his work documenting his homeland. Marai regularly photographed the site of suicide bombings. Here, residents inspect one outside a voter registration centre on 22 April this year

Joseph Fox photographed the mudlarkers who comb the shore of London's River Thames. Originally a term for the city's poor who scraped a meagre living by scavenging in the river's mud, it has been adopted by a new breed of treasure hunters, often armed with metal detectors. These men and women show off their favourite finds, and discuss the joys of mudlarking. Dave Hiddleston, Limehouse Long fascin

Jaw-dropping pictures taken from drones capture extraordinary views that the human eye may otherwise not see.

A picture of a female fighter is shown amidst a display of wreckage from the Vietnam War at the Vietnam Military History Museum, Hanoi Photographer Lee Karen Stow recently visited Vietnam to meet some of the women who fought for their country in the conflict with the USA, having earlier met US veterans in Washington. President Ho Chi Minh, the communist leader of North Vietnam at that time, made i

A cub escapes deep snow by hitching a ride on its mother's backside in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, Canada. Taken by Daisy Gilardini, from Switzerland, the photo is one of 25 shortlisted for the People's Choice Award in the latest Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition - on show now at the Natural History Museum in London. Scroll down to see all 25 images, pre-selected by the museum from

Photographer Ed Gold has been documenting communities living off-grid for many years, and recently he visited the woodland community at Tinkers Bubble in Somerset and spoke to some of those living close to the land. Ed Shaw, 29, has been living at the site for more than two years and has spent much of his life on the road, having found city life was not to his liking. "Broadly I'd say that any cha

When US-born Chris Bangle moved from Germany to the tiny Italian village of Clavesana in 2009, he waved goodbye to a 17-year career as Chief of Design for BMW. It was a huge change for him, but his arrival also had an impact on his new neighbours, writes Dany Mitzman. Fed up with designing cars for the elite, Chris Bangle wanted to create something for everyone, and something more in tune with nat

Raynaud's disease - Matthew Clavey, Thermal Vision Research From multicoloured scans of parts of the human body to vivid photos of creatures up close, the finalists of the annual Wellcome Image Awards have been announced. The thermal image above shows the temperature of two people's hands - a healthy person on the left, and someone with Raynaud's disease on the right. Both hands were put in cold w

The Chinese government has issued a new directive banning "bizarre architecture", and criticising some of the "oversized, xenocentric, weird" buildings in the country. China has seen a number of architectural gems springing up in recent years, including one building shaped like a teapot and another that has been likened to a pair of trousers. Under the new directive, buildings are to be "economica

This year has seen an unprecedented number of migrants arriving in Europe, with the International Organization for Migration saying the figure rose above one million. Most have come from Syria, where four years of civil war has claimed more than 200,000 lives.

BBC correspondents and film crews are out covering the huge movement of migrants across Europe and some are shooting still pictures as they go. We asked them to send in a memorable picture they had taken, along with a brief back story. We came across three young men from Aleppo, Syria, waiting on this bridge in northern Greece. They were hoping against hope their fourth family member, 23-year-old

For more than two years, photographer Charles Fox has been documenting deminers in Cambodia. In the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge sunk large stockpiles of explosive ordnance in the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers. Unlike some of the team, the first of its kind in Cambodia, Piseth Dara, 24, could already swim when he applied, though he had no diving experience. He does not mind the dark water conditions