This image won first prize in the World Press Photo 2001 contest. It shows the Sanchez family at home in Las Colonias, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the United States.(Lara Jo Regan, USA, for Life magazine)
MAKING A POINT: An Israeli policeman argues with a Palestinian man in Jerusalem. (Amit Shabi, Reuters)
DESPERATE MEASURES: Exhausted immigrants arrive in Spain. The short passage from Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar to the Spanish coast is a route frequently used by immigrants. Small, overladen open boats often sink during the crossing and hundreds of people have drowned in this way. (Matias Costa, Agence Vu)
AFTERMATH: A bomb attack prompts panic outside the Moscow underground station.(Yuri Shtukin, Izvestia)
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