News in photos: the main shots of 2015

The past year 2015 turned out to be rich in a wide variety of world events — refugees, terrorists, natural disasters, protests, space discoveries, legalized same—sex marriages - what humanity has not had to go through in the last 365 days.

Let's remember the most significant news of 2015 that excited the whole world, naturally in photos.

(18 photos in total)

Source: theatlantic.com

1. A column of migrants, accompanied by police, moves through the fields from the village of Rigonce to the Brezhice refugee camp in Slovenia, October 23, 2015.

Thousands of migrants crossed the border between Croatia and Slovenia, while the authorities were trying hard to cope with the largest migration of people in Europe since the Second World War. According to the UN, more than 750,000 people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to escape the violence, poverty and insecurity they faced in some parts of Africa and on the The Middle East.

2. A military police officer examines the scene before carrying off the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi from the shore, near the resort of Bodrum in Turkey, September 2, 2015.

Escaped from In Syria, the Kurdi family crossed on a small inflatable boat from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos, eventually trying to reach Canada. Early in the morning, the boat capsized, and Aylan, his brother Ghalib and Rihan's mother drowned. Photos of Aylan's small lifeless body quickly spread on the Internet and spread all over the world, causing a lot of debate about who is to blame for the current situation, whether it was necessary to publish a photo of a dead child and what can be done to prevent such tragedies in the future. The International Organization for Migration reports that more than 3,400 migrants died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean in 2015.

3. Smoke and ash rise over the Calbuco volcano, view from the city of Puerto Montt, April 22, 2015.

The Calbuco volcano in southern Chile began to erupt for the first time in the last 50 years, throwing a powerful column of ash and smoke several kilometers into the sky.

4. German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with US President Barack Obama during the G7 summit in Elmao Castle, Bavaria, June 8, 2015.

5. British comedian Lee Nelson throws dollar bills at FIFA President Joseph Blatter during a press conference at the extraordinary congress of the organization in Zurich on July 20, 2015.

The early election of a new FIFA president, mired in corruption scandals, is scheduled for February 16, 2016.

6. Ree Carey (left) kisses his wife Margaret Conway after the US Supreme Court ruled on the constitutional right to conclude same-sex marriages throughout the country, Washington, June 26, 2015.

7. A wounded Syrian girl in a temporarily organized hospital in the rebel-controlled city of Douma, east of Damascus, after attacks by Syrian government forces on August 22, 2015.

At least 20 civilians were killed and 200 wounded in Douma, just 6 days after an air raid by regime forces that killed more than 100 people and provoked international condemnation of one of the bloodiest government attacks in the long-running war in Syria.

8. 15 minutes after its maximum approach to On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons automatic interplanetary station took this sunset shot with ice mountains up to 3,500 meters high and the plains of Pluto stretching to the horizon. The back light highlights more than 12 layers of atmospheric haze. The picture was taken from a distance of 18,000 kilometers from Pluto.

9. A shocked woman walks past one of the girls in underwear and bodypainting, taking pictures for money on Times Square in New York, August 18, 2015.

The authorities of New York, led by Mayor Bill de Blasio, tried to take measures to stop this very popular activity.

10. Rescuers carry a victim of the collapse of the Dharahara Tower on a stretcher in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 25, 2015. More than 9,000 people died as a result of the two strongest earthquakes in Nepal in April and May, which collapsed buildings and triggered avalanches in the Himalayas.

11. A protester wearing a sheet mask in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, May 5, 2015.

Protests in Burundi broke out because of the intention of the current president of the country Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third five-year term, contrary to the constitution. The government has offered to release the activists if the demonstrations, which resulted in the deaths of several people, stop.

12. A refugee with a child in his arms falls after being tripped by the Hungarian TV channel operator Petra Lazlo, Rosk, Hungary, September 8, 2015.

Lazlo was fired after a video showing her kicking another refugee child was posted on social media. networks and caused condemnation around the world. She later said that her life was ruined and she plans to sue Facebook for inciting hatred against her.

13. Demonstrators climb onto a wrecked police car during protests in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, April 27, 2015.

Violent protests took place after the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who was arrested on April 12 in west Baltimore for carrying a bladed weapon. According to his lawyer, a week later Gray died in hospital as a result of severe spinal injuries sustained during transportation in a police minibus.

14. Participants of the republican march on the streets of Paris on January 11, 2015.

Hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen participating in the solidarity march were joined by numerous foreign leaders, including representatives of Arab and Muslim countries, to commemorate the victims of the shelling at the editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the taking of hostages in a kosher supermarket near The Vincennes Gate.

15. A victim of a terrorist attack at the Balaclan Theater in Paris, November 13, 2015.

Seven people with bombs, automatic weapons and suicide belts attacked several places in Paris at the same time, killing 130 people. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attacks, the largest act of violence in France since World War II.

16. Fluorescent blue waves glowing along the coast of Hong Kong, January 22, 2015.

This luminescent phenomenon, called the "sea spark", is a sign of water blooming due to the dominance of organisms called nocturnal lights in it and, according to biologists, can be dangerous for marine life. Nocturnal light does not directly produce chemicals that can attack the nervous system or body parts of marine fauna, but due to its two-way role in the food chain, it can ultimately increase the concentration of toxins in their organisms. The problem of nightlight blooming is becoming relevant all over the world.

17. The hot atmosphere of folk festivals on the opening day of the Saint-Fermin Festival, famous for bull races, July 6, 2015, Pamplona, Spain.

18. Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl riding on a throne of guitars during a concert in Washington on July 4, 2015.

The throne was built so that Grohl could continue performing after he fell off the stage and broke his leg earlier at a concert in Sweden.