Intimate Image of Russian Gay Couple Wins World Press Photo

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Mads Nissen, a Danish staff photographer for the Danish daily newspaper Politiken and represented by Panos Pictures, won the World Press Photo of the Year 2014 contest with this image of Jon and Alex, a gay couple, during an intimate moment in St. Petersburg, Russia. The contest drew 97,912 images from 5,692 photographers from 131 countries. Nissen wins a 10,000-euro ($11,330) cash prize. REUTERS/Mad Nissen/Politiken/Panos Pictures/Scanpix/World Press Photo

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The first prize in the General News Stories category of the 2015 World Press Photo Contest by Pete Muller, USA, Prime for National Geographic /The Washington Post shows medical staff at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center escort a man in the throes of Ebola-induced delirium back into the isolation ward from which he escaped in Hastings, Sierra Leone on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. AP/Pete Muller/Prime for National Geographic/The Washington Post/World Press Photo

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The first prize in the Sports Singles category of the 2015 World Press Photo Contest by Bao Tailiang, China, for Chengdu Economic Daily shows Argentina player Lionel Messi looks at the World Cup trophy during the final celebrations at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on July 14, 2014. Argentina were defeated by Germany in the final. AP/Bao Tailiang, Chengdu Economic Daily/World Press Photo

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Anand Varma, a U.S. photographer working for the National Geographic, won the First Prize in the Nature Category, Stories, of the 2015 World Press Photo contest with his series of pictures, which includes this one of spores of a fungus landing on an ant, penetrating its exoskeleton and entering its brain, compelling the host to leave its normal habitat on the forest floor and scale a nearby tree, in this picture taken January 22, 2014. REUTERS/Anand Varma/National Geographic/World Press Photo

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The seconnd prize in the General News Single category of the 2015 World Press Photo Contest by Massimo Sestini, Italy, shows shipwrecked people are rescued, aboard a boat 20 miles north of Libya, by a frigate of the Italian navy on June 7, 2014. After hundreds of men, women and children had drowned in 2013 off the coast of Sicily and Malta, the Italian government put its navy to work under a campaign called Mare Nostrum rescuing refugees at sea. AP/Massimo Sestini/World Press Photo

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Tomas van Houtryve, a Belgian photographer of VII on assignment for Harper's Magazine, won the Third Prize in the Contemporary Issues Category, Stories, of the 2015 World Press Photo contest with his series of pictures taken with a camera mounted on a drone, which includes this one of students in a schoolyard in El Dorado County, California, in this picture taken December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Tomas van Houtryve/VII/World Press Photo

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