British photographer Tim Hetherington won the world press photo of the year prize with this picture of an unidentified US soldier resting in a bunker in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan

The evacuation of dead mountain gorillas at Virunga National Park, Eastern Congo won first prize in the contemporary issues singles category

Hunting the Narwal in Nunavut, Canada won second prize in the nature stories category

Operation rock avalanche, Afghanistan, won first prize in the general news stories category

Mui, a homeless woman with HIV, and her son bathing in the Red River, Hanoi, Vietnam, the picture that was the first prize winner for daily life singles