Through the lens: The Citizen's Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.
A mural depicts a child with a dropper and a cat with an umbrella, that covers the child from a Russian missile on a wall of the Okhmadyt children’s hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, 10 December 2025, amid the ongoing Russian invasion. Ukrainian artist Andriy Yarmolenko created the mural. The Okhmadyt children’s hospital was attacked by a Russian rocket during the massive shelling of Kyiv on 08 July 2024, when two people died, and 32 were injured, including the eight children who were hospitalized. Picture: EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKOBritish adult content creator Tia Billinger, known as ‘Bonnie Blue’, arrives at Ngurah Rai Immigration Office in Jimbaran on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on December 11, 2025. A controversial British adult film star faces deportation from Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for violating immigration laws after she was arrested on suspicion of making pornographic online content, police said on December 11. (Photo by SONNY TUMBELAKA / AFP)Michelle Gisin of Switzerland carried on a stretcher after a fall, is being airlifted by a Rega helicopter during the women’s Downhill training race at the Alpine Skiing FIS Ski World Cup, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, 11 December 2025. Picture: EPA/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTTThis frame grab taken from undated video footage provided by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau on December 11, 2025 shows the moment a skydiver was left dangling thousands of metres in the air after their parachute caught on the plane’s tail. The skydiver survived the incident, which occurred south of Cairns during a stunt in September 2025 but has only just been revealed following investigations by the transport safety watchdog. (Photo by Handout / AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT SAFETY BUREAU / AFP)Austria’s Nina Ortlieb skies during the women’s downhill training as part of the FIS Alpine ski World Cup 2025-2026, in St. Moritz, south-eastern Switzerland on December 11, 2025. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)A boy walks through a waterlogged alley at a makeshift camp sheltering displaced Palestinians after heavy rains in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on December 11, 2025. The United States, alongside Qatar and Egypt, secured a truce in Gaza that came into effect on October 10 and has mostly halted two years of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)Participants attend the 10th International Kremlin Charity Cadet Ball in Moscow, Russia, 10 December 2025. More than 1,900 pairs of cadet school pupils from Russia and abroad gathered for the event. Picture: EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKYA man sits in front of closed shops in Chennai on December 11, 2025. (Photo by R.Satish BABU / AFP)This photo shows an aerial view of the Shenyang Imperial Palace after snowfall in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning province on December 11, 2025 (Photo by AFP)A man arranges baby wool boots during a performance by ‘Hijos y Madres del Silencio’, a collective that helps on the re-union of children taken from their families during Chile’s dictatorship (1973–1990) with their biological parents, during a rally demanding a state DNA database and justice as part of Human Rights Day commemorations outside La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago on December 10, 2025. During a final presidential debate, Chile’s election frontrunner Jose Antonio Kast said on December 9, 2025, that some security forces jailed for rights abuses should have their sentences reviewed. (Photo by Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP)Displaced people arrive at a temporary camp in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province on December 11, 2025, amid clashes along the Cambodia-Thailand border. Renewed fighting raged at the border of Cambodia and Thailand on December 11, with combat heard near centuries-old temples, ahead of an expected phone call from US President Donald Trump to the two nations’ leaders. (Photo by TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP)People on a London bus look at the annual Christmas lights on Oxford Street, in central London, on December 10, 2025. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)
