In Pictures: ST picks the best global news photos of 2018

Photos of the natural disasters, political events and human drama that dominated 2018.

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Dec 24, 2018, 05:00 AM

Immigrant children, suspected of illegal border crossings, are led in single file between tents by staff at a detention facility next to the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, on June 18, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Panicked dogs, left caged by an owner who fled rising flood waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, are rescued by volunteer rescuer Ryan Nichols in Leland, North Carolina, on Sept 16, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Rescue workers walk out from the Yun Tsui building, which is leaning at a precarious angle, in the Taiwanese city of Hualien on Feb 8, 2018, after the city was hit by a 6.4-magnitude quake late on Feb 6. PHOTO: AFP

A woman holds a stuffed rabbit toy at her destroyed home where she said she lost her three children after the area was hit by an earthquake, in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Oct 7, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Schoolchildren walk together at Sipandak Elementary School in Tiga Pancur village in Karo, North Sumatra, on Feb 19, 2018, as thick ash from Mount Sinabung volcano rises into the air following an eruption. PHOTO: AFP

A rescuer works to free a man buried in debris at a damaged site after an airstrike in the Saqba area, in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, on Jan 9, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

A Syria Civil Defence member carries a wounded child in the besieged town of Hamoria, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria, on Jan 6, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Demonstrators gather under a French flag near the Arc de Triomphe during a protest of Yellow Vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs in Paris on Dec 1, 2018, PHOTO: AFP

Luis Acosta holds five-year-old Angel Jesus as they cross the Suchiate River into Mexico from Guatemala in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Oct 29, 2018. The pair from Honduras are part of a caravan of migrants from Central America en route to the United States. PHOTO: REUTERS

A firefighter dons a flame resistant uniform as wildfire burns in the town of Rafina, near Athens, Greece, on July 23, 2018. Rafina faced one of the largest wildfires in the deadliest fire season to hit Greece in more than a decade. PHOTO: REUTERS

The Jabal Nur mosque in the North Lombok village of Lading-Lading which collapsed after a magnitude-7 earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Lombok on Aug 5, 2018. ST PHOTO: MARK CHEONG

Firefighters near a backyard pool monitor flames threatening homes during the Holy Fire in Lake Elsinore, California, US, on Aug 9, 2018. A 51-year-old man has been arrested on arson charges that could lead to a life sentence for deliberately starting the fire. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A Kenya Wildlife Services ranger tries to cover the eyes of 2.5-year-old female Southern white rhino Elia to calm her down after she was shot by a tranquiliser from a helicopter. This was part of a rhino ear notching exercise for identification at Meru National Park, 350km from Nairobi, Kenya, on April 5, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

A massive fast-moving lava flow consumes everything in its path, with flames from the remnants of one home burning on the left, and another home on the right being threatened, in Pahoa, Hawaii, on May 19, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

A lone tree stands near a water trough in a drought-effected paddock on Jimmie and May McKeown's property located on the outskirts of Walgett town, in New South Wales, Australia, on July 20, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Tsetse, six-year-old daughter of Dukha herder Erdenebat Chuluu, sits among her family's reindeer in a forest near the village of Tsagaannuur, Khovsgol aimag, Mongolia, on April 21, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Tourists walk on the newly built Cau Vang, meaning Golden Bridge, on Ba Na hills near Da Nang city, Vietnam on Aug 3, 2018. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

An observation point at the base of Niagara Falls is covered with ice on Jan 9, 2018. A giant winter "bomb cyclone" walloped the US East Coast on Jan 5, 2018, with heavy snow and freezing cold that made for treacherous travel conditions and bone-chilling misery. PHOTO: AFP

A murmuration of starlings performing their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the southern Israeli city of Rahat, in the Negev desert on Jan 22, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in prepare to shake hands at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, on April 27, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

US President Donald Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta in a fiery exchange during a news conference following midterm US congressional elections, at the White House in Washington, US, on Nov 7, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Bagging the evidence: Malaysian police remove items from three apartments in Kuala Lumpur owned by former prime minister Najib Razak’s family in a raid on May 17, 2018. ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR

A ballerina watches the broadcast of the World Cup quarter-final match between Russia and Croatia, at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, in St Petersburg, Russia, on July 7, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

Miss Philippines Catriona Gray (left) and Miss South Africa Tamaryn Green hold hands as they wait for the winner to be announced during the final round of the Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok, Thailand, on Dec 17, 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS

North Korean cheerleaders attend the pair free figure skating event during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung on Feb 15, 2018. PHOTO: AFP

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