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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (front, left) and his wife, Yoo Soon-taek (beside Mr. Ban), solemnly lay a wreath at the Hypocenter Monument at Nagasaki Peace Park, Japan during a visit in August 2010.

A group of Syrian refugees arrive on the island of Lesbos after traveling in an inflatable raft from Turkey, near Skala Sykaminias, Greece.

Residents of Sana’a, capital of Yemen, collecting water at one of the few public distribution points, as most water pumps across the city are no longer working because of the fuel shortages.

Several thousand asylum seekers and migrants from Syria, Iraq, Ethiopia, Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan are living in makeshift camps or in the streets in Calais.

Birth registration for indigenous children takes place in the Republic of Congo, where they suffer disproportionately from the lack of nutritious food and health services.

The UK is stepping-up its work to investigate cases of international corruption affecting developing countries through a new specialist unit launched by International Development Secretary Justine Greening.

Almost 400 people have been rescued so far from a vessel which sank off Libya while attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea with an estimated 600 refugees and migrants on board, the UN refugee agency says.

The remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building, later preserved as a monument - known as the Genbaku Dome - at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.

Syrian refugees crowd around an office in Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Members of a family sit outside their simple home in northern Afghanistan's Faryab province.