World Press Photo Award 2008 (15 pictures)

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

Russian president Vladimir Putin, the photograph that won first prize for single portraits

A retired circus artist won the arts and entertainment stories first prize

Rural school girls in eastern Turkey, winner of the portraits stories prize

A girl in an animated character costume taken in Shanghai, China, winner of the arts and entertainment singles award