THEY SAY APICTURE CAN TELL YOU ASTORY 100 TIMES BETTER. SO WE DECIDED TO GIVE YOU A COLLAGE OF AWARD WINNING PICTURES FROM WORLD PRESS PHOTO CONTEST 2012. THEY TELL YOU OF STORIES UNTOLD ACROSS THE GLOBE.

Chieko Matsukawa shows her daughters graduation certificate as she finds it in the debris in Higashimatsushima city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan. By Yasuyoshi Chiba.

Protesters cry, chant and scream in Cairos Tahrir Square, after listening to the speech in which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would not give up power.

By Alex Majoli.

Divers practice during the 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. By Adam Pretty.

Trying to avoid the killers bullets, many people jumped into the cold water.

Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people on 22 July on the small island of Utøya outside Oslo in Norway. By Niclas Hammarström.

A woman holds her wounded son in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011. By Samuel Aranda.

Tahani ( in pink), who married her husband Majed when she was 6 and he was 25, poses for this portrait with former classmate Ghada, also a child bride, outside their mountain home in Hajjah. Nearly half of all women in Yemen were married as children. Child marriage is outlawed in many countries and international agreements forbid the practice yet this tradition still spans continents, language and religion. By Stephanie Sinclair.

Action from a rugby match between Old Belvedere and Blackrock played in heavy rain in Dublin, Ireland.

By Ray McManus.

Rebels in Ras Lanuf, Libya. For weeks, rebels held out against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with the hope that the world would come to their aid. Defiance faded as the dictators planes and tanks began to retake what had been dubbed Free Libya. By Yuri Kozyrev.

Maria, a drug addict and sex worker, in between clients in a room she rents in Kryvyi Rig, Ukraine.

Maria injects drugs on a daily basis and sees many men every week but claims she remains HIV negative. She says she need the money to support herself, her drug habit and her nine- year- old daughter. By Brent Stirton.

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