The World Press Photo of the Year winners have been revealed, depicting some of 2016's best pictures in journalism.
- World Press Photo of the Year for 2016 announced
- Winner captured assassination of Russian ambassador to Turkey
- Jury voting for top prize was close
Some of the pictures are political, some controversial, other from big news events in 2016.
For Daily Life first prize: A photo taken in Cuba just after Fidel Castro's death, as men wait at dawn for the dictator's caravan.
Another photo of an infant affected by the Zika virus, who has microcephaly, won second place for Contemporary Issues.
But the picture named the esteemed World Press Photo of the Year was one seen by people around the world. It was taken by Burhan Ozbilici, a journalist in an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey just moments after the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated.
Time reports that the vote for this picture was 5 to 4 among the jury members who decide the winners, but overall, the group decided it was an important picture.
One juror said it's “indicative of the hate and desperation and frustration that’s so apparent in our society today."