People – stories category, first prize

Aisha, 14, pictured in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria. Aisha was kidnapped by Boko Haram and assigned a suicide bombing mission. After she was strapped with explosives, she managed to find help instead of blowing herself and others up. Photograph: Adam Ferguson/New York Times

Environment – stories, first prize

A man carries a huge bag of bottles collected for recycling at the Olusosun landfill site in Lagos, Nigeria
Photograph: Kadir Van Lohuizen/Noor Images

Nature – singles, second prize

Rockhopper penguins live up to their name as they navigate the coastline of Marion Island, a South African sub-Antarctic territory in the Indian Ocean
Photograph: Thomas P. Peschak

World Press Photo of the year 2018

José Victor Salazar Balza, 28, catches fire amid violent clashes with riot police during a protest against the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas. This photo also won first prize in the spot news – singles category
Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP

Environment – singles, first prize

A young southern white rhinoceros is drugged and blindfolded before being released into the wild in the Okavango delta, Botswana. The animal had been relocated from South Africa for protection from poachers
Photograph: Neil Aldridge/EPA

Sport – singles, first prize

Competitors from the Up’ards and Down’ards teams reach for the ball during the annual Royal Shrovetide football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England
Photograph: Oliver Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

Nature – singles, first prize

A bald eagle scavenges for scraps of meat in the garbage bins of a supermarket in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, US
Photograph: Corey Arnold/AP

General news – stories, first prize

Nadhira Aziz watches as Iraqi civil defence workers recover the bodies of her sister and niece from her house in the city of Mosul, where they were killed by an airstrike in June. By the end of the battle for Mosul, more than 9,000 civilians were reported to have been killed
Photograph: Ivor Prickett/New York Times

Contemporary issues – singles, first prize

A boat carrying tourists from Lagos marina is steered through the canals of Nigeria’s Makoko community, an ancient fishing village that has grown into an enormous informal settlement on the shores of Lagos lagoon
Photograph: Jesco Denzel/EPA

General news – singles, first prize

The bodies of Rohingya refugees are laid out after the boat in which they were attempting to flee Myanmar capsized off the coast of Bangladesh. Around 100 people were onboard; there were 17 survivors
Photograph: Patrick Brown/Panos Pictures

People – singles, first prize

Djeneta, right, has been bedridden and unresponsive for two and a half years, and her sister Ibadeta for more than six months, in Horndal, Sweden. The sisters are Roma refugees from Kosovo who have resignation syndrome, which renders patients immobile, mute and unable to respond to physical stimulus
Photograph: Magnus Wennman/AP

Nature – singles, third prize

A flying fish swims below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean, in the Gulf Stream, late at night off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida, US
Photograph: Michael Patrick O'Neill