Chanel in Cuba
High fashion arrives in Havana, as Chanel stages a runway show on a main boulevard, inspired by the elegance of pre-revolutionary Cuba.
High fashion arrives in Havana, as Chanel stages a runway show on a main boulevard, inspired by the elegance of pre-revolutionary Cuba.
For years Lydia Huayllas, 48, has worked as a cook at base camps and mountain climbing refuges on the steep, glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi, a 6,088 meter (19,974-foot) Andean peak outside La Paz, Bolivia.
But two years ago, she and 10 other Aymara indigenous women, ages 42 to 50, who also worked as porters and cooks for mountaineers, put on crampons under their wide traditional skirts and started to do their own climbing.
Photographer David Mercado follows Bolivia's cholita climbers: http://reut.rs/1YILbhC
Migrants find themselves fenced in and out on their journey to a better life.
Youths, who have been receiving martial arts training decided to form a team to hold regular shows in the hope that the publicity generated will get them invited to participate in international contests.
An apartment perched on the Pacific is deemed in danger of collapsing due to El Nino storm erosion.
Why the sloth crossed the road, and more Reuters photos of the day: http://reut.rs/1PAauTh
Security forces in Burkina Faso retake a hotel from al Qaeda fighters who seized it in an assault that killed two dozen people from at least 18 countries.