SCMP Top Stories

Follow us on

Download all-new mobile app

April 12, 2025

Today in Photos

New York Mets, a monastery in Greece: pictures of the week

more details

New York Mets’ Luisangel Acuña. Photo: AP

The 11th-century cliffside Hozoviotissa Monastery is seen under the starry night sky on the island of Amorgos, Greece. Photo: AP

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon at the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa along the Aegean Sea. Photo: AP

A museum employee at the V&A Museum in London. Photo: AP

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect at the botanical garden in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: AP

An indigenous woman attends the annual Free Earth camp in Brazil. Photo: AP

A Drosera madagascariensis at the botanical garden in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: AP

The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, US. Photo: AP

A woman takes selfies at the Zaryadye park after snowfall in Moscow. Photo: AP

Ira, a dog with the Italian National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, attends a training in Col Gallina in the Italian Alps. Photo: AP

A boy flies a kite in the Petare neighbourhood in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo: AP

The annual Free Earth camp where Brazil’s Indigenous people discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30 which will take place in the Amazon. Photo: AP

New York Mets’ Luisangel Acuña. Photo: APNew York Mets’ Luisangel Acuña. Photo: AP

April 12, 2025

Today in Photos

New York Mets, a monastery in Greece: pictures of the week

From a monastery in Greece to the New York Mets, here are some photographs from last week.

New York Mets’ Luisangel Acuña. Photo: AP

The 11th-century cliffside Hozoviotissa Monastery is seen under the starry night sky on the island of Amorgos, Greece. Photo: AP

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon at the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa along the Aegean Sea. Photo: AP

A museum employee at the V&A Museum in London. Photo: AP

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect at the botanical garden in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: AP

An indigenous woman attends the annual Free Earth camp in Brazil. Photo: AP

A Drosera madagascariensis at the botanical garden in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: AP

The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, US. Photo: AP

A woman takes selfies at the Zaryadye park after snowfall in Moscow. Photo: AP

Ira, a dog with the Italian National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, attends a training in Col Gallina in the Italian Alps. Photo: AP

A boy flies a kite in the Petare neighbourhood in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo: AP

The annual Free Earth camp where Brazil’s Indigenous people discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30 which will take place in the Amazon. Photo: AP

New York Mets’ Luisangel Acuña. Photo: AP

The 11th-century cliffside Hozoviotissa Monastery is seen under the starry night sky on the island of Amorgos, Greece. Photo: AP

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon at the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa along the Aegean Sea. Photo: AP

A museum employee at the V&A Museum in London. Photo: AP

A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect at the botanical garden in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: AP

An indigenous woman attends the annual Free Earth camp in Brazil. Photo: AP

A Drosera madagascariensis at the botanical garden in Bogota, Colombia. Photo: AP

The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, US. Photo: AP

A woman takes selfies at the Zaryadye park after snowfall in Moscow. Photo: AP

Ira, a dog with the Italian National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, attends a training in Col Gallina in the Italian Alps. Photo: AP

A boy flies a kite in the Petare neighbourhood in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo: AP

The annual Free Earth camp where Brazil’s Indigenous people discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30 which will take place in the Amazon. Photo: AP

Latest Galleries

2025 World Press photo of the year/West, Central and South Asia singles winner, Mahmoud Ajjour, aged nine. Photographer Samar Abu Elouf was herself evacuated from Gaza in December 2023. She now lives in the same apartment complex as Mahmoud in Doha, where she has documented the few badly wounded Gazans who, like Mahmoud, have made it out for treatment. Photo: Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times

Today in Photos

In pictures: World Press Photo 2025 winners

April 19, 2025

A humanoid robot and a quadruped robot dog at the Canton Fair. Photo: China News Service/VCG via Getty Images

In pictures: hundreds of thousands of overseas buyers flock to 137th Canton Fair

April 18, 2025

The Moscow underground station in Russia is decorated with huge Easter eggs, April, 15. Photo: EPA-EFE

Today in Photos

In pictures: Easter eggs and celebrations around the world

April 17, 2025

Bamboo scaffolding workers on Great George Street, Causeway Bay. Photo: Sam Tsang

In pictures: Hong Kong’s iconic and under-threat bamboo scaffolding

April 16, 2025