46th World Press Photo Contest: And the winners are...

The world sees many high-tech inventions, mishaps, incidents, natural disasters, happiness. Events that are worth recording. It might explain why the 46th World Press Photo Contest this year has attracted a record number of entries, a total of 53,597 images from 3,913 professional photographers from 118 countries. The premier annual international competition in press photography also recorded an exceptional increase in the number of digital submissions: 69 percent of all images were submitted in digital format. Last year this figure was 55 percent and in the 2001 only 27.5 percent. Below are some of the award-winning images...