Via Mother Nature Network: A portrait of a veiled woman cradling a wounded relative in her arms, taken in Yemen by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda for The New York Times, won the top World Press Photo prize on Friday.

The photograph captured a moment in the conflict in Yemen, when demonstrators against outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh used a mosque in Sanaa as a field hospital to treat the wounded. But judges said it also spoke more broadly for the Arab Spring.

“The winning photo shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous event, an event that is still going on,” Aidan Sullivan, chair of the jury, said of Aranda’s photograph, which won World Press Photo of the Year 2011.

“We might never know who this woman is, cradling an injured relative, but together they become a living image of the courage of ordinary people that helped create an important chapter in the history of the Middle East.”

Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj won first prize in the Daily Life Singles category with his photograph of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung on a wall in Pyongyang.

The facts and numbers behind Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital. Unsurprisingly, Romney’s talk doesn’t match his record.

The Romney family lines up for a campaign photograph and ends up spelling out a rather Freudian message.

Contrary to popular belief, Rick Perry can actually count to 3. And corresponding with popular belief, even while smiling Newt Gingrich looks crazy as hell.

A persuasive chart on why tax loopholes benefit the rich and penalized the middle and lower class in America.

Women wearing kimonos in Tokyo, Japan. The closest we come in America is sweatpants and scrunchies.

In his series “Soldiers’ Angels,” photographer Philip Cheung focuses on Army mortuary affairs specialists in Afghanistan. They are responsible for “the retrieval, identification, preparation, preservation and transportation of the dead.” They are also the ones who meticulously wrap the soldiers in the American flag.

In order to shift focus away from mindless consumption, this New York City vending machine allows patrons to donate items and receive used ones for free. I wouldn’t like socks, though.

It’s been over a year since the last reported case of polio in India. Here, a newborn in New Delhi receives a polio drop.