Editor's pick Dec. 17-23
Each weekday, our photo editors will select one compelling image for prominent play in the newspaper. Readers can learn more about why the image was chosen and tips about shooting similar pictures at Photo Desk, our new online camera club. On Fridays, the daily image will be chosen from reader-submitted photos based on a weekly theme.
Female giraffe Monique tends to her new born male cub Tebogo at the zoo of Frankfurt, central GermanyThomas Lohnes
Dec. 22 pick: An inmate kisses his partner during a Christmas party at Sofia Central Prison. The management of the prison organised a party for a dozen prisoners and their families.STOYAN NENOV
Dec, 21 pick: A Somali refugee stands next to her bag on at a UN High Commission for Refugees registration center just across the Djibouti border where she alongside thousands of other Somalis are fleeing conflict in their country.TONY KARUMBA
Dec. 20 pick: Kashmiri Shiite Muslim flagellate themselves with a cluster of knives during a Ashura procession in Srinagar held on the tenth day of Muharram, which commemorates the slaying of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson in southern Iraq in the seventh century.TAUSEEF MUSTAFA
Dec. 17 pick: Open Creek: Sean Birch of Edmonton sent us this shot taken in Mount Fernie Provincial Park in B.C. in response to our call-out for photos on the theme of winter in Canada. He took the photo while snowshoeing along the a creek after an early season snowfall.Sean Birch