MANISH SWARUP

A rescue dog called Lek looks away as an oxygen mask is put on a plush toy during a demonstration at the site of an under-construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
AP PHOTOS: Rescue dogs aid search efforts at site where Bangkok building collapsed after earthquake
BANGKOK (AP) — Sahara, Safari, Lek, Lilly and Naree are among the rescue dogs working at the site of the building that collapsed in Bangkok following Friday’s earthquake.
 
Mahmoud Fanas, a "musaharati,"or "dawn caller," who beats on a drum to wake up Muslims for a meal before sunrise during Ramadan, teaches a boy how to beat on drum as walks through old streets in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
AP PHOTOS: With the bang of his drum, he wakes up the whole neighborhood in a Ramadan tradition
But many children and families love the “musaharati,” or “dawn caller,” a traditional fixture of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month when the faithful fast from dawn to sunset. It’s his job to wake people up in time to have a meal before the daily fast begins.
 
Police detain a Congress party supporter during a protest against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Adani was indicted by U.S. prosecutors for bribery and fraud in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Shonal Ganguly)
India’s opposition protests against billionaire facing US bribery and fraud charges
Hundreds of supporters of India’s main opposition party have protested against billionaire Gautam Adani, who was recently indicted in the U.S. for alleged fraud and bribery, and accused the government of protecting the Indian coal magnate whose companies’ shares have plunged since the charges last w
 
A office goer walks wearing a face mask amidst a thick layer of smog as air pollution shoots up in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
India’s capital chokes as air pollution levels hit 50 times the safe limit
Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season.
 
Birds fly over toxic foams floating in the river Yamuna in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP PHOTOS: River and air pollution in India’s capital pose a severe health threat to residents
NEW DELHI (AP) — One of India’s most sacred rivers, the Yamuna in New Delhi, is covered with white toxic foam, with vast sections frothing as a result of pollutants discharged from industries around the city.
 
Vijay Lakshmi, 85, greets polling officers as they arrive at her residence, in New Delhi, India, Friday, May 17, 2024. To encourage and assist elderly persons to cast their votes, the chief electoral office of Delhi on Thursday initiated the home voting facility for the ongoing general parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP PHOTOS: For the first time India’s elderly and disabled are able to vote from home
NEW DELHI (AP) — Vijay Lakshmi, 85, stood beaming at the entrance of her house as she welcomed a team dispatched by the Election Commission of India.
 
This combo photograph shows Indian voters, top row left to right, Raj Sud, 94, Niranjan Kapasi, 89 , Kuldip Chadha, 79, Ajay Sud, 63, Dhiren Singh, 58, and in second row, left to right, Ajay Jasra, 56, Retha Singh, 49, Shruti Sud, 34, Manya Sachdev, 22 and Anita Jasra, 18, as they talk to the Associated Press about the national elections, in New Delhi, India, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP PHOTOS: What’s on the voters’ minds as India heads into a 6-week national election
“I like Modi very much. Modi is working honestly. And he is doing very good work and wants to make the whole country absolutely beautiful,” said Sud.
 
School children present a dance on the ceremonial street Kartavyapath boulevard during India's Republic Day parade celebrations in New Delhi, India, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP Photos: Indians rejoice in colorful Republic Day parade with the French president as chief guest
It included a camel-mounted regiment with its mustachioed riders, and floats depicting India’s moon lander, its first indigenous aircraft carrier and the Hindu god Lord Ram. India dedicated a controversial temple to Lord Ram earlier this week, built on the site of a demolished mosque.
 
Lkhaebum's son, Agvaantogtokh, chooses a horse to ride as he prepares for the journey to move the family's two hundred horses to new grassland in the Munkh-Khaan region of the Sukhbaatar district, in southeast Mongolia, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
AP PHOTOS: Mongolia’s herders fight climate change with their own adaptability and new technology.1
A herder watches attentively as a horse gave birth on a cold spring morning. Families look for pastures for their animals to graze. Gers — traditional insulated tents made with wooden frames — still face east and the rising sun, as they have for nomads since the days of Genghis Khan.
 
Indian authorities send buses to take unemployed to villages
Authorities have sent a fleet of buses to the outskirts of India’s capital to meet an exodus of migrant workers desperately trying to reach their home villages during the world’s largest coronavirus lockdown.
 
AP PHOTOS: Amid horror, Sri Lanka church still shows beauty
NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Nearly a week later, even after the cleaners have come through, the blood can still be seen clearly. The statues of Jesus and the saints are still speckled with fragments of shrapnel.