There’s fine wine and now there’s “fine water,” a growing category worldwide — even in water-stressed countries like India. (Nov. 21) (AP Video: Martha Irvine/Dar Yasin,/Srdjan Nedeljkovic/Theodora Tongas)

Guillermo Barraza had already faced death threats for his work as a journalist in cartel-plagued Mexico. Now, he is risking even more by hosting a newscast in drag to shine a light on his community and the perils it faces. (Feb. 2)(AP video: Fernanda Pesce)

Oleksii Yukov says the same thing to all the Ukrainian mothers. He tells them to talk about their dead children, so they will be remembered. It is Yukov’s job to bring the dead home, one body at a time.

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers. (AP video: Robert Bumsted, Eugene Garcia)

An investigation led by The Associated Press found at least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021. About half of the 94 who died were Black, including Demetrio Jackson. (AP Video: Shelby Lum)

Crib cameras are offering a clue to a rare but devastating tragedy -- when seemingly healthy young children suddenly die in their sleep and autopsies can’t tell why. (Jan. 4)(AP Video/Shelby Lum)

The waters around Antarctica are emerging as a battleground between industry and activists as advances in technology and new demand for krill as a dietary supplement drive more and more fishing of the shrimp-like crustacean. (Oct. 13) (AP video David Keyton/production: Marshall Ritzel)

The suicide of a young man from Guinea inside one of Italy’s migrant detention centers has shined a spotlight on the squalid, chaotic conditions. Lawyers and activists have described the centers as “black holes for human rights.” The Italian government says the de-facto jails are essential to deterring migrants from crossing the Mediterranean on smuggler’s boats. But for Ousmane Sylla, who developed mental health issues after leaving Guinea, they were unbearable. He killed himself in February, and his family blames the Italian government.

In the years after the 2001 U.S. invasion and the ouster of the Taliban regime, Associated Press photographer Rodrigo Abd spent months on assignment in Afghanistan and learned how to use a traditional Afghan “box camera,” a handmade camera and darkroom in one. Abd returned this year with an idea: to employ the nearly disappeared Afghan art form to document how life has changed in peacetime, for better and worse, two years after U.S. troops left and the Taliban returned to power. (Sept. 22) (AP video: Bram Janssen)