World Press Photo Awards 2010

World press photo of the year: Italian Pietro Masturzo won the top prize with his picture of the rooftops of Tehran taken in June 2009
Photograph: Pietro Masturzo/AFP/Getty Images

Spot news, first prize singles: Adam Ferguson of Australia won the first prize in the spot news singles category with a photo of an Afghan woman rushed from the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul on December 15 2009
Photograph: Adam Ferguson/AFP/Getty Images

People in the news: second prize singles The runner-up in this category was American photographer David Guttenfelder for Associated Press, who showed US soldiers responding to Taliban fire outside their bunker in Korengal valley, Afghanistan, May 11 2009
Photograph: David Guttenfelder/AP

Sports action: first prize singles Gareth Copley of England won first prize in the sports action singles category with his picture of England's Jonathan Trott being run out at the fifth Ashes Test match in London, August 2009
Photograph: Gareth Copley/AFP/Getty Images

Contemporary issues: second prize singles Stefano De Luigi, a VII Network for Le Monde magazine photographer based in Italy, won the second prize in the contemporary issues singles category for this picture of a giraffe killed by drought, in north-east Kenya, September
Photograph: Stefano De Luigi/Reuters

Sports features: first prize singles American photographer Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times magazine, shows Yankee fans trying to distract Angels left fielder Juan Rivera at Yankee stadium, October 25 2009
Photograph: Robert Gauthier/AP

Portraits: first prize singles A photograph showing Graham, an anorexic teenager, taken by British photographer Laura Pannack, Lisa Pritchard Agency for the Guardian Weekend magazine
Photograph: Laura Pannack/AP

Arts and entertainment: first prize singles This prize went to Malian photographer Malick Sidibe's picture for the New York Times magazine
Photograph: Malick Sidibe/AP

Daily life: second prize singles This photograph, named Sunday picnic, Mozambique, was taken by French photographer Joan Bardeletti
Photograph: Joan Bardeletti/AP

People in news: second prize stories This picture was taken by British photographer Charles Ommanney, Getty Images for Newsweek, who was runner-up in the people in the news stories category
Photograph: Charles Ommanney/AP

Arts and entertainment: first prize stories Canadian photographer Kitra Cahana won this category. This picture is from the series named Fabrica for Colors Rainbowland, New Mexico
Photograph: Kitra Cahana/AP

Sports features: first prize stories American photographer Elizabeth Kreutz's work, entitled Lance Armstrong's comeback, won first prize in this category
Photograph: Elizabeth Kreutz/AP

Nature: first prize stories Canadian photographer Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, won first prize in this category for South Georgia, Antarctica
Photograph: Paul Nicklen/AP

Sports action: first prize stories First prize in this category was taken by American photographer Donald Miralle Jr, for pictures showing the Ironman World Championships, Hawaii 2009
Photograph: Donald Miralle Jr./AP

Spot news: first prize stories Argentinian AFP photographer Walter Astrada took first prize with his pictures of rioting in Antananarivo, Madagascar in February 2009
Photograph: Walter Astrada/AFP/Getty Images

Contemporary issues: first prize stories First prize in this category went to American photographer Eugene Richards, for Reportage by Getty Images for The Sunday Times magazine/Paris Match. His photographs were named War Is Personal, USA
Photograph: Eugene Richards/AP

General News: first prize stories Italian Marco Vernaschi won this category with his picture of men smoking in Guinea Bissau
Photograph: Marco Vernaschi/AFP/Getty Images

Spot news: second prize stories AFP photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei took a second place with his images of post-election protests in Tehran
Photograph: Olivier Laban-mattei/AFP/Getty Images

Spot news: third prize stories AFP photographer Palestinian Mohammed Abed came third in this category with his pictures of the shelling in Gaza in January 2009
Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images