Andy Bartee’s Instagram image of the explosion at a fertilizer plant in Texas has been published around the world. The photograph shows that you don’t have to have expensive camera equipment to get a dramatic news photograph, you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time

Aleppo, Syria: a boy holds a satellite dish as he travels on the back of a truck

Tokyo, Japan: An employee at a foreign exchange trading company looks at monitors

Gaza City, Gaza Strip: a woman takes photos of dummies representing Palestinian prisoners in the former Saraya prison, now a memorial centre

Caracas, Venezuela: a Che Guevara lookalike rides his motorcycle at a gathering in support of President-elect Nicolás Maduro