Mohamed Azakir, a Reuters photographer, has won the first prize in the Spot News Singles Category of the World Press Photo 2006 contest, announced February 10, 2006, with this picture of a Lebanese shouting for help for a wounded man near the site of a car bomb explosion. The prestigious competition is the world's largest annual press photography contest. The picture was taken in Beirut February 14, 2005.

First prize-winning picture in the News Stories catagory of the World Press Photo 2006 contest. "Honoring fallen US Marines: 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrives at Reno Airport" taken by Todd Heisler of Rocky Mountain News, USA.

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