Topshots of the Week (25-31 March, 2023)

Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (25-31 March, 2023).


Sun rises in front of the Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The sun rises in front of the Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 29, 2023.
© Carl DE SOUZA / AFP

Topshots of the Week (11-17 March, 2023)

Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (11-17 March, 2023).


AFP photo by Marco Longari - Mauritania

Husseinu, 20, from Dakar, Senegal, working at a construction site in the outskirts of Nouakchott, poses for a portrait on March 14, 2023.
© Marco Longari / AFP

06/24/2026 11:05
Carnegie Mellon Team Awarded ARPA-H Contract to Transform Care During Labor and Childbirth

Carnegie Mellon University is leading a multi-university team that has secured an award of up to $39.3 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop a wearable monitoring system to better identify fetal distress and its cause, enabling a safer labor and delivery experience for mothers and babies. The system, called OMEGA, or Optical, Mechanical, and Electrical Global Assessment of fetal hypoxia, aims to replace 50-year old, indirect, unreliable fetal heart ra...