A look at the best news photos of 2015 from around the world.
Photos of the Year 2015

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Mourners queue to pay their respects to Singapore's late former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew where he lies in state at Parliament House in Singapore, March 28, 2015. He died at the age of 91 on March 23.

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Police hit a student protester during violence in Letpadan, March 10, 2015. Myanmar police beat students with batons and detained some of them as they broke up a group of about 200 protesters who had been locked in a standoff with security forces for more than a week, a Reuters witness said. The students were protesting an education bill they say stifles academic independence.

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In this aerial photo, crowds of people move in a symbolic walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Alabama, March 8, 2015, to marks the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday,' a civil rights march in which protesters were beaten, and tear-gassed by police on the bridge.

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Arthur Ward stands with his Pyrenean Mountain Dog Cody during the first day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham, central England, March 5, 2015.