Topshots of the Week (9-15 September, 2023)

Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (9-15 September, 2023).


Tourists enjoy a camel safari in a desert

Tourists enjoy a camel safari at a desert in Pushkar on September 10, 2023.
© Himanshu SHARMA / AFP

AFP boosts Climate, Tech reporting with new Asia-based roles

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is pleased to announce the appointments of Sara Hussein as Future of the Planet and Science reporter based in Bangkok and Qasim Nauman as Connected World and Tech business reporter based in Seoul. AFP is creating these two new positions to further advance coverage of two of the agency’s highest editorial priorities.


Topshots of the Week (29 July - 4 August, 2023)

Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (29 July - 4 August, 2023).


AFP picture dy Devi Rahman - Merapi volcano, Indonesia

This long exposure photo taken on July 28, 2023 shows Mount Merapi spewing lava onto its slopes during an eruption as seen from Sleman.
© Devi RAHMAN / AFP

07/15/2025 15:01
First Patient Enrolled in National Cancer Institute’s Vanguard Study Evaluating Guardant Health’s Shield Multi-Cancer Detection Test

Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced that patient enrollment has begun in the National Cancer Institute (NCI)’s Vanguard Study to evaluate emerging multi-cancer detection (MCD) technology. Guardant’s Shield™ MCD test was selected for use in the four-year study, which aims to enroll up to 24,000 patients and evaluate the use of MCD tests—blood tests that can screen for several types of cancer simultaneously—in future randomized controlled tria...