The Week in Pictures Yankees fans, Pakistan train crash, festival of lights, Iran protest, rodeo clowns, H1N1, toddler bowling and more news and feature photos from around the globe. |
The Murray, Kentucky experience On Oct. 27, thirty-one photojournalists picked their story subjects from a hat and hit the streets to document five days in the life of the Murray, Ky. and the surrounding farmland of Calloway County. The pictures they made depict the extraordinary ordinariness of life in small-town USA. |
GOP yields victory on election day A year after President Obama’s big election win, Republicans scored big victories in Virginia and New Jersey races. |
Philippines pounded again View images of the fourth major typhoon faced by the country in four weeks. |
Fleeing the fighting in Pakistan Hundreds of thousands of civilians seek shelter from the military offensive in the northwest region. |
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Saving lives on the front line Photographer Erin Trieb spends six weeks with the U.S. Army's busiest trauma center in Afghanistan. |
Climate by the numbers View some of the hundreds of protests Saturday around the world to demand lower CO2 emissions. |
Deadly train crash in India A passenger train rams another, killing more than 20 and trapping others for hours near the Taj Mahal in northern India. |
Building collapse in Kenya Substandard materials and poor workmanship are being blamed for a building collapse on the outskirts of Nairobi. |
Attacks rock Pakistan More violence follows coordinated strikes that kill dozens in Lahore, Kohat and Peshawar as militants target law-enforcement facilities. |
Filipinos hit by new floods Rain-triggered landslides and flooding cover parts of the Philippines, which was trying to recover from two typhoons. |
Equality March Thousands of activists marched and demanded advancements in civil rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. |
Too much trash The trash generated by China's economic boom has drastically altered a small village. One community of 1,000 people has gone from pristine to losing its crops and choking on gases. |
Tension on the tundra A native ethnic group on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula fears more drilling there for natural gas will undermine its way of life |
On the front lines in Afghanistan Soldiers are fighting to suppress the Taliban and win over the Afghan people as President Barack Obama considers deepening American involvement in Afghanistan. |
Flood misery in southern India Millions are left homeless in what Indian officials are calling the worst flooding in the region in many decades. |
Protests grip Istanbul Turkish riot police battle protesters during the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank. |
China celebrates The world’s most populous country throws a party to mark 60 years of communist rule. |
Deadly tsunami strikes Samoa islands A huge 8.0 earthquake churns up a giant tsunami that devastated the Samoa islands, killing dozens as it tore through resorts and villages. |
Dust storm blankets Sydney A huge outback dust storm swept eastern Australia and engulfed Sydney, disrupting transport, forcing people indoors and stripping thousands of tons of valuable farmland topsoil. |
French police close migrant camp Hundreds of refugees are cleared from a makeshift camp near Calais, France. |
Climate conditions View signals of temperature shifts across the globe, as well as some approaches to dealing with change. |
Ramadan comes to an end Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr around the world as the holy holiday draws to a close. |
Dueling rallies in Iran View images of pro-government and opposition supporters at dueling rallies on Iran’s annual anti-Israeli event. |
China’s ‘cancer villages’ Villagers in southern China attribute recent cancer deaths there to a nearby mine and the contaminated river that runs through their towns. |
Strike in heart of Kabul A suicide bomber rams his explosives-filled car into two Italian military vehicles in the Afghan capital. |
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