The Moscow icon celebrates a big anniversary
Wearing everything from sleek wrap dresses to those inescapable royal hats, Prince William's bride is creating her own style and inspiring countless copycats
By Feifei Sun and Yumi Goto
Heat advisories are issues in states from Oklahoma to Connecticut
More than 100 are feared dead after a riverboat sinks on the Volga River
What it once looked like to fill up
Images of the faces in the crowd as the final shuttle mission gets under way
A successful launch for NASA's final shuttle mission
A hostage standoff in Michigan ends with seven deaths
Armed conflict rages between rebels and pro-Gaddafi forces
The rupture of an Exxon Mobil pipeline releases almost 1,000 barrels of oil into a flood-swollen river
Highlights from the young royal couple's first visit
Photographer Smiley N. Pool documents the four astronauts of the last space shuttle mission as they get ready for their historic launch
The spacecraft Cassini captures turbulent weather on the surface of the ringed planet.
The characters created by J.K. Rowling have inspired young and old around the world
Pamplona's main square was packed for the launch of the "chupinazo" rocket, which signals the start of Spain's most famous bull-running festival
A great American artist
By Richard Lacayo
A gallery of close-ups of the pests who inhabit our homes, clothes and bodies, as seen from an electron microscope
Visual highlights from the trial that captivated America
The airport shuts down as a rolling dust storm sweeps through Arizona
From her arm-baring dresses to her colorful cardigans, a look at the First Lady's groundbreaking style
By Feifei Sun
Thousands of young people gather at what has become an annual event in Russia
As NASA prepares for its final shuttle mission, a look at more than three decades of triumphs and tragedies