Clearing skies await a tripod-toting photographer looking for a spot to capture the early-morning light at Portland Head Light, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. A snowstorm that ended before dawn temporarily transformed Fort Williams Park into a snowy scene. Jimmy Greene and Nelba Marquez-Greene, parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim [...]
Pakistani Anusha Khalid, 4, dressed as a bride, poses for a picture at an outdoor Mass on Christmas Day, in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan. Protesters shield themselves as Indian police beat them with sticks during a violent demonstration near the India Gate against a gang rape and brutal beating of a 23-year-old student [...]
Images from the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school shooting were seen around the word. The photographs, showing both reaction and grief, were a reminder of the other tragedies from the year, including the Aurora theater shooting. In an image provided by NASA Tuesday Dec. 18, 2012 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft delivered a glorious view of [...]
Muslim pilgrims climb a rocky hill called the Mountain of Mercy on the Plain of Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Saudi authorities say around 3.4 million pilgrims, some 1.7 million of them from abroad, have arrived in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for this year’s [...]
An Afghan refugee girl stands next to her family’s sheep in a field next to a slum area on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. Three suicide bombers detonated [...]
Student Niki Sahi, from the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, waves to her cousin after boarding a special train transporting her back to Bangalore, from where she had fled last month, at a railway station in Panbari, India, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012. Thousands of panic-stricken Indians from the northeast had fled the southern city of [...]
Free Syrian Army fighters exchange fire with regime forces in the Salaheddin neighborhood of Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on August 22, 2012. At least 12 people were killed in a raid on a district of Damascus, while fighter jets and artillery hit the city of Aleppo and rebels claimed seizing parts of a town [...]
Ultra-orthodox Jewish men pray as they gather for the mourning ritual of Tisha B’Av at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem’s Old City, early Sunday, July 29, 2012. The Jewish holy day of Tisha B’Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the biblical temples is marked Sunday.
An Indian shouts for water as a shanty town is engulfed in flames in New Delhi, India, Friday, June 22, 2012. A fire swept through a slum in the Indian capital on Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resale. Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) and [...]
A young Indian bonded child laborer cries as he is walked away after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement, at a garment factory in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Raids on factories in the Indian capital revealed dozens of migrant kids hard at [...]
Clearing skies await a tripod-toting photographer looking for a spot to capture the early-morning light at Portland
Pakistani Anusha Khalid, 4, dressed as a bride, poses for a picture at an outdoor Mass on Christmas Day, in a Chris