May 24, 2013 |
Youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm, Sweden for a fifth consecutive night on May 24, 2013. In the suburb of Husby, where the riots began on Sunday in response to the fatal police shooting of a 69-year-old machete-wielding man, 80 percent of residents are immigrants and the unrest has highlighted Sweden’s failure to [...]
May 23, 2013 |
Photographer Ricardo Moraes spent time documenting a religious fraternity called O Caminho, (The Way), a group of Franciscan monks and nuns who help the homeless on the streets of Rio de Janeiro. They consider the election of Pope Francis, the first pontiff to take the name of St Francis of Assisi, to be a confirmation [...]
May 22, 2013 |
Every year, inhabitants of Ndande, Senegal take part in a Sufi Muslim ceremony called Gamou-Ndande, combining nights of praying and chanting as well as traditionally animist ceremonies. One ceremony involves men descending a larger former well, called Kalom, which was the site of historic battles in Senegalese history. According to local historian Baye Niass, the [...]
May 22, 2013 |
Hundreds of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born of frustration at extortion, killings and kidnappings in a region wracked by violence.
May 22, 2013 |
A brutal attack near a military barracks in London left one man dead and two suspects hospitalized May 22, 2013 after a shootout with police.
May 21, 2013 |
The “Cavalhadas” festival in Pirenopolis, Brazil, featuring masked horsemen, is a tradition that was introduced in the 1800′s by a Portuguese priest to mark the the ascension of Christ. The 3-day festival reenacts the Christian knights’ medieval defeat of the Moors.
May 18, 2013 |
Riot police clashed with protesters during multiple demonstrations against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his government’s policy on Syria, across the country on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Erdogan said on Friday it would be up to the U.N. Security Council to decide whether to establish a no-fly zone inside Syria and said he backed [...]
May 17, 2013 |
Reuters photographer Siegfried Modola travelled to document Ethiopia’s ancient salt trade in the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest and harshest environments on earth, with an average annual temperature of 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34.4 Celsius). For centuries, merchants have travelled there with caravans of camels to collect salt from the surface of the vast desert [...]
May 16, 2013 |
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis clashed with police after gathering to protest against newly proposed government legislation that would see them drafted into the military.
May 16, 2013 |
Photos of Afghan witnesses of the pre-dawn events of March 11, 2012. A U.S. soldier allegedly rampaged through two villages killing 16 people. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of Lake Tapps, Washington, is accused of the killings. Bales has not entered a plea, but his lawyers have not disputed his involvement in the killings. [...]
Youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm, Sweden for a fifth consecutive night on May 24, 2013.
Shaheed Monument in Baghdad honoring the overwhelmingly Shiite and Kurdish victims of Saddam's Sunni-dominated but
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