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. [...]
May 16, 2013 |
Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan met Thursday to discuss Syria. “We both agree that Assad needs to go,” Obama said.
May 16, 2013 |
A suicide car bomb tore through a U.S. convoy in the Afghan capital on May 16, 2013, killing at least 15 people, including six Americans.
May 16, 2013 |
Photos from the “Barbie Dreamhouse” of Mattel’s Barbie dolls in Berlin, May 15, 2013.
May 15, 2013 |
Hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh and Myanmar were ordered to evacuate Wednesday, May 15, 2013, as a cyclone bore down on coastal areas home to flood-prone refugee camps for victims of sectarian unrest. Many members of Myanmar’s internally displaced Rohingya minority living there have refused to leave because they don’t trust Myanmar authorities. [...]
May 15, 2013 |
Palestinians held rallies marking Nakba (catastrophe) Day clashing with Israeli forces on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Gaza and the West Bank.
May 15, 2013 |
Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano spewed a new column of ash late Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
Gary Stevens riding atop of Oxbow #6 won the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 18
Riot police clashed with protesters during multiple demonstrations against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erd
Cheshire High School beat Mercy in girls’ softball Friday, snapping the Tigers’ 14-game winning streak.
