Getty Images photographer, Mario Tama, spent time in and around Owsley County, Kentucky documenting the life and times of some of its 5,000 residents. The 2010 U.S. Census listed Owsley County as hav...
The city of Joplin, Mo., on Tuesday marked a year since a tornado struck, killing 161 people and destroying a third of city. Many people marched during a Day of Unity through the citys hardest hi...
A rare annular eclipse - a ring of sunlight as the new moon, passing between Earth and sun, blocks most, but not all, of the suns disc. It is striking to see. Differing from a total solar eclipse, th...
Thousands of images are supplied by multiple wire services to newspapers across the country each day. Many of those images depict ordinary scenes of life in different countries around the world. Ther...
Its something often ignored unless its annoying, harnessed for sport or energy, the cause of great damage, or sometimes used for fun. Wind is simply defined as "a natural movement of air of any v...
A potentially catastrophic food crisis in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa could affect as many as one million children. The food and nutrition crisis resulting from a severe drought, thre...
Russia and former Soviet republics marked the 67 years since the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War II today. Russias newly inaugurated President Vladimir Putin promised a strong Russia du...
The night sky on May 5 was animated by the once-a-year cosmic event of the perigee moon. Popularly known as the "Supermoon", the moon appears much larger above us when the elliptical orbit br...
With well over a year before American forces pull out of Afghanistan, the conflict there drags on. Every month in The Big Picture, we feature a selection of recent images of events there, from the so...
May Day was marked once again around the globe with political protests and demonstrations by organized labor. The Occupy Wall Street movement, which formed last year in New York, used the day to spre...
Photojournalist Diana Markosian spent the last year and half covering Russias volatile North Caucasus region. This year she started a personal project entitled "Goodbye My Chechnya" documenti...
After 10 years of civil war, Sierra Leone is at peace. Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia and once a powerful warlord, was convicted April 26 by an international tribunal of 11 counts...
Fighting continues along the border of Sudan and South Sudan this week. President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said the latest attacks amounted to a declaration of war after more bombs were dropped on h...
Music fans gathered to hear a wide variety of musical styles at this years Coachella Music and Arts Festival, held over the past two weekends in Indio, Calif. More than 100 acts were on the bill to ...
The universality of our lives is never so evident as when we feature a collection of "slice of life" photographs from around the world on The Big Picture. If you dont immediately read the cap...
Photographer Taylor Weidman was given special permission by the government of Nepal to travel in the restricted area of Mustang. He writes, "Mustang, or the former Kingdom of Lo, is hidden in the...
April 22 will mark Earth Day worldwide, an event now in its 42nd year and observed in 175 countries. The original grass-roots environmental action helped spur the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act in...
In early April, in an attempt to accelerate the transition of military responsibility to the Afghan government, the US agreed to hand control of special operations missions to Afghan forces, includin...
North Korea will mark the 100th anniversary of its founding fathers birth on April 15. Kim Il-Sung ruled the communist country from its inception in 1948 until his death in 1994. The country is also ...
Christians commemorated the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Sunday, a holiday that marks the end of Holy Week and the end of Lent. Observances around the world bring a diversity of traditions as vari...
The sinking of the RMS Titanic caused the deaths of 1,517 of its 2,229 passengers and crew (official numbers vary slightly) in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. The 712 su...
Nearly 2,000 images moved across the wires last month under the category daily life. Many of those slice-of-life images came from the 1,400 newspapers in the United States that make up the Associat...
A symbolic gesture to raise awareness about energy consumption, Earth Hour has grown since its beginning in 2007 in Sydney to now include observances in 147 countries and over 5000 cities. For one ho...
Pope Benedict XVI is back in Rome following his week-long-travels to Mexico and Cuba. In reviewing almost 4,000 images that documented his historic travels to the two countries, I decided to concentr...
Syrians by the thousands are fleeing the violence in their home country and seeking refuge in neighboring countries. Turkey this week is said to be considering a buffer zone in Syria to secure its ow...
Is the recent political thaw in Myanmar genuine? Democratic elections are coming to the long-reclusive southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, formerly Burma. A long military dictatorship has nominally en...
Purim, one of the most joyous holidays in the Jewish calendar was held a week ago, March 8 and 9, celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people in exile in Persia. The story is told in the Book of...
Seemingly strange weather patterns continue to break high and low temperature records. The same patterns spawned an early tornado season in the midwestern United States and brought late season snowst...
World Water Day is observed on March 22 every year. The day to recognize the importance of earths most precious natural resource was proposed 20 years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environm...
The 40th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race came to an end earlier this week in Nome, Alaska. Dallas Seavey, 25, bested both his father and his grandfather with his team of nine dogs, becoming the youngest...
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