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Out of the Oklahoma Rubble

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:47:11 GMT

Rescuers pulled a child from the rubble of an elementary school in Moore, Okla., Monday and passed her to a triage center after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburbs (SUE OGROCKI/Associated Press)."

Near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., a child is carried from the devastation Monday (SUE OGROCKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS)."

Briarwood Elementary School in south Oklahoma City was also damaged, and people there were injured (Paul Hellstern/The OKLAHOMAn/associated press)."

A boy was pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. (Sue Ogrocki/asociated press)."

A woman took an injured child to a triage center (Sue Ogrocki/associated press)."

The tornado was estimated to have been a mile wide (AP Photo/Courtesy KWTV)."

The tornado was estimated to be at least a half-mile wide with winds up to 200 mph (Paul Hellstern/The OKLAHOMAn/associated press).

An image from television shows homes that were flattened outside Moore, Okla., on Monday (AP Photo/KFOR-TV).

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Kenyan Cutie

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:22:32 GMT

Voters lined up Monday morning in Kenya. Violence erupted in Mombasa even before the polls opened (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)."

Buying a New Burka

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:30:39 GMT

An Afghan woman peered through the eye opening of her burka as she waited to try on a new one in a shop in Kabul. Women have few protections under the law (Anja Niedringhause/Associated Press/File)."

Burning a Torch For Bulgaria

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:35:42 GMT

Protesters rallied against the political system in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia on Sunday(Georgi Licovski/EPA)."

Cyprus Co-Eds

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:24:53 GMT

College students protested in Nicosia Tuesday against terms of the bailout for the financially crippled island of Cyprus (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)."

Sack on Her Shoulder

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:33:23 GMT

A Palestinian girl carried food supplies in a northern Gaza Strip refugee camp (ALI ALI/EPA)."

Wall of Flame

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:03:26 GMT

Firefighters worked at Point Mugu State Park, as a wind-driven wildfire raged along the California coast on Friday (Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters). "

Caterpillar Catastrophe

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:52:05 GMT

Iraqi police divers searched for bodies from the accident that one survivor said reminded him of the movie “Titanic.” Nine people were reported dead (Hadi Mizban/Associated Press)."

May Be It Is Global Warming

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:46:51 GMT

Mike Gregg and his dog trudged through snow for a walk in Austin, Minn., on Thursday (Eric Johnson/Austin (Minn.) Daily Herald via Associated Press)."

Spire to Heaven

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:42:02 GMT

Construction workers watched as the last pieces of a spire were raised to a platform atop the World Trade Center (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images).

Weathered Cross at Wounded Knee

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:00:49 GMT

A landowner has given the Oglala Sioux Tribe the opportunity to buy a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark, but tribe members say they cannot afford it. The land was the site of the final battle of the American Indian Wars, when 300 were killed by the Seventh Cavalry in 1890 (Rapid City Journal)."

Standing In Line in Somalia

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:37:17 GMT

Somali children lined up for food in Mogadishu in August 2011. Half of the victims were 5 and under (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP file)."

Children in Somalia waited to receive a meal in Mogadishu. A report says south-central Somalia was the most dangerous place in the world to be a child in 2011 (Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press).

Czeching on the Czechs

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:04:23 GMT

Officials in Prague said 30 of those hurt in the blast were taken to hospitals for treatment, and two had serious injuries (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images)."

Looked What Crawled Out From Under a Rock

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:16:16 GMT

Former vice president Dick Cheney was among those who attended General Norman Schwarzkopf’s burial Thursday (Philip Kamrass/Associated Press)."

Dude Looks Like a Wasted

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:06:54 GMT

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Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:34:28 GMT

Shailee Basnet, the 29-year-old team leader, checks out some climbing gear at a store in Katmandu, Nepal (Niranjan Shrestha/aP)."

Bangladesh's 9/11

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:32:30 GMT

Relatives of workers missing since last Wednesday’s disaster held pictures of their family members Sunday in Savar (Kevin Frayer /Associated Press)."

Rescue workers pulled a garment worker from a collapsed building in Savar, Bangladesh (REUTERS)."

People gathered in Savar, Bangladesh, on Thursday as rescuers looked for survivors and bodies at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday (A.M. AHAD/ASSOCIATED PRESS)."

A Bangladeshi firefighter rescued an injured garment worker Wednesday after a building collapsed in Savar (MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/Getty Images)."

Protesters, with pictures of missing garment workers, demanded capital punishment Monday for those responsible for the collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka (ANDREW BIRAJ /Reuters)."

Mourners, carrying photos of missing relatives, have gathered near the collapsed building in Bangladesh (ABIR ABDULLAH /EPA).

A woman showed an officer a picture of her sister as she arrived in hopes of finding her among unclaimed bodies (Ismail Ferdous/Associated Press).

A woman held a photo of her sister, who has been missing since the factory collapse near Dhaka, Bangladesh (Ismail Ferdous/Associated Press)."

A garment exporter’s officials wept after a fire swept through the lower floors of a company factory (Andrew Biraj/Reuters).

Love Triangle

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:35:46 GMT

College for America student Ashley Collins (left) danced with Rachel Marshall and Shane Shaw at one of her three jobs (CHERYL SENTER FOR THE GLOBE)."

Let's Go to the Hop

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:43:59 GMT

Prom spending is expected to rise this spring to an average $1,139 (Emily Zoladz/Grand Rapids Press via Ap/File 2012)."

Chained Heat

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:58:14 GMT

John Blanding/Globe Staff

Police moved protesters into a police van Monday after they were arrested for trespassing at TransCanada corporate offices in Westborough. The eight chained themselves together in protest of the company’s Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Girls Gazing Out From Gaza

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:22:12 GMT

Life may become harder for Palestinians like these girls in Gaza City if infrastructure is not improved, a UN report says (MAHMUD HAMSMAHMUD HAMS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES).

Talk to the Hand

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:32:49 GMT

A crowd at the presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, rallied against a plan to tax bank deposits to pay for a bailout (FILIP SINGER /european Press Photo Agency)"

Assad Falls on His Face

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:47:35 GMT

Shades of America's staged Iraqi toppling of Saddam's statue:

As Syrian fighters fought in Raqqa, a statue of the president’s father, Hafez Assad, was pulled down, according to a video."

Here's Looking At You

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:05:38 GMT

Elk may be found at sites designed for hunters of exotic or unusual animals (Bo Rader/Associated Press).

Look Who Is At Home on Logan Runway

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:52:33 GMT

To a snowy owl, the desolate landscape of Logan Airport looks like home, which is why the bird returned after summering in Canada (Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff).