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Our best photos from the last 24 hours.

North Dakota's oil boom
3:40pm EDT

Thousands of people have flooded into North Dakota to work in the oil drilling industry.

Acting like a soldier
1:35pm EDT

China theme park guests role-play as Japanese army and Eighth Route Army soldiers, with the aid of professional sound and lighting effects.

Lance Armstrong's career
10:30am EDT

Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life, after the United States Anti-Doping Agency said his cycling team ran the most sophisticated doping program in sport.

Beirut bombing aftermath
9:40am EDT

Gunmen exchanged fire in southern districts of Beirut, while protesters blocked roads with burning tires, after the funeral of an assassinated Lebanese intelligence chief.

Photos of the week
Fri, Oct 19 2012

Our top photos from the past week.

Bombing in Beirut
Fri, Oct 19 2012

The death toll rises as a huge car bomb explodes in a street in central Beirut during rush hour.

iJournalists
Fri, Oct 19 2012

Mobile devices like iPhones and iPads are quickly becoming the main tools of citizen journalists.

Extreme vegetarian festival
Fri, Oct 19 2012

Devotees celebrate the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, sharing the belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar will help them obtain good health and peace of mind.

Autumn colors
Fri, Oct 19 2012

Leaves change colors as the season and the weather moves from summer to fall.

Girl shot by Taliban recuperating
Fri, Oct 19 2012

Supporters gather for 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who is recuperating in the UK, after being shot by Taliban gunmen for advocating girls' education.

A child looks on as she observes the Bisket festival at the ancient city of Bhaktapur near Kathmandu. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar

Imaging religion: Navesh Chitrakar

Nepal-based photographer Navesh Chitrakar documents almost all the country's religious festivals.   Full Article 

A group of riot policemen are engulfed in flames after protesters threw petrol bombs in Athens' Syntagma square. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

Images of September

Our best photos from the month of September.   Full Article 

Syrians cross to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

A river out of Syria

A dangerous crossing to escape the fighting.   Full Article 

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Two Candidates… Smiles Apart

18 Oct 2012

Both men have so far scored high marks as fearless debaters eloquently pointing out the glaring weaknesses and flaws hiding inside the “other” party’s ideologue with precise, intellectual arguments measuring up to the price of their Harvard University degrees.

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The key to Greece’s economic crisis

18 Oct 2012

Almost a third of businesses and shops around the Greek capital have shut down over the last two years, as Greece’s crisis broke out and it agreed on a huge bailout package funded by the IMF and the European Union.

Weekly Gallery Showcase

Inmates stand in a gymnasium due to overcrowding at the California Institution for Men state prison in Chino.  REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

California's overcrowded prisons

Inside California's overcrowded prisons.  Slideshow 

Rescuers and relatives stop a woman from committing suicide by jumping off a building in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province. REUTERS/Stringer

Suicides in China

A look at attempted suicides in China.  Slideshow 

A dog looks back at a competitor as it catches a wave during the Surf City Surf Dog contest in Huntington Beach. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Surfer dogs

Dogs hit the waves in California.   Slideshow 

A worker cleans near a poster of the late Chairman Mao Zedong at a thermal power plant of the Nanjie Cun Group in Nanjie village.   REUTERS/Jason Lee

Where Mao lives on

The Communist principles live on in Nanjie .   Slideshow