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Millions of Americans have taken to the roads and skies. While planes are full and more people are driving, all indications point to travelers showing up for turkey dinner on time.
  Massacre in the Philippines
Click to see pictures from the scene. Editor's warning: there are scenes of death and violence in this report.
  Mass sacrifice in Nepal
Hindus gather to sacrifice 200,000 animals in a religious ritual that has drawn ire from animal-rights protesters.
  Human toll of Afghan addiction
A look at how narcotics have ravaged the country and a detox center helping some of its 2 million users.
  President's trip to Asia
President Barack Obama is on a week-long tour through four countries including his first-ever trip to China.
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  Northern England swamped
Hundreds are rescued after unprecedented rain overnight floods historic Lake District.
  Sarah Palin: Republican star for 2012?
View images of her rise from governor of Alaska to a potential presidential contender.
  Funerals held for some Ft. Hood victims
Several victims of the Fort Hood shooting rampage were being remembered Saturday during funeral services.
  Celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall
With concerts and memorials on Monday, Germans and cities across europe will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago.
  Fleeing the fighting in Pakistan
Hundreds of thousands of civilians seek shelter from the military offensive in the northwest region.
  Saving lives on the front line
Photographer Erin Trieb spends six weeks with the U.S. Army's busiest trauma center in Afghanistan.
  Deadly flooding in El Salvador
Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that have killed at least 91 people.
  The Murray, Kentucky experience
On Oct. 27, thirty-one photojournalists picked their story subjects from a hat and hit the streets to document five days in the life of the Murray, Ky. and the surrounding farmland of Calloway County. The pictures they made depict the extraordinary ordinariness of life in small-town USA.
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Afghanistan
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  Taking mementos into battle
Aug. 2009: From a lucky rock to photos of loved ones, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan share the mementos that help remind them of home
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  Behind the scenes – Week in Pictures
Aug. 2009: Learn how The Week in Pictures started, see highlights from its first decade, and find out how we pick the pictures.
A Georgian man cries near the body of his relative after a bombardment  in Gori
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  10 years of The Week in Pictures
Aug. 2009: Look back at the most important images in the slideshow's history
Image: Border crossing in Zambia
  HIV's dangerous path
March 2009: Sex workers, truckers at an African border town key to HIV’s spread.
Image: Border crossing in Zambia
  HIV's dangerous path
March 2009: Sex workers, truckers at an African border town key to HIV’s spread.
Image: Frank and Joe get ready for their second marriage ceremony
  Rocky road to marriage for Calif. gays
Oct. 2008: Frank and Joe Capley-Alfano who wed for the second time this year, anxiously await a verdict from voters in a statewide referendum.
  Dad's slide into dementia
Oct. 2008: When Herbie Winokur began to slide into dementia, his daughter and her family  knew they would care for him in their home. What they didn’t know is that it would change everything.
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  The Hubble Story
Sept. 2008: What’s it like to hang in space and fix the Hubble Space Telescope? Click to see images of Story Musgrave and other astronauts at work, and hear him describe the experience, from scary liftoffs to figuring out which way is up.
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Black market
July 2008: The wildlife trade is the third largest illegal trade in the world after guns and drugs. Learn who is buying and selling and see the species put at risk by the trade.
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Voices from the flood zone
June 2008: Meet residents of riverside towns — and the volunteers on hand to aid them — as they battle the rising waters of the Mississippi River.
Shades of experience
May 2008: Six multiracial families from around the country discuss their challenges, triumphs.
Gideon Mendel / Corbis for UNICEF
Stopping HIV at birth
Dec. 2007: Three HIV-positive mothers in the African nation of Lesotho share their concerns about passing the deadly HIV virus to their children.
restavek children- Haiti
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Lost children of Haiti
Aug. 2007: Amid widespread poverty, thousands of kids are forced to become indentured servants in Haiti
The Gulf Coast's struggle back
Aug. 2007: Two years after Hurricane Katrina, a lifelong Gulf Coast resident revisits areas that had been devastated by the storm.
’The salary was very, very discouraging’
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Frontier: Europe
June 2007: Struggling financially in Africa, Kingsley crosses a continent in hopes of finding financial opportunity in Europe
Wounded Marine Returns Home to Wed
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Scars from Iraq
March 2007: Three U.S. troops share how the visible and invisible wounds of war changed their lives and impacted their loved ones.
© Kadir van Lohuizen / Agence VU Diamond matters 2004 Diamond found at the Sewa river, Sierra Leone (sélection livre) N°12084
Agence VU
A diamond's journey
Dec. 2006: From the mines in Africa, to polishers in India, to retailers in the West, follow a diamond's global path to market.
MediaStorm.org
Life in Iraqi Kurdistan
Nov. 2006: Click to view photojournalist Ed Kashi's unique presentation of daily life in Iraqi, Kurdistan. Produced by MediaStorm.org
A Casualty of the War on Terror
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Killed in action
Oct. 2005: Families of National Guardsmen killed in Iraq tell their stories of loss. Click to play the audio slide show.
AIDS: Lost generation
July 2005: Orphans are left to care for themselves, and grandparents become parents again, due to AIDS.
US Cotton Subsidies Impact Farmers in West Africa
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Subsidizing poverty?
June 2005: Flip between images of American and African cotton growers, and learn how trade policies impact them.
Iraq Marine re-enlists
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  Eight months with the Marines
March 2005: See the daily life of Marine units, from peacekeeping to combat missions in Iraq.
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Spectrum of solutions
Feburary 2005: A look at how therapists and parents are helping children with autism learn to connect with the world.
The war after the war
Jan. 2005: Disabled from wounds sustained in Iraq, one soldier and his family find life changed.
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