Mar 17 Photographer Reflects on ‘Epic’ Libya Battles, Revolution in the Arab World By Mike Fritz // Photographer John Moore is no stranger to combat. As a member of an Associated Press team in 2005, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of the war in Iraq and he's done extended… Continue reading
Mar 02 New Zealand’s Shaken Town Combs Through Debris, Buries the Dead By Larisa Epatko At least 150 people died and more are feared buried in the rubble caused by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the city of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island on Feb. 22. A week later, rescuers were still searching through… Continue reading
Jan 20 In South Korea, the Importance of ‘Wellbeing’ By Larisa Epatko SEOUL, South Korea | Signs with "wellbeing" written in English are popping up all over Korea from corner markets to high-end spas. Its meaning: a healthy and wholesome body inside and out. Continue reading
Jan 20 Desolate Detroit: The Forsaken City By Elizabeth Shell In its heyday it boasted nearly two million people; the world's premier industry (autos); the world's most popular music (Motown); and perhaps the country's most prosperous black middle class. But Detroit's population is down 50 percent; so are wages in… Continue reading
Jan 18 Photos: Sunken South Korean Ship By Larisa Epatko SEOUL, South Korea | Many consider the sinking of the South Korean Navy ship Cheonan on March 26, 2010 as the start of the latest bout of North-South agitation, which has been smoldering ever since. Continue reading
Jan 17 Tour of Korea’s Demilitarized Zone By Larisa Epatko PANMUNJOM, Korean border | Although it stands for the "demilitarized zone," the DMZ is the most militarized border in the world, U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor told us during our recent tour of the buffer zone separating North and South… Continue reading
Dec 27 In Photos: Southern Sudan, Before the Secession Vote By Jeffrey Kaye In January, southern Sudanese will vote on whether they want to stay with the north or become their own country. Posters touting the separation of the south are planted all over the walls in the southern city of Juba --… Continue reading
Dec 21 In Photos: Scenes from Cuba By Cat Wise The second installment in a three-part Global Health series on Cuba airs Tuesday on the NewsHour. View photos from the team's trip through Havana below and tune in to learn more about Cuba's universal health care system and the… Continue reading
Nov 15 Photomicrographs Capture Beauty, Complexity of Life Beneath the Lens By Julia Griffin Want to see a mosquito heart? A starfish embryo? The crystals in crystallized soy sauce? Then behold the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, an annual contest for photomicrographs, or images taken through a microscope. The subject matter… Continue reading
Nov 10 A Look at Cigarette Warnings Around the World By Lea Winerman The Food and Drug Administration unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages and ads on Wednesday. The new labels will be much bigger and more graphic than what U.S. consumers are used to seeing: They'll cover half of the… Continue reading