Photos in the News

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Filipino inmates dance to "Thriller," a girl rests 1,400 feet in the air, and an elderly ape has a baby in this week's best news photos.

July 2, 2009
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The Tower of Hercules, a sacred mountain, and royal tombs are among the sites recognized for their universal value to humanity during a 2009 World Heritage Committee session.

July 2, 2009
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Before it reopens on the Fourth of July, get an insider's eye on the Statue of Liberty--the inside of her face, the little-known ladder to the torch, and more.

July 2, 2009
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An Indian Ocean island nation has created three new ocean sanctuaries, including a tropical bay where hundreds of 12-foot manta rays and 40-foot whale sharks feast on swarms of plankton and krill.

July 1, 2009
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See a shadow slicing across Saturn's rings, a gas cloud that acts like a particle accelerator, a NASA "moving van," and more among the week's best space pictures.

June 30, 2009
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From glass pyramids to towers of greenhouses, see some of the concepts that architects have created for vertical farms, a proposed strategy for growing crops year-round at the hearts of urban centers.

June 30, 2009
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The one-acre human-made cave in the Jordan Valley, thought to have begun as a quarry, may later have been converted for other uses, including a monastery or a hideout for persecuted Christians.

June 30, 2009
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The discovery of ten lynx kittens marks the first time newborn lynx have been documented in Colorado since 2006, heartening biologists.

June 29, 2009
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Pictured during a steamy moment, two apparently mating African bats are each no bigger than a human thumb, scientists report.

June 29, 2009
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From "fairytale" landscapes to gonad-eating wolffish, little-seen corners and creatures have come to light during the 114 photo missions of the Wild Wonders of Europe project.

June 26, 2009
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Three times longer than today's piranha--and with more teeth to boot--eight-million-year-old Megapiranha solves an evolutionary mystery, a new study says.

June 26, 2009
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Scientists unravel the mysteries of handprints, a universal form of human expression spanning continents and millennia

June 26, 2009
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An archaeologist overturns assumptions about who may have decorated prehistoric European caves.

June 26, 2009
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David Burnett's historic pictures of the Iranian revolution look startlingly similar to images of Tehran protests today. But, the photojournalist makes clear, looks aren't everything.

June 26, 2009
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Revelers ring in summer, buses burn in Iran's capital, Catholics get muddy, and more in this week's best news photos.

June 25, 2009

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