But there remains an enormous backlog of deprivation.

Some estimates say 40 percent of Gaza's urban area has been reduced to rubble.

For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

Buried beneath the headlines about Karadžić s acquittal are those other charges he will be tried for the same acts, but classified as crimes against humanity and war crimes.

the party vanished, overnight, as if all of a sudden a giant sponge had drained the entire sea, Adriatic and Austral, leaving litter and clots of mud, and all the boats stranded.

PARIS Negotiations over Iran s nuclear program have been stalled for more than three years. For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

The work of Syrian photographer Yazan Homsi within the zones of conflict and war in Syria show the tragic situation of the people of the besieged city of Homs. His photograph (above) of a disabled women looking for her home amid the rubble of Main Street of the city of Homs won the first prize in the Ninth Arab European Photography Festival held in Hamburg, Germany.

You've got to dig a hole that's usually quite a bit bigger than that to get it out you've got to climb those cliffs and find, really, everything that existed not just the dinosaurs, but the entire story. If you're lucky, and you dig a place like that, you actually find the ash bed to dig it, and we did.