By Tanya Ballard Brown
Today as we download our music, type on our computers and tweet and text to our friends it may be hard to imagine a time when you needed to rely on a switchboard operator to make a call. Or a time when telegraphs were used to transmit...
By Robert Krulwich
It's time to honor the films and performances that Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members (roughly 6,000 people) choose as best of the year.
So why do we let a bunch of movie professionals or people who used to work in the business choose "bests" for...
Nine days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed hundreds of people in south-central Chile, relief efforts were beginning to reach those in need, rescue missions became recovery missions, and rebuilding is already under way. In the days since the February 27th quake, nearly 150 aftershocks have been recorded, including thirteen...
Photographer Jason Hawkes, a frequent contributor to the Big Picture blog, returns today, sharing with us some of his latest images of American cities seen from above at night - New York City and Las Vegas, both cities that undergo significant transformations after the sun goes down. From Hawkes:...
Last Monday (March 1st), people in India and other countries with large Hindu populations celebrated Holi, the Festival of Colors. A welcoming of Spring, Holi is celebrated as the triumph of good over evil. Hindu devotees and others enthusiastically drop their inhibitions, and chase each other in temples and...
It was 2 a.m., dark and freezing cold when the first wave of Marines dropped from the sky on Feb. 13 to begin the largest Afghan offensive since the start of the war. It was the US-led invasion of the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, in the mountainous Helmand province in...
The 2010 Olympics in Vancouver presented some rarely seen challenges for Reuters photographers on assignment at the winter games. Rain! Rain! And more rain!
It was a game that wasn't going to plan, Stoke took the lead but Arsenal in the second half started putting on the pressure with wave after wave of brilliant football. It was only a matter of time, you felt, until they scored a winner. Way over the halfway line,...
In today's photos, life at a makeshift earthquake camp in Haiti, Secretary Gates addresses the troops, letting off steam during a training session and more.
In today's photos, greetings from a political rally in Thailand, competing in the rhythmic gymnastics in Hungary, a friendly rivalry between exes at the Oscars and more.
