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Pictures of the year: Science and Technology
9:00pm EST

Our best science and technology photos of the year.

Goodbye moon
8:50pm EST

40 years ago, mankind took its last steps on the moon with the Apollo 17 lunar mission. A look at the Apollo project and other moon missions that might have been.

Coffee from El Salvador's slopes
7:35pm EST

Once a family-owned plantation, Santa Adelaida coffee in El Salvador is now a cooperative dedicated to the production of organically-grown high ground coffee.

The snipers of Syria
3:45pm EST

The frontlines of the sniper wars on the streets of Syria.

John McAfee: founder and fugitive
3:15pm EST

John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus company which still bears his name, is deported to the US after being on the run following the death of his neighbor.

Inside North Korea
1:20pm EST

Rare scenes from within the reclusive state.

Handmade eyeballs
1:05pm EST

A German ocularist produces individual glass-blown human eye prostheses for people who have lost an eye due to a trauma, illness or accident.

Syria's displaced animals
11:51am EST

A look at animals caught in the crossfire of the Syrian civil war.

Spotlight on Justin Bieber
11:51am EST

Pop icon Justin Bieber may have been the target of a murder plot.

Concert for Sandy
10:55am EST

Rock legends hit the stage for the victims of Sandy.

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his sniper rifle from a house in Aleppo August 14, 2012. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Best photos of the year 2012

In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year.  Slideshow 

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Mad dogs and motorcycles

12 Dec 2012

The term “motoboy” in Sao Paulo is synonymous with an angry rebel, one of the thousands of motorcycle couriers also known as “mad dogs.”

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High times in Washington

11 Dec 2012

It’s hard to describe the feeling of photographing people using cannabis out in the open. I’ve only seen it once before at Seattle’s Hempfest, and it's still such a strange sight to me.

Weekly Gallery Showcase

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The weight of history

History is hard to escape in Guinea-Bissau.  Slideshow 

Enoch Foster, a fundamentalist Mormon practicing polygamy, prays before a meal with his first wife Catrina Foster, second from left, and several of his 13 children from two wives. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

Inside a polygamist community

Scenes from a polygamy community in Utah.   Slideshow 

A municipal agent argues with a woman who agents say is a suspected crack user.   REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Rio's crack problem

The battle to end crack use in Rio's slums.  Slideshow 

A car stops beside a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province. REUTERS/China Daily

House in the road

A Chinese couple refuse to sell their home.   Slideshow