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Our best photos from the last 24 hours.

Mount Etna erupts
Thu, Feb 9 2012

Europe's tallest volcano erupts.

Drive-thru funeral home
Thu, Feb 9 2012

A Compton funeral parlor that offers drive-thru viewing.

Iced-over Europe
Thu, Feb 9 2012

Extreme cold spreads across Europe.

Age of foreclosure
Thu, Feb 9 2012

Life in the midst of the mortgage mess.

Police strike triggers crime wave
Thu, Feb 9 2012

Striking police have stood by while criminals run rampant in Brazil's third-biggest city, casting doubts over 2014 World Cup security.

Ladies in red
Thu, Feb 9 2012

Celebs walk the runway to raise cash for healthy hearts.

Snapshots from Myanmar
Thu, Feb 9 2012

Daily life in the once closed country.

Travelogue: Equatorial Guinea
Wed, Feb 8 2012

A look at the people and the places that define the small African country of Equatorial Guinea.

Cold warriors
Wed, Feb 8 2012

Training for combat in the extreme cold.

Seven days of voting
Wed, Feb 8 2012

An Indian state larger than most countries hits the polls.

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Invisible snow: Six months later

12:14am EST

As Japan approached the one year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, I revisited Buddhist zen monk Koyu Abe, chief priest of Joenji temple in Fukushima.

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The scourge of malnutrition

09 Feb 2012

After so many years of capturing events that have shocked people across the world, I was about to stumble upon a reality that would be more shocking than what my camera could capture.