German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with a bionic hand prothesis which can be controlled via a smartphone at the CeBIT computer expo in Hanover Germany.


Zimbabwean polling agents and election observers on Wednesday at a polling station in Harare, the capital. An election official called the balloting free and fair.


Lyndon Baines Johnson became the first president to ride in a bulletproof limousine at his inauguration on Jan 20 1965.


Farhad Parvaresh, left, Iran Air’s chief executive, shaking hands with Fletcher Barkdull, a Boeing sales director, on Sunday. Boeing reached an agreement with Iran for 80 planes to be delivered.


Mitt Romney speaks at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.


Protesters outside the headquarters of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability in Chicago called for justice this week in the fatal police shooting of Anthony Alvarez.


A home security camera recorded the beating of a Sikh man in Manteca, Calif., on Monday. Two teenagers were charged in the attack, which the police did not call a hate crime.


The Bath flyhalf George Ford strengthened his England chances with an assured display in the 2727 draw with Leicester.


Pep Guardiola coach of Bayern Munchen and former FC Barcelona coach voting at a symbolic self determination referendum for Catalonia.


Demonstrators gathered in Madrid on Monday to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.


Donald Trump visits Versailles Bakery a popular local Cuban restaurant in Miami on Sept 27.


Migrants use a makeshift raft to cross the Suchiate river natural border between Mexico and Guatemala in Ciudad Hidalgo Chiapas state Mexico.


Zico celebrates after scoring for Brazil against New Zealand at the 1982 World Cup.


Riot police officers dispersed striking prison guards who blocked access to Baumettes Prison in Marseille, France, on Monday.


Michael Dunn told a Jacksonville jury on Tuesday that his decision to fire repeatedly at a vehicle holding four teenagers was a matter of life or death.


A concrete wall, erected to keep protesters from the seat of the Lebanese government, was dismantled in Beirut on Tuesday.


Hillary Clinton officially launches her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination during a speech on New York s Roosevelt Island June 13.


Markus Braun, the chief executive of Wirecard, was arrested on Monday in Munich.


Ailsa Craig island photographed from Ballantrae Bay Strathclyde Region Scotland.


A flag-lowering on Monday near the Great Hall of the People, wherePrime Minister Wen Jiabao of China gave his final work report.


Medical workers carried a patient infected with coronavirus to a hospital in Chuncheon, South Korea, on Saturday. The country has reported a sharp jump in cases, many linked to a secretive church.


United Nations peacekeepers were on patrol about 50 miles north of Goma in November 2008.


People were back in numbers on Thursday on the main commercial street in Brussels.


An oil painting by Charles Burton Barber shows the close employerservant relationship between Queen Victoria and Scotsman John Brown.


President Trump and President Macron of France during their final press conference of the Group of 7 summit in Biarritz, France, on Monday.


Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at an exhibition on Thursday, has been caught up in a diplomatic crisis in China.


Tottenham s Emmanuel Adebayor is taunted by Arsenal fans as he trudges off after his dismissal.


Berck France People fly their kites to form the shape of a stick figure in the sky on the beach during the 29th International Kite Meeting.


Tribal representatives on Thursday at a grand assembly, or loya jirga, in Kabul. Organizers said 3,000 invitations were sent.


A patient receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine in Rostock, Germany, this month.


Christian Bales, the valedictorian at Holy Cross High School in Covington, Ky., using a bullhorn to deliver his graduation speech on Friday.


Virginaia state Sen Richard Black visits at a center for displaced Syrians in Damascus.


Tokyo Electric Power Co s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant shown here in 2010 was the site of two explosions in the wake of an 89magnitude earthquake.


Betty Maynard left and Cindy Atterton embrace at a memorial in front of the Armed Forces Career Center in Chattanooga.


Venus Williams looks to the sky during her quarterfinal match against Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand at Wimbledon.


Heidi Loke of Norway and Djurdjina Jaukovic of Montenegro in action during the women s preliminary Group A handball match.


An art museum in Milwaukee was among the polling places used by voters in the Wisconsin primaries on Wednesday.


Ellyse Perry celebrates with Jess Cameron and team after hitting the winning runs to win the Final of the ICC Women s World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.


From 2004 to 2012, housing prices in Gowanus rose 52 percent despite the presence of the polluted Gowanus Canal. Townhouse prices there are still lower than in other parts of gentrifying Brooklyn.


President Asif Ali Zardari, left, at a farewell ceremony in Islamabad on Sunday. The economy is a shambles, but he is Pakistans first elected president to complete his term.


A scientist preparing samples last month during research and development trials for a vaccine against the coronavirus at a laboratory in St. Petersburg, Russia.


The aftermath of a car bomb attack at a check point near the Sanguuni military base in Somalia where Staff Sgt. Alex Conrad was killed last year.


A stunt in Prague on Sunday stirred panic among tourists who thought a terrorist attack was underway.


Fuzhou China Fishing nets reflect the sunset at Luoyuan bay.


Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School before boarding buses for Tallahassee on Tuesday.


Wang Huning spoke Sunday at the opening of the fourth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China.


The opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny at a hearing in Moscow on Monday.


Serena Williams reacts after defeating Kiki Bertens to advance to the 2016 French Open Final.


A Saturday morning training session at Woolton FC with their inadequate facilities in a public park at Camp Hill in 2014.


Bouquets and soft toys are left at the charred property in Langley Mill where Amy Smith her daughter RubyGrace Gaunt and friend Edward Green died.


Jean-Philippe Legois, president of the Association of French Archivists, looks at a 1946 citizen register for Sevran, a suburb of Paris, which includes names, dates of birth and other personal data.


Mayor Frank M. Gilliam Jr. of Atlantic City leaves his home Monday after a raid by F.B.I. agents. Mr. Gilliam has not been charged with a crime and has continued to show up at City Hall.


Residents cleaned up after fires were set in 2010 by garment workers in Ashulia, Bangladesh, who were demanding higher wages.


Park ranger Benjamin Kalimutima Lulimba finds the skull of an elephant killed for its ivory in the Ituri rainforest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Ami Neiberger-Miller at home. Her brother, Chris Neiberger, was killed in Iraq in 2007.


Mohammad Hafeez watches his shot along with England s Adil Rashid and the wicketkeeper Jos Buttler during the Pakistan batsman s century.


Hillary Clinton reacts as Donald Trump center shakes the hand of debate moderator Lester Holt.


One of the New York Police Departments 72 mobile command centers sat at Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue in Brooklyn on Friday.


A Prince George s County emergency response officer wears a body camera in Upper Marlboro Md on Jan 28 2016.


Russell Brand speaking at an antiausterity demonstration in London in June.


Chris Bryant questions Kay Burley s mental aptitude live on Sky News.


Michael G. Hubbard, the speaker of Alabama’s House of Representatives, before the start of his trial in Opelika, Ala., on Tuesday.


Ben Stiller skateboards towards Seyisfjorur in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.


The Marco Polo the world s biggest container ship leaves Southampton on December 10 2012.


A file photo of a USAir Boeing 727 at Washington s National Airport in 1995.


Members of the US Marine Corps ChemicalBiological Incident Response Force demonstrate anthrax cleanup techniques during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.


Journalists waited on a podium after the sounds of gunshots rang out before a news conference by President Salva Kiir of South Sudan on Friday at the Presidential State House in Juba.


Former Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was the first woman elected to head a national branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion.


Hitler views the Degenerate Art exhibition in Munich in 1938.


Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in St Paul Minn on Jan 26 2016.


Jack Nicholson never has to go to these lengths Will Ferrell sneaks into Tuesday night s Lakers game dressed as an usher.


Graham Norton and Andrew Lloyd Webber are looking for Dorothy in BBC1 s Over the Rainbow.


Should the HOV lanes on I66 in Virginia be converted to HOT lanes One reader says no.


A Libyan soldier checked weapons handed in by rebel fighters and civilians, at a military compound in Tripoli last month.


A general view shows the city of Zahle during Lebanon s Bekaa municipal elections May 8 2016.


Michelle Obama spoke at graduation at King College Prep High School in Chicago on Tuesday.


Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin picks up a first down during the fourth quarter in a game against the San Francisco 49ers at CenturyLink Field.


House Speaker Paul D. Ryan campaigned in Iowa on Wednesday with Representative Rod Blum, who is up for re-election there.


Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida met in January 2000 with State Representative Anthony C. Hill and State Senator Kendrick Meek.


Oscar Pistorius leaving the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2016.


In China, parishioners of an underground Catholic church gathered in a yard for evening Mass last week outside the city of Shijiazhuang.


The Green Bay Packers cornerback Tramon Williams fumbles the opening kickoff as Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Keenan Lewis tries to pounce.


Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motors, left, sharing a laugh with Osamu Suzuki, chairman of Suzuki Motors at a press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.


Russian lawmaker Vyacheslav Nikonov speaks to the media at Sheremetyevo airport.


Sia performs at last weekend s inaugural Panorama music festival in New York City.


New York Jets quarterback Greg McElroy celebrates after a touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals at Metlife Stadium The Jets won 76.


About 62 of the 103 million over65s in the UK have never used the internet.


Outside of the Time Warner building in Manhattan on Wednesday.


A family enjoys a summertime barbecue in London Fields, East London, May 2018.


Protesters in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2016. The poster on the right calls for the execution of Anas Haqqani, one of the Taliban figures who was exchanged for two Western professors.


A street artist put portraits of the politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil on mailboxes in Paris. On Monday, he found them vandalized with swastikas.


As Hurricane Irene spins north a lone figure stands in the surf of the Chesapeake Bay near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in Virginia Beach.


Festive follies Piers Morgan Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard of Good Morning Britain.


The winner of the first Agar Art contest was Neurons by Mehmet Berkmen and Maria Penil from Massachusetts.


President-elect Hassan Rowhani of Iran after speaking at a press conference in Teheran on Monday for the first time since his election victory.


Fans left flowers outside the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, on Sunday.


The Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Egypt’s western desert. In May 2017, gunmen wearing military fatigues opened fire on three buses that were traveling toward the same monastery.


Valentina Atlasova in Yakut national costume showing a restored shaman costume in UsKut.


Newark residents waited on Walnut Street on Tuesday to get to their cars while plows worked on clearing the block.


Nelson Mandela walks hand in hand with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe Mandela reportedly disliked Mugabe profoundly.


Mourners gathered on Sunday at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburgh to reflect on the first anniversary of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue.


Ford displays the 2015 50th anniversary Mustang at the North American International Auto Show.


Lord Patten chairman of the BBC Trust and once chairman of the Conservative party.


Phuket Thailand Chinese Gim Tsu Ong devotees gather during the annual Ritual Vegetarianism festival where fire walking is performed.


Saideh Naficy 64 of Bethesda has been coming to the Insight Meditation Community of Washington for several years.


Fashion Icon Award honoree Rihanna poses with her award at the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall on June 2 2014 in New York.


Old men play Korean chess near the Party Foundation Monunment in Pyongyang.


The police investigated the stabbing deaths of two men on a Metropolitan Area Express train in Portland, Ore., on Friday.


The slogan 15 Degrees is projected on the Eiffel Tower as part of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 on December 11 2015 in Paris France.


A Marco Rubio sign is left on the seats after the Conservative Convention in Greenville SC on Feb 18 2016.


A Palestinian woman and child walked past the former Hotel Shepherd in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, as local officials gave final approval to build 20 apartments for Jewish settlers where the Palestinian hotel once stood.


A model dressed as a busboy on the catwalk during the Hill Friends London fashion week show at Claridge s London.


Fires started by rioters burned throughout the early morning on Piedmont Avenue in Baltimore on Tuesday.


Hundreds of bishops listened to Pope Francis at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary near Philadelphia on Sunday.


Seth Meyers and Alexi Ashe arrive at the 2013 Emmy Awards.


Police respond to a shooting at the US Capitol in Washington DC.


President Obama listens as Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during a news conference in Warsaw on Friday.


Navy chief Admiral D.K. Joshi, left, talking to Defense Minister A.K. Antony, second from left, as divers standing on the INS Sindhurakshak submarine prepare to dive into the waters during a rescue operation in Mumbai, Maharashtra, on Wednesday.


National pride painted by Lady Butler nearly 70 years after Waterloo Scotland Forever depicts an idealised heroic cavalry charge.


Forensic officers at the scene of the knife attack in Ealing west London last December.


President Obama was in New Hampshire on Thursday, visiting the automotive building at Nashua Community College.


Police arrest activist DeRay Mckesson during a protest along Airline Highway a major road that passes in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters.


FedEx Field is seen during the third quarter in a game between the Tennessee Titans and Washington Redskins on Oct 19.


Supporters shout slogans from atop a bus driving in Tel Aviv as they campaign for the farright Habayit Hayehudi party.


State workers Thursday in Trenton protested proposed changes in their health and pension plans.


Members of Unite Here Local 54 demonstrating outside of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City on Friday. They seek better pay and health benefits.


Coach Rachel Freehand instructs her players as the Koa Field Hockey U12 team runs a drill during practice in Wheaton Md.


David Colon of Puerto Rico teaches Spanish to a a sixth grade class at Beltsville Academy School in Maryland.


Mario Matt wins gold Marcel Hirscher wins silver and Henrik Kristoffersen wins bronze in men s alpine skiing slalom.


Vice President Biden met with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq at the prime minister’s residence in Baghdad on Sunday.


Tom Roberts A break away painted at Corowa New South Wales and Melbourne 1891.


Justice secretary Kenneth Clarke s plans to allow criminals to serve only half their sentences if they pleaded guilty at an early stage have been dropped.


Beth Collins peeks out from her tent on Thanksgiving morning as she waits in line in front of a Best Buy store in Garner NC.


Aziz Ansari as Dev and Lena Waithe as Denise in the Netflix original series Master of None.


Images of Robert Costanzo are shown during a news conference announcing his arrest on Wednesday. He has been charged on Staten Island with three counts of second-degree burglary.


Dockworkers in Portland, Ore., began a slowdown in 2012, at least in part to protest two positions they believed should be going to the union’s members.


A YouTube video showed Austin Tice, an American journalist and a former Marine who disappeared in Syria in 2012.


Marie Colvin, left, an American reporter working for The Sunday Times of London, and Rmi Ochlik, a French photographer, were killed in Syria on Wednesday.


Los Padres National Forest firefighter Jameson Springer watches a controlled burn on the socalled Rough Fire in the Sequoia National Forest California on August 21 2015.


Sandbags protect the front of the New York Stock Exchange from flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy on Oct 29 2012.


An armed member of alShabab attends a rally in support of the merger of the Somali group with alQaeda on the outskirts of Mogadishu in February 2002.


Bill Cosby, left, greeted a supporter as he exited the courtroom Thursday during a recess in a pretrial hearing for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa.


With downtown Dallas in view water from the Trinity River floods the area below the Sylvan Avenue bridge in Dallas.


A highspeed railway runs amid heavy fog in Xuchang central China s Henan Province 14 January.


Pierce Brosnan attends the Press Room at the 67th Annual DGA Awards in Los Angeles.


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he attends the UN General Assembly s highlevel meeting on the rule of law at the United Nations.


These two threemonthold tabbies were stolen from Petco in Columbia Heights.


US Sen Tim Scott laughs during the US Senate debate with Joyce Dickerson and Jill Bossi at the ETV studios in Columbia SC on Tuesday Oct 28 2014.


Cote de Pablo second from left will be leaving an NCIS cast that includes from left Sean Murray Rocky Carroll and Mark Harmon.


Demonstrators filled a Bangkok street during a rally against an amnesty bill on Monday. Thousands of protesters gathered in several parts of the city.


A member of the Russian army works in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra which was recaptured from the Islamic State last week.


Dej Loaf performs with TI on stage at Power 1051 s Powerhouse 2014 at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on October 30 2014 in New York City.


A woman setting up her new iPhone 6 last week in Beijing. IPhone 6 users are thought to be the target of the attack.


Finland forward Michelle Karvinen battles for the puck with Sweden defenseman Josefine Holmgren Sweden won 42 in the quarterfinals at the Sochi Olympics.


Thousands of law enforcement officers and National Guard troops in Baltimore worked to maintain order and enforce a citywide curfew Tuesday night.


Outside the Quirinale Palace in Rome where Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte offered his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Tuesday.


This 1812 cartoon in The Boston Gazette skewered twisting legislative districts in Massachusetts and helped give rise to the term “gerrymandering.”.


British tanks move forward with infantry at Grevilliers in August 1918.


Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines right punches Oscar de la Hoya of the United States during their welterweight match in Las Vegas Dec 2008.


GM is recalling another 717950 cars for a variety of defects including the 2011 Buick LaCrosse pictured.


Medics treated a wounded rebel fighter at the hospital in rebel-held Ajdabiya on Saturday.


Police officers guarded the wreckage of the plane that crashed Tuesday in northeastern China.


A police officer stood outside 57 West 75th Street, where two children were fatally stabbed in New York City on Thursday.


Muslim protesters throw eggs at a mock US flag during a protest outside the US Embassy in Jakarta Indonesia.


The funeral for the Germany regional official Walter Lübcke was held in Kassel this month.


Shane Watson was one of the Australian batsmen to fall cheaply.


Security camera footage dated July 11 2015 shows a man Mexican officials say is Guzman looking at the shower floor shortly before escaping through a tunnel.


Anticuts protesters at Westminster on 9 May two days after an election that is not evidence that Britain remains a fundamentally conservative country It is no such thing.


Sisterly love Anna and Elsa from Disney s Frozen based on the classic fairytale The Snow Queen which doesn t have a sister relationship in it.


Philanthropist Catherine Reynolds left with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia after a National Symphony Orchestra performance.


A campaign poster for the front-runner in Sunday's presidential election, Daniel Scioli, in Buenos Aires. The practice of offering goods and services in exchange for votes, though legal, has been called into question as the election approaches.


Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain sought to reassure European leaders that her timetable for withdrawal from the bloc would not be derailed, despite a High Court ruling on Thursday that requires her to consult Parliament first.


Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a celebration in Phoenix last year when he became the longest-serving sheriff in Maricopa County’s history.


Minnesota Vikings fans soak up the atmosphere at Wembley where their NFL side beat the Pittsburgh Steelers.


During a news conference on Tuesday, Chance D. Lynch, the lawyer for the family of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man who was fatally shot by North Carolina sheriff’s deputies, said that Mr. Brown had been “ambushed” by officers.


Strikers at the General Motors plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, on Monday.


This is a sad face Photo by Melina MaraThe Washington Post.


Pakistani rescue workers sorted through the wreckage of the passenger plane that crashed in the outskirts of Islamabad on Friday.


Soldiers collected evidence at the scene of a car bombing outside a police academy in Yemens capital, Sana, on Wednesday.


Is wise old Samuel Eto o pointing wideeyed Ross Barkley the way to Manchester Probably not.


Hillary Clinton rides the subway in the Bronx yesterday before jetting off to Ohio and Colorado for fundraisers.


Workers on Wednesday were renovating a house in Carroll Gardens that prosecutors said Paul Manafort bought with laundered money.


Police officers on Saturday in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where two officers were injured.


Senator Robert F. Kennedy speaking to supporters at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments before he was shot on June 5, 1968.


The Virupaksha temple at the end of the Hampi bazaar More than 300 people living in the Hampi bazaar have been evicted and their homes and businesses demolished.


Mayor Bill de Blasio’s political nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York, shut down this year. It is being investigated by the State Joint Commission on Public Ethics.


Aleksei A. Navalny at a court in Moscow in 2014.


Fitzgerald attending the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington in October.


Ethnic Uighur women grab a riot policeman as they protest in Urumqi in July.


President Obama speaks in Anderson Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay.


Old Couple on a Bench by Duane Hanson at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.


Eleanor Roosevelt delivers a speech at Bordentown School Bordentown New Jersey on 20 July 1942.


Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni of Italy, left, with Pier Carlo Padoan, the Italian economy minister, speaking on Sunday about plans to aid two Italian banks.


TOPSHOTS Kurdish Syrian girls are pictured among destroyed buildings in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane also known as Ain alArab on March 22 2015.


The Tora prison outside Cairo, where Shady Habash died on Friday.


Petraeus with his wife Holly Petraeus is sworn in as head of the CIA by Vice President Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.


Ben Carson speaks to the press in the spin room at University of Colorado s Coors Events Center prior to the debate on Oct 28 2015.


The Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko and the Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin in a file photograph.


Calvin Royal III with Unity Phelan in George Balanchines Apollo at Vail in 2019.


School students joined workers in a protest in Lyon on Tuesday.


The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast last week in Washington.


Gov. Jerry Brown delivered his State of the State address in Sacramento on Tuesday.


Abdullah Abdullah, left, and President Ashraf Ghani signing a power-sharing deal in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday.


Participants descend from a hill on a homemade roller cart during the 24th Roller Cart Festival in Medellin Colombia.


Employees leaving ByteDance’s headquarters in Beijing this month. The ByteDance-owned app TikTok has become caught in the middle of U.S.-China tensions.


Afghan National Army soldiers in Baghlan Province on Monday. The army was described as very dependent on outside help.


Construction continued Wednesday on a soccer stadium in St. Petersburg, Russia, that is scheduled to host some of the 2018 World Cup matches.


Friends and relatives of Sardar Ahmad, who was killed with his wife and two of their children, at a vigil on Wednesday in Kabul.


Fifth graders at Excel Academy, a Washington charter school, which was visited this month by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Melania Trump, the first lady.


Pokemon fans play Pokemon Go as they walk along the Riverfront Walk in Wilmington on Tuesday night.


Flint resident Teresa Teal with a wall of water bottles, created to protest Donald J. Trumps visit on Wednesday, outside the Flint Water Plant in Michigan.


A patient was treated at the International Community Health Services in Seattle last month. The clinic cares for uninsured patients, low income people, and immigrants, many of whom rely on federal aid programs.


Cubs fans hold up flags after Chicago defeated the Dodgers 84 in Game 5 at Dodger Stadium.


Hillary Clinton holds a news conference in front of her campaign plane in White Plains New York on Sept 8.


Italian police stand guard at a checkpoint in Conciliazione Street next to St Peter s Square in Rome in Nov 17 2015.


A poster showing a woman attacked by officers was carried by one of several thousand marchers Tuesday in downtown Cairo.


Former Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut with his wife, Patty, arrived at court in New Haven on Thursday. Testimony in his case has offered a look at the underbelly of political campaigns.


Romney enters the Seagate Center in Toledo Ohio on Sept 26.


The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon CRS7 spacecraft stand ready for launch on Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral Fla.


Ernie Els became the second consecutive 42yearold to win the Open Championship after Darren Clarke in 2011.


Eddie Lowe, the first black mayor of Phenix City, Ala., in his office last week.


A closed bank in Limassol, Cyprus, on Saturday. Bank deposits under 100,000 euros face a one-time 6.75 percent tax.


A man slept outside destroyed apartments in the Quarantine neighborhood of Beirut, a city where the explosion last week killed over 150 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless.


The blockade along a railway line in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in Ontario last week.


Philippine lawmakers gathered in the House of Representatives in Quezon City on Wednesday for a vote on a bill that would bring back capital punishment.


What do British Prime Minister David Cameron rap mogul Jay Z and basketball legend Magic Johnson have in common They are all subjects in this week s Express news quiz.


George Mattingly receiving the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 on Thursday in Atlanta.


Libyan protesters join rally Thursday in Tripoli to denounce French military intervention.


Sixyearold Nigella left at home with her father Nigel mother Vanessa and sister Thomasina in 1965.


Reuters A laborer works at a textile mill last month in Huaibei China.


Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, who is leading the United States military effort in Puerto Rico, unloading critical supplies on Thursday in Cidra.


Washington PostABC News poll Sept 47 Results based on 888 registered voters margin of sampling error 4 points.


Elementary students in Fuzhou, China. The country outlawed corporal punishment in schools in 1986.


Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling debate Scottish independence on the BBC.


The Airline Diner in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in all its neon glory.


Gwen Easter of Omaha speaks out against the controversial sex education curriculum during a Jan 4 school board meeting BRENDAN SULLIVANTHE WORLDHERALD.


Paul Butterfield Blues Band Billy Davenport left Mike Bloomfield Mark Naftalin Paul Butterfield Jerome Arnold and Elvin Bishop.


Jeff Conaway front left Olivia NewtonJohn John Travolta and Stockard Channing in Grease.


Evelyn Lozada and Chad Johnson in the spring of 2011.


Johnny Greenwood s Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam painted circa 1758 depicts a drunken scene featuring various prominent Rhode Island merchants.


Tristan Sturrock and Naomi Frederick in Brief Encounter by Kneehigh in 2008.


Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe aged 91 is the oldest leader in the world.


State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma shakes hands with President Obama during a bilateral meeting at the White House on Sept 14.


A hostage ran to tactical response police officers after she escaped from a cafe under siege in Sydney, Australia, on Monday. Two other captives were killed.


Michelle Obama center visits the Forbidden City accompanied by Peng Liyuan in Beijing.


A condor flies over the De Secas Lagoon near Quito Ecuador The condor an emblematic Andean bird faces extinction because of hunting and habitat loss.


Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, an anti-immigrant party, at a news conference in Milan on Monday.


Brussels Airport in Zaventem was rocked by two explosions in its main hall on March 22 2016.


A boat ripped from its anchor by the tsunami surge following the Japan earthquake crashes into other vesels in the harbour in Santa Cruz California.


Iran s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivering a speech in Tehran on Wednesday.


Nobody puts Max in the corner Charlize Theron as the Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max Fury Road.


Milwaukee Police officers in riot gear walk past the burned out remains of the Jet Beauty store on August 14 2016 in Milwaukee Wis.


The 16yearold Ariane Sherine with Simon Le Bon in March 1997.


Natural gas flaring Permian Basin of Texas in 2019.


Carl Williams pictured helping to load the casket of his murdered friend and bodyguard Andrew Benji Veniamin in Melbourne in 2004.


President David A. Granger of Guyana, center, in a military parade in Georgetown in 2015.


A boy waved to a helicopter carrying Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of Bihar State, after a rally this month in Sherghati. Voters are electing a state legislature.


In this Feb 11 2014 file image from video provided by the City of Ferguson Mo officer Darren Wilson attends a city council meeting in Ferguson.


A devotee carries a statue of Lord Ganesh into the Arabian Sea during an immersion ritual off Chowpatty beach Mumbai 1993.


Tiger cubs in the Indian state of Maharashtra, where hunters on Friday night shot a tigress that was believed to have killed 13 people.


Pavel Ustinov, left, a Russian actor, during a court hearing in Moscow on Monday.


British Prime Minister Theresa May gives a speech on the final day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham on Oct 5.


Rodrigo Duterte at a campaign rally in Manila on Saturday. He has said that as president he would aggressively pursue those who break the law.


The scene on Saturday in Trenton, where, the police said, Gerald Tyrone Murphy was holding the children of his girlfriend.


US President Barack Obama during a tour of the solar array at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.


President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela arriving for a session of the country’s Constituent Assembly in Caracas on Thursday.


Just in time for the Olympics, this month Assouline releases “In the Spirit of Rio” ($50), a new book of photos with text by the journalist Bruno Astuto, celebrating the vibrancy of their host city, the “Cidade Maravilhosa.” Here, a nighttime shot of Rio.


At a news conference on Friday, President Obama said critics of his Syria policy offered only “half-baked ideas” as alternatives.


Flooding damage from Superstorm Sandy in 2012 involved more than houses and cars in New York and New Jersey.


Snow falls Saturday night in New York s Times Square.


Concerns over the total core capital RBS claimed to have were flagged up by Steve Baker MP last year.


The former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, left, outside the criminal court in Bangkok on Thursday.


Kevin Love and LeBron James will most likely be returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers Other teams weren t as fortunate.


Paul Rusesabagina being escorted in handcuffs and in a prison uniform to a courtroom last year in Kigali, Rwanda.


French President Francois Hollande left Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.


Election workers in Brooklyn on Friday began recanvassing the lever machines used in New York Citys mayoral primary.


Businesses in Dayton, Ohio, displayed signs denouncing hate on Saturday, when a small group of white supremacists rallied outside the courthouse.


The New York Islanders play their first regular season game on Friday at their new home in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.


Egyptian soldiers blocked the high court in Cairo on Friday. The few demonstrators who turned out avoided confrontations.


The new and improved Atlantis Show at the Forum Shops at Caesars features dazzling lights fire surround sound live steam and high pressure fog.


Protesters against the government of President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, this month.


A photo of Kathryn Frazier left and Tracy Curtis sits on a table at the couple s wedding Jan 3 in Norman Okla.


Rescuers at the scene of a helicopter crash in central Italy that killed all six people on board on Tuesday.


The Britain First leader Paul Golding, left, and his deputy Jayda Fransen at Belfast Laganside Courts on Thursday.


The Georgetown Hoyas lost to Florida Gulf Coast 7868 in the second round.


Migrants get off a train in Mexico and head for the US border July 12.


Supporters respond to Afghan presidential candidate and former Kandahar governor Gul Agha Sherzai at a campaign event in Mazare Sharif on March 30 2014.


Attorney General Eric H Holder left and presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett third from left were among those in the front row.


Polls show Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in a close race for Michigan's Tuesday primary.


Lenard Blair helps hang the artwork of local St Louis artist Damon Davis on plywood covering business fronts in Ferguson Mo.


Secretary of State John F Kerry left with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif at a forum in Oslo in June 2016.


Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct 30 2006.


A visitor takes a photo in Tiananmen Square during heavy pollution in Beijing on December 1 2015 Smog is being blamed for recent downturn in tourists.


The reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, in 2010.


A worker in Hefei, China, on Monday. Hospitals on Monday reported a surge in patient admissions for respiratory problems.


Carey Price captured both the Hart and Vezina trophies last season.


The Rev Martin Luther King Jr gives a speech on the evening before the Last March Mason Temple on March 27 1968.


A man passes graffiti near Old Street s Silicon Roundabout technology hub in Shoreditch east London.


Protesters in Cairo who were staging a sit-in near Egypts Ministry of Defense clashed with assailants on Wednesday, leading to hours of fighting.


Residents tried makeshift barriers to block sea water from entering their homes after flooding caused by Cyclone Ockhi in Chellanam in the southern state of Kerala, India, on Saturday.


ProRussian activists clash with Maidan supporters in March 2014 Events in Ferguson could be the start of Obama s Maidan some Russian tabloids suggested.


Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, at a session of the Greek Parliament. Finance officials from Greece and other European nations will meet Monday on its debt.


Dahlia Arabian Night Dark red double flowers on 12m tall stems Mulch heavily in winter or lift and store frostfree.


A nameplate at the entrance to the house believed to belong to the Lubitz family in Montabaur 50 miles northwest of Frankfurt.


Khloe and Kim pose with their cousins at a park in Yerevan.


Notre Dame Cathedral burning in Paris on Monday.


Richard Vardon QC told Manchester crown court said Afshan Azad did not support the prosecution against her family.


Commuters waiting to board a train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris on Friday.


A early meteor from the Geminid meteor shower taken by astronomers at NASA s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Ala on Dec 11 2012.


Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Keenan Reynolds runs after he catches a pass during the first day of minicamp sessions at Under Armour Performance Center.


George Zimmerman during his trial in Sanford Fla on July 12.


Google CFO Patrick Pichette and his wife Tamar at Mount KIlimanjaro.


Bernie Sanders is joined by his wife Jane and son Levi at his Super Tuesday rally in Burlington Vermont March 1 2016.


Law enforcement officials descended on the Pasquotank Correctional Institution in Elizabeth City, N.C., after an escape attempt by inmates on Thursday.


Customers wrap up their holiday shopping during Walmart s Black Friday event Nov 27 2014 in Bentonville Ark.


People celebrate in Lenin Square after a day of voting in Simferopol Crimeans turned out in large numbers Sunday to vote on whether to break away from Ukraine.


Juliana da Silva holdins her daughter Maria inside their house in Alcantil Paraiba state Brazil.


Forensic police look for evidence on Colline Street in Verviers in Eastern Belgium the day after a counterterrorism operation.


President Obama said on Tuesday that Greece defaulting on its debts is concerning, but is primarily a problem for Europe.


President Trump addressed troops at a Marine base in San Diego on Tuesday. It was his first visit to California as president.


Twins Emily and Evelyn Huffman watch the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in White Mountain Alaska.


Amber Vinson hugs caregivers before her release from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.


Carl Frampton celebrates his victory over Chris Avalos at Odyssey Arena in Belfast.


President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, watching the National Army Day parade in Tehran last month.


Durst center stands between attorneys Dick DeGuerin left and Chip Lewis during jury selection in Galveston Tex.


Journalists attended a news conference held by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow on Thursday.


Emma Jones 16 from south London poses with her Tame Impala live album and Shoot You by Pins on heartshaped vinyl.


The Trumps on the red carpet during arrivals at the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan 15 2007.


George Osborne and his deputy Danny Alexander leave the Treasury for the House of Commons.


Members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity arrive for the service Barry was a member of the group the oldest black intercollegiate Greekletter fraternity in the country.


Firefighters tried to put out the fire on the smoldering Air India plane that crashed in Mangalore, India, on Saturday.


LOS ANGELES CA AUGUST 10 Singer Taylor Swift arrives at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on August 10 2014 in Los Angeles California.


A Riga resident purchased a euro "starter pack" at a post office earlier this month.


Soldiers on patrol in South Sudan, where rebels wounded crew members on American evacuation flights on Saturday.


Sinn Fein supporters celebrating the party’s success in Cork, Ireland, on Sunday.


The leading DC mayoral candidates Muriel Bowser David Catania and Carol Schwartz meet during a debate last month at American University in Washington.


A soldier of the United Nations peacekeeping mission formerly deployed in Haiti, known as Minustah, patrolling in Port-au-Prince in 2010.


A doctor examines a leprosy patient in Mumbai More than half of all new leprosy cases each year are diagnosed in India according to the World Health Organisation.


Arriving in Khartoum, Sudan, on Saturday to celebrate the signing of a power-sharing deal outlining the country’s transition to civilian rule.


7 Portland Trail Blazers 5329 second in Northwest Division No 5 seed in Western Conference.


Actors applying makeup on the set of the soap opera “Gomora” during filming in Johannesburg last month.


Yulia Stepanova the whistleblower in Russia s widespread doping scandal will not be allowed to compete in Rio.


Mariano Rajoy, the acting prime minister of Spain, during a debate in Parliament this month.


A crowd in the city of Axochiapan, Mexico, on Tuesday transporting the body of a person who died after drinking what was thought to have been adulterated alcohol.


Parisians collect potatoes from a 50ton load of the produce dumped by farmers during a protest in the Place de la Republique in the French capital in November.


Russia s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a news conference dedicated to the situation in Syria at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow July 16 2012.


Microsoft offices in Beijing in 2014. New scrutiny of the company by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce stems from antitrust investigations of major Western technology companies in 2014.


Senator Bernie Sanders, who announced he would run for president, gave an interview Thursday to Alex Apple, a reporter from WCAX, a Vermont television station.


Russian Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov and unidentified officials look at wreckage from Russian MetroJet Airbus A321 at the site of the crash in Sinai Egypt on Nov 2 2015.


Kevin Sloan a US Fish and Wildlife Service project manager for the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge stands on a proposed site for a new recreation beach on Assateague Island.


Clinton Correctional Facility is seen on June 18 in Dannemora NY.


Jamie Dornan will play Christian Grey in the film version of Fifty Shades of Grey.


Mayor Bill de Blasio and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, visiting a school in the Bronx last year, have developed a strong bond.


Kaori Masukodera, left, and Mai Chusonji of the duo Bed In, whose garish outfits and bubbly music are part of a nostalgic reappreciation of Japans 1980s economic boom.


A murder trial has begun in Iowa for the 2016 killing of Kedarie Johnson, left, shown with his mother, Katrina Johnson.


Melania Trump at the Republican National Convention on July 18 2016.


A police officer raised a pistol at a protester during demonstrations in Hong Kong on Sunday.


Inmates in South Carolina blackmailed service members across the country, using smuggled smartphones, the authorities said. Five inmates and 10 others were indicted this month.


Through her communications minister Brazil s president Dilma Rousseff expressed indignation over revelations of NSA spying on Brazilians.


Members of the opposition Free Syrian Army relaxed at a makeshift checkpoint last week in Kafar Taharim, in northern Syria.


Representatives of parties and members of the Russian Central Elections Commission watch screens displaying the results of Sunday s parliamentary election in Russia.


A security officer guarded budget-related documents on Friday in New Delhi. Indian officials say there has never been a leak of a budget.


Wayne Rooney scored the winner against Ukraine on a nonvintage night for England.


A protester and police officers in Oakland Calif stand near a wall bearing a graffiti message for Michael Brown.


Gov. Janet Mills of Maine signed a bill Monday that will allow nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other qualified medical professionals to administer abortions.


Roger Clemens arrives at Federal District Court for his perjury trial June 5.


Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdioces of Washington gives ashes to a patron during an Ash Wednesday mass in Washington in 2011.


People getting vaccinated this month at Castle Hill Community Center in New York. About 10 percent of people in the state have received their first dose.


David Moyes sits at his new desk on his first day as Manchester United manager at the Carrington training ground.


A Meituan delivery worker in Shanghai. Last year the firm made more than 27 million food-delivery transactions per day.


A skier soars through the air during training session at the Sunkar Ski Jumping complex in Almaty Kazakhstan July 15 2015.


Demonstrators faced soldiers guarding the headquarters of the party of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the ousted president, on Thursday in Tunis.


Police officers escorting one of the men convicted of raping a photojournalist in a Mumbai court on Monday.


Eric Gordon from New Orleans Pelicans to Houston Rockets via free agency.


Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple special event at the historic California Theater on October 23 2012 in San Jose California.


Hungry eyes Josef Brown as Johnny Georgina Rich as Baby and Nadia Coote as Penny in Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych in 2006.


Jos Bustani, front, before a special session in 2002 that called for his removal as head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.


President Carter who turned 90 last year teaches Sunday school at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains Ga.


A nurse in Hamburg, Germany, on Wednesday tended a patient infected with a virulent strain of E. coli bacteria. The patient was undergoing dialysis to treat kidneys damaged by the bacteria.


A counting staff member yawns as they count ballots during the Scottish Independence Referendum last month.


An Amtrak police K9 unit patrols Union Station on March 22 2016 in Washington DC.


Partners Deb Gardiner 55 left and Michele Horrigan 51 of Gaithersburg Md react after the Supreme Court declared DOMA unconstitutional.


Police and firefighters work Saturday night at the scene of an explosion in Manhattan s Chelsea neighborhood.


Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hugs Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally at the Mabee Center in Tulsa Okla on Jan 20 2016.


A US marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Baghdad on April 9 2003.


Paul Schlase Tony Revolori Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes in a scene from the motion picture Grand Budapest Hotel Credit Martin Scali Fox Searchlight.


DAYS OF HAZE A typical smoggy day in Tiananmen Square in Beijing this year.


Demonstrators in Detroit held cutouts depicting Gov. Rick Snyder on Monday as they protested outside the federal courthouse where he was testifying.


George Best like his Manchester United teammate Bobby Charlton never won the award.


A vehicle and the surrounding area are engulfed in flames after it was set on fire inside the US consulate compound in Benghazi Libya late on Sept 11 2012.


The Senate majority leader, John J. Flanagan, rear, and John A. DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader, in Albany this month. Republicans have tied an extension of mayoral control of schools to an increase in the number of charter schools.


A Japanese machinery maker Japan Logic Machine employee demonstrates a bed shaped carerobot Yurina which can be transformed between a bed and a wheelchair for elderly and disabled people.


A flock of Canada geese fly in formation above Clapham Common in London.


The two get cozy at the afterparty for the Los Angeles premiere of Baggage Claim in September 2013 in Los Angeles.


Students play basketball near portraits of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.


London 2012: A sign in Wimbledon, one of the southernmost parts of London, but host to Olympic tennis, advises drivers to avoid the area from now until after the Games.


Sonia Manzano performs with Big Bird at the Daytime Emmy Awards in 2009 in Los Angeles.


AB de Villiers shows his dejection as South Africa are beaten by New Zealand in their World Cup semifinal at Eden Park.


A police investigation at 135th Street and 116th Avenue in Queens. A man was shot near the corner around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday.


The City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, at the lectern, and other officials in Hudson River Park on Sunday warned of an increase in rapes.


Above, workers at a coal mine in Datong, China. The country’s carbon emissions are forecast to rise this year.


Japanese poll workers counted ballots at a polling station in Tokyo duringparliamentary elections on Sunday.


Thirdplace finisher Nia Ali celebrates with son Titus after running a 1255 She s also a firsttime Olympian.


An opposition fighter in Akobo, South Sudan, last month.


Former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw says voters will not be interested in Labour s attacks on Tories for a while.


Women s Equality party leaders from left Catherine Mayer Sandy Toksvig and Sophie Walker.


Fighters with the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo watched a government jet fly by on Tuesday.


A ruptured pipeline burns in a Lagos suburb after an explosion in 2008 which killed at least 100 people.


Pete Olson, who announced Thursday that he will not run for re-election, represents a suburban district in Texas that has been held by Republicans for all but two of the last 40 years.


Commuters line Farragut Square on Tuesday morning while waiting to board a shuttle bus to closed Metro stations.


Workers returned on Monday to a construction site on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.


Mercedes Lewis Hamilton has targeted the next six weeks as pivotal in his bid to win the F1 world championship.


Craig Stott Anthony LaPaglia and Ryan Corr will star in Holding the Man due out in 2015.


Lucien Freud pictured here in 1958 first came to London as a refugee from Germany.


New York City rookie police officer Peter Liang in court in February.


Seifeddine Rezgui who shot 38 people in the beach resort of Sousse on 26 June 2015.


Kittens play in a window at the Animal Rescue Centre in San Rafael de Heredia Costa Rica.


Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaking at a rally in Philadelphia on Sunday.


US Marines carry a casket during a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland transferring the remains of the four Americans killed in an attack this week in Benghazi Libya.


Some members of the Century Athletic Club in their younger days. The group, which formed on the Upper West Side in 1937, met for dinner recently.


Representative Vance McAllister, Republican of Louisiana, shown in November 2013 with Jack Thompson, his legislative director.


Daljit Singh was among the San Francisco taxi drivers demonstrating last week outside San Francisco City Hall.


Gov. Mike Pence greeted Glenda Ritz, Indianas top education official, in Indianapolis last month.


Senator Marco Rubio spoke at the  Americans for Peace, Prosperity, and Security forum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday.


The SNP s viral poster showing how all three main Westminster parties support spending billions on nuclear weapons.


American troops flying over Afghanistan’s Helmand Province last year.


Members of the California National Guard in Los Angeles in 1992.


People lit candles under a damaged painting of the Virgin Mary last year in an Assyrian church in Homs, Syria.


Neil and Kathinka McKeown, who lost their home to California wildfires in 2015, have been counting on the settlement reached with Pacific Gas & Electric to finance a new one.


The opening ceremony of the new Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Shanghai on Wednesday.


An ambulance believed to be transporting Salah Abdeslam leaves the building of the Federal Police in Brussels.


Kebab cook Abdul Majid is carried into the Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital in Kabul on a stretcher.


Pictures of some of the people arrested, tortured and killed by the Afghan Communist government on display in Kabul on Monday.


October 24 1929 New York US Panicked stock traders crowd outside the New York stock exchange on the day of the market crash.


Secretary of State John Kerry with his predecessor Hillary Rodham Clinton on Nov 15.


Sarah Hekmati, right, whose brother Amir Hekmati has been detained in Iran, spoke at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday. American officials have said they are doing everything possible to free American prisoners.


Occupy London protesters and supporters sing Christmas songs on the steps of St Paul s catherdral in London.


Donald Trump supporters stand on chairs to try to get a glimpse of the presidential candidate at a rally in Dubuque Iowa on Jan 30.


Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland hits out of a bunker at Muirfield.


A supporter of the $15 minimum wage at a rally in Albany last month.


Jimmy Fallon and Christie on an episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.


A woman walks past Italian Nato troops in Herat province Afghanistan.


The Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already dismissed the EU s plans.


Frigid flake This closeup view of a snowflake was captured last week in Mentor Ohio The photo was submitted to USA TODAY via Your Take at yourtakeusatodaycom.


A man holds a child at St Antoine hospital in Jeremie Haiti.


Aleksei A. Navalny at his sentencing in Moscow last week.


Red Sox starting pitcher Jon Lester throws in the top of the first inning.


Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors for Cyber Ninjas, at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.


The tarmac of La Guardia Airport is cleared during a winter storm in the Queens borough of New York City.


Dean G. Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York State Senate, and his wife, Gail, leaving Federal District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday after he and his son Adam were convicted a second time of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges.


Francois Hollande comforts Doctor and Charlie Hebdo columnist Patrick Pelloux in at a freedom of speech rally in Paris.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India at the funeral of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, a former president of India, in Rameswaram on Thursday.


Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn talk with Air Force Capt Dee Myrick who was accompanied by his service dog at the opening ceremonies.


Junko Ishido, the mother of the journalist Kenji Goto, made her plea during a hastily organized news conference in Tokyo on Friday, just hours before a ransom deadline.


The candidates challenging the eight Independent Democratic Conference senators in New York are functioning as a unified slate, appearing at events like the one earlier this month, where Alessandra Biaggi, Zellnor Myrie, Jessica Ramos and Robert Jackson accepted endorsements at City Hall.


A man is overcome with emotion while surveying his property that was burnt by the socalled Valley Fire near Middleton California.


The cars queued for seven hours at the GornoBadakhstan internal border in Tajikistan.


More than 1000 Thai farmers many driving their tractors in a convoy approaching Bangkok to join a blockade at the capital s Suvarnabhumi Airport.


DEADLY A vigil was held this month for two teenagers killed when a train hit their car in Missouri.


A couple kisses at the Pont des Arts where padlocks are attached to the railing in Paris in August 2013.


Watch vintage Hillary and Bill in this 1976 campaign ad.


The Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas AKA the Death Ray Hotel.


Serena Williams beat Caroline Wozniacki to reach the 2011 US Open women s final.


Officers lined Daley Plaza in Chicago at a rally on Friday.


A bootwearing Marco Rubio smiles as he gets on his campaign bus Sunday in Atkinson NH.


Slips of paper printed with the candidates names, placed in old film canisters, were used in the drawing at the Virginia State Board of Elections in Richmond on Thursday.


Contestant Pete Davekos at the 2010 Nathan s hot dog eating competition.


Time Kaine center Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton celebrates as the balloons drop.


A redundant sign cautions people not to dive into the Kern River which was dried up by water diversion projects and prolonged drought in Bakersfield California.


A precinct secretary and volunteer conducted an initial headcount of caucus goers at Drake University’s Knapp Center in Des Moines on Monday.


Richard Diebenkorn s Ocean Park No 83 a 1975 oil on canvas.


Reese Witherspoon poses in the press room at the Hollywood Film Awards She presented a newcomer award to Wild director JeanMarc Vallee.


A Black Lives Matter sign near the site where a police officer fatally shot a Black man in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday.


The Ecuadorean capital, Quito. Officials said Tuesday that they had detained a man in connection with the data breach.


Crowds celebrated National Marijuana Day last year on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.


Laverne Cox and Ben Vereen star in Fox s Rocky Horror Picture Show remake.


President Xi Jinping of China on Monday visited a factory in Jiangxi Province that makes rare-earth magnets.


Frank Ocean onstage in 2012 His second album is one of the most eagerly awaited on 2015.


Azerbaijan s president Ilham Aliyev watches his wife Mehriban casting her ballot in a polling station in Baku in October 2013.


Peyton Juneau and Natalie Miller walk through a New Orleans neighborhood They bid on several homes before getting one.


Fred Dangler and Nicole Gambill of Prescott Ariz embrace their children Evan 9 right and Aidan 8 during the vigil.


Vasily Petrenko conducting the RLPO at the Proms in 2012.


An officer looks out of a helicopter near Tho Chu Island in Vietnam during a mission to find the Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared.


In 2013 Pnina TamanoShata became the first Ethiopianborn woman in Israel s parliament.


Thousands of runners pose for a group photo after completing an annual Santa fun run from Darling Harbour to the Sydney Opera House Australia.


Palmira Silva 82 who was murdered in her garden in north London in September 2014.


Police officers gathered at the scene of a shooting in which two officers were shot Sunday in Baton Rouge, La.


Gunmen stormed the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara, in Nigerias north, on Friday.


Shoppers leave a Target store on a rainy afternoon in Alhambra Calif.


Violinist VanessaMae representing Thailand in the ladies giant slalom at Sochi.


Milan s Nigel de Jong gets to the ball ahead of Internazionale s Danilo DAmbrosio at San Siro.


Armenian church leader Karekin II left attends a papal Mass for Armenian Catholics marking 100 years since the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire.


A Bosnian Serb woman weeps at the grave of her son killed in the fighting for Sarajevo in October 1995 just one month before Dayton.


Syrians wait for the arrival of an aid convoy in the besieged town of Madaya in January 2016.


Beds are laid out at Catholic University for demonstrators arriving for the March on Washington on Aug 28 1963.


The archaeological dig at Mes Aynak an ancient Buddhist city on the route of the Silk Road in Afghanistan.


Sergei Dylevsky acknowledging supporters on Friday before heading to a questioning by investigators in Minsk, Belarus.


The Daily Telegraph’s offices around 1969, when Fleet Street in London was full of newspaper offices.


President Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan visited the Ise Shrine in Ise, Japan, on Thursday.


Jakarta Indonesia an ailing 87yearold woman lies in a boat as Indonesian soldiers evacuate her from a flooded luxury housing complex.


Mindy Corporon and Will Corporon spoke after their family members were killed on Sunday at the Jewish Community Center in Kansas.


A hazardous materials team responds to a mail sorting facility in Hyattsville Maryland outside Washington on Tuesday.


A demonstration near Girona, Spain, on Wednesday to protest the sentencing of Catalan independence leaders.


Silliness abounds Andy Samberg Joe Lo Truglio and Stephanie Beatriz in Brooklyn NineNine.


President Obama arrives in New York Tuesday for a pair of fundraisers.


A model gets styled backstage ahead of the Ewa Herzog show during MercedesBenz Fashion Week AutumnWinter 201415 at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Germany.


Water inches up the base of a Statue of Liberty replica in the Seine near the Eiffel Tower.


A woman reads lists of electors at a polling station in the village of Baytik 20 km outside the capital Bishkek.


A boat travels through ice around Manhattan in New York Tuesday Feb 24 2015.


Remarks by justices on the Supreme Court on Monday suggested the court would strike down a North Carolina law barring registered sex offenders from using social media sites.


Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive of the Russian oil company Yukos, sat behind a glass panel that reflected a Russian policeman in Moscow on Tuesday.


Damaged objects and broken cases in Egypt s Malawi Antiquities Museum after it was ransacked on 16 August.


Ayatollah Mahmoud HashemiShahroudi in a ceremony in August 1999 taking over duties from his predecessor Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi who is now head of the Assembly of Experts.


Game 1 in New York Pacers 102 Knicks 95 Knicks players Kenyon Martin left and Iman Shumpert guard Pacers forward Paul George.


Iain Duncan Smith the work and pensions secretary His department budget is to fall to 63bn by 2016 from 9bn in 200910.


The Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town complex in 2006.


Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama at a news conference outside the Capitol in Montgomery on Friday.


A US soldier conducts a biometric test of an Afghan man in Zabul province.


Police officers clashed with environmental activists occupying the site of a proposed airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France, on Monday.


Demonstrators in Hong Kong, above, on Thursday celebrated President Trump’s signing of legislation aimed at curbing human-rights abuses in the city.


Afghan elders met with Ahmed Wali Karzai, second from right, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and the head of the Provincial Council in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2009.


England s Chris Ashton crosses the line to score a try against Scotland in their Rugby World Cup match.


Syrians ride a scooter and one gestures as they pass by a street in Maarat alNuaman that was damaged by the shelling of government forces.


Hector Bellerin joined Arsenal from Barcelona in the summer of 2011.


Arjen Robben left scores his second goal Holland s winner in injury time against England.


Thousands of Egyptians gather in Cairo s Tahrir Square to show Islamists and others are united in wanting change.


Parishioners and community members light candles during a service at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the wake of the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita on Thursday.


An expertly arranged picture sent to us by the Siddens family from Brighton who are visiting the Louvre in Paris.


The family of Officer Charles Roberts during a memorial service on Thursday outside the municipal building in Glen Ridge, N.J.


Luck meets the other Manning the New York Giants quarterback Eli after a preseason game last month.


Jonathan M Daniels a native of Keene NH was valedictorian of the VMI Class of 1961.


Fred Pearce Victoria Harrison and Rose ONeill of WWF looking out over the Itchen chalk stream river.


Director James Gunn and actor Chris Pratt were pretty stoked about their Hollywood Blockbuster Award for Guardians of the Galaxy.


Stuart Lancaster the England head coach addresses his players during a training session at Pennyhill Park.


Canada defenseman Alex Pietrangelo controls the puck as goalie Carey Price looks on.


The French Fire burns overnight in the Sierra National Forest near the town of North Fork Calif on Aug 1 2014.


A London billboard advertises the 4G mobile telecom services of EE.


Donald Trump at the New York Stock Exchange in 1995.


Priests from Japan chant for Japanese victims at a ceremony in Kamala beach on Phuket island Thailand.


President Trump complimented China’s president on Thursday while speaking to reporters, offering no words of support for the goals of protesters in Hong Kong.


The prime minister Kevin Rudd visits Aquinas College Melbourne on Tuesday to announce the Catholic signup.


One of the finalists for the 2011 Ashden Awards is the Aga Khan Planning and Building Service which brings affordable energyefficient technologies to families in northern Pakistan.


Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney concedes defeat early Wednesday in Boston.


Protesters block off Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Wilson Building on Wednesday.


Ooh la la Rod Stewart Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones at Surrey s Rock N Horsepower event.


Afghan women line up to receive winter supplies at a United Nations distribution center for needy refugees at the Women s Garden in Kabul.


Police officers with the elite Special Action Force load body bags containing the remains of their comrades onto a truck on Monday on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.


The Blackhawks set an NHLrecord streak of 24 consecutive games with a point to begin the 20122013 season Chicago went 2103 with all three overtime losses coming in shootouts.


Italy’s new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, center, arriving at Parliament on Friday.


Sunbathers in a London park Next weekend s balmy weather will be in stark contrast to the first half of the week.


A campaign stop by Mitt Romney this month at a manufacturing plant in Dubuque, Iowa.


Holder left talks with Secretary of State John F Kerry before President Obama s State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill.


Vikings receiver Charles Johnson hauls in a secondhalf catch behind Giants defender Andrew Adams.


Highly sought after a detail from Emek s 2006 Nick Cave poster which took three months to complete.


A Cossack militia member whipped women in the protest group Pussy Riot as they sang in Sochi, Russia, on Wednesday.


Moreno stands with President Barack Obama in the White House on Feb 25 2010 where he presented her with the National Medal of Arts.


Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, at a conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday.


Russian officers held back protesters in Moscow on Thursday. Crowds turned out to protest the verdict against Aleksei Navalny.


Two Viet Cong prisoners are seen through a window covered in barbed wire circa 19611965.


In this June 5 2013 photo by the Syrian official news agency SANA a damaged street is seen in Qusair Syria.


Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan shown at the 2002 funeral of Walter Annenberg had a distant relationship.


France players pose after lunch for a group picture during their cruise aboard the Conte Verde in July 1930.


A IranAir Boeing 747SP aircraft leaving Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport in 2011. Iran is desperate for new planes to replace its aging commercial fleet.


A man squats near a pool of blood after a man was injured during a protest of Tuesday s fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte NC.


Wayne Gillard polishes up his 1981 DeLorean DMC 12 one of only six in Australia and up for auction in 2004.


Andre Steinberg, left, and Jamal Perry in their Bronx apartment last month.


ThenGen Arthur Lichte is shown addressing the men and women of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing during a town hall meeting Oct 9 2009.


WH Smith withdrew After the Battle magazine from its shelves following the publication s refusal to pay a 2000 promotional fee.


Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson spoke at the United Nations Security Council about North Korea on Friday.


Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in Albany on Wednesday. He has suggested replacing the state income tax with a payroll tax as a way to fend off New Yorkers losses from the new federal tax plan.


Curtis Ray Watson, who escaped from a prison in Tennessee on Thursday, is considered extremely dangerous.


Smoke is seen coming from Taj Hotel in Mumbai in November 2008.


Superintendent Beverly L. Hall interacting with kindergarteners last week at Centennial Place Elementary School in Atlanta.


Color-coded case files from 1981 in the evidence room where detectives are reviewing the Atlanta child murders.


Sparks, Okla., in 2011. A report says Oklahoma has been hardest hit by human-caused quakes.


Iraqis check the site of a car bomb attack in Sadr City a Shiite area north of the capital Baghdad.


Clayton Kershaw walks off the mound after the St Louis Cardinals knocked him out in the seventh inning.


The Cardinals celebrate around Allen Craig after he scored the winning run against the Red Sox in the ninth inning.


The space shuttle Discovery riding atop a NASA 747 transport jet on a final flyby over the White House.


The scene of an attack on an Italian military convoy in Mogadishu on Monday.


George H. Weissman, center, and Patrick J. Bulgaro, right, at a meeting of the states ethics commission on Tuesday in Albany.


The former chess champions Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov in 2009. Mr. Karpov, backed by Mr. Kasparov, is seeking Russia's nomination for president of the World Chess Federation.


Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last week in Maryland. “You can’t make guarantees because every single person’s taxes are different,” he said when asked if everyone in the middle class would receive a tax cut under the Republican plan.


The streets of Manhattan were eerily quiet on Sunday, as cases of the coronavirus in the city soared.


A sacred music for many Brazilians bossa nova originators Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes giving a radio interview in Rio de Janeiro in 1967.


Gough Whitlam after his dismissal as Australian prime minister in the 1975 constitutional crisis.


Geir Lippestad, the lawyer for Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in last week's killings in Norway, called his client very cold.


In a photograph taken from an NDTV video, donkeys were shown leaving the jail in Orai, India, on Monday.


Thousands of people joined a protest late last month in defense of Madrid’s antipollution measures.


Cesare Prandelli overseeing training in Florence yesterday has restored a sense of optimism in the Italian squad.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a weekly cabinet meeting.


Mumbai boasts just one residential tower designed by Charles Correa the cubist Kanchanjunga.


Miliatry personal carried giant poppies around the pitch to mark Remembrance Day before Leicester City played West Bromwich Albion.


A Russia supporter holds a sign that reads With Russia there is a peace in Crimea as she attends a rally in Simferopol.


A protester holds a placard in the rain during a protest against the Australian Government asylum seeker policy in Melbourne on July 20 2013.


Preet Bharara was fired by the Trump administration on Saturday after refusing to resign. Whoever Mr. Trump nominates to replace Mr. Bharara as the United States attorney in Manhattan will inherit an ongoing investigation of Fox News.


Hillary and Bill Clinton embrace during a victory rally in St Louis Missouri on the night he was elected US president in 1992.


Iraqi Prime Minister Haider alAbadi will oversee a USbacked operation in the city of Mosul.


Chelsea s captain John Terry left and Frank Lampard lean on one another during their practice session at Stamford Bridge.


A man shows his daughter a sixshooter at the 143rd NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibitsin Indianapolis.


Joseph Michael Gandy s painting of Soane s proposal for a new triumphal entrance to Downing Street exhibited at the Royal Academy Annual Exhibition 1825.


Gavin Newsom was sworn in as California’s 40th governor on Monday.


Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday at a rally in Iowa City.


Arnold Schwarzenggger on the Moscow subway with the US and Austrian ambassadors to Russia.


A right-wing rally in Warsaw last week. The European Parliament has voted to begin a process that could bring sanctions against Poland for what its critics call violations of democratic standards.


Members of Baltimore’s City Council watched protesters leave its chamber on Monday, when Kevin Davis won its approval.


New Jersey Gov Chris Christie waits to vote in Mendham Township NJ.


Firefighters sprayed water onto cars at the site of suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, on Wednesday.


Kim Jongun and his wife Ri Solju attend a performance given by Moranbong Band in 2012 in a picture released by North Korea s state news agency.


Pope Francis greets seminarians as he walks the loggia to address the bishops at St Martin of Tours Chapel at St Charles Borromeo Seminary near Philadelphia.


Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, opposed the government shutdown last weekend.


Rahmatullah Nazari, Afghanistans deputy attorney general, seated, announced the results of the Kabul bank investigation on Saturday. Indictments have been handed down in the case.


The Silverado Fire burns near homes in Silverado Canyon Friday Sept 12 2014 in Orange County Calif.


Scattered Light by American artist Jim Campbell is displayed in Hong Kong The installation has 2000 light bulbs.


Andria Swanson receives a Princess Tiana sticker from her daughter Kassidy SwansonMcElhaney at her DC home.


Vivian Koshefobamu a 45yearold vendor speaks in front of dried meat at the AjegunleIkorodu market in Lagos on August 13 2014.


Antigovernment protesters gathered Friday after noon prayer in the coastal town of Baniyas, Syria, in a cellphone photo provided by an onlooker.


The Bank of England has kept interest rates at 05 for seven years.


Neil Armstrong Aretha Franklin Cindy Crawford and Franklin D Roosevelt were all born in the year of the horse.


Yotaro Hatamura, chairman of the government-appointed investigative panel, spoke Monday in Tokyo.


Sérgio Cabral, center, in Rio de Janeiro in 2014, when he was the state’s governor, and former President Dilma Rousseff, right.


Mark Levine, a New York City councilman, has urged the city to set aside on-street parking for car-sharing companies like Zipcar. A pilot program starts Monday that reserves 285 spots for car-share company vehicles.


A bump stock installed on an AK-47. The devices were used by a gunman to massacre 58 people at a Las Vegas concert in 2017.


Jennifer Lopez performs at the Mohegan Sun 15th anniversary in Uncasville Connecticut.


David N. Dinkins, a Democrat, campaigning in Lower Manhattan in 1989, became New Yorks first black mayor; he served one term. In a new book, he offers thoughts on how being black shaped his personality.


A demonstration during the Catalan National Day in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday.


Crawford family in canoe at boat landing The Everglades Florida 1910.


An overturned car in Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday.


Lacey Phipps attaches her prosthetic feet on a rafting trip down the San Marcos River in Martindale Tex.


Infrared satellite image of Hurricane Joaquin as it battered the Bahamas on October 1.


A rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel by members of the Ezz alDin al Qassam militia the military wing of Hamas.


Robert K. Boyce, center, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, in Howard Beach, Queens, after a jogger, Karina Vetrano, was killed there this month.


The Big Four Australian banks account for more than 90 of the Australian home loan market.


A family watching Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announcing a total lockdown across India to contain the coronavirus outbreak.


Empty seats in the Hong Kong legislature on Thursday after pro-democracy lawmakers resigned in protest.


A TV screen showed the news ofEdward J. Snowden on a subway in Hong Kong on Sunday.


Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott greets South African President Jacob Zuma during the official welcome at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane.


Carmen Guzman of McLean Va and originally from Oaxaca Mexico waves a Mexican flag.


North Korean women wait for customers at a makeshift photo service stand at the Kaeson Youth Amusement Park Wednesday Sept 3 2014 in Pyongyang North Korea.


Donald Trump attends a ceremony at the 911 memorial in New York on Sept 11 2016.


Mayor Bill de Blasio has held many town-hall meetings in New York City, but earlier this month, at an event for high school students to discuss gun violence and safety, he shared the stage with his wife, Chirlane McCray.


Monaco s Prince Albert II left Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski center and Princess Charlene of Monaco attend an official dinner in the presidential palace in Warsaw.


A group of kidnapped Qatari hunters departed from Baghdad after being released on Friday.


Cyril Ramaphosa, on screen, giving a public lecture last year in Johannesburg.


Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, on Tuesday won a new term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party after no challengers filed applications to run against him.


A picture taken with a fisheye lens shows people standing outside the Olympia concert venue in Paris on Tuesday night.


Officers, from left, Richard Kern, Andrew Morales and Alex Cruz heard testimony Thursday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.


Chad Evans with MLBcom discusses how apps like his will be made available on the Apple TV.


IMPD officers talk during a rain storm at the scene where four people were reportedly shot on the south side 3200 South Parker Thursday February 19 2014.


Kieran Read in action for New Zealand during their recent Rugby Championship win over South Africa.


Wang Qiuhang in Beijing in 1966. A new book of Mr. Wang’s photography is called “Cultural Revolution Selfies.”.


The prime minister Narendra Modi cleans a road in Delhi on 2 October as part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan the Clean India Mission.


Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey gave a coronavirus update on Monday for the state as cases continued to increase.


Matt LeBlanc with his children played by Grace Kaufman right Matthew McCann and Hala Finley.


A worker prepares ice cubes for shipping in Taishi Japan The factory operates 24 hours producing 100 tons of ice pillars each day.


Protesters held a sit-in in front of the Parliament building in downtown Cairo on Sunday.


Workers are seen in what is described by Iranian state television as an enrichment control room at a facility in Natanz Iran.


The democracy activist Chan Kin-man, center, speaking to reporters before his sentencing in Hong Kong on Wednesday.


Mannequins were set up to confuse snipers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the old city of Aleppo on Sunday.


Argentina s President Cristina Fernandez cheers at supporters at the Casa Rosada government palace during a signing ceremony in Buenos Aires Argentina on Jan 30 2015.


A group assisted a man wounded in blasts at a political rally in Patna, India, on Sunday.


A man was fatally injured at a baby shower in Michigan after being hit by shrapnel when a device similar to a signal cannon exploded on Saturday.


People inspected a destroyed car that was bombed in Baghdad on Wednesday. A string of attacks singled out Christians' homes.


Britain s and Sierra Leone s armed forces lead an Ebola care training course at the University of Sierra Leone.


Displaced Iraqis who were forced to flee their hometowns ahead of gains made by Islamic State militants in Ramadi.


Berthe s mouse lemur is 10cm long and weighs only 30g making it the smallest known primate.


Torrential rain and whipping winds at Brickell Key in Miami early on Sunday heralded the arrival of Hurricane Irma.


Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff, left, and the candidateAcio Neves, after casting their ballots in Sunday's presidential election.


A temporary pool on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 1972.


Supporters of Proposition 8 rally in Los Angeles in 2008.


Sergeant Dominica Fuller consoles a mourning child during a candlelight vigil held in honor of Jamyla Bolden on Aug 20 2015 in Ferguson.


Traditional Russian wooden nesting dolls depicting Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump at a gift shop in Moscow on Tuesday.


Residents carry furniture taken from a hotel in Palo eastern island of Leyte as Philippinos try to makedo in the aftermath of the country s worst recorded natural disaster.


Technicians install a solar panel system on a home in Miami on Wednesday.


An Indonesian protester demonstrating against the presence of mining multinational PT Freeport in West Papua province in 2006.


Caterpillar, which sells heavy machinery to China, said it expected a lower profit in 2019 because of trade tensions, which have weakened the Chinese economy.


The Times’s David M. Halbfinger discusses the legacy of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, who died Monday, and how Mayor Cory A. Booker of Newark could benefit.


Chineasy peasy A new book by ShaoLan Hsueh and Noma Bar brings beautiful graphic clarity to the process of learning Chinese characters Image ShaoLanChineasy.


Starsky Hutch s tongues are just one part of Jack Cloth s success as a telly tec Illustration Matt Blease.


Visitors take a photo at Toshogu temple where cherry blossoms are in full bloom in Ueno park in Tokyo on April 2 2015.


An audience member gets a fist bump from President Obama on July 1 in Washington A new study shows fist bumps transmit 10 times fewer germs than handshakes do.


David Nicholls author of the bestseller One Day is back with Us.


Alma Leon cries in her home in Turbo remembering her daughter Eliana Uribe Leon who recently died from complications related to GuillainBarre on Feb 2.


Passengers are rescued by the Coast Guard from a ferry sinking off the coast of Jindo Island in South Korea.


George Stinney Jr the youngest person ever executed in South Carolina Supporters of Stinney have argued there was nt enough evidence to find him guilty in 1944.


Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos singles in the fifth against the Miami Marlins.


Gary Howard carried bottled water home from a store in Anchorage, where an earthquake jolted residents on Friday.


Working Girl s stars Sigourney Weaver Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith.


Mark Esquero with cartridges he says he found in a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M., where Atari purportedly dumped copies of its scorned E.T. video game in 1983.


Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia speaking at a meeting with government staff on Wednesday.


Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan bowing in front of the Memorial Cenotaph after delivering a speech during the 75th anniversary service for atomic bomb victims at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on Thursday.


Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks with members of the media aboard her campaign plane in Las Vegas on Wednesday following the third presidential debate.


A Taliban bomb attack using a Humvee taken from Afghan forces killed at least 40 people at this intelligence base in Wardak on Monday.


David Miliband and his brother Ed Miliband before David s resignation from British politics.


Reverend Al Sharpton right visits a memorial outside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on Thursday.


Samantha Urbani of Brooklyn band Friends performs at The Lexington in London.


The vigil, dubbed Reclaim Princes Park, in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday.


Harry and David Rich We want to make a very naturalistic space Photographs Sophia Evans for the Guardian.


Carol Cole stands in her destroyed home in Broken Arrow Oklahoma after a strong storm hit the area Saturday night and early Sunday morning.


A crowd celebrates outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 26 after the court declared that samesex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States.


President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, center, was sworn in for a second term on Monday. The powers of the presidency have been significantly expanded.


Meistervik Norway The northern lights seen over the BalsFiord north of the Arctic Circle.


Gucci s Alessandro Michele pictured here with actor Dakota Johnson Or is that Owen Wilson.


Tributes to Senzo Meyiwa have flooded in since the Bafana Bafana goalkeeper s murder on Sunday.


A 14yearold North Korean boy suffering from malnutrition lies in a bed at Chongjin city paediatric hospital in South Hamgyong province North Korea in 2002.


Jason Rezaian's mother, Mary, left, and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, center, were denied entry to his hearing in Tehran on Monday.


Revelry greeted news on Friday that police officers faced charges in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.


Edward J. Markey, hugged President Obama as he arrived in Boston on Wednesday to campaign for him.


A National Guardsman at a Detroit intersection during unrest in the city in July 1967.


Conservative US Cardinal Raymond Burke shown in a 2013 photo crossing St Peter s Square in Rome was demoted for a second time by Pope Francis.


Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses his supporters during a rally at the Charleston W Va Civic Center on May 5.


Pope Benedict XVI arriving Thursday at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. The pope also addressed the German Parliament, a first.


Michael R. Bloomberg made his first speech as a potential presidential candidate on Sunday at the Christian Cultural Center, a predominantly black megachurch in Brooklyn.


Defense attorney Mark OMara addresses Judge Debra Nelson during the trial in Seminole County Circuit Court.


Biden held bilateral talks with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis in Riga Latvia.


Dick Costolo CEO of Twitter in July 2013 He tweets three times a day on average.


No castle is complete without a library The queen was at the launch of the George III Project in the Royal Library in Windsor Castle on April 1 2015.


Ku Klux Klan members hold a rally in Texas in 1998.


Songs built to transcend their era Blur left to right Dave Rowntree Graham Coxon Damon Albarn and Alex James.


Cars and girls the Hollywood pedal car one of Hamleys mostwanted toys for Christmas 2013.


Motley Crue Tommy Lee left Nikki Sixx Vince Neil and Mick Mars circa 1997.


President Richard Nixon at a news conference March 4 1969.


A bicycle is buried by overnight snowfall in the Queens area of New York.


Bensen and Shante Johnson pose with members of the Draper Police Department.


Bujumbura Burundi Protesters gesture during a protest against Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza and his bid for a third term.


Demonstrators gathered outside the health ministry in Athens on Thursday to protest anti-austerity measures.


The Bay Bridge as seen from San Francisco at 10:41 a.m. on Wednesday.


Russian police officers detain an opposition activist outside a court in Moscow where hearings started against opposition activists detained in May 2012 during a rally in Bolotnaya Square.


Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, center, greeting supporters after speaking at a rally in Caracas this month.


England flanker Marlie Packer warms up in the gym for a training session during the Women s Rugby World Cup in Paris.


New satellite imagery shows that an air base in Dirkou, Niger, has grown significantly since The New York Times first reported the C.I.A. operations there in 2018.


US attorney general Loretta Lynch announces the arrest of senior members of Fifa on allegations of racketeering bribery and moneylaundering.


Carles Puigdemont, who was fired as Catalonias president by Spains central government, walking with his wife, Marcela Topor, in his hometown, Girona, on Saturday.


Collen Khumalo, who works as a car guard in Johannesburg, tried to charm a client last month. Car guarding has proved a strong draw for young men with little prospect of a formal job.


Eurostar passengers, many out in the cold, lined up for seven hours in London on Monday in the hope of getting a train.


The living room of the house the Eameses built in Los Angeles in 1949.


Afghans inspected a Shiite mosque in Kabul on Friday after dozens of casualties occurred in a suicide attack.


The Maman a huge spider sculpture in front of the Bilbao Guggenheim by sculptor Louise Bourgeois.


Members of the Iraqi special operations forces prepare to go on a patrol in the town of Jurf alSakhar south of Baghdad.


Barry Goldwater greets an Indianapolis crowd during a campaign tour in October 1964.


A mural in memory of the 1920 fight with the Communist Red Army in Lomza, Poland.


ThenSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan 23.


People searched for survivors amid building debris in Aleppo, Syria, after an air attack on Saturday in which at least 18 died.


Joseph Percoco, a former senior aide and campaign manager, left, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York in Albany in 2013.


Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, announced on Wednesday that his office had committed up to $35 million to eliminate a backlog of rape kits that await testing.


Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor of Texas, announced on Monday that he would not seek another term but would instead "pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path.


Pedestrians walk across a bridge shrouded in heavy smog in Xiangyang China.


Navy Lt Cmdr John McCain a prisoner of war for more than five years stands in the den of his home.


Sergio Garcia and Luke Donald almost blend into the background in Europe s forgettable 2006 outfit.


England s captain Alastair Cook cuts a dejected figure following India s victory in the second Test at Lord s.


Andy Coulson arrives at the Old Bailey Central Criminal court in London The jury have been discharged after they failed to reach majority verdicts in the case against him.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel held a meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office on Monday.


Sammi Ross, rehearsing in costume for the 1811 Slave Rebellion Re-enactment, a 26-mile march along former antebellum plantations in Louisiana. Her great-great-grandmother was part of the original slave rebellion. My family has been taught how to survive through everything, she said.


US Secretary of State John F Kerry left and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reached the agreement in Paris on Tuesday.


Erik Perez fights against Edwin Figueroa in their bantamweight bout during UFC 167 at MGM Grand Garden Arena.


Alan Henning 47 was captured after joining an aid convoy organised by Muslim friends.


Four of the Cambridge five clockwise from top left Anthony Blunt Donald Duart Maclean Kim Philby and Guy Burgess.


Auctioneer Craig Jackson photographs one of his favorite car the 1970 Hemi Cuda Convertible Plum Crazy outside the garage of his home in Paradise Valley Ariz.


Nouman K. Raja, a former officer with the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department, tried to have charges against him dismissed under Florida’s so-called Stand Your Ground law. He fatally shot a man on the roadside in 2015.


Citizens of Berlin stand amid rubble at the edge of Tempelhof airfield to watch an American C47 cargo plane arrive with food supplies in July 1948.


Chris Huebner shovels snow off his sidewalk in the Wood Acres neighborhood of Bethesda Md.


Jennifer Hudson left and Cynthia Erivo perform in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple.


Japan s Crown Princess Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito wait for the start of the inauguration.


President Trump welcomed Senator Luther Strange of Alabama to a rally on Friday in Huntsville. In his remarks, the president painted Mr. Strange as loyal to the White House’s agenda.


Shimon Peres departs the White House after meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office in Washington in 2009.


Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the Trump SoHo hotel in New York.


Left the 55metrehigh Buddha statue in Bamiyan Afghanistan on Dec 18 1997 Right After its destruction on March 26 2001.


Bill Clinton and Kim Jongil in August 2009 during Clinton s surprise visit to try to win the release of two jailed American journalists.


A Mitt Romney campaign sticker pictured pasted at London's Romney Street on Wednesday.