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  • 23
    Apr
    2012
    7:49pm, EDT

    Saint George celebrated in Rio de Janeiro

    Ricardo Moraes / Reuters

    A devotee of Sao Jorge, also known as Saint George, lights candles during the celebrations of Sao Jorge's day in Rio de Janeiro on April 23. Sao Jorge, called Ogum in the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, is one of the most popular saints in Brazil, with the belief that the saint provides protection against any evil for the faithful.

    Ricardo Moraes / Reuters

    A devotee of Sao Jorge, also known as Saint George, sings during the celebrations of Sao Jorge's day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 23.

    Ricardo Moraes / Reuters

     

    The faithful gather on April 23 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to celebrate Sao Jorge, also known as Saint George. Sao Jorge, called Ogum in the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, is one of the most popular saints in Brazil, with the belief that the saint provides protection against any evil for the faithful.

    Ricardo Moraes / Reuters

    A member of the crowd holds up a figurine representing Saint George during the celebration of Sao Jorge's day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 23.

    Ricardo Moraes / Reuters

    Devotees of Sao Jorge, or Saint George, attend a mass on April 23 during the celebrations of Sao Jorge's day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

     MSNBC Travel: Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and beyond

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  • 20
    Apr
    2012
    6:43pm, EDT

    GIANT puppets walk through the streets of Liverpool in search of each other

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    A giant deep sea diver emerges from the Albert Dock to begin a journey through the streets of Liverpool during the Titanic Sea Odyssey on April 20 in Liverpool, England.

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    A giant deep sea diver puppet, part of a street theatre production entitled "Sea Odyssey," walks through the streets in Liverpool, England, on April 20.

    Andrew Yates / AFP - Getty Images

    A giant deep sea diver puppet, part of a street theatre production entitled "Sea Odyssey," walks through the streets in Liverpool, England, on April 20.

    Phil Noble / Reuters

    Performers stand on the head of a giant deep sea diver puppet as it is lifted out of the Salthouse Dock in Liverpool, northern England on April 20.

     

    Two puppets, a man and his niece, will roam through the streets of Liverpool, northern England, and April 20-23 looking for each other during the Sea Odyssey festival. The free event, organized by the French company Royal de Luxe is one of a series of events marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of The Titanic. The liner, registered in Liverpool, sank on its maiden voyage to New York on April 15, 1912.

    The tragic tale is about a man who went down with the Titanic. His brother, the giant deep sea diver and uncle of the little giant girl, is on a 100-year quest to find his brother on the ocean floor and lay him to rest. Instead he finds a letter to his brother from his niece, that she wrote three days before the cruise liner hit an iceberg and sank. He vows to return it to the girl and tell her what happened to her father.

    The two are reunited at the end of the 23-mile route.

    Andrew Yates / AFP - Getty Images

    A giant puppett, the neice in the Sea Odyssey story, is lifted from a boat outside St. George's Hall in Liverpool, England on April 20.

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    The little girl giant makes its way through the streets of Liverpool, England on April 20.

    Christopher Furlong / Getty Images

    People photograph giant puppets on the streets of Liverpool, England on April 20. French street theatre company Royal De Luxe will be performing the Titanic Sea Odyssey over the next three days.

    Massive puppets performed in a street theater event for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.

     Related PhotoBlog post on giant puppets

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    See Titanic Boston in memory of John Harper (you Tube)

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  • 18
    Apr
    2012
    6:53pm, EDT

    Picking a perfect perch

    Franzi Zoger / AFP / Getty Images

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel is a perfect perch for these lories, or Rainbow Lorikeets, during a visit to Vogelpark Marlow in one of her electoral districts in northern Germany.

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    Great, beautiful photo.

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  • 16
    Apr
    2012
    8:31pm, EDT

    Fishermen catch the last light of the day

    Tauseef Mustafa / AFP - Getty Images

    Kashmiri fishermen throw their nets into Dal Lake at sunset in Srinagar on April 16. Tourism workers in Srinagar, located in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, are hopeful that the summer will bring more tourists to the region after years of civil unrest which has driven both domestic and foreign visitors away.

     

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  • 23
    Mar
    2012
    6:25pm, EDT

    A humorous look at supporters of Yemen's former president

    Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

    By Meredith Birkett

    This one made me pause as I edited this afteroon: Supporters of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh sit with posters of Saleh attached to their belts attend a rally marking Saleh's 70th birthday anniversary in Sanaa March 23, 2011. Saleh stepped down in February after a year of massive protests against his 33-year rule.

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  • 19
    Mar
    2012
    12:48pm, EDT

    KA-POW! Batman fights drug traffickers in Brazil

    Roosevelt Cassio / Reuters

    Retired Brazilian police officer Andre Luiz Pinheiro, 50, dressed as superhero Batman, talks to children in a public school in Taubate city in Sao Paulo state March 17, 2012. Pinheiro is helping police patrol the crime-ridden streets of Taubate, in Brazil. He was officially presented in the districts with the highest crime rates in Sao Paulo state. Police captain Warley Takeo, one of the policemen who decided to bring in the character to help them fight drug traffickers, said the measure would bring long-term benefits. Takeo said making a connection between the police and Batman would help children have a clearer idea of good and bad.

    Roosevelt Cassio / Reuters

    A police officer jokes with a boy dressed as Batman, during a visit to a school by retired Brazilian police officer Andre Luiz Pinheiro, 50, who dresses up as Batman, in Taubate city in Sao Paulo state March 17, 2012.

    The Telegraph reports the Pinheiro said, "I will not actually battle crime. But I do think I am fighting crime in a preventive way, by helping these children to avoid becoming criminals. This is my job, this is my battle."

    Do you think comic book heros can help restore the image of police officers and keep kids from becoming criminals?

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  • 15
    Nov
    2011
    2:49pm, EST

    Rhinoceros horns seized in Hong Kong port from Cape Town shipment

    Bobby Yip / Reuters

    Lam Tak-fai, acting head of Ports and Maritime Command, arranges rhino horns, part of a 33 rhino horns, ivory chopsticks and bracelets shipment seized by the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department, during a news conference in Hong Kong November 15. Hong Kong Customs seized on Tuesday a total of 33 rhino horns, 758 ivory chopsticks and 127 ivory bracelets, worth about HK$17.4 million ($2.23 million), inside a container shipped from Cape Town, South Africa, according the a customs press release.

    Aaron Tam / AFP - Getty Images

    Ivory chopsticks, ivory bracelets and a rhinoceros horn are displayed wrapped in a "multiple layers concealment method" in Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department Offices on November 15.

    Full story.

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    This is the kind of crap that PETA needs to champion. Not tell me I cant eat a burger. Species all over the world are getting wiped out for no good reason.

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  • 26
    Sep
    2011
    4:37pm, EDT

    Orangutan in Indonesian zoo smokes cigarettes given by visitors

    AFP - Getty Images

    In this undated handout picture released by Indonesia's Centre for Orangutan Protection on September 17, 2011 Tori, a five-year-old orangutan, smokes a cigarette he got from visitors at Taru Jurug animal park in Solo, Central Java.

    Anwar Mustafa / AFP - Getty Images

    In this photograph taken September 21, 2011 a young male orangutan named Tori reaches to visitors at its enclosure at the Taro Jurug Zoo in Solo city, Java island.

    Full story.

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    I hope this isn't supposed to be 'cute'. Besides, it's illegal to allow 5 year olds to smoke.

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  • 26
    Sep
    2011
    3:12pm, EDT

    Kenyan Wangari Maathai, first African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize, dies of cancer at 71

    From the full story on msnbc.com:

    Kenya's most recognizable woman, Maathai won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism. She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, where over 30 years she mobilized poor women to plant 30 million trees.

    In recognizing Maathai, the Nobel committee said that she had stood up to a former oppressive regime — a reference to former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi — and that her "unique forms of action have contributed to drawing attention to political oppression.

    Antony Gitonga / Reuters

    Nobel prize laureate Wangari Maathai, who is also Kenya's Assistant Minister for Environment, touches a tree stump cut by illegal loggers during a ceremony to plant trees in Sabatia forest, Koibatek, at Eldama Ravine in this November 23, 2006 file photo. Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has died in hospital after a long struggle with cancer, her environmental organisation the Green Belt Movement said on September 26, 2011.

    Environmental activist Wangari Maathai said after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize:

    It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not then occur…so, protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace…those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

    Here's the full text of her speech, and you can see more of her quotations here.

    EPA

    Picture dated January 1999 shows 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and human rights campaigner, carried to the courts after she was beaten by a mob after she confronted private developers that had illegally taken land in the Karura forest.

    Here is a link to the Green Belt Movement she started, and a story from The Standard in Kenya about her education, which included college studies in the United States in the 1960s.  

    Yves Herman / Reuters

    U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey (L) and U.S. actor Tom Cruise (R) congratulate Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, during the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo in this December 11, 2004 file photo.

     

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    who is going to fill the void left by Maathai as both an environmental activist and as a role model for women in africa?

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  • 20
    Sep
    2011
    1:01am, EDT

    Nicolas Asfouri / AFP - Getty Images

    Thai soldiers (L) providing security to Buddhist monks during their daily morning alms collection in the village of Leamnok on the outskirts of Thailand's southern province of Pattani. With its barbed wire, sandbag bunker and armed guard, Wat Lak Muang in Thailand's strife-torn deep south looks more like a military outpost than a typical Buddhist temple.

    Buddhist monks in South Thailand walk with armed guards

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  • 2
    Aug
    2011
    7:48pm, EDT

    Quiet images from China's Xinjiang region following violence

    Carlos Barria / Reuters

    An Uighur ethnic woman feeds her son on the roof of their house in Kashgar, Xinjiang province August 2, 2011. Chinese security forces blanketed central areas of Kashgar city in the western region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, days after deadly attacks that China blamed on Islamic militants highlighted ethnic tensions in the Muslim Uighur area.

    Carlos Barria / Reuters

    Uighur ethnic women squat in front of a beer advertisement near a local market in Kashgar, Xinjiang province August 2, 2011.

    Carlos Barria / Reuters

    Police officers eat at an Uighur ethnic market area in Kashgar, Xinjiang province August 2, 2011.

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  • 2
    Aug
    2011
    6:53pm, EDT

    Amr Nabil / AP

    A car passes by a giant statue showing the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, second right, and defaced face of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, left, in 6th of October city, in Egypt on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011, a day before Mubarak, his security chief Habib el-Adly and six top police officers will face trial, on charges they ordered the use of lethal force against protesters during Egypt's 18-day uprising, in which some 850 protesters were killed. At second left is Egyptian Nobel prize winner Ahmed Zewail, and at right Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz. The arabic reads " Mubarak."

    Defaced statue represents Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak

    Here's a story about Mubarak's upcoming trial.

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    we should have statues like this of all our leaders and cogressmen and senators in every state to show just how much we care.

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