Marathon des Sables takes runners through Sahara desert
The 31st edition of the Marathon des Sables is a live stage 257 km race through a formidable landscape in one of the world’s most inhospitable climates.
Morocco
Baltimore neighborhoods
Baltimore street photographers
Year in review
Freddie Gray: protests, aftermath
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A. Aubrey Bodine
Viewing Baltimore from above
International Women’s Day
Women around the world celebrate, march and protest for International Women’s Day March 8.
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Crossing the razor wire into Spanish territories
African migrants attempt to climb a border fence between Morocco and Spain’s Melilla.
Deadly skin disease inflicts Moroccan teens
For 800 children in Morocco, damaged or burnt skin is genetic, irreparable, and needs to be replaced. Mohamed-El Kotbi, 17, and Driss Hamouti, 21, live with this tragic condition. Due to a disease called Xeroderma Pigmentosum – which medical professionals generally shorthand to XP – they are prone to blistering and burning of their skin and eyes upon the slightest sun exposure
An old alter revived, bodies in Brno, monkeys guarding the government | August 1
The day in photos around the world.
Dozens make a desperate border gamble in Melilla
With NPR putting some finishing touches on its borderland series this week, international attention has been focused across the Atlantic, on a place that’s equally familiar with the perils of international migration.
March 22 Photo Brief: Obama in Israel, World Water Day, mystical Islam and tiger tongue kisses
U.S. President Barack Obama visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, the world observes World Water Day with the theme “Water Cooperation,” adepts of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam, self-pierce to earn salvation, a pet tiger plays with a keeper at an Indonesian school and more in today’s daily brief.