Just last weekend the military arrived in Tahrir Square, Cairo, firing at protesters and trying to clear them from the square which was so crucial in demonstrations in February. Photographer David Degner was there.
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Show’s over: the sad sight of decayed theatres
There is something unusually sad and forlorn about broken down and decayed theatres. BuzzFeed has collected 75 photographs of abandoned theatres from around the USA.
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Back to school despite the tsunami
This might be the most heart-wrenching collection of photos we’ve encountered from the disaster in Japan. It’s of a group of school children, bravely holding their high school graduation in an evacuation centre.
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Winners of the 2011 Brit Insurance Design Awards
A stylish energy efficient lightbulb took the top gong in this year’s Brit Insurance Design Awards. Other winners include an Open Air library and robotically produced wooden chairs.
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The new Tiananmen Squares
As the revolution domino effect topples through the Middle East, Foreign Policy goes on a tour of the town squares where the democracy demonstrations — and the murders — are taking place.
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Gaddafi: the stylish fashions of a murderer
While other world leaders wear suits to international meetings, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya dons bright capes and handmade photo brooches. If he wasn’t a dictator that oppresses his citizens, he’d be quite the fashion catch.
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Ten top notch iPad paintings
Artists are increasingly turning to the iPad for new, rich digital canvases. Mashable list their favourite 10 landscape “paintings” from around the world.
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The best newspaper pictures of the year
Judging has been completed in the newspaper section of the Pictures of the Year International competition, reports Richard Farmer. Here are the first place winners.
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Ed Miliband the Awkward
UK Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband seems to always have an air of awkward around him, thanks to his big cartoon-like eyes and penchant for grimacing. Check out this blog chronicling his gawkiness.
PHOTO GALLERY Movie posters that tell the truth
Movie posters will do anything to lure audiences, but what if they told the bald truth? Here are a punch of redesigned posters for this year’s Best Picture Oscars nominees that do exactly that.
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Mongolia goes modern
Mongolia isn’t a nation usually linked to modernity, but this photo gallery shows a budding cosmopolitan country. Think solar panels on yurts, a rising glass and steel skyline full of shopping centres and pirated Chinese video games.
PHOTO GALLERY Eagles fight rabbits at a Kyrgyzstani hunting carnival
Robin O’Brien tagged along to an eagle hunting carnival, held every year in Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan. It was a big day, particularly since eagle Oymok was making his return from injury, caused by a wolf bite.
PHOTO GALLERY 404 error pages as you’ve (probably) never seen them before
Everybody encounters a 404 error page from time to time after clicking on a bung link or typing a wrong URL. But some websites offer specially tailored left of centre 404 pages and Mashable presents a collection of the best.
PHOTO GALLERY Fire in the Great Sandy Desert
Central Australia has generated near record rainfall since January, but the dangerous flipside is a very busy fire season ahead. Guest blogger Steven Rhall has photographed the first big fire of the season near his town.
PHOTO GALLERY Fire in the Great Sandy Desert
Photographer Steven Rhall lives up in the tiny NT town of Balgo. He writes of the first big fire of the season up his way, where fires can sometimes run for weeks — if not months — and burn-out huge tracts of land.
PHOTO GALLERY Bottle architecture: a school made of plastic
An innovative new schoolhouse in San Pablo in the Phillipines is the first of its kind in Asia: a building made using 1.5 and 2 litre plastic bottles. And - here’s the clincher - the material is not only cheaper than concrete but apparently three times as strong.
PHOTO GALLERY A heatwave, Moscow style: no snow, lots of rain
It’s one thing for airports to close because of really heavy snow and one thing for airports to close in light snow because of greedy, foolish airport owners but for Moscow’s airports to be paralysed because it was too warm in winter is something out of left field.
PHOTO GALLERY Super comfy crazy lookin’ coffins
How would you like a coffin shaped as a plane? Or a fish? Or a cocoa pod? Their residents might not be able to enjoy them, but the coffins on display at the Jack Bell Gallery in London look pretty impressive.
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The best news photos of the year
As the year comes to an end and the “best of” lists begin, check out Reuters pick of its 55 best news photos from 2010, from refugees desperate for food to grieving families at military funerals. Even more fascinating, the photographers explain the stories behind each startling frame.
PHOTO GALLERY How the iPad is transforming web applications
The rise of the iPad has had a big impact on the evolution of web design, which Mashable dubbed “the iPadification of the web.” This photo gallery compiles a collection of before and after iPadified screenshots.
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The world’s most energetic cities
A look at the most dynamic cities in this post-GFC world, judging each city by employment and growth of income. Melbourne is the only Oz addition, with the rest mainly being in China, India, South East Asia and South America.
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Brazil’s deadly favela drug war
Last week a war broke out in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Watch as the Brazilian police force arrive with tanks and guns and battle drug traffickers armed with automatic weapons, while journalists and citizens hide behind houses and try to escape.
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Sleeping giants: a world of empty skyscrapers
A depressing but also beautiful look at abandoned buildings around the globe, from the majestic Detroit train station built in 1913 to the 26-floor gothic tower in San Francisco and the 37-floor residential tower in Brazil.
PHOTO GALLERY The haunting images of a dying child
Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer prize for feature photography — so yes, it’s a little old, but trust us, you’ll want to see this — this heartbreaking series portrays a single mother caring for her young son in his losing battle with cancer.
PHOTO GALLERY Putin, lover of Russia and furry animals
A most wonderful photo gallery of Russian PM Vladimir Putin posing with different animals. Yes, it’s topless Putin swimming with dolphins, military Putin the horse-whisperer, wild Putin patting a tiger and many more goodies.
