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Aurora Zucco de Bellocchio, a member of human rights organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of Plaza de Mayo), sits behind a pram with a picture of her daughter Irene Bellocchio and her partner Rolando Pisoni, who both disappeared in 1977, during t
Science
How an American scientist helps grandmothers in Argentina find their ‘stolen’ grandchildren
A close up of the ebola virus virion
Health
The ethical debate over the use of an untested Ebola drug
Palestinians ride a donkey cart past destroyed and badly damaged residential buildings as they return to Beit Lahiya town, which witnesses said was heavily hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes during the Israeli offensive.
Conflict
Residents of Gaza are digging through the rubble, anxious to find scraps of their past
One of the photos of a crested black macaque monkey that David Slater says belongs to him. Wikipedia claims that, because the monkey pressed the shutter, the photo is a public domain image whose copyright belongs to no one.
Media
The Internet goes ape over a monkey selfie and the copyright battle it sparked
One of the photos of a crested black macaque monkey that David Slater says belongs to him. Wikipedia claims that, because the monkey pressed the shutter, the photo is a public domain image whose copyright belongs to no one.
Media
The Internet goes ape over a monkey selfie and the copyright battle it sparked
Female fighters from Colonel Nahida's peshmerga battalion view the front lines with ISIS.
Conflict
Meet the female colonel leading Kurdish forces into battle against ISIS
Female fighters from Colonel Nahida's peshmerga battalion view the front lines with ISIS.
Conflict
Meet the female colonel leading Kurdish forces into battle against ISIS
Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, on August 3, 2014. Goldin's death in Gaza is prompting some in Israel to question their military's controversial Hannibal Doctrine.
Conflict
Some in Israel are questioning the military’s Hannibal Doctrine
Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of their comrade Lieutenant Hadar Goldin in Kfar Saba, near Tel Aviv, on August 3, 2014. Goldin's death in Gaza is prompting some in Israel to question their military's controversial Hannibal Doctrine.
Conflict
Some in Israel are questioning the military’s Hannibal Doctrine
Molly Crabapple
Development
What life is like for a construction worker in Abu Dhabi, through the eyes of an artist
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 7, 2014
Marcus Teply
Music
Iraqi-American rapper TIMZ faces his hardest task yet — writing about ISIS
A worker arranges cheese for sale at a grocery store in Moscow on August 7, 2014. Moscow imposed a total ban on imports of many Western foods on Thursday in retaliation against sanctions over Ukraine.
Global Politics
C’est it ain’t so! Russia bans French cheese and other European food imports
A worker arranges cheese for sale at a grocery store in Moscow on August 7, 2014. Moscow imposed a total ban on imports of many Western foods on Thursday in retaliation against sanctions over Ukraine.
Global Politics
C’est it ain’t so! Russia bans French cheese and other European food imports
Rakhia are "sacred threads" that sisters tie onto their brothers' wrists for the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan.
Culture
I’m supposed to be my sister’s keeper, but she’s the one who looks after me