I came expecting to be shocked by the forestry devastation but instead I find myself more shocked by the conditions that the local workers and people live in.

The ballroom was shaking, wind was howling, something was banging.

Rajman said no faces could be caught on film or tape and that shooting time would be limited to just an hour.

Although the sides of the tent were open, a profound smell of dust, sweat and vegetables cooked in oil in pans was filling the air.

The start of a war is a little like the early stages of a romantic relationship: always intense and inclined to make people too likely to believe the things they hear even when they have the experience to know better.

Throughout the time of the Olympics I felt uptight about all the different types of security guards.

Not since Yitzhak Rabin's funeral has Israel hosted as many senior officials from abroad as it has this year.

During the day I worked to the rhythm of Charlie Company that was ultimately tied to the desert and its unrelenting heat.

Almost anywhere you would want to photograph there was a danger of getting picked up either by the police or harassed by Zanu-PF supporters or war veterans.

Gold fever is infectious in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. The forest is destroyed to dig gold mines and I wanted to see what was happening.

Never-ending home construction in habitat that is based on a cycle of fire and re-growth, generations of heavy fire suppression, and years of worsening drought conditions conspire to create ever more dangerous fire conditions.

The poor do not need reminding that they are poor nor do they equate journalism with its' potential to solve society's problems.

The rest of the trip was spent in similar fashion, desperately trying to get access and then at the last minute getting what I needed.

On the ground, the ruggedness of the Hindu Kush leaves little doubt that one could easily hide here or fail to secure and control its perimeter.

...it seemed to me as if their loved ones had just departed, not some 18 years ago with the end of the war.

The first day I headed straight for Beichuan County a small town a few hours drive from Chengdu which was one of the worst effected areas.

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Looking at certain maps of Africa, especially those produced in the last century, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Congo actually had something resembling a decent road network.

She closed the book after praying and singing with her sisters and turned her eyes back to the street in hopes of catching a glimpse of the holiest man she knows.

Ain't gonna happen, man. Everybody wants a piece of Rampage

That day at least 20 missiles were fired from Gaza at Ashkelon.

The refugees found places to live in shut down army barracks, schools and hotels and, unfortunately, most still live there.

Above the senator was a dive-bomber from WWII and on either side of him were veterans and Boy Scouts.

Getting to my spot on the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland is a bit like running an obstacle course.

Decades of swinging from feudal democracy to blunt dictatorship have left people here beyond cynicism.

I stand in the shade outside the Catholic Church in Kisumu waiting for the march for peace to set off.

Any minute now the Kenyan paramilitary General Service Unit was going to charge the mob of protesters in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.

With no electricity outside of the capital and virtually no paved roads, it is a land abandoned.

The dispersing crowd and thinning smoke revealed the hideous aftermath of the bomb

But when I heard a cheer erupt, I turned around, and there she was.