Category Archives: March 2015 – 1

Sports Roundup

Over the last few weeks, we have gathered a selection of some of our favorite sports moments captured by AP photographers.

Mexican Rodeo Keeps Ranch Traditions Alive

Photos by Rebecca Blackwell Mexico’s best charro horsemen, wearing traditional wide-brimmed sombreros, lassoed galloping mares, flipped bulls by their tails and tested their mettle atop spirited horses on a recent weekend in Mexico City.

Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Photos by Muhammed Muheisen Dozens of small, makeshift tent settlements have sprung up across Jordan, home to thousands of Syrian refugees who don’t want to live in large, government-supervised refugee camps but can’t afford to live in towns and cities.

Japan’s Tsunami Recovery

Small clusters of survivors, bundled up against a chilly wind, gathered along Japan’s northeast coast Wednesday to remember the nearly 19,000 lives lost in the March 11, 2011, tsunami. Four years later, the region is still struggling to recover.

Church At World’s End

Photos by Natacha Pisarenko Sophrony Kirilov pulls hard on the strings of the heavy Russian bells from inside the world’s southernmost Eastern Orthodox church, calling to anybody who wants to pray on this remote Antarctic island.

U.S. Military Hopes to Learn from Victim of Chimp Attack

Photos by Charles Krupa Charla Nash never served in the military. She was horribly disfigured, not in combat, but in a 2009 attack by a rampaging chimpanzee. The Pentagon, though, is watching her recovery closely.

Ringling Bros. to Retire Elephants

Elephants have always been part of The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ever since showman P.T. Barnum brought Jumbo, “a massive 12-foot African elephant,” to America in 1882 to star in the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Whenever the circus came to town, parades of pachyderms heralded its arrival, drawing patriotic crowds that boostedContinue reading “Ringling Bros. to Retire Elephants”

World in Review

World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries curated by Associated Press photo editors from each region of the world: Asia, Europe and Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States.

Daily Life Roundup

For this week’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature photography from all over the world: A lone man shelters himself from the rain while crossing a bridge in Spain, a group of Pakistani children jostle to receive free food in Islamabad, and an American flag beach towel hangs on a makeshift clothesline, on a balcony inContinue reading “Daily Life Roundup”

Serbia Last Frontier

Photos by Marko Drobnjakovic Exhausted, hungry and cold, they have been walking for miles. What little they have is carried in plastic bags. They camp in abandoned homes, followed by stray dogs hoping to snag a morsel.

Sports Roundup

Over the last few weeks, we have gathered a selection of some of our favorite sports moments captured by AP photographers.