These Satellite Images Document an Atrocity
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...
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The walk through the decaying seaside mansion is a grim reminder of the political carnage that wracked Peru over two decades and killed nearly 70,000 people. The photos stare from peeling walls in a stark chronicle of the bloodbath.
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Some parts of images of India found on Google Earth are to be blurred following security concerns.
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They kneel before the camera. They are rigid with fear. Or they are crying, clearly unhinged, begging for their lives. They are hostages, flanked by masked men who carry swords or AK-47s -- the grim reapers of this age of televised terror.
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Editors at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times showed similar judgment one day last week in running large, front-page pictures of tsunami victims. Faces of dead babies in makeshift morgues were clearly visible. They were the type of images you were hard-pressed to see during hours of television coverage.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand : The deaths and beatings that followed last month&#39;s demonstration in southern Thailand have left an indelible mark on the psyche of the Muslims living
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Iraqis inspect the rubble of a destroyed house following US air strikes on the city of Falluja. Photograph: Mohammed Khodor/Reuters.
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If the children of the Green Mountains who vandalized a farmhouse once owned by Robert Frost knew of its history, then shame. If they did not know, then shame still.
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In Iraq, they've sawed off people's heads in grisly executions shown on the Internet. In Israel, they've blown themselves up inside packed buses. Now, in Russia, they've turned a school into a slaughterhouse.
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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The picture in Darfur is one of distress, denial and disappointment. Distress of people whose lives and livelihood have been destroyed, denial of responsibility by the Sudanese government and disappointment
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Independent experts have pinpointed what they believe to be the Euphrates River site in Syria that was bombed by Israel last month, and satellite imagery of the area shows buildings under construction roughly similar in design to a North Korean reactor capable of producing nuclear material for one...
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Aerial photographs of the devastation caused by the tsunami that hit Indian Ocean countries on 26 December.
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Dramatic pics capture scale of inferno While Southern California's firefighters battle to contain the wildfires which have provoked the mass evacuation of 500,000 people, killed at least one, and destroyed around 1,300 homes and businesses, NASA satellites have being doing their bit to record aerial views of the drama for posterity:â¦
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The most heart-rending scenes the world watched recently in aghast on television screen were the burial of hundreds of children beside their wailing parents, relatives and well-wishers in the North Ossetian region of the Russian Republic recently.
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Here's the painful story of someone who did.
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The attack sent shudders through a region where anger toward the U.S. has surged in recent weeks.