CNN Site Map (Galleries) for June - 2012
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- 2012-06-30Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir listens to introductions before he addresses a convention of U.S. Jewish leaders on November 21, 1991, in Baltimore. The former soldier, spy and statesman has died at the age of 96, Israeli officials said on June 30, 2
- 2012-06-30Así es Hobbiton: el asombroso set de filmación de "El Hobbit" en Nueva Zelanda.
- 2012-06-29Cruise and Holmes arrive at the 2012 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, California, in February. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce after five years of marriage, according to Cruise's attorney.
- 2012-06-29A lot has changed since Tom Cruise made headlines for jumping up and down and declaring, "I'm in love" on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 2005. Married for nearly six years, Cruise and Katie Holmes are calling it quits. Here's a
- 2012-06-29Former world No. 1 Rafael Nadal is by no means a grass-court specialist, but the two-time Wimbledon champion's defeat by 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol has been hailed as one of sport's greatest upsets.
- 2012-06-29Elizabeth Banks visits the Sirius Radio studios in New York City.
- 2012-06-29South African photographer Frank Marshall captured Botswana's heavy metal rockers as part of his Renegades series.
- 2012-06-29Anthony Davis of the Kentucky Wildcats recently made headlines for being the top pick in the NBA draft and for unibrow-related phrases such as "Fear the Brow." Click through to see other members of the unibrow clan.
- 2012-06-29Car tires, piled and burned as roadblocks, have become a symbol of Lebanon's troubles. Pictured, youths set tires on fire in Beirut in protest against the kidnapping of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in Syria, in May 2012.
- 2012-06-29The glittering financial city of Hong Kong was handed back to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997, in a mix of nostalgia, fear, and excitement. The handover ended 156 years of British colonial rule and the British empire in Asia.
- 2012-06-29The Rohingya are a Muslim minority from Rakhine State in western Myanmar. Recognized by human rights groups as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, entire families have been forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Captured by photojourn
- 2012-06-28Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative appointed by President George W. Bush, sided with the Supreme Court's liberal wing on June 28 in upholding the controversial health care reform law. Roberts is seen here in 2005.
- 2012-06-28An airliner lands Wednesday near farmers in Kunming, China. China says it will build 70 airports in the next three years.
- 2012-06-28En el Royal Ascot del 2012 los coordinadores han publicado una guía de estilo para asesorar a los seguidores de carreras de cómo deben vestirse para la reunión anual. Los caballeros en el Royal Enclosure deben usar un traje negro o gris.
- 2012-06-28Karen Waldkirch before and after her high-tech fitness kick with Fitocracy.
- 2012-06-28The "We Face Forward" exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery, in the UK, will focus on West African art. The emblem of the exhibition is an artwork by Meschac Gaba. His flag is entitled "Ensemble" and combines all the West African nation
- 2012-06-28Stephanie Rice, who has made an art of her pre-race rituals, was under big pressure to perform at the Australian 2012 Olympic trials in Adelaide in March.
- 2012-06-27A penguin named Mr. Munro fails in his first attempt to leave his footprint on a white canvas Wednesday at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia. Keepers have been collecting the footprints of almost 4,000 animals for a fundraising effort.
- 2012-06-27Emergency crews work the scene of a flooded street, where Pasco County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Doug Tobin confirms they are attempting to recover an unidentified body in New Port Richey, Florida, on Wednesday, June 27. Debby weake
- 2012-06-27Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, a former Irish Republican Army commander, on Wednesday, June 27. What might seem like a simple handshake marks a historic step forward in the peace process rela
- 2012-06-27Writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron, pictured in her New York home in 2010, died at age 71 on Tuesday, June 26. She is known for her romantic comedies with strong female characters.
- 2012-06-27U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel and the Clintons have a long history. Rangel welcomed President Bill Clinton in a huge embrace on July 30, 2001, the first day in his Harlem business offices.
- 2012-06-27A surfer walks along the water's edge at sunset at Bolsa Chica State Beach in Orange County, California. Bolsa Chica received a five-star rating in the National Resources Defense Council's "Testing the Waters" report, exceeding the gro
- 2012-06-27Before there was "Friends With Benefits" and "No Strings Attached," the Nora Ephron-scripted "When Harry Met Sally ..." asked, "Can men and women ever just be friends?" After 12 years of debating the ubiquitous ques
- 2012-06-27Students from the Iberoamerican University chant a school cheer during a protest last weekend in Mexico City. A video they uploaded to YouTube helped launch a nationwide youth protest movement. The demonstrators have added fuel to the political frenzy lea
- 2012-06-27Fastjet, Africa's new low-cost airline, is expected to make its inuagural flight in three to four months.
- 2012-06-27Houses in Miotoni Ridge, a 14-mansion development in Nairobi, Kenya, are designed for the highest-end of the luxury market.
- 2012-06-27Wadi Rum is a vast area of protected desert in southern Jordan. Its red sands stretch like seas between mountains of sandstone.
- 2012-06-27Cardoons are grown for the edible stalks, but the flowers are too compelling to discard.
- 2012-06-26A Pakistani soldier in Karachi destroys seized bottles of liquor during a ceremony Tuesday to mark International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
- 2012-06-26Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square after Mohamed Morsi is declared the nation's first democratically elected president on Sunday, June 24. In a nationally televised speech, the longtime member of the Muslim Brotherhood promised to represe
- 2012-06-26Mugly, campeón de este año, parece muy desconcertado con su título.
- 2012-06-26A house in Lecanto, Florida, is partially destroyed after a tornado associated with Tropical Storm Debby passed through over the weekend. The slow-moving Debby has buffeted parts of Florida with driving rains and high winds as it hovers off the Gulf of Me
- 2012-06-26Australian "supermare" Black Caviar made it 22 wins from 22 races at Royal Ascot on Saturday, but only just. It took a photo finish to seperate Black Caviar and second-placed horse Moonlight Cloud.
- 2012-06-26CNN producer Chris Erickson and his team partnered with technology enthusiast Desha Rogers to launch a video-equipped weather balloon in hopes of capturing video from the edge of space. The National Weather Service station at Peachtree City, Georgia, allo
- 2012-06-26The fire consumed Wangdue Phodrang Dzong Sunday afternoon.
- 2012-06-25An umpire sits to judge a game on the first day of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London on Monday.
- 2012-06-25Kari Greer ha pasado años fotografiando los incendios forestales y a los bomberos en Estados Unidos. En esta foto, un bombero trabaja en un operativo de baja intensidad.
- 2012-06-25The last time the AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed in Washington was 1996. The quilt will return to the National Mall starting June 27. Click through to meet some of the people who helped care for and prepare the quilt for its journey.
- 2012-06-24The 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards show was held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday, June 23. Tune in to HLN at 8pm ET on Sunday to see the Daytime Emmy Awards.
- 2012-06-24Armed mutinied policemen stand on the roof of a police headquarters in La Paz, on June 23, 2012 during a police strike demanding a salary increase.
- 2012-06-24Tall ships participate in the Windjammer Parade on Saturday, June 23, 2012, in Kiel, Germany.
- 2012-06-23El nuevo jet "Happy Music Time" (hora musical feliz) fue estrenado esta semana.
- 2012-06-23Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse in handcuffs after a jury found him guilty in his sex abuse trial on Friday, June 22.
- 2012-06-23Twenty years after the historic Earth Summit, world leaders once again gathered in Rio de Janeiro for the Rio+20 -- the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. But there were some notable absentees including U.S. President Barack Obama and G
- 2012-06-22The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle is made by the Indian Space Research Organization to launch satellites into geostationary orbit. The first developed launch system, GSLV-D1 is shown here in its launchpad in March 2001. The first flight took pla
- 2012-06-22San Francisco-based inventor Steve Hoefer has developed a prototype haptic device which applies pressure to the wrist when objects come in range of its sensors.
- 2012-06-22Travel remains difficult in parts of northeastern Minnesota after intense flash flooding. Here, the St. Louis River rises in Brookston, near Cloquet, on Thursday, June 21.
- 2012-06-22Miami Heat fans celebrate the team's win over the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2012 NBA Finals on Thursday, June 21 in Miami.
- 2012-06-22The Italo train from NTV is Italy's first high-speed rail operation not run by the state.
- 2012-06-22NATO Black Hawk helicopters fly near the Spozhmai Hotel near Kabul on Friday, June 22. Taliban militants attacked the hotel Friday and seized dozens of hostages, sparking a fierce gunbattle with Afghan and NATO troops that left 26 people dead, authorities
- 2012-06-22Photographer Kari Greer has spent years documenting wildfires and firefighters in much of the United States. In this photo, a firefighter works a low-intensity burn operation June 14 at Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico.
- 2012-06-21A Bulgarian man cools off in a waterfall Thursday during a heat wave, near the town of Blagoevgrad. Temperatures in Bulgaria reached 99 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 2012-06-21In the last installment of our "city smackdown" series, iReporters made the case for Philadelphia versus Detroit.
- 2012-06-21Environmental campaigner, Bianca Jagger has joined forces with the International Union for Conservation of Nature to urge people to "Plant a Pledge" -- an online campaign urging governments and businesses to meet the Bonn Challenge, which aims t
- 2012-06-21Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres arrive in Los Angeles.
- 2012-06-21Iconic American artist LeRoy Neiman, seen here with his 1980 painting depicting gamblers, died in New York on Wednesday, June 20. He was 91.
- 2012-06-21A summer solstice reveler stands in front of Stonehenge, the prehistoric monument near Salisbury, England, where hundreds gather annually on June 21, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
- 2012-06-21For Royal Ascot 2012, organizers have issued a style guide to advise race goers on how to dress for the annual meeting. Gentlemen in the Royal Enclosure must wear black or grey morning dress.
- 2012-06-21Ryan Gravel is leading efforts to regenerate an abandoned railroad in Atlanta, transforming it and adjacent land into attractive public trails and parks.
- 2012-06-21Usain Bolt strikes his trademark pose after claiming gold in the 100 meters at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
- 2012-06-21Certified: Living -- A state-of-the-art water-reclamation facility and environmental education center in New York, the OCSL is the first green building in the United States to receive both LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge certification.
- 2012-06-21African designers presented their creations during the 10th annual Dakar Fashion Week in the Senegal capital. Here, a model displays a tribal-inspired head piece by Moroccan designer Jamila Lafqir.
- 2012-06-20Edward Leedskalnin built the Coral Castle as a monument to the woman who broke his heart.
- 2012-06-20Jennifer Lopez performs during a concert Tuesday in Santiago, Chile, as part of her "Dance Again" world tour.
- 2012-06-20Tamara Vandermoon shows a photo of her as a bruised 19-year-old after she beaten up by her pimp.
- 2012-06-20New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras is sworn in as Greece's new prime minister during a ceremony at the presidental palace in Athens on June 20, 2012.
- 2012-06-20Click through this gallery to see stories of ten patient cases involving medical mistakes. "Mistakes are happening every day in every hospital in the country that we're just not catching," says Dr. Albert Wu, an internist at Johns Hopkins H
- 2012-06-20Rome's romantic sites, such as the Trevi Fountain, play a role in Woody Allen's latest film, "To Rome With Love."
- 2012-06-20American decathlete Bryan Clay shows off his 2008 Olympic gold medal in a publicity shot.
- 2012-06-20Mario Chalmers, Chris Bosh, top, and Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat celebrate after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 104-98 in Game 4 of the 2012 NBA Finals on Tuesday, June 19.
- 2012-06-19CNN iReporter Bryan Maltais of Fort Collins, Colorado, took this picture of the Colorado fire from the cliffs above Horsetooth Reservoir in Larimer County. He started documenting the situation on June 10. "Many people I know have been brought to tear
- 2012-06-19The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa in Cape Town, South Africa, has open-air gazebos where you can have your treatment looking out over the water. See more photos of the spas at BudgetTravel.com.
- 2012-06-19Caribou graze on the tundra in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
- 2012-06-19A five-month-old orphaned elephant called Tembo plays Tuesday with his keeper, Thomas Chalice, who has nutured the elephant at Tony Fitzjohn's rhino sanctuary in Mkomazi, Tanzania.
- 2012-06-19The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published its annual Red List, which details threats to animals and plants. The 2012 report has assessed more than 60,000 species. Coral reefs are among the most threatened organisms on Earth,
- 2012-06-19The BeltLine is regenerating a large swathe of Atlanta's urban area, developing an old train line into cycle paths and walkways. Parks are also rising up on old industrial land adjacent to the railroad. The Historic Fourth Ward Park (pictured) opened
- 2012-06-19Gahaya Links is a Rwandan handicraft company with over 4,500 employees in more than 40 cooperatives across the country.
- 2012-06-19CNN's Errol Barnett checks the claim that Kenyans, known as #KOTs in the twitterverse, are one of the most vocal groups on social networks. On this week's Inside Africa, he sets off on a mission to meet some tech-savvy Kenyans, like Pierra Mcken
- 2012-06-19Residents of Mexico City are embracing a creative recycling program that is turning trash into food.
- 2012-06-19A new breed of short-stay, pay-by-the-hour micro-hotels popping up in airport terminals around the world. Pictured is a Yotel premium cabin. Yotel operates in London's Heathrow and Gatwick, and Amsterdam's Schiphol airports.
- 2012-06-19The "Theme Pavilion"at Expo 2012 in Yeosu, South Korea was designed by Austrian architecture firm Soma to be as low-tech as possible and utilize ideas inspired by the natural world.
- 2012-06-18Roger Clemens speaks to the media in Washington on Monday, June 18, after he was found not guilty of lying to Congress during an investigation of steroid use among Major League players. Click through the gallery for a look back at his career.
- 2012-06-18Shelley Chen is one of many iReporters who shared her artistic creation, inspired by the book and HBO television series "Game of Thrones," which recently concluded its second season: "I loved Ned in the first season and wish he could have h
- 2012-06-18Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sits in a 1961 Rambler owned by Michael Scheib, left, during a campaign event Sunday at K's Hamburger in Troy, Ohio. Romney's father, George Romney, was the chairman and president of American Motors
- 2012-06-18Marian Coleman, curator at the Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center in Cassville, Georgia, stands at the entrance of the former schoolhouse. It was a Rosenwald School, one of more than 5,000 built in the rural South to educate black children before schools
- 2012-06-18Whole hog and pork skins from pitmaster Rodney Scott of Scott's Bar-B-Que, Hemingway, South Carolina
- 2012-06-18Austin, Texas, claims to be the live music capital of the world, and to prove their point, visitors don¹t even have to leave the airport to catch a show.
- 2012-06-18Amr Mohamed, de 19 años, es uno de los ganadores globales del concurso organizado por YouTube y respaldado por el científico Stephen Hawking.
- 2012-06-18Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat dunks against the Oklahoma City Thunder in game three of the 2012 NBA Finals in Miami on Sunday, June 17. The Heat defeated the Thunder 91-85.
- 2012-06-18Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, from left, Thabo Sefolosha and James Harden leave the court after the Thunder defeated the Miami Heat 105-94 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals Tuesday night.
- 2012-06-18Miami's Chris Bosh, left, and Dwyane Wade celebrate the Heat's 100-96 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 2 of the 2012 NBA Finals on Thursday.
- 2012-06-15Steelcase, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is one of the chief designers and manufacturers of office furniture.
- 2012-06-15Radiator Springs Racers, one of three new attractions that make up Disney's Cars Land, takes riders on a slot car adventure. The park opens June 15.
- 2012-06-15For the Ross family, the most memorable Father's Day was when Chuck Ross saved his son's life after he was run over by a car. Kathi Ross says her husband's police training saved their son's life. He used to be a homebuilder until losin
- 2012-06-15El SeaOrbiter empezará a ser construido en octubre de este año.
- 2012-06-15Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux roam around Paris.
- 2012-06-15Ryan Buchanan, 17, was trapped underground without oxygen for 15 to 20 minutes after a sand tunnel collapsed on him at a beach in June 2011. In a persistent vegetative state, Ryan can breathe on his own but has a tracheostomy tube so his breathing isn&apo
- 2012-06-15Disused airplanes go to Tarmac Aerosave's hanger facility in southern France to be dismantled and stored.
- 2012-06-15President Barack Obama greets a crowd at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Thursday, June 14. Obama visited the World Trade Center to get an update on its growth and help prepare some of the finishing touches.
- 2012-06-15Replica drachma notes are displayed outside a bank on June 14, 2012 in Athens, Greece. The country goes to the polls on June 17, its second election in six weeks. It was called after the May 6 elections failed to deliver a government for the country, whic
- 2012-06-15Chinese shoe maker Huajian has built a factory outside Adis Ababa, Ethiopia, employing some 550 local and Chinese workers.
- 2012-06-15The "Esimit Europa 2" is the first sailing boat to compete under the European emblem and the first to be given the honor to fly the European flag.
- 2012-06-15According to Cryil Christo, at the beginning of the 1980s there were over a million elephants roaming Africa. Today that number has dramatically fallen to "no more than 400,000."
- 2012-06-15Photography is one of the most important journalistic tools to tell a story. The following photos illustrate some of the tragedies that have profoundly changed the world. Here, children are shown in distress during fighting in the restive city of Homs in
- 2012-06-14A Rothschild giraffe calf is groomed by its mother Shahni on Thursday at the zoo in Hanover, Germany. The calf was born June 5.
- 2012-06-14Visitors get a preview of a sale of impressionist, modern and contemporary pieces at Sotheby's auction house in central London on Thursday, June 14. This piece by Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor is valued between $622,000 and $932,000. The
- 2012-06-14U.S.-based race car driver Milka Duno has eight major wins to her credit, including an overall win at the Miami Grand Prix in 2004 and a finish in second in the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race in 2007. She says: "When you feel clear about what you
- 2012-06-14An activist in Hong Kong closes his eyes during a hunger strike next to the portrait of late Chinese dissident Li Wangyang. Li was found dead in suspicious circumstances in his hospital ward in southcentral China's Hunan province.
- 2012-06-13Hudson Valley Foie Gras raises ducks from the time they hatch until the time they're slaughtered. All the ducks used to produce foie gras at Hudson Valley are Moulard male; a hybrid of male Muscovy and female Pekin ducks.
- 2012-06-13Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session Wednesday in Strasbourg, France.
- 2012-06-13Graffiti artists work on the details of their latest piece in Nairobi, Kenya. They paint political art highlighting corruption and compare national leaders to vultures.
- 2012-06-13"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain is available from Ecco Press.
- 2012-06-13A patient gets an innoculation. Click through the gallery to see some vintage visits to the doctor, in the days when patients thought the doctor was always right.
- 2012-06-13David Watson is one of more than 5 million long-term unemployed Americans. The former Marine and resident of Sanford, Florida, has been without a job for more than a year despite a relentless pursuit for employment. He has interviewed for more than 60 po
- 2012-06-13Australian racehorse Black Caviar wears a compression suit as she arrives at Heathrow airport ahead of Royal Ascot.
- 2012-06-12Polish and Russian football fans clash in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday ahead of the match between Poland and Russia at the Euro 2012 championships.
- 2012-06-12A woman touches the coffin of Cuban boxing great Teofilo Stevenson on Tuesday in Havana, Cuba. The three-time Olympic gold medalist died Monday.
- 2012-06-12Una imagen satelital del Mar Chukchi, entre Alaska y Rusia, muestra el brote de fitoplancton (en verde).
- 2012-06-12One week after sporting a shoulder-length 'do at the MTV Movie Awards, Charlize Theron stepped out with a hat perched on top of her newly shaved head. The latest celeb to ditch her flowing locks for a role, Theron will reportedly play Furiosa in &quo
- 2012-06-12Eric Dane spends time with his family at the beach in Malibu.
- 2012-06-12Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton shows reporters Azaria's death certificate outside a Darwin court Tuesday after coroner Elizabeth Morris rules that a dingo caused her baby's death 32 years ago.
- 2012-06-12Captain Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings holds up the Stanley Cup after his team defeated the New Jersey Devils 6-1 on Monday, June 11.
- 2012-06-11The home base of Dallas' most famous TV dynasty actually sits just outside of the city, in Parker, Texas. The house has served as a conference center and event site since the 1980s.
- 2012-06-11Demonstrators help a fellow protester, who is lying down in front of Egypt's cabinet office, during a hunger strike in Cairo on Monday. The protesters oppose politicians and policies associated with former President Hosni Mubarak.
- 2012-06-11Beedis, traditional Indian cigarettes, account for almost half of India's tobacco industry, but the millions of workers who make them are trapped in modern day economic slavery.
- 2012-06-11Cala habló este lunes sobre el Jubileo de la reina Isabel II con Elena Brouwer, Carlos Alberto Montaner y Samuel Burke.
- 2012-06-11Robby Mandel, 16, navigates a flooded parking lot in Pensacola, Florida, on Saturday, June 9, as torrential rains inundate the Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama.
- 2012-06-11Neil Patrick Harris
- 2012-06-11The SeaOrbiter is a 12-year project designed by architect Jacques Rougerie. Building of the unique live-aboard, ocean-going vessel is set to begin later this year.
- 2012-06-11A satellite image of the Chukchi Sea, between Alaska and Russia, shows phytoplankton bloom (in green).
- 2012-06-10American pop singer and teen idol Bobby Vee in a fresh-faced 1960 publicity still. The North Dakota native had been signed to a record label the year before at 16.
- 2012-06-09A Mexican spotted owl sits in a tree in Coronado National Forest. The owl is a threatened species, and until a few days ago its presence in Miller Canyon was a matter of speculation. But now that it has surfaced, the owl could be a game-changer in the wat
- 2012-06-09President Barack Obama with a personalized jersey presented to him by the Super Bowl champion New York Giants on June 8, 2012. From left: Zak DeOssie, Victor Cruz and Eli Manning
- 2012-06-08Military artifacts, including pistols and propaganda, are on display at the Pancho Villa State Park Museum in Columbus, New Mexico. Columbus was raided in 1916 by Villa and his army, leaving dozens dead.
- 2012-06-08Designed by UK-based engineers Reaction Engines Ltd, the Skylon project is a radical idea for future space travel.
- 2012-06-08Prince Charles wears headphones as he learns how to scratch and fade with a turntable as he visits UforChange, an arts program for low-income and newcomer youth in Toronto.
- 2012-06-08Adele wore four pairs of Spanx to the 2012 Grammys. She had to take off two pairs before her performance.
- 2012-06-08Universal Studios is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year by restoring classic films like "Jaws" and "The Birds." In honor of the milestone, we're taking a look back at some of the studio's classic flicks, such as &quo
- 2012-06-08Singapore's 250-acre green development, Gardens by the Bay, is part of Singapore's redevelopment and new downtown area at Marina Bay. It features three waterfront gardens -- Bay East, Bay Central and Bay South, which opens to the public on June
- 2012-06-08Early on the morning of May 29, near Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Jefferson County, Colorado, technicians readied Dream Chaser for its first flight test.
- 2012-06-07Poland will co-host the 2012 European Championship with Ukraine. Here, workers unfurl a banner of Poland's Germany-based striker Robert Lewandowski. The national team has had little to cheer about in recent years and slumped to 75th in FIFA's wo
- 2012-06-07Jesse Friedman and Laura Hadden are cooking a meal from each of the 193 United Nations member countries, plus the two permanently observing non-members, the Holy See (Vatican City) and Palestine. After the couple completes a meal from the country, they sc
- 2012-06-07Rows of retired B-52 bombers fill "The Boneyard" of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group based at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona. Click through the photos to see additional places that attract aviation enthu
- 2012-06-07Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies Thursday before the Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill.
- 2012-06-07Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo is widely considered the second best player in the world after Argentine player Lionel Messi. A master of the free kick with mesmerizing ball skills, Ronaldo, at his best, is a player that you simply can't stop watch
- 2012-06-07Un avión con 153 personas se estrelló el domingo, 3 de junio, en un barrio residencial de Lagos, la ciudad más poblada de Nigeria. No hubo sobrevivientes.
- 2012-06-07Born in 1904, Clyfford Still's early work in the 1930s reflected his environment: rugged farm hands and laborers toiling away during the Great Depression.
- 2012-06-07Rio de Janeiro will host the United Nations conference on sustainable development from June 20-22.
- 2012-06-07Country singer Carrie Underwood performs Wednesday, June 6, at the 2012 Country Music Television Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Underwood took away the award for Video of the Year for her hit song, "Good Girl."
- 2012-06-07Khaled Gamal, 18, lives in Manshiyat Nasr, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Cairo, Egypt. He joined in some of the protests last year in Tahrir Square but says he couldn't afford to miss work too often to protest.
- 2012-06-07Egyptian student Amr Mohamed, 19, is one of the global winners of the YouTube Space Lab competition, which asked students to design experiments for space scientists.
- 2012-06-06The building that was home to the boxing legend Joe Frazier's gym in North Philadelphia has no official historic designation.
- 2012-06-06A barge carries the Space Shuttle Enterprise past the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on Wednesday, June 6. The shuttle is on its way to the USS Intrepid Museum, where it will be on display aboard the former aircraft carrier.
- 2012-06-06Seattle and Portland finished neck and neck in our unscientific poll, but Portland lovers were the clear victors when it came to enthusiasm.
- 2012-06-06Thai schoolchildren gather during a ceremony Wednesday for donation of various items from the king of Thailand in the restive southern province of Narathiwat.
- 2012-06-06After months of a rumored commitment, Miley Cyrus, 19, is officially engaged to Liam Hemsworth, who she met when the pair co-starred in "The Last Song" in 2009. The 22-year-old Australian actor proposed to Cyrus on May 31 with a 3.5-carat diamon
- 2012-06-06Betsey Johnson does a split on the runway at the Betsey Johnson Fall 2012 fashion show. She is also known for doing a cartwheel at the end of each fashion show.
- 2012-06-06This year's summer TV slate is wielding some serious star power. We're counting off new and old shows (with their premiere dates) we'll be checking out at least once over the coming months, including ABC's "Wipeout," the perf
- 2012-06-06Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses supporters Tuesday night after winning the Wisconsin recall election, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
- 2012-06-06Venus apareció como un punto negro frente al sol el martes, durante el fenómeno llamado "Tránsito de Venus".
- 2012-06-06Venus appears as a black spot against the sun on Tuesday, as seen from the west side of Manhattan in New York. Astronomers around the world are training their telescopes on the skies to watch the transit of Venus as it passes between Earth and the sun.
- 2012-06-06Photographer Ahn Sehong has taken a series of portraits of so-called "comfort women," Korean women who were forcibly taken from their country and used as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during WWII.
- 2012-06-06A sea of candles accompanies rallying cries of "Never forget June 4!", "Redress June 4!", "Persevere to the end!" at a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to mark 23 years since the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
- 2012-06-0505/06/2012 - Ibrahimovic on the spot: Sweden beat Serbia 2-1 in a pre-Euro 2012 friendly in Stockholm, as striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores the winner from the penalty spot. Tournament co-hosts Ukraine lost 2-0 to Turkey, while Karim Benzema scored twice
- 2012-06-05A catador, or scavenger, picks through trash at Jardim Gramacho, a massive landfill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The three-decades old landfill was shut down Sunday.
- 2012-06-05A woman holds her malnourished child at a therapeutic feeding center at al-Sabyeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on Monday.
- 2012-06-05This pooch gets into the Diamond Jubilee festivities at a London street party Saturday, June 2, 2012, the first of four days celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne.
- 2012-06-05The British royal family has a very close and historic association with the sea. "Her Majesty's Yacht (HMY) Britannia," (pictured) built in 1953 for Queen Elizabeth II, was designed to her exact specifications. She once described the lavish
- 2012-06-05Baidu's Jennifer Li offers some tough love: "We as women, we need to start and act; not thinking about the issues -- because I feel gender in the work environment should not be a factor when it comes to how far you can go."
- 2012-06-05Kobe Bryant helped the U.S. men's team win basketball gold at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
- 2012-06-05Queen Elizabeth II meets American singer Lady Gaga following the Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, England on December 7, 2009. Returning to the British seaside town for the first time since 1955, the Royal Variety Performance is an annual event whi
- 2012-06-04A barge carries the space shuttle Enterprise toward the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York on Sunday. The shuttle is on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will be put on permanent display.
- 2012-06-04Lisa Capretto propietaria de Rocco dijo que la foto de su perro es un esfuerzo para que Obama gane las elecciones.
- 2012-06-04Rescue workers remove a victim of Sunday's plane crash in a Lagos, Nigeria, residential area on Monday, June 4. All 153 people aboard were killed.
- 2012-06-04Olivia Culpo, Miss Rhode Island, is surrounded by contestants after winning the 2012 Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas, Nevada, Sunday.
- 2012-06-04Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan
- 2012-06-04A young girl jumps across a ditch in front of her home in Kibera, the Kenyan squatter settlement that is one of Africa's biggest slums. Children raised in Kibera have no yards or suitable open spaces to play in.
- 2012-06-04Katarzyna Biniek captured this image of a spectacular light show at a fountain in central Wroclaw. The city is known as Poland's "little Venice," she says, and with displays like this it effortlessly "captures the modern, fun face"
- 2012-06-04Beginning the night of June 3, 1989, and stretching into the early morning of June 4, Chinese troops used lethal force to end a seven-week-long occupation of Tiananmen Square by democracy protestors in Beijing. In this photo, students and workers armed w
- 2012-06-03Richard Dawson in the waiting room of a hospital in London in 1960 after the birth of his first son. Dawson died Saturday of esophageal cancer, his family said. He was 79.
- 2012-06-03Egyptians gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday, June 3, for a second day of protests over former President Hosni Mubarak's sentence of life in prison.
- 2012-06-03"Bounce Evolution" let phone users roll a ball through 3-D environments. Rovio made 51 games before "Angry Birds."
- 2012-06-03The headquarters of Rovio, makers of "Angry Birds," sits on an inlet of the Gulf of Finland in a suburb of Helsinki. Rovio occupies four floors of this office building.
- 2012-06-01Both campaigns have spent millions on Internet ads. Mitt Romney's tend to feature images of the candidate with messages like "Ready to Lead," while President Obama's stand in stark contrast with images of the first lady, the first fami
- 2012-06-01Rocco Giovani Meatball Capretto's owner Lisa Capretto says this picture of her dog is her effort at campaigning.
- 2012-06-01Selena Gomez pumps gas into her car in Encino, California.
- 2012-06-01Sweeping public health initiatives have been a trademark of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration. A ban on the sale of large-size sodas and other sugary beverages at restaurants and food carts is the latest proposal. Here's a look a
- 2012-06-01Mitt Romney should have had a good copy editor take a look at that new mobile app first.
- 2012-06-01Snigdha Nandipati, 14, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night by properly spelling "guetapens," which means an ambush snare or trap.
- 2012-06-01One Flew South, in Terminal E of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, offers upscale, Southern-influenced cuisine amid stylish surroundings in one of the world's busiest airports.
- 2012-06-01Kristen Stewart is the latest in a long line of actresses play Snow White. The "Twilight" actress stars alongside Charlize Theron's evil Queen in "Snow White and the Huntsman" -- in theaters today. The darker twist on the classic
- 2012-06-01U.S. Sen. John Edwards, center, and other senators discuss President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial on February 3, 1999. More than a year later, Vice President Al Gore reportedly put Edwards on his "short list" as a running mate on the 20
- 2012-06-01President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush, first lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush enter the East Room of the White House for Bush's portrait unveiling.