CNN Site Map (Galleries) for April - 2012
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- 2012-04-30In February, more than 35,000 people attended the 2nd Annual Comic Con India in New Delhi. Comic book enthusiasts, families and visitors were treated to new comic books (from mythology to horror) workshops, panels, cosplay (or costume play), speakers and
- 2012-04-30This composite photo shows candidates for the French presidency, Francois Hollande, left, and incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
- 2012-04-30The turbine can produce up to 1,000 liters of drinking water every day, according to Eole Water.
- 2012-04-30A young boy flexes his muscles during a regional bodybuilding competition in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Bodybuilding is one of the country's most popular sports, even permitted during the 1996-2001 Taliban regime.
- 2012-04-30The Columbus Sport 130' Hybrid is powered by twin electrical and diesel engines that reduce emissions as well as running costs.
- 2012-04-30Lebanese photographer Roger Moukarzel swapped his warm studio in Beirut for the frozen mountains of Lulea in northern Sweden. He was here to create a series of striking images that would highlight the cause and effect of climate change.
- 2012-04-30Sprinter Dwain Chambers, 34, tested positive for the designer drug THG in 2003. he was given a two-year ban from athletics and a lifetime Olympic ban. He was stripped of his silver medal won in the 100m relay at the 2003 World Championships. The bust also
- 2012-04-29Host Jimmy Kimmel gives President Obama a high five after Kimmel finishes his speech at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday, April 28, 2012.
- 2012-04-28A new survey of Pacific reef sharks has shown that numbers are dwindling dramatically in areas near islands with human populations.
- 2012-04-27Construction sites, like this one at the future home of Full Moon Bar-B-Que, are commonplace in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which is rebuilding after last year's devastating tornado.
- 2012-04-2718-year-old Malik Mohammad dreams of swimming for his country Afghanistan at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.
- 2012-04-27NASA's 747 shuttle carrier aircraft takes the space shuttle Enterprise on its final flight from Washington to New York on Friday, April 27, 2012.
- 2012-04-27Terri Lavery says she believes her brother, Rodney Cox, was injured and seeking help when he was mistaken for a prowler and shot to death before dawn on November 3, 2004.
- 2012-04-27The newest addition of the British royal family, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, celebrates her first wedding anniversary with Prince William of Wales, Duke of Cambridge, this weekend. She's been on the move since her marriage, including playing fie
- 2012-04-27Australian superstar mare Black Caviar will make history if she wins her 20th race in a row at Morphetville on Sunday.
- 2012-04-27Gwen Stefani takes her sons to a birthday party in Los Angeles.
- 2012-04-27Four-time Olympic gold medallist Janet Evans has returned to the pool in the hope of once again qualifying for the U.S. team. It will be a big ask for the 40-year-old, who retired from competitive swimming 15 years ago.
- 2012-04-26How skilled are you at Draw Something? Let's find out. Here are portraits of 20 celebrities, all by Draw Something users. See how many you can guess!
- 2012-04-26Livia Firth is a passionate advocate of green issues. She founded the Green Carpet Challenge with British fashion journalist Lucy Siegle in 2009. The effort to promote sustainable fashion at award cermonies and premieres has attracted some of the biggest
- 2012-04-26A lion faces off with a crocodile. An apex predator, lions eat a broad range of hoofed mammals, including zebras, antelopes, gazelles, wildebeest, warthogs, giraffes and buffalo -- even rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses and elephants on occasion. They also eat
- 2012-04-26Charles Taylor, leader of the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) waves to recruits 28 May 1990 upon seizing the port of Buchanan, 200 kms (120 miles) from the capital Monrovia.
- 2012-04-26At Noma, chef Rene Redzepi serves traditional Scandinavian cuisine with a twist. The gourmet restaurant holds two Michelin stars and was ranked as the Best Restaurant in the World by Restaurant Magazine 2010 and 2011.
- 2012-04-26Coach Ronald Chavez watches as Filipino World Junior Champion Eumir Marcial (left) is put through his paces in the ring.
- 2012-04-26Once you make your own soft pretzels for the first time, you'll be wanting to make them all the time. After you master the steps, it won't ever seem complicated again.
- 2012-04-26First lady Michelle Obama meets with children of Executive Office employees in the East Room of the White House on Thursday during the White House's annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
- 2012-04-26The hominid exhibit at Manila's new science and natural history museum: "It is a big challenge to educate the public about evolution, but it's not that our people are so unaccepting," said Maria Isabel Garcia, curator of The Mind Museu
- 2012-04-25Thousands of people fleeing the bitter conflict in the border areas of Sudan and South Sudan have found a temporary home in the Jamam refugee camp.
- 2012-04-25Protesters hold placards with portraits of Philippine Supreme Court chief justice Renato Corona. The chief justice is being impeached in an ongoing and often televised trial.
- 2012-04-25Hindu devotees worship a sacred cow on the eve of Gopastami in Hyderabad on November 3, 2011. The cow is regarded by Hindus as gau mata, or maternal figure, and has had a long-standing central role in India's religious rituals.
- 2012-04-25The Chambers Hotel in New York is known for its in-house art collection, as well as the culinary artistry created by superstar chef David Chang. See more irresistible room service at Departures.com
- 2012-04-25This salute made Smith and Carlos famous. But what of sprinter Peter Norman, who finished second?
- 2012-04-25Queen Elizabeth II views a plaque commemorating the official reopening to the public of the Cutty Sark during a visit Wednesday to Greenwich, London, where the famed 19th-century clipper is on display. The ship was badly damaged by a fire in 2007.
- 2012-04-24Lionfish have become a serious problem for fishermen in Florida. Their numbers have swelled in recent years impacting the number of lobster they can catch.
- 2012-04-24The line-up of gadgets -- including the in-room iPad2 -- on offer at London's Ecclestone Hotel.
- 2012-04-24More than £400,000 ($650,000) has been donated to Claire Squire's Just Giving page as of Tuesday afternoon. Thousands of pounds were being pledged every few minutes as the link circulated on social media sites.
- 2012-04-24Indonesia's Surabaya Zoo was once one of the country's finest, but in recent years standards have declined to the point where 25 animals were dying each month. This caged Macaw has plucked out its feathers due to stress from living in cramped co
- 2012-04-24Photos: Brazilian actor dies after accidental hanging
- 2012-04-24The newly-restored Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, is set to open to the public on Thursday, April 26.
- 2012-04-24Tigers play in water at a Buddhist temple in Karnchanaburi province, Thailand, on Tuesday. Thailand is one of just 13 countries hosting fragile tiger populations and is a hub of international smuggling. Worldwide, the number of tigers is estimated to have
- 2012-04-24K'naan is a superstar from Somalia and a global hip-hop sensation. Critics have compared him to both Bob Marley and Eminem.
- 2012-04-24El sitio web estatal Cubadebate publicó lo que dice son nuevas fotos del presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez.
- 2012-04-24 A model stands in front of a limited edition Jeep, designed with a dragon logo especially made for the China market - a first for Jeep.
- 2012-04-23An aerial view of the World Trade Center site and National 9/11 Memorial in New York. More than 2 million people have visited the memorial since it opened last year.
- 2012-04-23Graffiti marks a campaign poster of French President Nicolas Sarkozy outside a polling station in Henin-Beaumont, France, on Sunday. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande topped Sarkozy in the first round of the country's presidential elections.
- 2012-04-23The Karakoram mountains in the western Himalayas as seen from a NASA satellite. New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience is showing that some of the glaciers in the region have experienced small gains in mass in the 21st century.
- 2012-04-23Eight inches of snow covered parts of Somerset, Pennsylvania, on Monday. A storm beginning in the Northeast pushed west, covering Spring blooms.
- 2012-04-23Japanese elections are as a rule more civilized than their U.S. counterparts, but that doesn't stop them from enjoying the American political "matsuri."
- 2012-04-23There are only between 350 and 550 right whales remaining, making it one of the most threatened large animals on the planet.
- 2012-04-23Celebrity Indian chef Sanjeev Kapoor took up the Fusion Journey challenge, making a gastronomic pilgrimage from Mumbai, India's most populous city, to the stylish Danish capital of Copenhagen. His task was to blend the contrasting culinary traditions
- 2012-04-22With 70 miles of protected coastline, Padre Island in Texas is the longest undeveloped barrier island in the world. The island is favored nesting ground for the endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle and is inhabited by more than 380 species of birds.
- 2012-04-22At least 125 people were injured when two passenger trains collided in Amsterdam on Saturday, April 21, 2012, national police said.
- 2012-04-22Noah "40" Shebib, a music producer, was diagnosed with MS in his early 20s. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, unpredictable disease of the central nervous system.
- 2012-04-22Environmental activists parade through the streets of Malang, Indonesia to mark the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day.
- 2012-04-21A horse grazes in a patch of bluebonnet flowers in Ennis, Texas, the "bluebonnet capital of North Texas."
- 2012-04-21Pakistani rescue workers and local residents search the site of a plane crash in Rawalpindi on Friday, April 20. There is "no chance" of any survivors after a plane carrying up to 130 people crashed while trying to land in bad weather near Islam
- 2012-04-21Jack Nicholson at home in Los Angeles, 1969. In an issue of LIFE from March 1970, the magazine noted that Nicholson "is a rock fan who enjoys his music with a headset."
- 2012-04-20Jennifer Hudson films a commercial in Los Angeles.
- 2012-04-20The scoreboard before the game between the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays during the home opener on April 13 .
- 2012-04-20Cindy Sherman, who worked as her own model for more than 30 years, is widely recognized as one of the most important contemporary artists. Her work is the subject of a retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art that showcases 171 of her images fro
- 2012-04-20Populations of the heath fritillary (pictured) have increased in southern England after the introduction of a new forestry management scheme.
- 2012-04-20Friends of Dick Clark, who died Tuesday at age 82, shared photos they took with him over the years. The Drifters were one of the first African-American groups to be featured on Clarks' show "American Bandstand," in its early days in Philade
- 2012-04-20Levon Helm of The Band in Woodstock, New York, 1968.
- 2012-04-20Thermal imaging can provide a useful snapshot of where buildings are losing heat, allowing householders to target insulation efforts more effectively.
- 2012-04-19The Bedford Post is a luxury inn designed and owned by actor couple Richard Gere and Carey Lowell.
- 2012-04-19Janie Lambert met her husband-to-be in 1966. They went to his senior prom together, left, in 1968 and married in 1970. "Here is to 40 more years!" she said. "Sometimes puppy love is the real thing."
- 2012-04-19A sillhouetted photographer take pictures of Dick Clark's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star on Wednesday. Clark, who created and hosted "American Bandstand," died of a massive heart attack Tuesday at age 82.
- 2012-04-19Images of Hanaa' Malallah's shoes appear in many of her artworks, including being embroidered in "USA Heritage Flag," from 2012. Malallah is fascinated with the 2008 incident when an Iraqi journalist threw shoes at former President Geo
- 2012-04-18El Bedford Post Inn es un hotel de lujo diseñado y de propiedad de Richard Gere y su esposa, Carey Lowell.
- 2012-04-18Neal Rowland changed the name of the French Fries he served at his North Carolina restaurant to Freedom Fries in 2003 to show his disgust with what many viewed as the French government's delaying tactics over Iraq.
- 2012-04-18Kuwaiti firemen from the national guard, the army and the oil sector join efforts to contain a massive fire in a dump of more than 5 million used tires in Kuwait City on Tuesday. Members of parliament described the fire as an "environmental catastrop
- 2012-04-18Hotel Costa Verde. La puerta de emergencia de este 727 dirige hacia un relajante almuerzo en una terraza construida sobre el ala derecha del avión.
- 2012-04-18One of a handful of haunting memorials that stand on the field of Isandlwana, where the Zulu army defeated the British in one of the most famous battles of the 19th century Zulu wars.
- 2012-04-18Halina Wind with the Catholic sewer worker Leopold Socha on her birthday, March 1, 1946, in Gliwice, Poland, two months before he died.
- 2012-04-17Nombre: Jamil Ammar
- 2012-04-17A lion walks through the Pafuri game reserve in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Tracker Renias Mhlongo was born under a tree in the park.
- 2012-04-17Inez Boissevain is one of the women detailed within "Secret Heroes" as the "American Joan of Arc." Boissevain was a suffragist, labor lawyer, WWI correspondent and public speaker.
- 2012-04-17Australian-born rapper Iggy Azalea, 21, performed at The Basement at Graveyard Tavern in East Atlanta on March 29, 2012.
- 2012-04-17Discovery flies into the sunrise above Kennedy Space Center on its final flight.
- 2012-04-17I'm Your Present Etsy store owner Kelly Eident creates her sheer-top outfits with oversized shirts from thrift stores. She says she loves incorporating cats, especially tigers, into her clothing. "Animal prints like leopard print are always in s
- 2012-04-17Rusty Bowers, the owner of Pine Street Market in Avondale Estates, Georgia, gets weekly deliveries of Berkshire pork from rancher Tommy Searcy at Gum Creek Farms. Bowers buys whole pigs which are delivered as primal cuts.
- 2012-04-17Mohamed Sbihi -- nicknamed Moe -- was born near London and is of Moroccan descent. He was discovered by the British team's talent identification programme while at school in 2003.
- 2012-04-17Tupac Shakur still has it. The rapper, who died at age 25 in 1996, entertained audiences via hologram at Coachella on Sunday. Pac's eerily realistic performance has some fans tweeting that, even in death, the "Hail Mary" rapper is a better
- 2012-04-16Mario Breuer nos recibió en su estudio, Breuer Producciones.
- 2012-04-16Reed Williamson was 3 years old when he called his father "Daddy" instead of "juice box." His mom, Lindsay, said, "At 2, when he was first truly diagnosed, we had no idea of where he would go or what he would do."
- 2012-04-16More than a decade ago, more than 265 chimpanzees -- including Howard, pictured here in 2002 -- spent their days at a New Mexico medical research facility being poked, prodded and confined to small cages. Then, the Save the Chimps foundation intervened.
- 2012-04-16There's a good chance Bradley Cooper's Sexiest Man Alive title didn't win the actor his upcoming role in Williamstown Theatre Festival's production of "The Elephant Man." Patricia Clarkson will star alongside Cooper in Berna
- 2012-04-15 A house is left damaged after an aparent tornado hit on Saturday, April 14, in Thurman, Iowa. The National Weather Service received more than 88 reports by late Saturday of possible tornado touchdowns in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa, said Pat Sl
- 2012-04-15Photojournalist Jul