Photograph: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
Haiti — There was pain in Jean François’s eyes, real suffering, an awful look of woe.
It might have been that he had little to eat that day, or his lack of a job or any real hope of securing one. Perhaps it stemmed from the squalor in his neighborhood, a [...]

What else can be said about the images by Brent Stirton that probably hasn’t already been said a hundred times over? Check out this incredible series featuring Tribes of the Omo Valley (Southern Ethiopia). It hardly gets much better than this.

At least 100 predominantly Sunni militiamen of the CLC, also known as Awakening Council members, have been killed within the past month. Left, a member of the CLC warmed himself over a morning fire in southern Arab Jabour, a rural, overwhelmingly Sunni area less than 10 miles southeast of Baghdad on the Tigris River.
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A man jumped on a burned-out vehicle after he and other supporters of Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, set barricades on fire on a road in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.
SOURCE : The New York Times – Violent Clashes in Kenya (Slideshow)

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Photo: The New York Times
A movie poster in the city. Peshawar’s booming business in illicit Western and Indian DVDs has been another target of the militants. Many of the city’s myriad retail outlets have closed after being bombed, or threatened with violence.
SOURCE : The New York Times – Peshawar Under Siege (Slideshow)