Journalism of Courage
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to meet President of Guinea, Alpha Conde at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on Wednesday (October 28). (Source: PTI)
Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg during an interaction with IIT students at IIT Delhi on Wednesday. (Source: PTI)
U.S. President Barack Obama poses for a selfie taken by veteran star player Abby Wambach as he welcomes the United States Women's National Soccer Team to the White House in Washington to honor their victory in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, October 27. (Source: Reuters)
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reacts to reporters' questions as she exits the hearing room for a lunch break from testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington October 22. The congressional committee is investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, when Clinton was the secretary of state. (Source: Reuters)
In the March 21, 2011, file photo, people look out at tsunami damage from a hill where there is a shelter set up in a school in Minamisanriku, Japan. Up and down the coast of the Pacific Northwest in the United States, communities have been intensifying their efforts to protect lives when the region is hit by a killer quake and tsunami, which seismologists say is inevitable. (Source: AP)
The moon rises behind the skyline in Toronto, October 26. (Source: Reuters)
A fisherman checks is trap on the Kahayan River after intermittent rainfall over the last few days cleared away the heavy haze which blanketed the city of Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia October 29. Indonesia's weather agency failed to predict that the effects of the El Nino weather phenomenon this year would be worse than in 1997, a senior minister said on Wednesday, as the government considers declaring a national emergency due to forest fires. The fires raging across the archipelago have created a haze that has blanketed much of Southeast Asia in recent months and, according to authorities, have left more than half a million Indonesians suffering from respiratory ailments. (Source: Reuters)
In this August 29, 2015 photo, a factory worker checks her notebook as two men lie on a bed in a rented room in the Hlaing Tharyar industrial zone on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. A family of six pay Kyat 50,000 (US Dollar 38) per month and share this 80 square foot (7.4 square meter) room. Though Myanmars growth is over 8.5 percent, and foreign direct investment topped $8 billion in this year, more than a third of Myanmars 51.4 million people still live on less than $1.25 a day. Their reality is urban slums dominated by gangs, factories paying workers barely enough to get by, and a near absence of public services. (Source: AP)
A resident (L) wades on a river with their belongings while a fire razed residential area of Tambo town, Paranaque city, south of Manila October 29. At least some 50 houses made of light materials were destroyed by fire, affecting 150 families according to a Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) official. (Source: Reuters)
Members of the ancient Samaritan community attend the pilgrimage for the holiday of the Tabernacles or Sukkot at the religion's holiest site on the top of Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, early Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. According to tradition, the Samaritans are descendants of Jews who were not deported when the Assyrians conquered Israel in the 8th century B.C. Of the small community of close to 700 people, half live in a village at Mount Gerizim, and the rest in the city of Holon near Tel Aviv. (Source: AP)
A indigenous boy from Gaviao tribe play in the sand during the first World Games for Indigenous Peoples in Palmas, Brazil, October 28. (Source: Reuters)
A woman pays her respects in front of the gravestone of her son who died for the country, at the national cemetery in Seoul, in this June 5, 2013 file photo. (Source: Reuters)
People wear the American flag as students and protesters gather at the "Free Speech Zone" located at the University of Colorado's Business Field, while candidates gather across the street for a forum held by CNBC, before the U.S. Republican presidential candidates debate in Boulder, Colorado, October 28. (Source: Reuters)
A surfer watches as a wave rises above him at Waimea Bay Beach Park, near Haleiwa, Hawaii, on the North Shore of Oahu, Wednesday, October 28. The north shores of all the Hawaiian Islands were under a high surf warning on Wednesday, with forecasters expecting 25- to 30-foot waves to mark the start of Hawaii's big-wave season. (Source: AP)
Women protest proposed changes in abortion laws as Congress debates the changes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, October 28. A proposed bill would make it a crime to induce or assist a pregnant woman with an abortion. Currently, only women who were raped, whose life is in danger, or whose fetus is gravely deformed can legally have an abortion. The new law, if passed, would require a rape victim to get a forensic exam and file a police report to prove they are the victim of sexual violence. (Source: AP)
Sonya Abdel Rahman, 77, displays her inked finger after she casts her vote at a polling station of the runoff to the first round of the parliamentary elections in Giza, just outside of Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, October 27. (Source: AP)
Migrants wait to cross the Slovenia-Austria border in Sentilj, Slovenia, October 27. The first five border guards - all German - of 400 promised to Slovenia by fellow EU countries are expected to arrive on Wednesday to help channel a huge flow of migrants through the tiny Alpine state, its government said. Interior Ministry state secretary Bostjan Sefic also said 100-120 customs police would join Slovenian soldiers, regular police and private security firms in dealing with an influx that has strapped the country's limited resources. (Source: Reuters)
Women take pictures between stone sculptures of half-buried people at the Lapindo mud field in Sidoarjo, October 11. Disaster tourism has become more common in Indonesia, where visitors are drawn to sites of earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions to witness the aftermath of catastrophes or simply do some soul-searching. (Source: Reuters)
A Palestinian protester jumps over burning tyres during clashes with Israeli troops near the Jewish settlement of Bet El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah October 26. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the possibility of revoking benefits and travel rights of some Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday, in response to a wave of Palestinian violence. (Source: Reuters)
A woman holds a parasol as she stands in a field of fireweed, or Kochia scoparia, on a sunny autumn day at the Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachi, north of Tokyo, October 26, 2015. Fireweed is a grass bush that takes on a bright red colour in autumn. (Source: Reuters)
Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain leaps off of his car after winning the U.S. F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas October 25. Hamilton clinched his third Formula One world championship on Sunday after winning a thrilling and unpredictable U.S. Grand Prix for Mercedes. (Source: Reuters)
A newlywed couple walks in the old city, a historical center of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, October 28. (Source: AP)
An artist from Cirque du Soleil performs during a media preview of the production "Totem," Tuesday, October 27, in Singapore, where they will be performing until the end of the year. (Source: AP)
Handcuffs lie on the floor at the entrance of ACUDA's headquarters at a complex of ten prisons in Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil August 28. Down a dirt road in the Amazonian state of Rondonia, prisoners convicted of murder, theft and other crimes get a rare release from the day-to-day hardships of a penal system known for violence and overcrowding. ACUDA (Association for the Cultural Development of Prisoners), a local charity in the capital city of Porto Velho, trains detainees in spiritual and physical healing practices such as Ayurvedic massage as well as in vocational skills including car mechanics and gardening. The therapies have one goal, says Luiz Carlos Marques, the charity's founder - educating inmates about the possibilities of life beyond crime. (Source: Reuters)
Inmates do yoga stretches and breathing exercises as part of the ACUDA programme, at a complex of ten prisons in Porto Velho, Rondonia State, Brazil, August 28. Down a dirt road in the Amazonian state of Rondonia, prisoners convicted of murder, theft and other crimes get a rare release from the day-to-day hardships of a penal system known for violence and overcrowding. ACUDA (Association for the Cultural Development of Prisoners), a local charity in the capital city of Porto Velho, trains detainees in spiritual and physical healing practices such as Ayurvedic massage as well as in vocational skills including car mechanics and gardening. The therapies have one goal, says Luiz Carlos Marques, the charity's founder - educating inmates about the possibilities of life beyond crime. (Source: Reuters)
A man holds three children wearing thermal blankets after their arrival in bad weather from Turkey on the Greek island of Lesbos, Wednesday, October 28. Greeces government says it is preparing a rent-assistance program to cope with a growing number of refugees, who face the oncoming winter and mounting resistance in Europe. (Source: AP)
Rehmatud Din, center, who lost his daughter in Monday's earthquake, salvages what he can from his destroyed house caused by Monday's earthquake in Chitral town, northern Pakistan, Thursday, October 29. People in the Pakistani town of Chitral, one of the closest to the quake's epicenter, say Thursday they are too poor to rebuild their homes and need government help. Repairs are needed urgently, as snow is already falling on nearby mountains. (Source: AP)
