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After members of the cult The Restoration of the Ten Commandments perished at Kanungu, Uganda, the body count was in fact a head count, A physician walked through the charred remains, his pen bobbing as the tallied skulls. “Three hundred…

Terrance Williams, 12, plays a shooting game with his friends at Victory Park fountain in Louisville. One day prior, a woman was killed in a drive-by shooting in her home one block from the park.

A two-year-old girl peers from a window in a house she shares with 18 other relatives in a North Jersey suburb. Like her aunt beside her, she and the others are undocumented aliens from Costa Rica.

Jean Justic reads cost comparisons to her husband Ed as they spend the day driving to area pharmacies to price their monthly prescriptions. As of January first, she and her husband Ed, who both suffer from arthritis, will lose their HMO benefits…

Black and white congregations who share a church, but have separate services, join for a fellowship meeting in the social hall. Initially the plan was to worship together, but at Trinity Baptist the white congregation decided their styles of worship…

Ibrahim Al-Shalami, 32, waits for customers who rarely arrive in Basra, Iraq. The veteran, who fought on the front lines during the Iran and the Gulf War, has 13 used models for sale, nine of them working and tuned to the only station. Such is life…

Family members listen to a surgeon report the condition of Patsy Gould and her husband Neil, who is receiving one of her kidneys. The Goulds spent 7 hours under the knife in a rare spousal transplant. After the life changing procedure, Neil…

Cameroon’s pristine forests are being destroyed by logging and the roads cut, turn small towns into rivers of red mud.

In the pediatric hospital’s morgue, scores of children die each week end are placed in boxes where there used to be sheets and body bags. A place that used to be like most morgues, cold rooms with ice cold refrigerated body storage. Only…

A new resident at the Ramey-Estep Home for Boys in Ashland, KY, gets “initiated” by older boys at the home. Peer pressure is the main source of therapy for these young offenders.