Editor's choice

Our best photos from the last 24 hours.

Salvaging belongings amid rubble
Tue, May 21 2013

Oklahoma residents pick through the rubble of their shattered homes searching for personal belongings.

Tornado tears through Oklahoma
Tue, May 21 2013

A huge tornado tears through an Oklahoma City suburb.

Panama neighborhood ablaze
Tue, May 21 2013

More than 70 wooden homes were set on fire, leaving more than 100 people homeless in Panama.

Best of Cannes
Tue, May 21 2013

Style and scenes from the Cannes Film Festival.

Oklahoma from above
Tue, May 21 2013

Aerial photographs show the destruction in Moore, after a massive tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb.

Chelsea Flower Show
Tue, May 21 2013

The Queen, Prince Harry as well as garden gnomes turn up at the 100th annual Chelsea Flower Show.

El Salvador's gang truce
Tue, May 21 2013

Inmates handed over handmade knives and other banned articles in an effort to keep the truce between gangs Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).

The Syrian front
Tue, May 21 2013

The frontlines of the war in Syria.

On the banks of North Korea
Tue, May 21 2013

The Yalu River provides a unique vantage point for photographers to glimpse life in the secretive North Korean state.

Billboard Music Awards
Tue, May 21 2013

Highlights from the Billboard Music Awards.

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A special performance

21 May 2013

Luismi Astorga clasps his hands as he lifts his head up to the sky.

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The blind cheering the blind

21 May 2013

When I told friends or family that I was going to cover a blind track and field tournament they asked some variation of “how?”

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Seaside nuclear power

21 May 2013

Located beachside I immediately thought of basing the main photo for this trip on this famous “ukiyoe” print by the artist Hokusai.

Weekly Gallery Showcase

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Death in the murder capital

Inside the most violent city in the world.   Slideshow 

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World Trade Center rising

The spire rises to its full height of 1,776 feet.   Slideshow 

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India's missing daughters

Hundreds of girls go missing in Delhi every year.  Slideshow 

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North Dakota booming

Now the biggest oil-producing state after Texas.  Slideshow