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Sarah Hedgecock · 03/07/14 04:10PM

[An athlete representing Ukraine enters the arena during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi on Friday. Image via Dmitry Lovetsky.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/07/14 10:55AM

[A Ukrainian Navy officer looks at the scuttled decommissioned Russian vessel "Ochakov" from the Black Sea shore of western Crimea on Thursday. In the early hours of Thursday Russian naval personnel scuttled the ship, blockading access for five Ukrainian Naval vessels now trapped inside of the Southern Naval Headquarters. Image via Darko Vojinovic/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/06/14 01:00PM

[Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stands with Sen. Tom Coburn after giving him a rifle, on stage at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., on Thursday. Image via Susan Walsh/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/04/14 05:25PM

[Oscar Pistorius hugs his sister inside court at the end of the second day of his trial at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day 2013. Image via Antoine de Ras, Pool/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/04/14 10:55AM

[Performers from the Uniao da Ilha do Governador samba school parade during Carnaval celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday, the final day of festivities. Image via Silvia Izquierdo/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/28/14 02:25PM

[A pedestrian blocks the heavy winds with her umbrella in Los Angeles on Friday. The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows. Image via Damian Dovarganes/AP.]

Taylor Berman · 02/28/14 11:16AM

[An Israeli police officer points his gun at photographers and Palestinian demonstrators on Friday afternoon in East Jerusalem. Image via Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/27/14 02:12PM

[A Hindu devotee dressed as s demon lies on a representative funeral pyre during a "Shivratri" procession in Allahabad, India on Thursday. "Shivaratri", or the night of Shiva, is dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of death and destruction. Image via Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/26/14 04:27PM

[Flowers cover the ground and barricades on Wednesday where protesters were killed in a recent clash with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square. Image via Efrem Lukatsky/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/26/14 11:15AM

[Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus gather to await a food distribution from the United Nations Relief and Work Agency in January. Image via UNRWA Archives.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/25/14 02:09PM

[A North Korean woman on a bus weeps as she holds her South Korean relative's hand after the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain in North Koreaon Tuesday. The first reunions of North and South Koreans in more than three years have been held in North Korea. Image via Yonhap, Lee Ji-eun/AP/KOREA OUT.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/21/14 11:01AM

[Competitors in the women's ski cross small final, from left, Switzerland's Fanny Smith, Australia's Katya Crema, Austria's Katrin Ofner, and Sweden's Sandra Naeslund take the final jump at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Friday. Image via Andy Wong/AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/20/14 11:31AM

[Emma Eliasson of Sweden kneels on the ice after Team Sweden's 4-3 loss to Switzerland in the women's bronze medal ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Thursday. Image via Julio Cortez/AP.]

Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/19/14 08:30PM

[Venezuelan beauty queen Genesis Carmona was fatally shot today during an anti-government protest in Valencia. The 22-year-old was killed when unknown gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on the crowd of protestors. Image by Diario Notitarde and Mauricio Centeno via AP.]

Sarah Hedgecock · 02/19/14 01:01PM

[Russia forward Ilya Kovalchuk reacts after scoring a goal against Finland during the first period of a men's quarterfinal ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics on Wednesday. Image via Julio Cortez/AP.]

Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/18/14 08:10PM

[Prince Charles, dressed in traditional Saudi uniform, prepared to draw his sword during private visit to Saudi Arabia today. Image by Fayez Nureldine via AP.]