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  • Mahesh Kumar A / AP

    A young Indian asthma patient is administered with fish medicine as others wait their turn in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Thousands of asthma patients lined up Tuesday to swallow a live three-centimeter-long fish stuffed with a medicinal paste in the hope that it would give them relief from nagging respiratory problems.

    Mahesh Kumar A / AP

    Administering 'fish medicine' in Hyderabad

    You can find more information about this annual event here, from Wikipedia or from Bing News here.

  • Ana Brigida

    Ana Brigida

    With few economic options, Mongolians turn to gold mining

    In Mongolia, herders are losing their animals in a series of summer droughts and increasingly harsh winters. Combined with the global recession and the end of Soviet subsidies, the country is facing an unemployment crisis, with herders turning to artisanal gold mining to make ends meet. Multimedia journalist Ana Brigida documented their lives and work last fall.

    Nearly 100,000 Mongolians are trying their luck digging in rural areas and around formal mining companies. Their holes and tunnels, often dug by hand with few safety precautions, can lead to collapses with deadly consequences.

    Artisanal mining is not legally recognized or organized by the government and as a result, miners lack social services or safety regulations. The government also criticizes these miners for using mercury, causing environment damage and the pollution of rivers.

    Watch this video by Ana Brigida to learn more about the miners daily lives and concerns.

  • Jeoffrey Maitem / Getty Images

    A Filipino woman hangs her soaked belongings on a washing line as flash floods hit the Southern Philippines, on June 2, in Sultan Kudart in Maguindanao Province, Philippines. Over 47,000 people have been displaced as a result of the flooding which have hit ten low-lying towns in the South. Aid and rescue operations have criticised the government for failing to address the problem; this being the third annual rainy season where flooding has had catastrophic effects.

    Rainy season

    Giant back pack and teddy bear? No...but it took me a minute to figure out exactly what I was seeing here.

  • Win McNamee/Getty Images

    A brown pelican coated in oil wallows in the surf in East Grand Terre Island, La., on Friday, June 4. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is coming ashore in large volumes across southern Louisiana coastal areas.

    Picture Editing for the Gulf Oil Spill

    Disasters often produce incredibly compelling photojournalism. Iconic images are already emerging from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and those responsible for gathering, editing and publishing these often heart-wrenching photos have a great deal of ethical decisions to make.

    Discussions are taking place in newsrooms around the world about how and why these images should be presented to you. Get a behind-the-scenes look at fundamental principles we grapple with on a daily basis as picture editors by reading the Poynter Institute's column HERE.

    Images like the one above are unquestionably difficult to look at, but they drive home the impact of our actions, and draw us into issues that deserve our attention. We chose to prominently display this image on Friday, moments after we received it. On Saturday, it was the lead image in the print edition of the New York Times.

    What's your assessment? Who is providing the best visual coverage of the disaster and what separates them from the rest of the pack? What could we do better?

    While you're at it, take a few minutes and see what we feel are the most compelling images in our slideshow, which can be seen HERE.

  • Len Redkoles / NHLI via Getty Images

    Ville Leino #22 and Simon Gagne #12 of the Philadelphia Flyers battle for the loose puck in the crease of goaltender Antti Niemi #31 of the Chicago Blackhawks with Dave Bolland #36, Niklas Hjalmarsson #4 and Brent Sopel #5 in Game Four of the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the Wachovia Center.

    Be there

    What’s there not to like about remote camera sports photography? The camera is often placed in a location where the photographer can’t physically be in and the result is an unique picture from the event. This frame is a perfect example.

    Click here to see more great images from the NHL Stanley Cup finals.

  • Heri Juanda / AP

    An Acehnese sharia police officer stands guard as a woman caught wearing pants changes into a government-issued skirt at a check point in Pasi Jambu, West Aceh, Indonesia, Thursday, May 27, 2010. Authorities in the devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province have distributed 20,000 long skirts and prohibited shops from selling tight dresses as a regulation banning Muslim women from wearing revealing clothing took effect Thursday.

    A government-mandated skirt

    What do you think of this province of Indonesia mandating non-revealing clothes for women?

  • Hassan Ammar / AP

    Soccer fans attend the unveiling of a giant banner of an image of former President Nelson Mandela, with the World Cup Soccer trophy on the Mandela bridge, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, June 4, 2010. The Soccer World Cup kicks off June 11.

    Excitement in South Africa

    It's refreshing to see joyful images coming out of South Africa during a week of difficult news pictures.

  • Carlos Campa / Reuters

    The Tungurahua volcano spews ash and rocks during an eruption in Banos, about 130 km (81 miles) southeast of Quito, June 2, 2010. Tungurahua has been classed as active since 1999 and had a strong eruption in 2008. It is one of eight active volcanoes in the country.

    Daniel LeClair / Reuters

    A woman cries inside her mud-filled home after a mudslide caused by Tropical Storm Agatha hit the el Pedregal neighborhood of Amatitlan May 31, 2010. Stunned victims of Agatha wept by destroyed homes and rescue crews dug bodies out of mud in Guatemala on Monday after torrential rain killed more than 100 people across Central America.

    Tim Wimborne / Reuters

    A surfer wipes out at a break known as "Fairy Bower" on Sydney's northern beaches May 31, 2010. A small number of Sydney surfers made the most of big swells that gale force winds bought to Sydney on Monday as Australia's east coast was drenched by an intense low pressure system.

    The images that didn't make "The Week in Pictures"

    We published The Week in Pictures yesterday. We considered the images above for the slideshow but they didn't make the cut. See this week's edition and let us know what you think of our choices.

  • Aliosha Marquez / AP

    Members of the media surround Joran van der Sloot, left, as he is escorted by Chilean authorities in Santiago, Chile on Friday, June 4, 2010. The Dutch man was detained Thursday after crossing the border from Peru, where authorities say he's the prime suspect in Sunday's killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores. Van der Sloot was previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalie Holloway, but later released by Dutch authorities.

    Joran van der Sloot in custody

    Click here to watch the TODAY show's report on van der Sloot's story.

  • Luis Benavides / AP

    A general view of burned houses in the Comuna 13 slum neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, June 3, 2010. A fire broke out leaving dozens of homes destroyed or badly damaged. No deaths have been reported.

    Fire in Medellin

    Color in this picture is really effective at showing the edges of the burned area. I wonder what options are available to the residents who lost their homes, and whether people in this area have any insurance.

  • Charlie Riedel / AP

    A Brown Pelican sits covered in oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

    Death sentence

    Photographer Charlie Riedel came across some oil-soaked pelicans today and made what I think are some of the most tragic images to come out of this event. (Update on June 4, 2010: Click here to see more of Riedel's pictures, and to hear him describe his experience on East Grand Terre Island.)

  • Sean Gardner / Reuters

    Oil floats on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico around a work boat at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico June 2. As the desperate effort to contain the gusher proceeded, the slick stretched farther. Tar balls and other oil debris from the giant, fragmented slick reached Alabama's Dauphin Island, parts of Mississippi and were less than 16 km (10 miles) from Florida's northwest Panhandle coast.

    Oil and water

    To see a variety of live feeds of the incident, go here.

  • Luis Acosta / AFP-Getty Images

    A Salvadorean migrant waits for a train to the border with the United States, in Lecheria, 30 km north of Mexico City, on June 1. On a visit to Washington in May, Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged the US government to repair an outmoded immigration system and do more to ensure that illegal guns do not flow across the countries' shared border.

    Waiting for a train

    There's no way this guy is going to miss his train, one way or another.

  • Noah Berger / AP

    In this June 26, 2009 file photo, Miss Ellie celebrates her win in the "World's Ugliest Dog Contest" at the Sonoma-Marin Fair, in Petaluma, Calif. The small, bug-eyed Chinese Crested Hairless dog whose pimples and lolling tongue helped her to also win Animal Planet's "World's Ugliest Dog" contest in 2009, has died at age 17 after a career in resort show business in the Smoky Mountains.

    'World's Ugliest Dog' passes away

    Rest in Peace, Miss Ellie.

  • Miguel Villagran / Getty Images

    An Afghan girl looks through a hole in tent at the local school on June 3, 2010 in Shir Khan, Afghanistan. Germany has more than 4,500 military forces in Afghanistan as part of the US-led International Security Assistance Force. Amid growing public resentment towards the prolonged mission in Afghanistan, the German parliament, the Bundestag, voted in February for extension of Germany's military mission in Afghanistan and the deployment of additional 859 troops.

    In Afghanistan, a rip in a tent is a school window

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