Posted By: Jerome Adamstein
Posted On: 10:18 a.m. | April 21, 2011
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 85th birthday by visiting London's Westminster Abbey, days before her grandson Prince William is to be married there. The monarch attended the Royal Maundy service, an Easter tradition in which the sovereign gives out specially-minted silver coins to the elderly; President Barack Obama is on a trip out West; and in Italy, the city of Rome celebrates... View Post»
Posted By: Scott Harrison
Posted On: 12:31 a.m. | April 21, 2011
Six graders march during original Earth Day in 1970. View Post»
Posted By: Bryan Chan
Posted On: 1:22 p.m. | April 20, 2011
Photojournalist Tim Hetherington and Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros were killed in Misurata, Libya, on Wednesday, according to a colleague working with them. View Post»
Posted By: Marc Martin
Posted On: 9:46 a.m. | April 20, 2011
We begin Wednesday's Pictures in the News feature in Louisiana, where it was one year ago today that an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and spewed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the gulf.
This is the week leading up to Easter, and countries around the world are marking the holiday in many different ways. In the West Bank, Christian... View Post»
Posted By: Scott Harrison
Posted On: 12:55 a.m. | April 20, 2011
Dodgers fan caught on film trying to steal second. View Post»
Posted By: Bryan Chan
Posted On: 7:35 p.m. | April 19, 2011
One year after the Deepwater Horizon accident, life in many parts of the region is getting back to normal. Times photographer Carolyn Cole spent 10 days in the area recently to document how life has changed. She found shrimpers eager for the season to open soon, wildlife recovering, tourists tentatively returning and cleanup crews still on duty to remove oil. Cole, who covered the oil spill... View Post»
Posted By: Katy Newton
Posted On: 6:58 p.m. | April 19, 2011
Stepping into the Wounded Heart gift shop on Vo Thi Sau Street, your eyes instantly fix onto the colorful bright bags, bowls, linens, and picture frames fashioned from the flotsam of this crowded, largely poor city that once was synonymous with urban warfare. After that moment passes, you begin to notice the staff. Many are disabled unable to speak or hear or walk through the aisles. Yet they... View Post»
Posted By: Bryan Chan
Posted On: 10:49 a.m. | April 19, 2011
Today's first batch of Pictures in the News features a playful white tiger cub climbing on the head of a photographer as he tries to shoot photos, a youth practicing parkour flying off a wall with London as a backdrop, students in earthquake-damaged Sendai, Japan learning their lessons surrounded by cardboard walls in a makeshift school and a suspected arson fire at Barcelona's historic Sagrada... View Post»
![Photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros killed in Libya [Updated]](http://latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/la-hondros005.jpg)
