French truckers block roads to protest high fuel prices
Truckers in France block traffic in a protest against rising fuel prices on the Paris-Lille motorway, northern France, June 30, 2008. French truckers began blocki ... english.people.com.cn |
Russia's Batirov wins Olympic men's freestyle wrestling 60kg gold
&$ &$Mavlet Batirov of Russia celebrates victory during the men's freestyle 60kg gold medal match at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games wrestling event in Beijing, China, Aug. 19, 2008. Mavlet Batirov won the bout over Vasvl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine and got the gold medal. (Xinhua Photo)&$&$ Russia's Mavlet Batirov defeated Vasyl Fedoryshyn of Ukraine to win the gold medal in the men's freestyle wrestling 60kg category ... english.people.com.cn |
Farm Boy’s Photos Tell Long-Ago Stories of an Iowa Town
The photographs of Everett W. Kuntz, whom everybody called Scoop because of the camera he always carried as a teenager in the late 1930s, have finally been published. nytimes.com |
What War Looks Like
A harrowing account of a Doctors Without Borders mission to Afghanistan; part photojournalism, part graphic memoir. nytimes.com |
Details on the Tribeca Film Festival
The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival will begin on Wednesday and run through May 2, with screenings of 85 features and 47 short films at locations in Lower Manhattan. The festival will also include postscreening panel discussions and conversations with directors and actors, as well as free events like the Tribeca Drive-In, with outdoor screenings at the World Financial Center Plaza, North Cove, at 200 Vesey Street (Thursday to April 24, beginning at sundown with activities beginning earlier, at 6 p.m... nytimes.com |