P&Ns middle name is and

[Victorian Gray]

Hyderabad, Pakistan Students at Primary Qazi Abdul Qayoom Medium school pray for the dozens of victims of the Karachi bus attack carried out by gunmen on motorcycles
Photograph: Rajput Yasir/Demotix/Corbis

A woman migrant is helped off of a tug boat in the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo, southern Italy, Monday. Nearly 5,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya and 10 bodies were recovered in less than 48 hours, Italy's coast guard said, in one of the biggest rescue operations this year. Antonio Parrinello/Reuters

 

[Victorian Gray]

From Smiles to Terror: A Moment in Syria

At left, Ghazal, 4, poses for the photographer along a street near the Syrian Arab Red Crescent center in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, minutes before what activists said was a shelling by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on May 6, 2015. At right, Ghazal runs from the explosion with her sister Judy, 7, who was carrying an 8-month-old named Suhair. #
Bassam Khabieh / Reuters

Minutes after having their portraits made and looking at the images on Khabieh’s camera, a shell explodes nearby, and Ghazal, Judy, Suhair, and others react in terror. Activists said the explosive was launched by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on May 6, 2015. #
Bassam Khabieh / Reuters

more:

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/from-smiles-to-terror-a-moment-in-syria/393164/

 

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[Tombstone1881]

 

[Sonikku]

 

[Fanatical Meat]

So true and so sad

 

[shortylickens]

Apparently it is, since the media spends way more time on him than real issues.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Residents, with their belongings, return to their villages on a pickup truck after Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters said that they retook control of the area from Islamic State in the southern countryside of Ras al-Ain on Wednesday. Rodi Said/Reuters

Girls play with balloons, inside a school where they are living with their displaced families who fled their home after a Saudi-led airstrike destroyed their houses, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday. The conflict in Yemen has killed more than 1,400 people — many of them civilians — since March 19, according to the UN. The country of some 25 million people has endured shortages of food, water, medicine, and electricity as a result of a Saudi-led blockade. Hani Mohammed/AP

Andaman Sea, Thailand Rohingya migrants on a boat found drifting off the Thai island of Koh Lipe. A migrant crisis is developing in the region, with Malaysia and Thailand turning away several boats in recent days
Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images

 

[Victorian Gray]

one for the Canuckians

 

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[Tombstone1881]

 

[Ichinisan]

one for the Canuckians

"Counselling" bothers me with the extra "L." Is that how Canuckians spell it?

 

[Victorian Gray]

"Counselling" bothers me with the extra "L." Is that how Canuckians spell it?

We still tend to use British spellings for the most part: colour, centre, defence, offence, counselling.

 

[nickqt]

We still tend to use British spellings for the most part: colour, centre, defence, offence, counselling.

I use British spellings for theatre and behaviour, no matter how much my spellcheck angrily underlines those words.

Counselling, though, is just plain silly.

While we're on the topic.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Cintia Alves, 24, holds her newborn daughter on their shared bed inside the nursery at the Bangu Penitentiary Complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 13, 2015. The prison allows inmate’s babies to live with them at the nursery for six months, allowing mothers to breast feed their newborns. The women say they dread the day when, what they call "the disconnection,” happens. #
Felipe Dana / AP

A man reads a newspaper as his friend looks at his mobile phone, as they sit next to collapsed houses on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday. Ahmad Masood/Reuters

Cocachacra, Peru Farmers opposed to a mining project in their city clash with riot police. Farmers and local leaders fear that the Tia Maria open-pit mine will contaminate irrigation water in the rice farming-rich Tambo valley on Peru’s desert coast
Photograph: Martin Mejia/AP

 

[Victorian Gray]

 

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one for the Canuckians

 

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Tensions between the Slavic-speaking majority of Macedonia and ethnic Albanians have been heightened after a police raid in the northern town of Kumanovo resulted in the deaths of 14 ethnic Albanians and eight policemen. Here a boy walks through the rubble of a damaged house in the town.
Photograph: Armend Nimani/AFP/Getty Images

In Bujumbura, Burundi, a man tries to protect a female police officer accused of shooting a protester opposed to the president’s decision to run for a third term. A mob of protesters chased, caught, beat and stoned the woman, who was later released back to the police.
Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

A protester takes cover from a water cannon behind his skateboard during a demonstration to demand changes in the education system in Santiago, Chile.
Photograph: Catherine Allen/Reuters

 

[Victorian Gray]

one for the Canuckians

 

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[Victorian Gray]

'nother one for the Canuckians