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    Amanda Golden

    Amanda Golden

    Editor-at-Large, Colgate University

  • How Some Kids Shed The Pounds In The World's Second-Most Obese Country

    Rising obesity among Chinese children has prompted some parents in the Asian nation to take drastic measures, for example by sending their overweight kids to summer camps designed to help them lose the pounds. Photographer Kevin Frayer recently traveled to one of these so called "fat camps," capturing both moments of joy and trepidation.

  • マレーシア航空機、ウクライナの墜落現場写真【画像・動画】

    ウクライナ人の抵抗運動グループは、墜落地点とみられる場所を示す動画を投稿した。以下に、撃墜された航空機の写真を掲載する。

  • 16 Of The Most Powerful Images To Come Out Of The Israel And Gaza Conflict

    Since Israel began its offensive against militants in the Gaza Strip last week, its military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes. At least 170 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds have been injured. Meanwhile, Palestinians have fired almost 1,000 rockets at Israel, but there have been no reported deaths, due in large part to Israel's anti-missile defense system called the Iron Dome.

  • LOOK: On This Day In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand Was Assassinated

    On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were on their way to a hospital in Sarajevo, when a young nationalist pulled out his gun and fired shots at short range. Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb, hit the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne in the jugular vein. When the young man then tried to kill the Austrian governor of Sarajevo, he hit Sophie instead.

  • PHOTOS: Hundreds Of Thousands Flee Iraqi City Under Militant Control

    Hundreds of thousands of residents of Mosul left their homes on Tuesday as militants of the Islamic State Of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) took over Iraq's second largest city. Pictures taken on Tuesday show long lines of men, women and children from Mosul and the surrounding province waiting to enter the country's autonomous Kurdish region. According to the International Organization for Migration, out of Mosul's 2 million residents an estimated 500,000 have already left.