In this essay, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran.

On February 17th, 2009, the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, in charge of the S21 interrogation center during the Khmer Rouge regime, started at the ECCC.

"I went to India in 1959 for what was meant to be four months and I stayed for 14 years," Marilyn Silverstone once said. In 1977, she gave up her career as photographer and became a Buddhist nun.

During this historic time in United States history, Paolo Pellegrin photographed Washington, D.C. as the symbolic center of the Nation.

On April 3, 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces had launched an assault on Jenin refugee camp, home to some 14,000 Palestinians. Larry Towell photographed the aftermath.

" Islam means “Peace” – internal and external. It is essential, therefore, to know, practice and propagate Islam to attain peace in this life and the hereafter."

Washington D.C., January 20th, 2009 Change has come: the street has a voice too!

President Obama's middle name is in honor of his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama. “Hussein” is a derivative of the Arabic name Hassan, meaning “to be good,” “Husayn” is the affectionate form.

Alec Soth's images are paired with Bushisms, which refers to mispronunciations, unconventional words and phrasings by George W. Bush.

As thousands of people gather in Washington for Inauguration Day, Peter van Agtmael takes a reality check and shoots his way through the ecstatic crowds.

On January 20th, 2009, masses of people gathered on the Mall in Washington D.C. to witness the inauguration of President Obama.

The percentage of Vietnam’s population infected with HIV is still low, at less than 1 percent. Most Vietnamese living with HIV became infected through contaminated needles while injecting drugs, and within this group, the rate of infection is radically higher. Because heroin and other drugs are cheap and casual use is common, HIV infection through drug use affects a larger part of the population in Vietnam than in many other countries.

Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world, with more than one quarter of its population infected. Some 130,000 children have been orphaned or made vulnerable by the death of one or both of their parents. With so many infected, AIDS is impacting every aspect of life in Swaziland.