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Our best photos from the last 24 hours.

The Presidential diet
9:40pm EDT

President Obama eating things.

Clashes over disputed islands
9:35pm EDT

Protests break out over disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as Senkaku in Japan, Tiaoyutai in Taiwan or Diaoyu in China.

Obama on TV
5:45pm EDT

The President making the television rounds.

Beard face-off
5:35pm EDT

Facial hair is grown, then groomed, for the 2012 European Beard and Moustache Championships in France.

Obama: On the trail
5:25pm EDT

President Obama campaigns for a second term.

Chavez graffiti
5:20pm EDT

Supporters of Hugo Chavez are using graffiti to strenghten his standing with the youth ahead of the Venezuela election.

Electric cars
4:41pm EDT

Electric vehicle models and concepts from around the world.

Romney holding babies
3:15pm EDT

The Republican nominee and the voters of tomorrow.

iHeartRadio Music Festival
12:21pm EDT

Highlights from the two-day iHeartRadio Music Festival.

Legacy of Mao
12:06pm EDT

The revered founder of Communist China is everywhere, from billboards to T-shirts.

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The king of the Amazon

21 Sep 2012

In the first hour we already had three large fish at least one and a half meters long. The pirarucu is the true king of the river, as they are called in the Amazon. It took more than one man to pull each one into the canoe.

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Of gain and loss (and the longest story I’ve ever done)

21 Sep 2012

In the summer of 2011 I started a photo story on an almost 300 pound teenager who was planning bariatric surgery as a last resort to lose weight. When a photojournalist starts a project like this there is always a lot of doubt.

Weekly Gallery Showcase

A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an AK-47 rifle in Aleppo.  REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

Syria's indoor war

The fighting inside abandoned homes.  Slideshow 

The Man is engulfed in flames during the Burning Man 2012 festival in Nevada. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

Burning Man

Scenes from the middle of the Nevada desert.  Slideshow 

Fashion designer Betsey Johnson walks through the kitchen of her home in New York. REUTERS/Keith Bedford

A day with Betsey Johnson

Behind-the-scenes with the fashion designer.   Slideshow 

Bailiffs try to remove a protester from the Occupy Central movement, at the HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

The evolution of Occupy

The rise of the international Occupy movement.   Slideshow