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The international spotlight is on the small Melanesian nation of Papua New Guinea where the level of violence against women is among the highest in the world.

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Photographer Jeff Sheng started his “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” project, photographing closeted service members in the U.S. military affected by DADT, knowing only one thing for sure–that he wouldn’t be a...

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Today, thousands of students around the United States are falling quiet. Participating in National Day of Silence, they hope to raise awareness to the continued harassment and discrimination faced by ...

If all goes as planned, souls of deceased loved ones will be welcomed home this evening, at least in Mexico, where friends and family have been preparing for their arrival for weeks. Today is Day 2 of...

(Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images) One hundred years ago, before the age of the automobile and shortly  after the invention of the airplane, a group of Yoshino cherry trees  were forced to bid adieu to the land of the rising sun and start anew, like so many other immigrants had, in a new land.   Madam Hiroshi Kawamura, the wife of a diplomat and her children, walk beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C., in 1925. (Getty Images) The bid to get the cherry trees, sent as a gift of friendship from the city of Tokyo, to Washington,  D.C., had begun…

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One of our own happens to be visiting Japan during the Cherry Blossom festival. ABC News photo editor Deana Mitchell captured these moving images of the cherry blossom trees while in Tokyo. The peak in Japan ranged from mid to late March this year. The cherry blossom season is relatively short;  peak bloom occurs just one week after the first blossoms appear. In Washington, D.C., this week is considered the peak time so it’s not too late to get outside and enjoy the bloom.  All images by Deana Mitchell.            

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Every day on her 3-and-a-half mile trek to and from the Upper East Side of Manhattan, through Central Park, down to the midtown building that houses The New York Times Magazine, where she works as a associate photo editor, Stacey Baker keeps an eye out for interesting legs. It comes naturally to the Chicago-native. Baker said she’s always been drawn to legs. “Some women want to be taller or have larger breasts, in my case, I always wanted to have longer legs,” she said.  When she sees a pair that inspire her, she whips out her iphone and enters into…

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