The Week: Most Recent from Elena Scotti

The longest Ferris wheel ride

The Week — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:55:00 -0400

Clinton Shepherd, park operations manager of Chicago's Navy Pier, spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds awake on a Ferris wheel. That shattered the previous record of 25 hours. Shepherd's secret? His Ferris wheel gondola had a big screen TV and Xbox Live on which Shepherd played Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and watched James Bond and Batman movies. He also drank a whole lot of Mountain Dew Kickstart to stay awake.

The week's best photojournalism

The Week — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:58:00 -0400

A Rohingya Muslim woman living in a displacement camp in Myanmar wears traditional thanaka paste made from ground bark. The country's ongoing violence has forced authorities to segregate Muslims from the country's Buddhist majority. Click through for a look at more of the week's most eye-catching images from around the globe.

Photo of the day

The Week — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:00 -0400

President Barack Obama checks for rain during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House. The president and prime minister discussed the civil war in Syria, and Obama also fielded questions on the ongoing IRS and DOJ scandals. Click through for more newsy images from around the globe.

The week's best photojournalism

The Week — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:20:00 -0400

A worker hand-picks giant tecolote ranunculus flowers at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, Calif. Click through for a look at more of the week's most eye-catching images from around the globe.

13 delightfully crazy Kentucky Derby hats

The Week — Sat, 04 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400

Get your mint juleps ready, folks, because it's Derby day. Saturday marks the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. And as most everyone knows, it's not all about the ponies. Endearingly over-the-top hats are also a major part of the festivities. Here, a photographic guide to some of our favorites from years past:

May 6, 2006 (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

May 3, 2003 (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

May 3, 2008 (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

May 2, 2009 (REUTERS/Brent Smith)

May 2, 2009 (REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)

May 7, 2011 (Frank Jansky/ZUMA Press...

The week's best photojournalism

The Week — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:00:00 -0400

A female laborer carries a stack of bricks at a factory on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Chennai. Click through for a look at more of the week's most captivating images from around the world.

Weird news photo quiz

The Week — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:20:00 -0400

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The Week — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:00:00 -0400

A soldier carries an elderly survivor as he runs down a stretch of the road to Lingguan township in Ya'an, Sichuan province. Rescuers struggled to reach a remote, rural corner of southwestern China as the toll of the dead and missing from the country's worst earthquake in three years climbed to more than 200, with almost 1,000 serious injuries. Click through for a look at more of the week's most captivating images.

The week's best photojournalism

The Week — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:00:00 -0400

A visitor next to a fence near the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea. The barrier is decorated with ribbons, on which people have written their hopes for peace and reunification of the divided Korean peninsula. Click through for a look at more of the week's most captivating images from around the globe.

The Boston Marathon bombings: 9 newspaper front pages from around the U.S.

The Week — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:35:00 -0400

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Today's front page thinglink.com/scene/38067042…
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 16, 2013

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Very proud to wake up to see this. RT @mikekeeganmen: Brilliant from the Chicago Tribune. twitter.com/mikekeeganmen/…
— Jimmy Greenfield (@jcgreenx) April 16, 2013

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Here's our wraparound cover on the #BostonMarathon in today's Newsday: ow.ly/i/1TV39
— Newsday (@Newsday) April 16, 2013

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The week's best photojournalism

The Week — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:30:00 -0400

A worker cleans a fountain during a dust storm in Benghazi, Libya. Click through for a look at more of the week's most remarkable images from around the globe.

April showers: A medley of umbrellas from around the world

The Week — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:57:00 -0400

The cold days of winter are finally over, and spring is upon us! Soon enough, the plants that have gone into hiding will grace us with their green leaves, but not without a little help from Mother Nature. We all know what springtime means: Lots and lots of rain. And with that rain comes umbrellas. So let's embrace the wet season with this colorful medley of umbrellas from around the world:

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Jammu, India (REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta)

Jerusalem, Israel (REUTERS/Baz Ratner)

Durban, South Africa (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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The Week — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:30:00 -0400

Penitents of "San Esteban" brotherhood embrace next to a poster for a church event during Holy Week in Seville, Spain. Hundreds of Easter processions take place around the clock in Spain during Holy Week, drawing thousands of visitors. Click through for a look at more of the week's most eye-catching images from around the globe.

Weird news photo quiz

The Week — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:45:00 -0400

The brilliant colors of India's Holi festival

The Week — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:10:00 -0400

To mark the end of winter and the arrival of spring, millions of Hindus from India and elsewhere celebrate Holi, the festival of colors. The national holiday officially begins March 27, but regional variations of Holi have taken place across the country in recent weeks. Devotees dance and throw colored powders known as "gulal" at each other to welcome the warm months to come. The use of gulal, which can also be mixed with water to form a dye, has its roots in the story of the love affair between the god Krishna and Radha. According to legend, Krishna, often depicted with a blue complexion...

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The Week — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:00:00 -0400

A Hindu devotee is doused in a cloud of colored powder inside a temple during "Lathmar Holi" at the village of Barsana in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In a Holi tradition unique to Barsana and Nandgaon villages, men sing provocative songs to gain the attention of women. Click through for a look at more of the week's most eye-catching images from around the globe