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Tokyo Skytree Turns One

See more photos of the Skytree by browsing the 東京スカイツリー (Tokyo Skytree) and 東京スカイツリー 天望デッキ location pages.

One year ago today, the Tokyo Skytree (東京スカイツリ) officially opened to the public. Standing 634 meters (2,080 feet), the Skytree is the tallest tower and the second largest structure in the world. The Skytree took four years to build and in the last year alone, over 6.3 million people visited the tower, with many capturing the experience on Instagram.

Also, check out our Skytree photo essay from last year, when it made its debut.

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Even in the midst of war, Syria’s fighters have been seen briefly putting aside their weapons for afternoon tea.

Read: Tea Time in Syria

[Images: Reuters]

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In Focus: 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

The 25th annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest is under way, and entries will be accepted for another six weeks, until June 30, 2013. First prize winner will receive a 10-day Galapagos expedition for two. National Geographic was once more kind enough to allow me to share some of the early entries with you here, gathered from four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place, and Spontaneous Moments. Photos and captions by the photographers.

See more. [Images: National Geographic Traveler Contest]

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPputaplaneonit

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a photo announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

This weekend’s tag was #WHPputaplaneonit, which asked participants to capture photographs of airplanes. Every Monday we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

Follow us on Instagram @icphotog

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reportagebygettyimages: “As we come round a bend, we are surprised as we come across 30-40 people lying face down on the ground, with their hands on their heads. It’s already too late, we have walked right into an ambush. Heavily armed men in military uniforms stop our vehicle, and throw us to the ground with the rest. I am wearing the full hijab, or abaya. I am afraid, very afraid. I don’t think they have seen me properly yet. Here, in these Malian lands, I would be worth a lot of money as a hostage… I think of my daughter. What was I thinking coming here?” Read more of Veronique De Viguerie’s account of photographing the recent conflict in Mali in the latest Reportage Journal. Caption: Boni, Mali - January 21: A group of refugees ambushed in the no man’s land between Mali and Burkina Faso. A group of heavily armed hooded men in military uniform forced them from their vehicles, and forced them to the ground. The perpetrators emptied the refugees’ bags and stole everything of value.

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“As we come round a bend, we are surprised as we come across 30-40 people lying face down on the ground, with their hands on their heads. It’s already too late, we have walked right into an ambush. Heavily armed men in military uniforms stop our vehicle, and throw us to the ground with the rest. I am wearing the full hijab, or abaya. I am afraid, very afraid. I don’t think they have seen me properly yet. Here, in these Malian lands, I would be worth a lot of money as a hostage… I think of my daughter. What was I thinking coming here?”

Read more of Veronique De Viguerie’s account of photographing the recent conflict in Mali in the latest Reportage Journal.

Caption: Boni, Mali - January 21: A group of refugees ambushed in the no man’s land between Mali and Burkina Faso. A group of heavily armed hooded men in military uniform forced them from their vehicles, and forced them to the ground. The perpetrators emptied the refugees’ bags and stole everything of value.

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FLUBBER DUCKY  Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s 54-foot-tall rubber duck is seen in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, on May 2 (top); after it suffered structural damage (middle); and finally, flat as a deflated souffle on Tuesday.  Police are looking to question Bert the Muppet, who was seen fleeing the scene with a giant needle.  (Photos: Bobby Yip / Reuters [top]; Tyrone Siu / Reuters [middle]; and Vincent Yu / AP via NBCNews.com)

Devastating.

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A bunch of pictures with Animals crossing the road? A bunch of pictures with animals crossing the road.

[Images: Reuters]

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The final piece of the spire at One World Trade Center is lifted into place in New York, May 10, 2013. The tower now rises to a symbolic 1776 feet, making it the tallest building in the western hemisphere. INSIDER IMAGES/Gary He (UNITED STATES)

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timelightbox: Photograph by Damir Sagolj—ReutersMay 9, 2013. A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore, Pakistan.From the safe return of three kidnap victims in Ohio and the rescue of a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a garment factory in Bangladesh to Israeli air strikes in Syria and a teddy bear hospital in Germany, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

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May 9, 2013. A man falls from a high floor of a burning building in central Lahore, Pakistan.

From the safe return of three kidnap victims in Ohio and the rescue of a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a garment factory in Bangladesh to Israeli air strikes in Syria and a teddy bear hospital in Germany, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

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reportagebygettyimages: The News Photographers Association of Canada interviewed Ian Willms, a Reportage Emerging Talent, about his project “As Long as the Sun Shines,” which won a judge’s special recognition in this year’s POYi. I came into this story thinking I’d do a photo essay on rising cancer rates in towns near the Oil Sands. But it has since become much more than that. I now see this work as being about a vanishing culture and that’s tied to a vanishing environment. This situation is a continuation of a long and painful history of abuses of the First Nations within Canada. Read more on the NPAC Web site. Caption: Aurora borealis is seen over Fort Chipewyan’s main cemetery, September 3rd, 2011. In recent years, the cemetery has been filled beyond capacity and will soon need to be expanded.

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The News Photographers Association of Canada interviewed Ian Willms, a Reportage Emerging Talent, about his project “As Long as the Sun Shines,” which won a judge’s special recognition in this year’s POYi.

I came into this story thinking I’d do a photo essay on rising cancer rates in towns near the Oil Sands. But it has since become much more than that. I now see this work as being about a vanishing culture and that’s tied to a vanishing environment. This situation is a continuation of a long and painful history of abuses of the First Nations within Canada.

Read more on the NPAC Web site.

Caption: Aurora borealis is seen over Fort Chipewyan’s main cemetery, September 3rd, 2011. In recent years, the cemetery has been filled beyond capacity and will soon need to be expanded.

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reuters: “There is a tear at the fabric of Syria.”  - humans rights researcher  Syria’s savagery is preventing peace: brutality has been used as a tool since revolt began two years ago, when videos emerged of government soldiers torturing pro-democracy protesters. In response to the crackdown, the opposition took up arms and now fighters from both sides are filming themselves committing atrocities.  Details of the worst atrocities are coming to light even now.  The United States and Russia have proposed a peace conference to try to end the war, but savagery from both sides means that the unlikely event of a peace agreement might not stop atrocities and fighting between increasingly disparate militias. At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria’s two-year conflict, but the death toll may be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.  Continue reading about Syria’s war.  Photo: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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“There is a tear at the fabric of Syria.”  - humans rights researcher 

Syria’s savagery is preventing peace: brutality has been used as a tool since revolt began two years ago, when videos emerged of government soldiers torturing pro-democracy protesters.

In response to the crackdown, the opposition took up arms and now fighters from both sides are filming themselves committing atrocities. 

Details of the worst atrocities are coming to light even now. 

The United States and Russia have proposed a peace conference to try to end the war, but savagery from both sides means that the unlikely event of a peace agreement might not stop atrocities and fighting between increasingly disparate militias.

At least 94,000 people have been killed during Syria’s two-year conflict, but the death toll may be as high as 120,000, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. 

Continue reading about Syria’s war. 

Photo: REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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We’re busy getting ready for “A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial,” opening this Friday, May 17! 

Follow us on Instagram for more behind-the scenes pictures of ICP! 

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Everyday there are lives at home and on the other side of the world that go unnoticed; lives that may matter little to the personal hustle of trying to pay rent, get children to do their homework or figure out how late to leave the couch and still make it to work on time; but everyday photojournalists celebrate these lives.

From children playing while 1,034-plus bodies are pulled from the rubble of a clothing factory in Savar where shirts are sewn for wealthy westerners, to the tattered remains of an American flag on a still ravaged New Jersey coast line on the six month anniversary of Hurricane Sandy; these documentary images take us beyond a scrolling news flash on the bottom of a cable news show and ask us to look. To look and if we stop long enough to force us to stare for a moment; to question why.

Click though to The Daily Beast to see all the images for the week in pictures.

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timelightbox: Photograph by Kevin Frayer—AP May 12, 2013. A wild gray langur monkey scowls as it jumps on a car at a rest stop on a road near Leela, in the state of Rajasthan, India. From tornadoes in Texas and the demolition of Hurricane Sandy’s iconic roller coaster to President Obama’s rain check and a dancing lion, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

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Photograph by Kevin Frayer—AP

May 12, 2013. A wild gray langur monkey scowls as it jumps on a car at a rest stop on a road near Leela, in the state of Rajasthan, India.

From tornadoes in Texas and the demolition of Hurricane Sandy’s iconic roller coaster to President Obama’s rain check and a dancing lion, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.

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Marine life photography by Alexander Semenov

Stunning photos!

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