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May 13

Athlete in Focus: David Beckham

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Football superstar, ambassador for the Chinese Super League (CSL) and the Youth Football Program, David Beckham waves to fans at Hankou recreation and sports center in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, March 23, 2013. Xinhua/Sipa USA/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: sipaphotosfour009670

Soccer superstar David Beckham has decided to end his 20 year professional career at the end of the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) season. Beckham will play two final games for PSG May 18th against Brest and at Lorient May 26th. The announcement came four days after PSG captured the Ligue 1 title giving Beckham a league title in four counties, a first for an English player. Despite Beckham no longer competing on the pitch fans, will still get plenty of Beckham and his family in the fashion world. Continue reading →

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12
Mar 13

Editors’ Picks: Atacama Desert Project, Vatican’s Black Smoke & A Feisty Pelican!

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Radio telescope antennas of the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) project, in the Atacama desert, some 1500 km north of Santiago, on March 12,2013. The ALMA, an international partnership project of Europe, North America and East Asia with the cooperation of Chile, is presently the largest astronomical project in the world. On Wednesday March 13 will be opened 66 high precision antennas, located at 5000 of altitude in the extremely arid Atacama desert. MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: afplivefour991635

Creating wonderfully stunning photos in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the largest astronomical project to date, will provide the world with a glimpse into our deepest cosmic origins. The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) project is an international partnership with renowned scientists and engineers from Europe, North America, East Asia, and in cooperation with Chile. Considered to be one of the driest places on Earth, the Atacama Desert is over 40,000 square miles, and has mountains peaks that reach over 22,000 feet. An array of antennas will be located at the Altiplano de Chajnantor, a plateau at an altitude of about 16,000 feet. Keep up with the ALMA project at Newscom, where you can see even more stunning photos!

Newscom gets between 30-60,000 images a day from our partners around the world, and it’s easy to miss some truly amazing images if you aren’t specifically looking for them. So each week, we’ll go through our collections and present to you our favorites. Our job is to pick whatever catches our eye. Your job is to simply enjoy them. Check out the entire lightbox of this week’s best pictures back at Newscom, and read on to see other stories from this past week. Continue reading →

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04
Mar 13

Backstage at Fashion Week

Jansper Conran Backstage

Feb. 16, 2013 – London, England – Jansper Conran BACKSTAGE. LONDON FASHION WEEK. PPS Worldwide/ZUMA Press/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: zumaamericas961560

Over the past month fashion shows around the world have been previewing looks for fall and winter. As always here at Newscom, we have been flooded with beautiful images of models walking down the runway in some of the most extravagant clothes and have witnessed the greatest looks London, Milan, Paris, and New York have had to offer. And along with what you see on the catwalk, we have all the images of what goes on backstage at these fashion shows. Continue reading →

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09
Oct 12

Editor’s Picks: Worldly Events, Awesome Animals, and…Hairography?

Cheersing at Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest visitors pose with beer mugs in a festival tent at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany, on October 5, 2012. The world famous beer festival, which is excepted to attract around six million visitors, is running until October 7, 2012. CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. License this image from Newscom.com: afplivefour744613

Prost! Since 1810, das Germans have been celebrating Oktoberfest as an important part of Bavarian culture in Munich, Germany every autumn. As a colloquial tribute to the fairgrounds, locals better know Oktoberfest as “die Wiesn.” This 17-day festival brings more than 6 million visitors every year to drink over 7 million liters of beer, thousands of pounds of pretzels, saurkraut and Schweinshaxe (a.k.a. grilled ham hock). Mmm, mmm! Check out more fun Oktoberfest images here! Continue reading →

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28
Aug 12

Athlete in Focus: Eleanor Simmonds

Eleanor Simmonds of Britain swims on her way to clocking a world record time in the women's multi classification 200m individual medley at the British Gas Swimming Championships 2012 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London March 8, 2012.

Eleanor Simmonds of Britain swims on her way to clocking a world record time in the women’s multi classification 200m individual medley at the British Gas Swimming Championships 2012 at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in London March 8, 2012. TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: rtrlfive113999

Eleanor Simmonds MBE is a double gold-medalist Paralympian swimmer from Britain who has achondroplasia (a common form of dwarfism.) Eleanor is back for her second Olympics, having been the youngest British competitor at Beijing in 2008  where she took gold in the 100m and 400m freestyle and was dubbed the “British swimming sensation”. She was 13 then. Continue reading →

2012 Olympics — 1 Comment
27
Aug 12

2012 USA Paralympic Sitting Volleyball Team

Beijing gold overview

Team China competes against the United States team on September 14, 2008. Athens 2004 Paralympic Games gold medalists China beat the United States 3-0 to secure their second consecutive Paralympic gold medal in the Women`s Sitting Volleyball event at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium during the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games. Yan Sheng – CNImaging/Newscom

The 2012 United States sitting volleyball team returns eight players from the 2008 Paralympic team that took silver after losing to China in the 2008 final. Kari Miller is one of the eight returning players looking for gold in 2012. Miller, a US Army Veteran who served in Bosnia and Korea in the late 90’s, first started playing volleyball after losing her legs in a car accident. Miller is now the specialized defensive position known as a libero for team USA. Continue reading →

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26
Aug 12

Athlete in Focus: Esther Vergeer

Tennis - Australian Open - Melbourne Park, Australia - 28/1/09..Esther Vergeer of Netherlands in action during her first round wheelchair singles match

Tennis – Australian Open – Melbourne Park, Australia – 28/1/09..Esther Vergeer of Netherlands in action during her first round wheelchair singles match. ZUMA Press/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: zumasportswest282041

Wheelchair tennis has only been around since the 1970s when it began in America. It made its first appearance in the Paralympics in Barcelona in 1992 and has grown in popularity worldwide. This year, 112 athletes will compete in six tennis events, including men’s and women’s singles and doubles competitions, at the London 2012 Paralympics.  However, there is one woman has dominated in the sport and is predicted to win gold yet again. That athlete is Esther Vergeer. Continue reading →

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22
Aug 12

Paralympics 2012: Wheelchair Rugby

Hunting don the ball

Stefan Jansson (L) of Team Sweden races away from members of Team Great Britain during the opening match of the London International Invitational Wheelchair Rugby Tournament played at the Basketball Arena at the London 2012 Olympic Park, 18 April 2012. The Tournament is an Olympic test event for the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games. GEOFF CADDICK/EPA/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epaphotos369748

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover or judge a sport by its name. However, when you have a sport called “Murderball” it can be hard to get fans and sponsors to give it a chance. So years ago Murderball was changed to Wheelchair Rugby but the name was all that changed – the game is still fast paced and extremely physical that is played by some of the toughest athletes in any sport.

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15
Aug 12

50 of Our Favorite Photos from the 2012 Olympics

Ariane Friedrich

Germany’s Ariane Friedrich reacts after a successful attempt during the women’s high jump qualification at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium August 9, 2012. MARK BLINCH/REUTERS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: rtrlfive432060

The Olympics seem to come through almost like a hurricane – there are months of preparation and anticipation; then they hit and we had 17 days of furious coverage with the stories of triumph, heartbreak, tragedy, scandal, and sportsmanship; now they’re gone and they’ve left us with hundreds of thousands of pictures to dig through and try to put together some meaning in the huge void the Olympics have left in our lives. Continue reading →

2012 Olympics — 1 Comment
13
Aug 12

The Best Photos of Rhythmic Gymnastics from London Olympics

Russia's Daria Dmitrieva

Russia’s Daria Dmitrieva competes using the ball in the individual all-around rhythmic gymnastics final at Wembley Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 11, 2012. MARCELO DEL POZO/REUTERS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: rtrlfive439888

I’m starting to believe that rhythmic gymnastics offers some of the most captivating photography of all the sports at the Olympics. Perhaps it’s the flashy costumes – or the contortionist-like poses – but there’s something almost mesmerizing about looking through pictures of the sport – a feeling that you can’t quite catch from any other sport (though you could mount a strong argument for synchronized swimming). Continue reading →

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