A tropical storm, a college basketball program and some angry Chinese farmers are dominating the attention of contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
Listen to this audio clip
to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photo/EyePress)
"No, this is not RoboCop."
That's how Michael Feldman, the AP's international photo editor, introduced this photo of a law enforcement officer in Zhengzhou, China. The officer was showing off body armor and a gun that shoots a net to catch dogs.
Meanwhile, a few hundred miles up the road, baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. has some fun during a clinic he's conducting for kids in Beijing.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
See below for more of Feldman's top photo picks.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Police in India chained the gates to vast fairgrounds today where some 27,000 landless demonstrators had gathered in New Delhi, barricading the protesters inside and preventing them from marching to the nation's capital.
Today was supposed to be the end of an 185-mile march north from the city of Gwalior to the nation's capital to highlight the plight of the masses who have been largely untouched by India's economic boom.
DID YOU KNOW?: Of India's 1.1 billion people about 450 million live on less than $1 a day, according to the World Bank.
For more on the demonstrations by the landless, read this report filed today from New Delhi by Gavin Rabinowitz.
--Paul Chavez
Baseball, cardboard tubes and the anniversary of a journalist's death are dominating the attention of contributors to NowPublic, the "crowd-powered media" site The Associated Press is working with to selectively incorporate citizen journalism -– especially photos and video -– into its news report.
Listen to this audio clip
to learn more from NowPublic's Brian Kennedy.
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photos/Eduardo Di Baia/Charles Dharapak)
It's not an episode of "Wife Swap." It's Argentina's presidential election. Partial election results
indicate that President Nestor Kirchner and first lady Cristina
Fernandez will switch roles in December. That would make Fernandez the country's first elected female president. Sound sorta familiar?
In this audio clip, the AP's Niko Price discusses the comparisons between Fernandez and Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Read Price's story about the election here.
-- Derrik J. Lang
(AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
(AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
Two of the images highlighted by AP International Photo Editor Michael Feldman at the AP global news meeting came from East Timor, where pilgrims traveled to a Christ statue on Matebian Mountain -- formerly the site of a rebel base.
Some claim that, in 1978, thousands of Timorese were killed at the base in fighting with Indonesia forces.
See below for more of the AP photos Feldman chose to highlight at the meeting. (Though Rockies fans might want to cover their eyes.)
-- Eric Carvin
(AP Photo/Argentina's Presidency)
Exit polls suggest that first lady Cristina Fernandez won the presidential election by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff, which would make her the first woman in Argentina elected to the post.
Official results were due later today and none of the opposition candidates have conceded defeat. Some challengers complained of unprecedented fraud.
Fernandez is shown above, right, with her husband, President Nestor Kircher, after they voted and returned to the capital to await results. Her husband is widely credited for Argentina's rebound from a 2001 economic collapse and much of her support is due to her popularity.
For the latest on the Argentinean elections, read this report that will be updated with the latest results by Bill Cormier from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
--Paul Chavez .
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
An investigation by a British newspaper found children as young as 10 making clothes for Gap Inc. in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, and the good were destined for sale in the West.
The Observer reported today that the children said they had been sold to the sweatshop by their families and they could not leave until they had repaid that fee. The paper quoted on boy identified only as Jivas as saying that child employees who cried or did not work hard enough were hit with a rubber pipe or had oily cloths stuffed into their mouths.
Gap officials told The Associated Press today that the sweatshop was run by a subcontractor hired in violation of company policies and none of the goods made there will be sold in stores.
For more, read this report filed today out of London.
--Paul Chavez
