St. Joseph

Graduation season is well underway, with kindergartners, high schoolers, college seniors and graduate students alike donning caps and gowns to celebrate their achievement. With their diplomas, graduates also get words of wisdom from a commencement speakers and a good excuse to celebrate. -- Lloyd Young ( 31 photos total)
US Naval Academy graduates throw their hats at the conclusion of their commencement and commission ceremony, attended by President Barack Obama at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on May 24 in Annapolis, Md. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency)     

A Bangladeshi woman survivor is lifted out of the rubble by rescuers at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. By Monday, the death toll reached over 350 people as rescuers continued to search for injured and missing, after a huge section of an eight-story [...]

WOMEN MOURN: Relatives of alleged militant Mohammed Daher, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, mourned at his funeral in Gaza City Tuesday. Airstrikes and rocket fire ebbed as an Egypt-brokered cease-fire took hold, ending days of cross-border violence that killed at least 24 Palestinians. (Mahmud Hams/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

JET SLIP: A Delta Air Lines plane rolled off a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport early Tuesday. Mechanics were testing the Boeing 737’s engines when they experienced a braking-system problem around 5 a.m., officials said. No passengers were onboard; no injuries were reported. (John Spink/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Associated Press)

HEAD DOWN: A hearing-impaired girl cried after her ears were cleaned during an event held by Starkey Hearing Foundation in Gulu, Uganda, Tuesday. (Xavier Toya/Reuters)

FIREWORKS FOG: People made their way through a cloud of smoke from fireworks during the Fallas Festival in Valencia, Spain, Tuesday. The festival commemorates St. Joseph. (Kai Foersterling/European Pressphoto Agency)

EXPLOSIVE SOUND: A man winced as another fired a weapon during the funeral of Mohammed Daher, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City Tuesday. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)

FATAL FERRY CRASH: Relatives gathered near the bodies of ferry-crash victims after a ferry carrying about 200 people collided with a cargo boat and capsized in the Meghna River, south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday. At least 31 people were killed and dozens more are missing. (Shariful Islam/Xinhua/Zuma Press)

Weather predictions for possible tornadoes from a new storm system today threaten the Midwest and South, and have recent victims nervous about what the day might hold. The first powerful storm system tore through parts of the Midwest and South earlier this week, killing 13 people from Kansas to Kentucky, leaving pockets of devastation across several states and marking the acceleration of another deadly (and early) tornado season. Tornadoes and powerful winds tore off roofs, leveled homes and businesses, tossed mobile homes, downed power lines and injured more than 150 people. The damage was most significant in Harrisburg, a small town in southern Illinois where blocks of houses and businesses were reduced to rubble. -- Paula Nelson(25 photos total)
St. Joseph's Catholic Church in ruins, March 1, 2012, in Ridgway, Ill. A pre-dawn twister flattened entire blocks of homes as violent storms ravaged the Midwest and South. (Seth Perlman/Associated Press)

After confronting anti-Muslim hostility, Bharat Choudhary - himself a Hindu - set out to document how young Muslims navigate their way through the fears and stereotypes imposed on them in the West. His journey has taken him across several continents and cultures.

ELEPHANT BATH: A mahout washed an elephant in a pool at Gangaramaya Buddhist temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday. (Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters)

OFFICER’S FUNERAL: Thousands of police officers from around New York state attended the funeral of New York Police Department Officer Peter Figoski at St. Joseph’s Church in Babylon, N.Y. Mr. Figoski was killed last week during a botched robbery in Brooklyn. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

SPAIN SPEECH: U.S. Ambassador to Spain Alan Solomont, right, and his colleague from France, Bruno Delaye, listened to a speech by Spain’s next Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, in Madrid Monday. Mr. Rajoy warned of tough times ahead in his first policy speech since winning election. (Emilio Naranjo/European Pressphoto Agency)

AT SCHOOL: A refugee child, bottom center, sat with his sister while attending her school in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)

CHINA PROTEST: Residents held banners during a rally in the village of Wukan, Guangdong Province, China, Monday. The unrest in the village began in September and escalated last week following the death of a protest leader in police custody. (David Gray/Reuters)