Photo Essays
Alfred Hitchcock Directs a … Photo Gallery?
By the summer of 1942, the conflagration sparked by Germany’s swift and brutal aggression against numerous nations — including its its bombing raids on London —...
Fighting for Their Future: International Wrestlers Face Off to Save the Olympic Sport
Last February, the International Olympic Committee Executive Board voted to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games — an announcement that stunned sports lovers...
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Vlad the (Insect) Impaler: LIFE With Nabokov and His Beloved Butterflies
On anyone’s list of the 20th century’s greatest writers never to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov will likely appear at, or very...
Empire State of Mind: In Praise of New York’s Second-Tallest — and Most Beloved — Building
When 1 World Trade Center reaches its final, dizzying height, topped off with a distinctive stainless-steel spire, the glass-sheathed structure will be the...
See Kilimanjaro from your Kitchen on Street View
Google Maps just released these images from its newest project: snapping 360 degree views of some of the world’s most famous mountains. Armed with two sets of...
Women of Steel: LIFE With Female Factory Workers in World War II
The character of “Rosie the Riveter” — as feminist symbol, World War II icon and mid-century heroine — is so ingrained in the American psyche that it’s sometimes...
PHOTOS: Russia Meteor Explosion Shatters Windows, Injures Hundreds
In scenes that could have been from a Hollywood movie, a flaming meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia Friday, injuring some 1,000...
LIFE in the Middle East: Photos From Syria in 1940
The ongoing chaos and violence that have come to define the Syrian civil war — a war that has now raged for close to two years, with no signs of abating — not...
Denizens of the Deep: Alexander Semenov’s Pictures of Undersea Creatures
Growing up in Russia, Alexander Semenov was fascinated by the undersea world. For most of us, a few trips to the aquarium and the occasional scuba dive would be...
After Pearl Harbor: LIFE in the Pacific and on the Homefront
President Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7, 1941 — when Japan launched more than 350 fighters, bombers, and torpedo planes against the U.S. naval base at...
Joe Frazier: Remembering a Warrior
The universe of sport is built on rivalries. It doesn’t really matter if the rivalry involves two teams (Michigan and Ohio State, Liverpool and Man U), countries...
Russia: Protests, Rallies and Darth Vader
After a narrow win by the Prime Minister's party, United Russia, demonstrators take to the streets in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Photos: Russia Launches a Rocket in a Snowstorm
A Russian and American crew leave from the launching pad in Baikonur, Kazakshtan on a mission to reman the International Space Station
Russia's Fake Mission to Mars
For more than a year and a half, six volunteers seal themselves off from the world in an effort simulate what a journey to the Red Planet might feel like
Photos: Jet Crash Kills Russian Hockey Stars
A passenger jet with a number of former NHL players crashes after takeoff near Yaroslavl, Russia
Photos: Deadly Jet Crash in Russia
45 die and seven survive a crash in the country's northwest region.
Moscow Airport Struck by a Suicide Bomber
A blast at Russia's largest airport claims more than 30 lives
Russia's Soccer Hooligans
Violence in the stands spreads to the street as Russian soccer fans vent their anger over the killing of one of their own in a protest with nationalist overtones...
World Cup Stadiums: Homes of the Beautiful Game
As FIFA, soccer's governing body, awards the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively, TIME takes a look at some of the stadiums that hosted...
