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Photo: a bird's-eye-view of bungee jumper in Queenstown, New Zealand

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2011 3:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Chewbacca shows up to New York Mets vs. Washington Nationals game

Posted by kluciole at 9/23/2011 3:10 AM | Add Comment

New Zealand's premier naked rugby team beaten by Spanish women's team

Posted by kluciole at 9/10/2011 9:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Maori Warrior Toa Waaka issues the ‘Wero’ during the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand

Posted by kluciole at 9/8/2011 11:08 AM | Add Comment

Gorgeous shot of wave breaking behind surfer at the Wedge in Newport Beach

Posted by kluciole at 9/2/2011 9:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: surfer Tyler Hollmer Cross rides a huge wave in Tasmania

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2011 3:53 AM | Add Comment

Law-breaking photographer saves the life of Maverick's surfer

Posted by kluciole at 1/23/2011 9:33 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Coco Ho surfing in Oahu

Posted by kluciole at 12/18/2010 9:34 PM | Add Comment

Why are hundreds of Dartmoor ponies being slaughtered and fed to tigers at the zoo?

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2010 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a person performs morning exercise at public park along bank of Yalu River

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:36 AM | Add Comment

Photo: man walks past Olympic Cauldron as snow falls in Vancouver

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2010 2:26 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the Hot Air Balloons Festival in Leon, Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 11/23/2010 7:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Mick Fanning surfs Haleiwa (Reef Hawaiian Pro contest)

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2010 6:51 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Parahawking -- Kevin the hawk helps paragliders near Kathmandu

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2010 7:45 PM | Add Comment

Photo: France's wheelchair fencing team train

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2010 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Campaigners want the octopus oracle Paul to be set free

Posted by kluciole at 7/3/2010 6:08 PM | Add Comment

Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:48 PM | Add Comment

Octopus Paul predicts German win over England

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 7:02 PM | Add Comment

Photo: local children play football at dusk in the Sun Valley township in Kagiso near Rustenburg, South Africa

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:30 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a man stands on rocks on Table Mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 6:07 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a turtle and a mermaid display team from Florida in a tank at the Sea Life London Aquarium

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 2:05 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Australian freestyle motocross rider Robbie Maddison leaps in the air in the Sahara desert near Cairo at sunset

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2010 4:51 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a dancer performs a flamenco dance in Bunyola, Mallorca

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:27 AM | Add Comment

Olympic photos just in from Luciole friend/contributor Tracy Lee Stum, of the warmup for Women's Figure Skating's short program in Vancouver

Posted by kluciole at 2/23/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

There's quite a story behind the Olympic flowers

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 1:14 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Walls of water overwhelm spectators at Mavericks surfing contest

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Tebow's Focus on the Family ad could change future Super Bowls

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2010 7:42 PM | Add Comment

Photo: children play football in an old swimming pool on a hill in Kabul

Posted by kluciole at 1/29/2010 10:26 PM | Add Comment

Ocean in motion: Surfer captures mesmerising world where waves break against the shore

Posted by kluciole at 1/11/2010 4:10 AM | Add Comment

Afghanistan's first skatepark mixes rich and poor

Posted by kluciole at 1/8/2010 3:11 AM | Add Comment

Olympic Games bring changes to Vancouver

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2010 2:56 AM | Add Comment

Photo: climbers trek on Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz

Posted by kluciole at 12/17/2009 6:10 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a man riding a horse, with his eagle, during an annual hunting competition in Chengelsy Gorge, Kazakhstan

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 7:54 PM | Add Comment

Homeless S. Africans complain ahead of World Cup that they are being forced from the streets to make way for "glamorous events"

Posted by kluciole at 12/3/2009 7:14 PM | Add Comment

Body of trapped Utah spelunker won't be recovered

Posted by kluciole at 11/27/2009 6:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: surfer Raph Bruhwiler lights his Olympic Torch before surfing along the shores of Pacific Rim National Park just outside Tofino, British Columbia

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 6:19 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Finland's Tanja Poutiainen competes in the women's giant slalom at the World cup in Soelden, Austria

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2009 12:49 AM | Add Comment

Jack Poole, the man who led Vancouver's Olympic Games bid, dies hours after learning the Olympic flame had begun its journey

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2009 6:41 AM | Add Comment

Photo: artists of the circus show Cirque du Soleil perform during their show Varekai in Moscow - the first ever in Russia

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 6:22 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Santa O Clause runs in bare feet in the heats of the 80-84 year-old class of the men's 100 meters at the Masters Games in Sydney

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 10:21 PM | Add Comment

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

Posted by kluciole at 10/5/2009 2:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: a paraglider is seen over the Silberplattenchoepfe mountains in the Swiss Alps near Unterwasser, Switzerland

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2009 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Photo: people form a huge mosaic of colored paper in Madrid, in support of the city's 2016 Olympic bid

Posted by kluciole at 9/28/2009 1:53 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: paddleboarding champ Jamie Mitchell is joined by a humpback whale off the coast of New South Wales

Posted by kluciole at 9/22/2009 10:22 AM | Add Comment

Photo: surfer Andrew Brooks is surprised to have dolphins as company on a wave at Cape Adieu, Australia

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 8:08 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Gunners from the King's Troop Royal Artillery race their horses along the shore at Blackpool beach

Posted by kluciole at 9/18/2009 7:16 AM | Add Comment

Photo: sunset over the Men's Singles final between Roger Federer and Juan Martin Del Potro during the 2009 U.S. Open

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2009 7:41 AM | Add Comment

Risking life for his art: Former circus performer Eskil Ronningsbakken does a one-handed handstand dangling on the edge of a towering cliff, in gorgeous Norway

Posted by kluciole at 9/16/2009 8:30 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: skateboarder Ryan Decenzo jumps from one shipping container to another aboard a barge at sunset on English Bay in Vancouver

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2009 8:50 AM | Add Comment

Dutch courts delay 13-year-old sailor Laura Dekker's worldwide trip

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2009 10:11 AM | Add Comment

Daredevil photographer Clark Little captures monster wave just moments before it crashes over surfer

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:49 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Photo: a smiling sun balloon at the international hot air balloon festival in Baotou

Posted by kluciole at 8/16/2009 2:05 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Alinghi's catamaran in Lake Geneva looks like a fin slicing the water

Posted by kluciole at 8/6/2009 10:36 PM | Add Comment

Russian soccer fans told to drink whisky while in Wales for the World Cup qualifier to ward off the H1N1 swine flu virus: "That should cure all symptoms of the disease"

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2009 10:16 PM | Add Comment

Mila the Beluga whale saved stricken diver Yang Yun's life by pushing her to the surface when her legs became too cramped to swim

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2009 3:10 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Kelly Slater surfing in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2009 11:43 PM | Add Comment

Women ski jumpers can't compete in 2010; Canadian judge rejects bid by jumpers to compete in next year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, but agreed they were being discriminated against

Posted by kluciole at 7/12/2009 1:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Brazilian artists hang out at a 'vertical house' built on a climbing wall in Rio de Janeiro

Posted by kluciole at 7/9/2009 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: dancers from China's Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe perform in Tyre, southern Lebanon

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:54 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Belarussian sportsmen and women create a human fountain (celebrating Independence Day in Minsk)

Posted by kluciole at 7/5/2009 11:32 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Soccer Protest: Iran's Players Show Support for Mousavi"

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2009 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Picture of terrifying fall of Faith Cook and her horse Nagor De La Roche at the Bramham Horse Trials

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:53 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: Cyclists pedal next to the lake of Annecy, French Alps

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2009 2:17 PM | Add Comment

An article about tennis champion Rafael Nadal (check out a really lovely article about him in this month's issue of Vogue)

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2009 6:30 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a wheelchair-bound acrobat balances two colleagues in the world's only disabled acrobatic troupe in Shenyang, China

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2009 5:52 PM | Add Comment

Go Fillies!! Beautiful Rachel Alexandra wins Preakness by 1 length

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2009 4:17 PM | Add Comment

The story of Louis Sockalexis, Penobscot, first American Indian major league baseball player. The Cleveland Indians based their logo and game antics on Sockalexis

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2009 1:27 PM | Add Comment

Washington Redskins win legal victory in 17-year fight with group of American Indians who contend the football team's trademark is racially offensive

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2009 1:04 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a drummer of the Household Cavalry Mounted Band performs in heavy rain at the Windsor Castle Roal Tattoo

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2009 1:01 PM | Add Comment

Photo: performers take part in an exhibition game of Maya Ball during an intercultural event in Guatemala City

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

California river system is nation's most endangered -- (Sacramento and San Joaquin)

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2009 2:52 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Filipino diver with a school of fish at the Apo Reef, Occidental Mindoro, south of Manila

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2009 4:24 AM | Add Comment

Surfer-turned-photographer Clark Little of Oahu takes many of his incredible photos from inside the breaking waves

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2009 1:33 PM | Add Comment

Iran: men vs. women soccer game, the first since the 1979 Islamic revolution, draws punishment; the Iranian soccer club said it had suspended three officials involved and handed out fines of up to $5,000

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2009 10:12 PM | Add Comment

Gladiators to 'Fight' Again at Rome's Colosseum: "We do not need to enshrine historical sites and monuments, we need to make them more spectacular. Museums and monuments must speak to the public in a new way"

Posted by kluciole at 1/7/2009 5:44 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Ice sculptor Don Chapelle puts the finishing touches on an ice sculpture called Pipeline, at the Boston Common

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2009 5:25 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Samurai Archery during an annual 'Yabusame,' or horseback archery festival, in Zushi, southwest of Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2009 10:27 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Children play soccer during sunset at a beach in Lima, Peru

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2008 12:41 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Joel Parkinson of Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Australia wipes out on a powerful 20 foot wave during the O'Neill World Cup of Surfing at Sunset Beach on Oahu's North Shore

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2008 1:18 AM | Add Comment

Group of surfing photos from around the world: Hawaii, Peru, Chile, Australia, Bali, and the United States

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2008 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old schoolgirl with a mean knuckleball, has been drafted as the first woman to play alongside men in Japanese professional baseball

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2008 2:12 AM | Add Comment

Photos of surfer Kerby Brown taking on a huge wave

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2008 12:43 AM | Add Comment

"World’s worst soccer team" happy to win first point. East Timor's coach, Pedro Almeida, said: “We have no resources to keep this team together and we barely have grass to play on.. (but now) we’re all very proud”

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2008 1:51 AM | Add Comment

I don't quite get this photo; it must be two images together. The caption says it is a surfer watching a wave during Chile's World Tow-in Surfing Circuit; but the wave shown at the top and all around would be a tsunami that would inundate everything

Posted by kluciole at 10/30/2008 11:21 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Japanese surfer Akiko Kiyonaga performs in the inaugural Asian Beach Games woman's surfing competition in Kuta on the resort island of Bali

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2008 10:00 PM | Add Comment

Zara Phillips breaks her collarbone as horrific fall kills her favorite horse, Tsunami II

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2008 3:50 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Acrobats perform during a preview for the upcoming 8th Wuhan International Acrobatics Festival in Wuhan, Hubei province, China

Posted by kluciole at 10/24/2008 5:31 AM | Add Comment

Travel article: "Argentina's culture on the cheap... Travelers flock to Buenos Aires, where steak, soccer, tango are passions"

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2008 11:10 PM | Add Comment

Insane dunk photo: a member of the Milwaukee Bucks "Rim Rockers" goes airborne for an acrobatic slam dunk to entertain fans during a break in the action against the Golden State Warriors (game played in Beijing)

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2008 10:57 PM | Add Comment

The Passion of Flamenco: song and guitar by Ramon Ruiz, dance by Anita la Maltesa

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2008 9:27 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A kite surfer races across Lake Wanaka with the snow capped mountains of the Southern Alps in the background, in New Zealand

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2008 10:18 PM | Add Comment

Photos from the Billabong pro surfing event in Mundaka, Spain (includes American Kelly Slater)

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2008 11:45 AM | Add Comment

Female ski jumpers push lawsuit for the right to compete in the 2010 Olympics games in Canada (only males are allowed to compete in the event)

Posted by kluciole at 10/2/2008 10:34 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Dancers perform as leaves drop down into the National Stadium, better known as the Bird's Nest, at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games

Posted by kluciole at 9/17/2008 6:27 PM | Add Comment

SNL' debuts with Fey as Palin, Phelps as host

Posted by kluciole at 9/14/2008 12:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: soccer player Ahmed Hossam Mido balances a ball on his head

Posted by kluciole at 9/10/2008 9:39 PM | Add Comment

Bulgarian women's ice hockey loses 82-0; gives up more goals in four tournament games than Red Wings did last regular season

Posted by kluciole at 9/9/2008 10:21 PM | Add Comment

Horsewoman Zara Philips takes a serious-looking fall from her horse, Ardfield Magic Star, at the Burghley Horse Trials; both said to be unhurt

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2008 12:11 PM | Add Comment

Triathlete Barbara Warren dies after bike crash at the Santa Barbara Triathlon

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2008 9:55 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: The Lessons of the Beijing Olympics

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2008 9:47 AM | Add Comment
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