A new photo book details the stories of dogs rescued from streets and shelters and how they learned to give something back. Excerpted from the book To the Rescue: Found Dogs with a Mission by Elise Lufkin, with photographs by Diana Walker
From Annette to Miley, Disney has made a specialty of minting young talent
The groundbreaking British comedy troupe is honored in New York as a six-hour documentary about the group airs on the Independent Film Channel
In Where the Wild Things Are, director Spike Jonze
enlists the stars to play the beasts that inhabit Maurice Sendak's magical world. Here are some other movies in which Hollywood chose to retell a children's classic
using real actors
The veggies, berries and herbs culled from the south grounds make their way to the table of the First Family and serve as an example for the rest of the nation on the importance of a healthy diet
Photographs by Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME
The descendants of immigrants from Ponza, Italy, remain united by a love for the island their ancestors left in the 1920s
Photographs by Carlotta Maitland Smith
A list of some 45 artworks chosen by the Obamas for the family quarters of the White House and the West and East Wings was made public in early October. It's a wide-ranging and sometimes surprising assortment
TIME imagines in photo-illustrations what would happen if award academies
around the world adopted the Nobel set of standards for winning
By Adam Sorensen
A look at the global travels and initiatives of the U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize winner
The success of the Kindle has spawned a raft of imitators. Here are nine of the latest designs
In New York City, two major exhibitions trace the development of abstraction in the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Georgia O'Keeffe
The changing role of women in Saudi Arabia
Photographs by Kate Brooks for TIME
In the wake of bloody ethnic clashes in China's stark Xinjiang region in July 2009, photographer Q. Sakamaki captures how minority Uighur life is changing and dying
A group of photographers from the famed Magnum photo agency assembled a beautiful volume celebrating the former Soviet republic
The World Monuments Fund released its 2010 watch list of the most endangered pieces of architecture around the world. Here's a look at 10 of the 93 sites they highlight
The colonial Chinese city is feted for its historical architecture, but the Shanghai of today is emblematic of a very modern China
Photographs by Julien Daniel / MYOP
The promising young pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels was killed in a car accident during the first week of the 2009 season. Now his teammates will carry his memory into the playoffs
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, set for release on Oct. 5, 2009, is the first authorized sequel to the classic children's series in more than 80 years. A quick look at how it all began
Intimate images of U.S. troops in Wardak Province: A photographer's perspective
Photographs by Adam Ferguson / VII Mentor for TIME
A photographic survey of how the venues for the Summer games look today
The man suspected of planning a terrorist strike on U.S. soil went largely unnoticed in a Denver suburb
In his new book From Somewhere to Nowhere: China's Internal Migrants, photographer Andreas Seibert documents China's migrant workers, part of the greatest migration in human history
China staged the largest military parade in its history on Oct. 1, 2009, to ring in its 60th year as a nation
A 7.9 earthquake that struck Padang, West Sumatra, on Sept. 30, 2009, has left hundreds dead and thousands trapped beneath collapsed buildings
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