Venezuelans Mourn the Death of Hugo Chavez

Following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, scores of mourners took to the streets of Caracas to mourn his death.

Rise of Chávez: The Late Venezuelan President's Path to Power

The socialist leader, a demagogic populist who consolidated power and was in his fourth term as president, died March 5 at the age of 58 after a secrecy-shrouded battle with cancer.

Snow Blankets U.S. From Minnesota to Maryland

Roughly 1,000 flights at Chicago airports have been cancelled in the storm's wake, which will move across the country, threatening significant accumulations around Baltimore and Washington D.C.

Kenya's Election: Nationwide Polls See High Turnout, Limited Violence

Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country's most important — and complicated — in its 50-year history

Female Marines Train For Combat

A recent change in the rules means young women soon will be eligible to go into harm's way with the U.S. military's most elite fighting force.

Secretary of State John Kerry's First Overseas Trip

Three weeks after succeeding Hillary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State, the long-time Senator and 2004 Presidential candidate left on a ten-day inaugural trip to Europe and The Middle East.

Digging Tunnels, 14 Stories Below New York City

Far beneath Manhattan, and out of sight it's 8 million residents, the largest transportation project in the country is churning away day and night hollowing out granite to create six miles of new tunnels.

Benedict's Final General Audience

Pope Benedict XVI's last general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, drew an estimated crowd of tens of thousands of people

West Bank Turmoil: An Unexpected Death Raises the Tension

Street protests broke out in West Bank in support of Palestinians held in Israeli jails. The unexpected death of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat further fueled the demonstrations

Midwest Digs Out Twice In a Week

A storm last week blanketed the Midwest with many inches of snow, and a second system swooped in Tuesday, dropping up to a foot more of heavy snow. The storm toppled power lines and cut electricity to more than 100,000 Midwesterners.

Photos from the New York Reptile Expo

Over 200 vendors gathered at the New York Reptile Expo to introduce and sell their slithering friends to hundreds of attendees.

Deep-Space Photos: Hubble's Greatest Hits

The Hubble Telescope has been active for nearly a quarter of a century. Here are some of the telescope's most striking images - a tiny fraction of the things it's seen and the images it's sent home in its long and productive life.

Egypt Attempts to Flush Out Gaza's Smuggling Tunnels

The tunnels under the border between the two nations were flooded by Egyptian forces last week amid fears that smuggled arms are destabilizing the Sinai Peninsula.

London Fashion Week 2013: On the Runways, Front Rows And Backstage

As the biannual event comes to a close in England's capital city, we round up some of the best moments on the stages and behind the scenes.

Behind the Scenes of New York Fashion Week

This season, TIME commissioned photography duo Therese + Joel to document the madness and mania from front row to backstage and everywhere in between. Here, the highlights from the whirlwind week.

Singer Mindy McCready's Life in Retrospect

The 37-year-old country singer, Mindy McCready, has died in a suspected suicide, police have said.

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 people, according to Associated Press reports.

Pistorius On and Off the Track

The 26-year-old South African athlete, Oscar Pistorius, has had an eventful life, which has now been rocked by the charge that he murdered his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

Valentine's Day at White Castle

On Valentine's day, White Castle restaurants all over America, turn into a haven for lovebirds. In New York alone, more than 500 couples opted to make White Castle their Valentine's Day destination.

True Romance: The Heartache of Wartime Farewells, 1943

Pups on Parade: Behind the Scenes at the 2013 Westminster Dog Show

This week, the most carefully coiffed dogs in the world gathered at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show to compete for the top prize. TIME takes you behind-the-scenes.

Brazil's Epic Carnival: Scenes from Rio's Sambadrome

The revelers and costumes were out in full force during Rio de Janeiro's annual carnaval.

Los Angeles Search Seems to be Over for Fugitive Ex-Cop

A pervasive fear hangs over the Los Angeles area as Christopher Dorner, the renegade fugitive accused of killing three people, remains on the run.

The Path of Pope Benedict XVI

Declaring that he lacks the strength to do his job, Pope Benedict XVI announced he will resign Feb. 28, becoming the first pontiff to step down in 600 years.

Huge Storm Blankets Northeast With Two Feet of Snow

A behemoth storm packing hurricane-force wind gusts and blizzard conditions swept through the Northeast, where more than 650,000 homes and businesses lost power, roads were impassable and New Englanders awoke Saturday to more than 2 feet of snow.