Grave digger Sevelino Banda works at dawn in the Chunga cemetary in Lusaka, Zambia. Some 126 diggers work every day to bury around 50 bodies, many of them AIDS victims. Funeral processions arrive every 15 to 20 minutes. Of the 52 bodies Sevelino Banda buried the day this picture was taken, 43 were between 19 and 50 years old.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)