NYC photography center scans negatives cache, but can’t solve Spanish Civil War photo mystery

September 16th, 2009 NC crash kills ex-White House photog KightlingerHENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Jack Kightlinger, a retired White House photographer who worked for five U.S.

August 24th, 2009 National Geographic announces photography contestWASHINGTON — Are you proud of your vacation photos, nature pictures or other images from your travels? Consider entering the 2009 National Geographic International Photography Contest. There are three categories — people, places and nature — and you can enter a total of six photographs.

August 20th, 2009 Newspaper photo helps ID Seattle man with amnesiaSEATTLE — When he walked out of a Seattle park three weeks ago, the mystery man knew this much about himself: He is fluent in several languages and has traveled to other countries. But he didn't know his name or how he got to Seattle.

July 29th, 2009 Suspected car bomb in Spanish cityMADRID — The Interior Ministry says a suspected car bomb has exploded near a Civil Guard barracks in the northern city of Burgos. Authorities did not have any immediate details available on injuries or damage.

July 29th, 2009 Suspected car bomb explodes in Spanish cityMADRID — The Interior Ministry says a suspected car bomb has exploded near a Civil Guard barracks in the northern city of Burgos. Authorities did not have any immediate details available on injuries or damage.

July 23rd, 2009 Researchers: Capa Civil War photo likely stagedMADRID — Robert Capa's photograph of a falling Spanish Civil War militiaman became one of the most famous and enduring images of conflict in the 20th century. Now, Spanish researchers who have studied events surrounding the picture believe it may have been staged.

July 3rd, 2009 Norman Welton, former AP photo editor, dies at 81NEW YORK — Norman Welton, whose 31-year career as a photo editor for The Associated Press included coverage of New York City, the United Nations and four Olympic Games, has died. He was 81. Welton died from colon cancer Wednesday at a medical center in Port Jervis, N.Y., his niece, Lynda Kane, said Thursday.

May 6th, 2009 WELLINGTON - New Zealand authorities are baffled by a mystery cache of machine guns, bullets, grenades and mortar bombs found in a shipping container from China in the South Island port of Dunedin, according to news reports Wednesday. Customs spokesman Rowan McArthur said the intended destination of the container, whose contents were discovered by a random X-ray, was not known.

May 1st, 2009 LONDON - Britain-born Indian actress Parminder Nagra risked her parents' wrath as a teenager when she refused to agree to an arranged marriage. The 'Bend It Like Beckham' and 'ER' star was shown a photo of a mystery man when she was 18 and told by her mother he was her future husband.

April 27th, 2009 White House: No info on Air Force 1 photo-opWASHINGTON — The White House says it doesn't have any information about the Boeing 747's flying photo op over lower Manhattan that sent Manhattan into a panic. The plane is a version of the 747 that's called Air Force One when the president is aboard.

April 23rd, 2009 Bruce photo raffle to benefit FoodBank of NJHILLSIDE, N.J. — Help fight hunger and you just might end up with a rare Bruce Springsteen photo.

March 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Recognising faces comes to us as easily as breathing, but how this is done has been a source of abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. Now an MIT study led by an Indian American says we recognise faces because a person's eyes appear darker than the forehead and cheeks.

February 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - The State Bank of India (SBI) will send a team of experts to probe the disappearance of Rs.1.4 million from its two ATMs in West Bengal's Malda district, a police official said Monday. 'The SBI is to get a team of software experts from Kolkata to find out how the money disappeared from the two ATMs in Englishbazar area,' district police Superintendent Satyajit Bandopadhyay told IANS by phone.

January 31st, 2009 HAVANA - Thousands of Cubans have shown interest in becoming Spanish citizens by taking advantage of a new 'grandchildren's law' that came into effect in Spain last December. The Spanish consulate in Havana has received applications from more than 20,000 people since the 'Law of Historical Memory' came into effect in Spain Dec 29, 2008.

December 26th, 2008 HAVANA - Hundreds of Cubans are applying for Spanish citizenship as part of Madrid's new 'law of grandchildren', which comes into force next week, EFE reported Saturday. The new law makes provision for grandchildren of Spaniards born in Spain or exiled during the regime of Spanish dictator late General Franco.