A study in contrast

Getting information; the old vs. the new.

photo: Feng Li/Getty Images
In Yuecheng, a resident read the newspaper in a wooden boat while sitting outside a flooded post office. Flooding has caused the evacuation of 1.6 million people in the southern provinces after China.

photo: Arno Balzarini
A shepherd in Obersaxen, Switzerland,using his computer to follow the match between Russia and Sweden in the Euro 2008 soccer championships. Russia won, 2-0.