Residents of a village in northern Thailand make their living from what they call boxing matches with snakes. Trained snake fighters go eye-to-eye with venomous king cobra snakes. (Sept. 29)

Dedicated to all 2004 December 26th Boxing Day Tsunami Victims, families,those injured, and those otherwise affected. The terrible devastation and the aftermath of this catastrophe caught on tape. The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami was triggered by an earthquake off the north-west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It killed 230000 people in a dozen Indian Ocean countries, 170000 of them in Indonesia’s Aceh province alone. Sri Lanka and Thailand were severely impacted by the tsunami on …