The pictures of the week feature is great. The photos are powerful. The brief narrative helps understand the setting, and, for [new] photographers, it is like a brief photography lesson.

W.K.

Thanks for noticing. It is a neat feature, thanks to photo editor Gary Hershorn, and if you missed it over the weekend, here it is:

REUTERS photo by Guido Benschop

This complaint is about a map from Reuters. I am an Indian & I am really annoyed with Reuters for having an Indian map which shows the Jammu & Kashmir state as NOT belonging to India. Yes, J&K is under dispute, but that does NOT give Reuters the authority to make their own India Map.

Tamu

How come no part of Jammu and kashmir belongs to India in this map in one of your stories. Is this some kind of a Pakistani or Chinese propaganda? Kindly make the necessary amendments.

N.D.

A number of readers were upset by this graphic, which was the result of problems in using our software. We fixed it and I hope you won’t be seeing it again: GBU Editor

Over 100 insurgents killed in Afghan battle -U.S.

KABUL, Aug 29 (Reuters) - More than 100 suspected insurgents were killed in a battle with U.S.-led troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

When i went to journalism school, objectivity was taught. This headline could have stated “suspected insurgents”, but the quote around insurgents in the headline is too much like the headline use of quotation marks to question the veracity of the use of a word or phrase.

Dennis B.

I agree. There was no reason for the quote marks, and they were dropped in the next update of this story: GBU Editor

FACTBOX-Disputes linger over the 1937 Battle of Nanjing
    WHY WAS NANJING ATTACKED?:
    * China’s nationalist president Chang Kai-Shek had declared the eastern city of Nanjing (then called Nanking) the new capital of the Republic of China in 1912, after overthrowing the imperial government in 1911. In Nov. 1937 he moved the capital further west, to Chongqing, as Japanese troops swept south. After occupying Beijing and Tianjin, the Japanese finally took possession of Nanjing on Dec. 13.

Hi guys - you had this passage in a factbox on the Nanjing massacre. But Chiang Kai-Shek was not president of China in 1912. I think you are conflating Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yatsen.

John S.

Several readers noticed this, but only this reader used conflating. Great word. We corrected: GBU Editor

A combo picture shows a man swimming by the Circle Food Store with the skyline in the background in flooded New Orleans on August 30, 2005 (top), and the same scene almost two years later (bottom) on August 23, 2007. New Orleans continues to recover from the damage incurred when Hurricane Katrina struck the city almost two years ago on August 29, 2005. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (TOP), Lee Celano (BOTTOM)

The photos that recreated scenes of the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and where they are today, were incredibly powerful and poignant.

Mimi

Thanks for noticing. It was indeed a nifty project, and in case you missed it, have a look now: GBU Editor

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) awards the 2005 National Medal of Science to Ralph A. Alpher (The Dudley Observatory) during the awards ceremony for the National Medals of Science and Technology in the East Room of the White House, July 27, 2007. REUTERS

I have a question about a photo that ran today. President Bush is giving a medal to a man identified as Ralph Alpher. I’d like to know what kind of diet Mr. Alpher was on, because the news story says he died at 86. If the man in the picture is in his 80s, we could all learn something from his nutritionist!!

Rick

Yes, well, unfortunately our caption was wrong in our photo archive, and that wasn’t the right Alpher. It was his son, Victor Alpher. We corrected it: GBU Editor

Hey, what the hell is the matter with you people?

Your headline reports Michael Vick pleads guilty to dog fighting and then on the same page, your photo essay involves closeups of sanctioned animal brutality. Chained up wolves being attacked by trained eagles? Isn’t that a little sick? I thought Reuters had class.

Will

I note the single most prominent headline on your webpage reads: “Vick Admits guilt.” I also couldn’t help but notice another headline 1-2 inches from the Vick headline, which reads: “Nature vs. nature” - “More then 20 hunters with dogs and eagles take part in a national hunting festival in Kyrgyzstan.”

There is no way on Earth this is a mere coincidence. It is a clear attempt to insinuate that what Vick did is little different than what lots of red-blooded male sportsmen do for fun and recreation, pitting dogs against living creatures….for kicks…..for sport.

Bruce

The “hunting festival” photos from Kyrgyzstan were disturbing, and one could debate whether they all belonged on reuters.com, but the photos were taken on the same day as the Vick verdict, thousands of miles apart, by pure coincidence, and no editorial message was intended: GBU Editor

REUTERS photo by Vladimir Pirogov

Eagles to release first studio album in 28 years

The Eagles, comprising Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, last released a studio album of new songs — “The Long Road” — in 1979.

In response to your news story about the Eagles’ new studio album. You need to look at their discography. The last album in 1979 was “The Long RUN” not ‘The Long Road’.

P.G.

Yes. We corrected: GBU Editor

REUTERS photo by Ethan Miller

Paging Mr. Indiana Jones

CAIRO (Reuters) - A German has handed in a package containing part of a Pharaonic carving to Egypt’s embassy in Berlin, with a note saying his stepfather had suffered a “curse of the Pharaohs” for stealing it, Egypt said Wednesday.

That would be Dr. Jones, not Mr Jones. Someone was not paying attention during the movie

Bernard

Several readers pointed this out: GBU Editor

 REUTERS photo by Gustau Nacarino

U.S. troops care for Iraqi baby rescued from garbage

However, adoption is forbidden in Muslim countries.

I am a Muslim and I find this statement absolutely untrue. We Muslims do not see any wrong in adopting a child in need such as baby Fatima as shown in this article. I hope this article will be adjusted so as the image of Islam will not be misleaded by incorrect information.

Nisa

Several readers objected to this statement in our story. In hindsight, we should have been more specific.

Full adoption as it is understood in non-Muslim countries is not allowed in Muslim countries, where children who have been taken into families do not have the same legal rights as children born into families. Muslims may fully raise children who are not theirs, look after them and support them, but the children must be named after their real fathers: GBU Editor

REUTERS photo by Erik de Castro