Muslims attend prayers on the eve of the first day of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta August 21, 2009. Muslims around the world congregate for special evening prayers called “Tarawih” during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. REUTERS/Supri

I’m terribly sorry, but I must tell you I’ll never be looking at your site, or buying any Reuter’s news products in the future.

It’s because you felt you needed to post prayer photos as news. Religion is the most harmful human invention ever, and is nothing more than self-inflicted mental illness. Religion should not be encouraged. If anything it should be ridiculed wherever and whenever possible.

J.D.H.

Thanks for writing. I’m guessing you have a hard time finding news that meets your standards, and we certainly don’t: GBU Editor

Join the Good, Bad, Ugly Facebook Blog Network

An Indian child makes bricks at a brick kiln unit near Bahadurgarh in the northern state of Haryana, December 30, 2005. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore

The UK Independent published a photo by Kamal Kishore on 10.10.07 of an Indian child making bricks, which I have kept ever since. I would like to find out more about where it was taken and the background.

Colin B.

The Independent must have liked it too, because when they published it in 2007 the shot was already two years old. That photographer is no longer with us, but if I find an address for him I’ll pass along your query: GBU Editor

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

What a tragic, heart-rending but brilliant picture by Andrew Winning on the front page of The Guardian yesterday - a brilliant composition that should be nominated for an industry award. Please pass on my congratulations.

Alan N.

Indeed. Thanks for noticing: GBU Editor

Mourners cry as hearses containing the bodies of eight soldiers killed in Afghanistan drive through Wootton Bassett,  in Wiltshire, southern England July 14, 2009. The bodies of eight soldiers killed during the bloodiest 24-hours for British forces since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 were flown back home on Tuesday. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

Your practice of publishing unflattering photos of Dick Cheney to try and make him look angry and unappealing is a bogus, phony, manipulative, lying practice.

Shame on you. You aren’t journalists. You are propagandists and sellouts. Cheney is right on Gitmo, and 90 members of Congress agree with him.

Hank

Since our story said “An unsmiling Cheney delivered his shots without any significant inflection…”  it wasn’t exactly appropriate to dig out a photo of Cheney smiling. But here’s one for  you now: GBU Editor

REUTERS photo by Jason Reed

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

Your article about Yusuf Islam has a picture of Sami Yusuf attached to it. I guess all Muslims must look the same to you.

Aly

A number of readers pointed out this embarrassing error. We removed the incorrect photo: GBU Editor

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

Sarah Hussein Obama, grandmother to U.S. President-elect Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), smiles during a news conference at her home in Nyangoma Kogelo village, 257 miles west of Kenya’s capital Nairobi, November 5, 2008. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

This picture does not look real. Among the people in the background (fuzzy) is someone who looks like Obama, only his image is very large compared to the surrounding people. I also think he didn’t visit Kenya recently.

K.H.

The photo is real. The “fuzzy” image in the background is a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama, as you can see more clearly in this other photo from the same event: GBU Editor

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

As a regular newspaper reader I have viewed thousands of photos, digital records of the world’s curiosities, joyful moments, trials and tragedies. Most leave no lasting impression.

However, this weekend a photograph that appeared in The Vancouver Sun touched me in a way that lingers even now. I am referring to the photograph capturing the incalculable grief of a father on the heels of the knife attack at a daycare in Belgium. Rarely have I seen a photo that so deeply and poignantly captures the horror, bewilderment, confusion and grief on the heels of a human tragedy.

I looked at the image for a long time. Later, my husband came to me and showed me the image. He too had had the same reaction. I would like to send my compliments to Yves Herman and also to suggest to you that this image is worthy of submission for a Pulitzer prize.

Ann C.

Thank you for your kind words. Here are two Yves Herman photos of the tragedy that were used in the Sun: GBU Editor

Parents react as they leave a building where families received assistance near the scene of a knife attack at a creche in Dendermonde January 23, 2009. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

A suspected gunman walks in the premises of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or Victoria Terminus railway station in Mumbai November 26, 2008…  REUTERS/The Times of India

Reuters’ caption for the photo begins: “A suspected gunman walks…” Notice the object the terrorist is holding in his hands. It’s a gun. He isn’t a “suspected gunman,” he’s a “gunman.”

This kind of silly political correctness infects reporters and news services world-wide. They think they’re being scrupulous - the man hasn’t been convicted of being a gunman yet! - when in fact they’re just being foolish.

Dick

Our reference was not a result of his not having been convicted. Rather, it was chosen because we could not be absolutely certain that he was not part of the military or police operation: GBU Editor

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

Model Karolina Kurkova voted world’s sexiest woman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world’s sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.

It was terribly mean to call Ms. Kurkova a lingerie model.

Ms. Kurkova is the greatest high fashion model of the early 00s, since Ms. Moss. Tell me Ms. Kurkova is a lingerie model. She helped Mr. Galliano and Mr. Lagerfeld make Dior and Chanel what they are today.

So she was silly enough to do the Victoria Secrets show. It’s the least important and silliest of all fashion shows. It’s not even a fashion show.

James R.

Sorry you don’t think it was an accurate label, but looking through our archive of Kurkova photos, I have to say if the lingerie fits, wear it: GBU Editor

Reuters photos

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network

Your articleTravel Picks:10 top ugly buildings and monuments was extremely frustrating. How could you write an article like this and only include one picture? How lazy can you get?

Ricardo

Your headline on this story should probably read “monuments” instead of “monument.”

Nancy

A number of readers complained about this one. We took the story down and re-posted it with seven illustrations. We also corrected the headline: GBU Editor

Join the Facebook Good, Bad, Ugly Blog Network