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A Kenyan boy screams as he sees Kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 Jan. 2008. Hundreds of police who had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search for protesters.
A hijacked commercial plane approaches the World Trade Center shortly before crashing into the landmark skyscraper 11 Sept. 2001 in New York.
A person falls from the north tower of New York’s World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001 photo, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers.
Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on July 25, 2000. The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. A Japanese businessman took this photo from inside another plane while he was on a business trip and offered it to a Japanese newspaper after returning home.
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is seen in this picture sent to news media organizations by his kidnappers. Pearl, a 38-year-old American, was abducted in Karachi, Pakistan Jan. 23, 2002 by a group calling itself “The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty.” U.S. President George W. Bush said Feb. 1, 2002 that his administration will follow all leads that may lead to the Pearl’s rescue.
Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, Feb. 1, 2003. Pieces of the shuttle were scattered over East Texas with some debris falling in downtown Nacogdoches, Texas. Columbia disintegrated 39 miles over Texas as it returned from a 16-day mission.
An Iraqi man, bottom right, looks at Cpl. Edward Chin, of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Bagdhad, April 9, 2003. Moments later the American flag was removed.
Pfc. Lynndie England holds a leash attached to a detainee in late 2003 at the Abu Gharib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.
An Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his 4-year-old son at a regroupment center for POWs of the 101st Airborne Division near An Najaf, in this March 31, 2003 photo. The man was seized in An Najaf with his son and the U.S. military did not want to separate father and son.
US President George W. Bush meets pilots and crew members of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as they return to the US after being deployed in the Gulf region 01 May 2003.
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is being dragged out of his hiding following his capture by US troops 13 Dec. 2003 in an underground hole at a farm in the village of ad-Dawr, near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq. The picture is one of a series of images of the deposed dictator unauthorized for release by the US army that has been circulating in recent days on the internet.
Children attend ballet lessons wearing masks to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, in Hong Kong, April 27, 2003.
Members of the military honor guard stand on duty by the casket of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, June 10, 2004 in Washington, DC.
Local girls look at a U.N. workers unloading ballot kits from a U.N. helicopter in Ghumaipayan Mahnow village, some 256 miles northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 4, 2004. By air is the only way to deliver the electoral material in the inaccessible areas of the Badakhshan province.
A 9-year-old Iraqi girl recovers from a skull fracture and two broken legs in the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004, as hospital staff x-ray a Marine injured in Fallujah in the background. A U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicle crashed into her family’s car, according to her parents. The hospital is considered the busiest American combat trauma hospital in the world.
An Iraqi man celebrates atop a burning U.S. Army Humvee in the northern part of Baghdad, Iraq, April 26, 2004. An explosion leveled a building in northern Baghdad, setting four U.S. Humvees nearby on fire. At least one U.S. soldier and several Iraqis were wounded. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.
World Press Photo of the year 2004 by Indian photographer Arko Datta of the Reuters news agency showing an Indian woman in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India, Dec. 28, 2004, mourning the death of a relative who was killed in the Asian tsunami catastrophe.
Bodies of adults and children lie in mass grave near Wat Bang Muang, Jan. 7, 2005, in Takuapa, Thailand. More than 5,000 people are listed dead in Thailand following a massive tsunami that struck the popular tourist area in southern Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004.
From left, US President George W. Bush, his wife Laura, his father former US President George H.W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, kneel by the body of late Pope John Paul II inside St. Peter’s Baslica, at the Vatican, April 6, 2005.
Paul Dadge, right, helps injured tube passenger Davinia Turrell away from Edgware Road tube station in London following an explosion, July 7, 2005. A series of deadly explosions in London claimed 52 lives and injured hundreds of others. The woman wears a special dressing for the treatment of burns. The dressing is coated with a special gel which is designed to prevent infection and reduce skin temperature from the burn.
The body of a victim of Hurricane Katrina floats in flood-waters in New Orleans 01 Sept., 2005.
A British soldier makes his way out of a burning Warrior fighting vehicle in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Sept. 19, 2005. British forces and demonstrators exchanged gunfire in the southern city of Basra leaving two civilians dead after two British men were arrested for allegedly gunning down an Iraqi police officer.
A Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, Feb. 1, 2006. Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing Jewish settlers holed up behind barbed wire and on rooftops in this illegal West Bank settlement outpost, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes at the site.
A photo taken 09 July 2006 shows French midfielder Zinedine Zidane (on Left) gesturing after head-butting Italian defender Marco Materazzi during the World Cup 2006 final football match between Italy and France at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium.
A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq’s Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 16, 2007. The boy’s ten-year old brother, Qusay, was injured in the attack as the family returned from enrolling the children in school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year.
Survivors flee a bomb blast attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 following a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The opposition leader died from wounds to the neck and head after speaking at an election rally in the northern city where an estimated 15 people were left dead by the explosion, party officials have been quoted as saying.
A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers outside the residence of the country’s deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 9, 2008.
A grieving mother looks back at the body of her child as she is escorted away from a temporary morgue after identifying the body at a sports center, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Hanwang in Sichuan Province, on May 15, 2008. China’s biggest earthquake for a generation left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under the rubble of crushed communities, plunging the nation into an all-out aid effort. Troops and rescue teams struggled by air, land and water to reach areas of southwestern China stricken by the huge quake that demolished schools, homes and factories.
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., center, is covered in the hands of supporters after his primary election night speech in St Paul, Minn., June 3, 2008.
Artists perform during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Aug. 24, 2008 in Beijing, China.
In this handout image provided by NASA, Hurricane Ike is seen on Sept. 10, 2008 from aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The center of the hurricane was near 23.8 degrees north latitude and 85.3 degrees west longitude, moving 300 degrees at 7 nautical miles per hour. The sustained winds were 80 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 100 nautical miles per hour and forecast to intensify, according to NASA. The eye of the hurricane is expected to make landfall at Galveston Island early on Sept. 13 morning.
Fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike recede, in West Orange, Texas, Sept. 15, 2008.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard S. Fuld Jr., wearing tie, is heckled by protesters as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington after testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Oct. 6, 2008, on the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Protegee carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents through the village of Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 6, 2008. A fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda’s rebels and the army spread to another town in the volatile country’s east.
Pigeons fly as the Taj Hotel continues to burn in Mumbai, India, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks.
A gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India, Nov. 26, 2008. Qasab, the only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. The militant group suspected in the Mumbai attacks is widely believed to have been established by Pakistan’s military two decades ago to fight India in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines, Jan. 15, 2009. The audio recordings of US Airways Flight 1549, released on Feb 5, 2009 by the Federal Aviation Administration, reflect the initial tension between tower controllers and the cockpit and then confusion about whether the passenger jet went into the river.
Barack Obama stands for a moment in a crowded hallway at the U.S. Capitol moments before walking out to be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States.
Pakistani men pray next to a bullet-ridden vehicle parked in the compound of radical Lal Masjid or Red mosque as the chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, not seen, talks to his supporters during Friday prayers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 17, 2009.
Seven-month-old Alexa Zuniga wears a surgical mask at the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, April 28, 2009. In Mexico, more than 150 deaths were believed to have been caused by swine flu.
A demonstrator climbs the Freedom Tower, as hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in the presidential election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Freedom square in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2009.
Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson is comforted by the brothers and sisters of Michael Jackson including Marlon and Randy Jackson at the memorial service for the King of Pop at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009.
U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province, July 8, 2009.
A US Marine of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade runs to safety moments after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in Afghanistan on July 13, 2009. Two US Marine soldiers were killed when the explosion occurred as they tried to clear a route into the Taliban heartland of southern Helmand province. About 4,000 US Marines are battling insurgents in a massive offensive launched in the south early July to clear Taliban militants out of strongholds ahead of presidential and provincial council elections scheduled for Aug. 20.
Palestinian bride Kholood Al Zaaneen sits inside a tent built after her family’s house was destroyed during Israel’s latest military offensive in Gaza, during her wedding ceremony in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2009.
Aerial view of an area deforested for cattle ranching within the “Legal Amazon”, the name given to the area originally covered by the rainforest, seen on Sept. 2, 2009 in the northern region of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Deforestation and forest fires are responsible for 75 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil.
This photo provided by the French Army shows French soldiers arresting suspected pirates off Somalia, in this Nov.12, 2009 file photo.
A young girl and her dog looks out from a vehicle as she and her family wait for security clearance at a checkpoint on the outskirt of Bannu, a town on edge of the Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Oct. 22, 2009 as they flee a military offensive in South Waziristan. Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in Waziristan, a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border in an operation, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country’s battle against extremism.
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