Close Encounter
A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers outside the residence of the country's deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mahmoud Chaudhry, during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Close Encounter
A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers outside the residence of the country's deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mahmoud Chaudhry, during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ruins
Firemen try to extinguish the fire on the Sungnyemun Gate in Seoul, South Korea, The Gate, which has a 610-year history, collapsed after the damage.
Mercy
Jiang Guohua, the Communist Party boss of Mianzhu city, Sichuan province, kneels on the ground before angry parents whose children were killed by school collapses in the earthquake, pleading with them to stop their protest march.
Names
A relative scans a list of high school students who survived the powerful earthquake in China, at a stadium in the city of Mianyang.
Remnants
A quake survivor tries to make the most of what is left of his home in Yinghua, China
Close Call
A Marine ducks after being nearly hit by Taliban fire in Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Miraculously, he was not injured.
Prisoner
An Iraqi detainee washes his feet inside Camp Bucca detention center, a US facility located near the Kuwait-Iraq border.
Pioneer: Valentina Tereshkova
The first woman to fly in space, Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times in the Soviet craft Vostok 6 in 1963. For three days, she maintained a flight log, took photographs and manually oriented her spacecraft.
First Woman EVA: Svetlana Savitskaya
Nineteen years after her compatriot Tereshkova's historic flight, Cosmonaut Savitskaya flew into space along with four other crew members. In addition to being the second female astronaut, she was the first woman to walk in space. Part of her mission included a 3-hour and 35-minute space walk outside the Salyut 7 space station.
Maize Mountain
Stockpiles of food await transportation to more than two million Ugandans. The WFP faces increasing demand to feed people who one year ago did not expect any help
Passage
One month after these photographs were taken, Luoc died. Though his wife thought he was doing well on treatment, the tuberculosis had advanced too far. Before his death, Luoc advised the other patients in his group to not give up their treatment. "If I die," he said, "it's because of the lung disease and not because of HIV."
Trying to Maintain Order
Police arrest a man suspected of inciting violence in a raid on a squatter settlement east of Johannesburg.
Safety Check
A young Palestinian member of Fatah al-Islam trains with a weapon at Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, Lebanon. Fatah al-Islam is a militant Sunni Islamist group with reported ties to Al-Qaeda.
Camouflaged
A young rebel fighter mans a large-caliber machine gun on the Chad-Sudan border. UNICEF estimates that there are 250,000 child soldiers worldwide.
Masked Intentions
A Fatah al-Islam member poses with a rifle in Northern Lebanon. A Syrian faction of the extremist group has been blamed for several bombings in Beirut.
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