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Decade in Pictures

01. The second tower of the World Trade Centerexplodes into flames after being hit by a airplane,
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New York September 11, 2001 with the Brooklynbridge in the foreground. Both towers of thecomplex collapsed after being hit by hijacked

planes. REUTERS/Sara K. Schwittek

TotallyCoolPix is all about the images and this isa retrospect all about the years 2000-2010 aka The

Noughties. We could write about September 11th2001 or the tsunami or countless earthquakes orthe Middle East conflict or Barack Obama orMichael Schumacher or Saddam Hussein orFacebook or the human race. But well let the

pictures speak for themselves.Note: The imagesare in no particular order, some containgraphic

scenes and they are the personal choice of the

editors. If you miss something, were sorry.
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02. A man rinses soot from his face at the scene ofa gas pipeline explosion near Nigeria'scommercial capital Lagos December 26, 2006. Upto 500 people were burned alive on Tuesday when

fuel from a vandalised pipeline exploded inNigeria's largest city, Lagos, emergency workers
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said. Hundreds of residents of the Abule Egbadistrict went to scoop fuel using plastic containersafter thieves punctured the underground pipeline

overnight to siphon fuel into a road tanker, localssaid. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

03. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2010 - Armysoldiers and riot policemen fire towards anti-
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government 'red shirt' protesters who planned aroad block along a highway in the outskirts ofBangkok on April 28, 2010. Thai troops fired in

the air and shot rubber bullets in a chaotic clashwith anti-government protesters on a highway inBangkok's suburbs on Wednesday that woundedat least 16 people and possibly killed one soldier.

REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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04. U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 RichardBarnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division,holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March29, 2003 file photo. Confused front line crossfireripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers
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appeared to force civilians towards positions heldby U.S. Marines. March 20 marks the one yearanniversary of the beginning of the U.S. led war

against Iraq. The war started on March 20Baghdad local time, March 19 Washington D.C.local time. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj


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05. Britney Spears (L) gets a kiss on the mouthfrom Madonna during the opening act of the 2003MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City

Music Hall in New York, August 28, 2003.REUTERS/Win McNamee


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06. Smoke billows from a controlled burn ofspilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf ofMexico coast line June 13, 2010. Millions of

gallons of oil have poured into the Gulf since anApril 20 explosion on an offshore rig killed 11workers and ruptured BP's deep-sea well.REUTERS/Sean Gardner
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07. A computer screen shows one of the minerstrapped underground in a copper and gold mine,inside the mine at Copiapo, some 725 km (450miles) north of Santiago August 26, 2010. Thirty-

three miners trapped for 21 days in a Chileanmine may get videos of Maradona and other


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soccer greats to beat boredom as they face severalmonths deep underground until they are dug out.Picture taken August 26, 2010. REUTERS/Ivan

Alvarado
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08. Military and forensic experts inspect the bodyof a man who was killed outside a nightclub in the

border city of Ciudad Juarez August 31, 2009. A

man was handcuffed to a fence and shot severaltimes by drug hitmen outside a nightclub,according to local media. The assailants also left awarning message, known as narco mensaje, at the

site of the shooting. Picture taken August 31,2009. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas
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09. An Iraqi man suspected of having explosivesin his car is held after being arrested by the U.Sarmy near Baquba, Iraq, October 15, 2005. Iraqisheaded to the polls in an historic referendum onSaturday, with up to 15 million eligible voters


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deciding on a controversial new post-SaddamHussein constitution that its backers hope willunite the torn country. Amid intense security,

including a ban on all traffic, voters flowed onfoot to polling stations across Baghdad.REUTERS/Jorge Silva
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10. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein fires shotsinto the air on December 31, 2000. Saddam

presided on Sunday over what appeared to be the

biggest military parade in Baghdad since the 1991Gulf War, greeting army units with shots from arifle he held in one hand. REUTERS/FalehKheiber


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11. A Rwandan worker wipes as he cleans a massgrave outside the church in Nyanza, RwandaApril 4, 2004. Vowing never again, Rwandans

began a week of commemoration on Sunday for

the estimated 800,000 people killed a decade ago


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in 100 days of genocide that the outside world didlittle to prevent. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti

12. A Kashmiri girl refugee carries a stone tohelps her father to build a wall in the NeelumValley near Kamsar camp, some 10 km (6 miles)


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north of the earthquake-devastated city ofMuzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered KashmirFebruary 15, 2006. Winter weather has made life

more difficult for survivors of last year's massiveearthquake in South Asia, where more than twomillion people have been living in tents or crudeshelters patched together from ruined homes.

REUTERS/Thierry Roge
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13. Palestinians carry two wounded Palestinian

babies after an Israeli artillery shell hit their housein the northern Gaza strip April 10, 2006. AnIsraeli artillery shell killed a young Palestiniangirl and injured 12 others, including five children,when it hit a house in the northern Gaza Strip on


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Monday, Palestinian security sources andwitnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

14. Wounded Israeli civilians get first aid,following a suicide attack at Tel Aviv's old central

bus station on April 17, 2006. A suspectedPalestinian suicide bomber killed at least five


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people at a sandwich stand in the Israeli city ofTel Aviv on Monday and wounded dozens more,medics said. REUTERS/Noam Wind


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15. Nepali riot policemen beat pro-democracyactivists after they were fired upon with tear gasfor defying a curfew in Nepal's capital

Kathmandu, April 22, 2006. Riot police clubbedand threw tear gas at tens of thousands of

protesters as they shouted anti-monarch sloganswhile attempting to march towards the royal

palace in protest of King Gyanendra.REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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16. A would-be immigrant crawls after his arrivalon a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach inSpain's Canary Island, May 5, 2006. Some 38would-be immigrants arrived at the beach on a

makeshift boat and some 39 were intercepted on amakeshift boat off Spain's Canary Island of

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Fuerteventura on their way to reach European soilfrom Africa. REUTERS/Juan Medina

17. Italy's Fabio Cannavaro lifts the World CupTrophy after the World Cup 2006 final soccer

match between Italy and France in Berlin July 9,2006. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez


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18. An Israeli soldier walks as leaves Lebaneseterritory during the second day of ceasefire nearthe town of Menara August 15, 2006. As a truce

between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah entered

its second day on Tuesday, planning gotunderway for a beefed up U.N. peacekeeping

force to back the Lebanese army when it deploys


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force to back the Lebanese army when it deploysto the south. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

19. The Tribute in Lights shines on the skyline oflower Manhattan in New York, September 11,

2006, as the fifth anniversary of the September

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11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center isobserved. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn

20. A North Korean soldier guards an army

installation on the banks of the Yalu River at theNorth Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the

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Chinese border city of Dandong, October 10,2006. With world leaders roundly condemning

North Korea's announcement it had carried out a

nuclear test, U.N. Security Council membersweighed an arms embargo and financial sanctionson Pyongyang. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause


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21 Italy's Marco Materazzi falls on the pitch after
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21. Italy s Marco Materazzi falls on the pitch afterbeing head-butted by France's Zinedine Zidane(R) during their World Cup 2006 final soccer

match in Berlin July 9, 2006. REUTERS/PeterSchols

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22. Somali refugees run from the dust at Ifo campnear Dadaab, about 80km (50 miles) from Liboion the border with Somalia in north-eastern

Kenya, January 8, 2007. Aid agencies areoperating three large refugee camps in Dadaabwhere about 160,000 Somali refugees are heldand said they could provide more staff to help

Kenya with any new influx. REUTERS/RaduSigheti


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23. Madonna carries her adopted son David at theHome of Hope orphanage in Mchinji village,135km (84 miles) west of the capital Lilongwe April17,2007. Malawi police and stone-throwingschool students blocked journalists from covering

pop star Madonna's visit to an orphanage on

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y y p gmeet his biological father. At right is Madonna'sdaughter Lourdes. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
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24. The cover of Time magazine's December 27,


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2010/January 3, 2011 issue featuring MarkZuckerberg as the Person of the Year is seen in

this image released to Reuters December 15,2010. Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive ofThe Facebook social networking site that hasmore than half a billion users, was named Time

magazine's 2010 Person of the Year onWednesday. REUTERS/TIMEMagazine/Handout
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25. Benazir Bhutto prays as she arrives inKarachi, October 18, 2007. Bhutto ended eightyears of self-exile on Thursday, returning toKarachi where more than 100,000 supporters

poured onto the city's streets to welcome herhome. REUTERS/Petr Josek


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26. Convicted Bali bomber Imam Samudera aliasAbdul Aziz talks to his daughter during his lastfamily visit in Batu prison, Nusa KambanganIsland, October 29, 2007. Three Indonesianmilitants on death row for their involvement in

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they were ready to die and would not seek apresidential pardon. REUTERS/Beawiharta

27. A young man with an arrow in his head

arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the

town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area January26 2008 K i h Rif V ll f


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26, 2008. Kenyans in the Rift Valley town ofNakuru feared more violence on Saturday after a

disputed election triggered pitched battlesbetween ethnic gangs that killed at least a dozenpeople. REUTERS/Peter Andrews


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28. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures ashe is driven into Wandsworth Prison in a policevan, in south west London December 14, 2010. A

British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds($317 400) T d f th l f


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($317,400) on Tuesday for the release ofWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in

Sweden for alleged sex crimes and the target ofU.S. fury over the release of secret diplomaticcables. REUTERS/Andrew Winning

29. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejadwears 3 D glasses to watch a programme about an


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wears 3-D glasses to watch a programme about anIranian rocket during a visit to the control centre

for Iran's space programme near Tehran February4, 2008. Iran launched a rocket on Mondaydesigned to send its first homemade researchsatellite into orbit in the next year, state television

said, a move likely to add to Western concernsabout Tehran's nuclear plans. REUTERS/FarsNews


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30. Supporters reach out to touch the hand ofdemocratic presidential candidate Senator BarackObama (D-IL) after he spoke at a rally in Dallas,Texas February 20, 2008. REUTERS/Jessica

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31. Riot police storm past a dead protestor, CarloGiuliani, who has been shot and killed byCarabiniere during rioting in central Genoa July20, 2001. Police fired live rouds, tear gas and usedwater cannon in an attempt to disperse thousands

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summit. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

32. An indigenous woman holds her child while

trying to resist the advance of Amazonas statepolicemen who were expelling the woman and

some 200 other members of the LandlessMovement from a privately-owned tract of land


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Movement from a privately owned tract of landon the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the

Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landlesspeasants tried in vain to resist the eviction withbows and arrows against police using tear gas andtrained dogs. REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-ACritica


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33. A protester burns a Chinese flag during a

protest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa March 14,2008. Protesters in Tibet's capital burnt shops andvehicles and yelled for independence on Friday asthe region was hit by protests, prompting the

Dalai Lama to urge Beijing to stop brute force.REUTERS/Stringer


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34. Kenji Nagai of APF tries to take photographsas he lies injured after police and military officialsfired upon and then charged at protesters inYangon's city centre September 27, 2007. Nagailater died. REUTERS/Adrees Latif


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35. The Northern Lights are seen above the ashplume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the

evening April 22, 2010. REUTERS/LucasJackson
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36. California gubernatorial hopeful ArnoldSchwarzenegger is surrounded by a cloud ofconfetti following a campaign rally during

Schwarzenegger's campaign bus tour in Clovis,California, October 4, 2003.REUTERS/Blake Sell


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37. Rescuers carry a wounded man from therubble of a building demolished by a bomb in the
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centre of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad June 14,

2004. A suicide car bomber blew himself up on abusy Baghdad street on Monday as a convoy offoreigners in civilian cars drove past, partlydemolishing a nearby building, police at the scenesaid. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber


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the construction of the controversial Israeli

security barrier in the West Bank village of Az-Zawiya June 20, 2004. REUTERS/GoranTomasevic


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39. A woman passes the scene of Sunday'sexplosion at al-Muhaya expatriate housingcompound in the Wadi Laban suburb west ofRiyadh in Saudi Arabia November 11, 2003.Saudi Arabia has detained suspects in the

devastating suicide bomb attack on the housingcomplex after vowing to strike back with an ironfi t REUTERS/S lt Al F h d


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fist. REUTERS/Sultan Al Fahed

40. Britain's Prince Charles grins next to theDuchess of Cornwall as they leave St. George'sCh l i Wi d C tl th E l d ft


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Chapel in Windsor Castle, southern England, after

the Service of Prayer and Dedication followingtheir marriage, April 9, 2005. Prince Charles andhis long-term partner Camilla Parker Bowles, who

became Her Royal Highness the Duchess ofCornwall on their marriage, married on Saturdayin a low-key ceremony. Pictures of the MonthApril 2005 REUTERS/Toby Melville


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41. The final Concorde, Flight 216, takes off fromLondon's Heathrow Airport, en route to its

birthplace Filton in western England, November

26, 2003. Concorde, which has made morefarewell tours than Frank Sinatra, let out its finalsupersonic roar on Wednesday as it hurtled acrossthe Bay of Biscay at twice the speed of sound

before starting its new earthbound life at a

heritage centre being built in Filton.REUTERS/Lee Besford
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42. The new elected Pope Benedict XVI, knownas German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, greets

thousands of pilgrims from the balcony of the St.

Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 19, 2005.German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strictdefender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23


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defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23

years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite awidespread assumption he was too old anddivisive to win election. REUTERS/KaiPfaffenbach


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43. A photo of Saddam Hussein after his captureis shown during a press conference in Baghdad,December 14 2003 U S troops captured Saddam


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December 14, 2003. U.S. troops captured Saddam

Hussein near his home town of Tikrit announcedU.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer onSunday, in a major coup for Washington's

beleaguered occupation force in Iraq.REUTERS/Handout


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44. A man carries two brothers who were killedwhen their home collapsed during an earthquakein Bam December 27, 2003. International rescueworkers hacked desperately through flatteneddebris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed inIran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam after an

earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people.REUTERS/Caren Firouz


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45. Senegalese children run as locusts spread inthe capital Dakar September 1, 2004. Only amilitary-style operation with bases across West


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Africa can stop the worst locust invasion for 15years, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade saidon Tuesday as the insects swept into his capital.The United Nations Food and AgricultureOrganisation (FAO) warned last week that the

locust swarms infesting countries from Mauritaniato Chad could develop into a full-scale plaguewithout additional foreign aid. REUTERS/PierreHoltz
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46. A Russian police officer carries a releasedbaby from the school seized by heavily armedmasked men and women in the town of Beslan. ARussian police officer carries a released babyfrom the school seized by heavily armed masked

men and women in the town of Beslan in the

province of North Ossetia near Chechnya,September 2, 2004. An armed gang, holdinghundreds of people hostage in a Russian school,


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on Thursday freed four infants and at least twowomen. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev

47. Britain's yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur holdsflares as she arrives in Falmouth, Cornwall on hertrimaran, after breaking the record for sailing solo


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round the world, February 8, 2005. I'm elated andabsolutely drained, a tearful MacArthur said byradio after crossing the finishing line in just over71 days and 14 hours to smash the record set lastyear. REUTERS/Stephen Hird


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48. Fireworks light up Sydney's Harbour Bridgeduring the closing ceremony of the XXVIIOlympiad in Sydney October 1, 2000. IOCPresident Juan Antonio Samaranch earlierdeclared the Sydney Olympic games the best ever.


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49. Russian President Putin watches the launch ofa missile during naval exercises in Russia's Arctic

North on board the nuclear missile cruiser PyotrVeliky. Russian President Vladimir Putin watches

the launch of a missile during naval exercises in

Russia's Arctic North on board the nuclear missilecruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great), August 17,2005. Russia's President Vladimir Putin oversaw


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the launch at sea of a ballistic missile onWednesday, salvaging some honour after theembarrassment of two failed launches on a visit tothe fleet last year. Others are unidentified.REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/PRESIDENTIAL

PRESS SERVICE


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50. Cuban President Fidel Castro addresses theaudience during an event with his Venezuelancounterpart Hugo Chavez on Havana's RevolutionSquare February 3 2006 Chavez arrived in Cuba


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Square February 3, 2006. Chavez arrived in Cubaon Friday for a 24-hour visit to accept aninternational award from UNESCO and open theHavana international book fair honoringVenezuela. Picture taken February 3, 2006

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51. A woman puts her hand near a crack on a wall

as she waits for food distribution in Port-au-Prince Haiti January 27, 2010. A shallow 4.9magnitude aftershock rattled western Haiti onTuesday, two weeks after a killer 7.0 magnitude

earthquake devastated the Haitian capital, Port-au-

Prince, the U.S. Geological Service said.REUTERS/Carlos Barria


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52. Drowned African immigrants lie on the coastin Fuerteventura, one of the Spanish CanaryIslands off the coast of Morocco August 1, 2003.

Six immigrants drowned, when their flimsy boat

ran aground and 15 others disappeared onThursday when their boat capsized six milesoffshore. Fuerteventura is the nearest of theCanary Islands to the African coast and traffickers


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Canary Islands to the African coast and traffickershabitually head for its shores from launching

points in southern Morocco, packing theirpassengers into overload
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53. Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales (L)receives a replica of South American independentfighter Simon Bolivar's sword from VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez at the Miraflores Palace


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President Hugo Chavez at the Miraflores Palacein Caracas January 3, 2006. Morales is inVenezuela for a one-day visit. REUTERS/JorgeSilva

54. Shawn Sawyer of Canada is seen during a

practice session through the Olympic rings at the

Palavela figure skating venue ahead of the Torino2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy,February 9, 2006. REUTERS/David Gray


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55. China's national flag is raised during theopening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic

Games at the National Stadium, August 8, 2008.

The stadium is also known as the Bird's Nest.REUTERS/Jerry Lampen


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56. A Georgian man cries as he holds the body ofhis relative after a bombardment in Gori, 80 km

(50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A

Russian warplane dropped a bomb on anapartment block in Gori on Saturday, killing atleast 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bombhit the five-story building close to Georgia's


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y g gembattled breakaway province of South Ossetiawhen Russian warplanes carried out a raid againstmilitary targets around the town. REUTERS/GlebGaranich


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57. Michael Phelps and Garrett Weber-Gale

celebrate after the U.S. won the men's 4x100mfreestyle relay swimming final at the NationalAquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 OlympicGames August 11, 2008. REUTERS/David Gray


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58. Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates winning themen's 200m final of the athletics competition inthe National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 OlympicGames August 20, 2008. Bolt set a new worldrecord with a timing of 19.30 seconds.

REUTERS/Dylan Martinez


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59. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2010 - A

hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from theDeepwater Horizon oil spill on East Grand TerreIsland, Louisiana June 8, 2010. Energy giant BPPlc said on Tuesday it had sharply increased the

amount of oil it was capturing from its blown-out

Gulf of Mexico well, but U.S. officials want toknow exactly how much oil is still gushing out.REUTERS/Lee Celano


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60. Bernard Madoff walks back to his apartmentin New York December 17, 2008. Disgracedfinancier Madoff, accused of orchestrating a $50

billion fraud, was placed under house arrest onW d d BNP P ib b h l


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Wednesday as BNP Paribas became the latestEuropean bank to be sideswiped by the scandal.REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton


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61. An Iranian woman supporting former prime

Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, who is a candidatefor the upcoming presidential elections, coversher face with his picture during a pre-electiongathering at a stadium in Tehran June 9, 2009.

REUTERS/Damir Sagolj


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62. Janet Jackson (L-R), Paris Michael Katherine,LaToya Jackson, Jermaine Jackson and PrinceMichael Jackson attend a memorial service for

their brother and father, music legend Michael

Jackson, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,California, July 7, 2009. Mariah Carey, StevieWonder and Usher led an emotional publicmemorial for Michael Jackson on Tuesday as themusic world the Jackson family and thousands of


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music world, the Jackson family and thousands offans bade farewell to the King of Pop.REUTERS/Gabriel Bouys/Pool


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63. A U.S. soldier of 2-12 Infantry 4BCT-4ID

Task Force Mountain Warrior takes a breakduring a night mission near Honaker Miraclecamp at the Pesh valley of Kunar Province August12, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria


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64. Pall bearers carry the body of the late PopeJohn Paul II through a packed Saint Peter's Squareat the Vatican. Pall bearers carry the body of the

late Pope John Paul II through a packed SaintPeter's Square enroute to the Basilica at theVatican April 4, 2005. Roman Catholic cardinalsgather on Monday for the first time since thePontiff's death to organise a funeral expected todraw the greatest tide of pilgrims and heads of

state to the Vatican in its history. REUTERS/KaiPfaffenbach
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65. Unidentified bodies lie on a street in theJabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip early

March 6, 2003. Israeli forces killed at least 11

Palestinians and injured more than 140, includingsome torn apart by a tank shell, in a major raid inthe Gaza Strip on Thursday after a suicide bomberkilled 15 people in Israel yesterday.

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66. People gather to get water from a huge well inthe village of Natwarghad in the western Indianstate of Gujarat on June 1, 2003. Natwargadh is inthe midst of the worst drought in over a decade.

Dams wells and ponds have gone dry across the


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Dams, wells and ponds have gone dry across thewestern and northern parts of Gujarat forcing

people to wait for hours around village ponds forthe irregular state-run water tankers to show up as

the temperature sores to over 44 degree Celcius.The United Nation's World Environment Day will

be celebrated on Thursday with the themeof Water - Two Billion People are Dying for It.


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67. Finbarr O'Reilly, a Reuters photographer

based in Senegal, has won the World Press Photoof the Year 2005, announced February 10, 2006,with this picture of a mother and child at anemergency feeding centre. The prestigious

competition is the world's largest annual press

photography contest. Jury chairman of the WorldPress Photo 2006 contest James Colton describedthe winning image as such, This image haseverything - beauty, horror and despair. It is

simple, elegant and moving. The picture was
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simple, elegant and moving. The picture wastaken in Tahoua, Niger August 1, 2005.REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly/


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68. A young girl walks with two bags of colddrinking water in Monrovia, Liberia, October 9,2005. Liberians will go to the polls October 11 tochoose a successor to deposed warlord-turned-

president Charles Taylor. Pictures of the Month

October 2005 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst


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69. A Palestinian boy rides a horse in front of

concrete wall separating the West Bank village ofAbu Dis from East Jerusalem January 16, 2004.Israel's High Court decided on Thursday to hold ahearing within the next month on the legality of

the disputed barrier Israel is building in the West

Bank. The hearing was to be held before theInternational Court of Justice at the Hague wasdue to begin deliberations on February 23 inresponse to a request by the U.N. General

Assembly to rule on whether Israel was legally
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y g yobliged to tear down the barrier.REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
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70. A fighting bull with a shirt hanging on itsright horn slips on the wet streets as it chargesthrough central Pamplona during the first run ofthe week-long San Fermin Festival on July 7,2002. The first running of the bulls in Spain's

annual Pamplona festival got off to a slippery anddangerous start as several people were injured inthe mad dash through cobblestone streets.REUTERS/Desmond Boylan


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71. Zimbabwean policeman wait to load the body

of murdered commercial farmer Charles Andersen

into an ambulance at his Norfolk Estates farm, 80Km's north of Harare, June 2, 2002. Andersen

became the eleventh white commercial farmer tobe killed since supporters of President Robert

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in February 2000. REUTERS/Paul Cadenhead


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72. US hotels heiress Paris Hilton poses at

photocall on the Carlton Hotel pier during 58thCannes Film Festival. U.S. hotels heiress Paris

Hilton (C) poses at a photocall on the Carlton

Hotel pier during the 58th Cannes Film FestivalMay 13, 2005. Hilton is visiting the festival to

promote the film National Lampoon's PledgeThis!, in which she stars. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard


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73. Fireworks illuminate the sky around a huge

euro sculpture, designed by German artist Ottmar

Hoerl, in front of the headquarters of theEuropean Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt,January 1, 2002. Several thousand people inFrankfurt celebrated at a party on the streets

around the ECB to welcome Europe's newcurrency the euro UNICS REUTERS/Kai


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currency, the euro. UNICS REUTERS/KaiPfaffenbach REUTERS
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74. A woman walks past a heap of skinned seal

cubs after the annual cull near the village ofNizhnaya Zolatitsa, some 150 km from the Arcticcity of Arkhangelsk in Russia March 9, 2000.Local inhabitants rely on the cull as their onlysource of income for the whole year, making

roughly $100 from selling the fur and meat takenduring the week long event.


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75. To mark Earth Day on April 22, 2000, NASAscientists released this new image of the Earth,updating the famous Blue Marble photographtaken by Apollo astronauts. The digital image

uses data collected in 1997 from several satellitesto approximate what a human could see from


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to approximate what a human could see fromorbit, with the added artistic license of having theMoon in the background. The prominent storm

raging off the west coast of North America isHurricane Linda. The image of the Moon has

been magnified to about twice its relative size.


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76. Broward County Canvassing Board member,Judge Robert Rosenberg, stares at a dimpled

punchcard ballot November 23, 2000 as the board

begins counting the county's ballots that were

considered questionable. After review by the threemember panel, the vote went to Republican

presidential candidate George W. Bush. Gore is inthe final stages of a legal challenge to wrest the

presidency away from Bush.


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77. Elian Gonzalez, held by Donato Dalrymple, istaken by U.S. federal agents from his Miamirelatives April 22, 2000. U.S. federal authoritiesstormed the Miami house where Cuban shipwreck

survivor Elian Gonzalez was sleeping early on aSaturday morning. Dalrymple is one of the two


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y g y psport fishermen that rescued him at sea. In theElian case, after a custody battle pitting President

Fidel Castro's government against its arch-enemies in the Cuban-American community, the

boy's Cuban father finally won his legal battle inU.S. courts and fetched Elian home on June 28.REUTERS/Alan Diaz/Pool


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78. Marooned flood victims looking to escapegrab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopterwhich arrived to distribute food supplies in theMuzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab

province August 7, 2010. Pakistanis desperate toget out of flooded villages threw themselves at


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g ghelicopters on Saturday as more heavy rain wasexpected to intensify both suffering and anger

with the government. The disaster killed morethan 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12million. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

. REUTERS/Adrees Latif


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79. An Israeli Border Policeman and a Palestinianscream at each other face to face in the Old City

of Jerusalem October 13, 2000 as the Palestinian

is refused entry to the al-Aqsa mosque for Friday

prayers. Israeli security forces prevented

thousands of Palestinians from attending Friday

prayers over concern for continued unrest and

clashes following the prayers due to theincreased tensions and fighting in the West Bank


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and Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Amit Shabi
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80. The bow of the Prestige oil tanker floats

above water moments before sinking in watersoff northern Spain November 19, 2002. The

tanker

broke into two earlier in the day. The Prestige

went down with some 70,000 tonnes of fuel oil.

REUTERS/Paul Hanna

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