The head of a male student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the church school that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, November 7, 2008...
April 2001
Tijana Schouten (left) and Ilonka Brouwer are married in The Hague, Netherlands, April 27, after the country became the first in the world to legalize gay marriage.
September 2001
Flames pour from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York just after the second of two planes hit them on the morning of September 11.
August 2001
Fans line New York City streets Aug. 31 to catch a glimpse of the funeral procession of R&B singer Aaliyah, who was killed Aug. 25 in a plane crash in the Bahamas at age 22.
November 2002
Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix leaves Baghdad Nov. 20 after visiting Iraq to discuss inspections demanded by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441.
July 2002
On July 15, American Taliban John Walker Lindh pleaded guilty to two charges related to volunteering for Islamists in Afghanistan. At left, Lindh appears in a television image in...
February 2002
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is held at gunpoint after being kidnapped in Pakistan Jan. 23. Pearl was killed by his captors Feb. 1.
May 2001
Pope John Paul II waves to crowds outside Damascuss Umayyad Mosque, where he became the first pope to step inside a Muslim house of worship, on May 6.