World pictures of the decade (2000-2005)



Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) jokingly pushes Palestinian President
Yasser Arafat into a cabin, watched by US President Bill Clinton, at Camp David, Maryland, July 11, 2000.
 


Flames come from the Air France Concorde seconds before it crashes in Gonesse near Paris Roissy Airport, July 25, 2000.
 


A boy sits among women during morning prayers in a mosque in Tehran, Iran, May 24, 2001.
 


Riot police storm past a dead protestor, shot and killed by Carabiniere, in central Genoa, July 20, 2001.
 


An American flag flies near the base of the destroyed World Trade Centre in New York, September 11, 2001.
 


A Turkey named Liberty surprises President George W Bush at the annual turkey pardoning event at the White House, November 19, 2001
 


A girl screams as an aftershock hits the already devastated village of Nahrin in Afghanistan, March 27, 2002.
 


LEFT: Michael Jackson holds a child out of a window at a Berlin hotel, November 19, 2002. RIGHT:
Brazil's Cafu lifts the 2002 World Cup trophy after his team win the final against Germany in Japan, June 30, 2002.
 


Russian special forces remove hostages from a theatre which Chechen guerrillas had taken over in Moscow, October 26, 2002.
 


Judge Robert Rosenberg looks at a questionable election ballot following the 2000 US presidential elections, November 23, 2002.
 


People gather to get water from a huge well in Natwarghad, India, June 1, 2003.
 


US Marine Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad, April 9, 2003.
 


A mourner wearing a SARS mask hides under an umbrella during a funeral in Hong Kong, May 22, 2003.
 


Drowned African immigrants lie on the coast in the Spanish Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco on August 1, 2003.
 


Saddam Hussein is filmed after his capture near his home town of Tikrit in Iraq, December 14, 2003.
 
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