World pictures of the decade (2000-2005)

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Zimbabwean farmer Tommy Bayley rides towards a temporary shelter ahead of villagers who invaded his farm near Harare.

 

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An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian scream at each other in the Old City of Jerusalem, October 13, 2000.

 

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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.

 

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

 

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Palestinians run to escape Israeli soldiers firing teargas, during clashes in the Gaza Strip, October 20, 2000.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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Smoke rises from the remains of New York's World Trade Centre, September 12, 2001.

 

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A woman shows her face in public for the first time after five years of Taliban Sharia law in Kabul, Afghanistan, November 14, 2001.

 

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

 

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

 

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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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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