September 11, 2001: United Airlines Flight 175 is pictured moments before it hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York
The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building. Shortly after this picture was taken, both towers collapsed
A man stands in the rubble of the World Trade Center and calls out asking if anyone needs help
8 November, 2001: Osama bin Laden sits on the floor with an AK-47 in his hide-out in Afghanistan
September 20, 2002: The Israeli army blows up a building in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah
March 21, 2003: Smoke covers the presidential palace compound in Baghdad during a massive US-led air raid on the Iraqi capital
March 31, 2003: A hooded Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his four-year-old son at a US-run centre for POWs near An Najaf, Iraq
April 9, 2003: US Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad
May 1, 2003: President George W Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast
June 27, 2003 : A child soldier wearing a teddy bear backpack points his gun at a photographer in a street in Monrovia after Liberian President Charles Taylor's forces took control of the city
December 14, 2003: Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein is examined after he was captured by American forces near his hometown of Tikrit
March 11, 2004: A policeman walks past a hole blasted through a train after an explosion at Madrid's Atocha train station. 191 people were killed in a coordinated series of bombings
September 2, 2004: A Russian police officer carries a baby released from a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya
February 14, 2005: A man shouts for help for a wounded man near the site of a car bomb explosion in Beirut which killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri
July 7, 2005: A number 30 double-decker bus is seen after a massive explosion in Tavistock Square in London. Three bombs had earlier gone off on the London Underground
Paul Dadge helps injured tube passenger Davinia Turrell away from Edgware Road tube station following an explosion. 56 were killed in the four explosions on London's transport network
September 19, 2005: A British soldier jumps from a burning tank which was set ablaze after a shooting incident in the southern Iraqi city of Basra
February 1, 2006: A Jewish settler struggles with Israeli security officers during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona
June 15, 2007: A Hamas fighter takes position inside a scanning machine in the customs hall of the Rafah crossing border, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, after they captured it
June 30, 2007: Flames rise from a Cherokee Jeep after a car bomb attack on Glasgow airport
September 27, 2007: Kenji Nagai, 50, a Japanese video journalist, lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon, Burma. Nagai was hit as soldiers fired to disperse the crowd. He later died
October 18, 2007: Wounded men wait for help at the site of a blast near the convoy of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi. At least 100 people were killed by two bombs near Bhutto's truck during her homecoming parade
December 27, 2007: A bomb explodes next to the vehicle of Benazir Bhutto following a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She was shot through the neck shortly before the explosion
January 17, 2008: A boy screams as he sees a Kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi
March 14, 2008: A protester burns a Chinese flag in the Tibetan capital Lhasa
August 9, 2008: A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori
November 27, 2008: Flames gush out of The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai , one of the sites attacked by militant gunmen. At least 173 people were killed in the attacks
January 13, 2009: Flares and smoke are seen during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City
March 10, 2009: A bomb explodes during a Muslim religious festival in Akuressa, Sri Lanka, killing 14 people and wounded 35, including the country's telecommunications minister
June 14, 2009: Iranian plain clothes policemen beat a demonstrator with batons during a protest in Tehran against the election results
September 11, 2001: United Airlines Flight 175 is pictured moments before it hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York
The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the Empire State Building. Shortly after this picture was taken, both towers collapsed
A man stands in the rubble of the World Trade Center and calls out asking if anyone needs help
8 November, 2001: Osama bin Laden sits on the floor with an AK-47 in his hide-out in Afghanistan
September 20, 2002: The Israeli army blows up a building in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah
March 21, 2003: Smoke covers the presidential palace compound in Baghdad during a massive US-led air raid on the Iraqi capital
March 31, 2003: A hooded Iraqi prisoner of war comforts his four-year-old son at a US-run centre for POWs near An Najaf, Iraq
April 9, 2003: US Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad
May 1, 2003: President George W Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast
June 27, 2003 : A child soldier wearing a teddy bear backpack points his gun at a photographer in a street in Monrovia after Liberian President Charles Taylor's forces took control of the city
December 14, 2003: Iraq's former president Saddam Hussein is examined after he was captured by American forces near his hometown of Tikrit
March 11, 2004: A policeman walks past a hole blasted through a train after an explosion at Madrid's Atocha train station. 191 people were killed in a coordinated series of bombings
September 2, 2004: A Russian police officer carries a baby released from a school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya
February 14, 2005: A man shouts for help for a wounded man near the site of a car bomb explosion in Beirut which killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri
July 7, 2005: A number 30 double-decker bus is seen after a massive explosion in Tavistock Square in London. Three bombs had earlier gone off on the London Underground
Paul Dadge helps injured tube passenger Davinia Turrell away from Edgware Road tube station following an explosion. 56 were killed in the four explosions on London's transport network
September 19, 2005: A British soldier jumps from a burning tank which was set ablaze after a shooting incident in the southern Iraqi city of Basra
February 1, 2006: A Jewish settler struggles with Israeli security officers during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona
June 15, 2007: A Hamas fighter takes position inside a scanning machine in the customs hall of the Rafah crossing border, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, after they captured it
June 30, 2007: Flames rise from a Cherokee Jeep after a car bomb attack on Glasgow airport
September 27, 2007: Kenji Nagai, 50, a Japanese video journalist, lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon, Burma. Nagai was hit as soldiers fired to disperse the crowd. He later died
October 18, 2007: Wounded men wait for help at the site of a blast near the convoy of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi. At least 100 people were killed by two bombs near Bhutto's truck during her homecoming parade
December 27, 2007: A bomb explodes next to the vehicle of Benazir Bhutto following a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She was shot through the neck shortly before the explosion
January 17, 2008: A boy screams as he sees a Kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi
March 14, 2008: A protester burns a Chinese flag in the Tibetan capital Lhasa
August 9, 2008: A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori
November 27, 2008: Flames gush out of The Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai , one of the sites attacked by militant gunmen. At least 173 people were killed in the attacks
January 13, 2009: Flares and smoke are seen during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City
March 10, 2009: A bomb explodes during a Muslim religious festival in Akuressa, Sri Lanka, killing 14 people and wounded 35, including the country's telecommunications minister
June 14, 2009: Iranian plain clothes policemen beat a demonstrator with batons during a protest in Tehran against the election results
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