Saturday, December 25, 2010

Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties Part 01

Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
01. The second tower of the World Trade Center explodes into flames after being hit by a airplane, New York September 11, 2001 with the Brooklyn bridge in the foreground. Both towers of the
complex collapsed after being hit by hijacked planes. REUTERS/Sara K. Schwittek
TotallyCoolPix is all about the images and this is a retrospect all about the years 2000-2010 aka The Noughties. We could write about September 11th 2001 or the tsunami or countless earthquakes or the Middle East conflict or Barack Obama or Michael Schumacher or Saddam Hussein or Facebook or the human race. But we’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. Note: The images are in no particular order, some contain graphic scenes and they are the personal choice of the editors. If you miss something, we’re sorry.

Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
02. A man rinses soot from his face at the scene of a gas pipeline explosion near Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos December 26, 2006. Up to 500 people were burned alive on Tuesday when fuel from a vandalised pipeline exploded in Nigeria's largest city, Lagos, emergency workers said. Hundreds of residents of the Abule Egba district went to scoop fuel using plastic containers after thieves punctured the underground pipeline overnight to siphon fuel into a road tanker, locals said. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
03. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2010 - Army soldiers and riot policemen fire towards anti-government 'red shirt' protesters who planned a road block along a highway in the outskirts of Bangkok on April 28, 2010. Thai troops fired in the air and shot rubber bullets in a chaotic clash with anti-government protesters on a highway in Bangkok's suburbs on Wednesday that wounded at least 16 people and possibly killed one soldier. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
04. U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman HM1 Richard Barnett, assigned to the 1st Marine Division, holds an Iraqi child in central Iraq in this March 29, 2003 file photo. Confused front line crossfire ripped apart an Iraqi family after local soldiers appeared to force civilians towards positions held by U.S. Marines. March 20 marks the one year anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. led war against Iraq. The war started on March 20 Baghdad local time, March 19 Washington D.C. local time. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
05. Britney Spears (L) gets a kiss on the mouth from Madonna during the opening act of the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York, August 28, 2003. REUTERS/Win McNamee
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
06. Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico coast line June 13, 2010. Millions of gallons of oil have poured into the Gulf since an April 20 explosion on an offshore rig killed 11 workers and ruptured BP's deep-sea well. REUTERS/Sean Gardner
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
07. A computer screen shows one of the miners trapped underground in a copper and gold mine, inside the mine at Copiapo, some 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago August 26, 2010. Thirty-three miners trapped for 21 days in a Chilean mine may get videos of Maradona and other soccer greats to beat boredom as they face several months deep underground until they are dug out. Picture taken August 26, 2010. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
08. Military and forensic experts inspect the body of 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 several times by drug hitmen outside a nightclub, according to local media. The assailants also left a warning message, known as narco mensaje, at the site of the shooting. Picture taken August 31, 2009. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
09. An Iraqi man suspected of having explosives in his car is held after being arrested by the U.S army near Baquba, Iraq, October 15, 2005. Iraqis headed to the polls in an historic referendum on Saturday, with up to 15 million eligible voters deciding on a controversial new post-Saddam Hussein constitution that its backers hope will unite the torn country. Amid intense security, including a ban on all traffic, voters flowed on foot to polling stations across Baghdad. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
10. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein fires shots into the air on December 31, 2000. Saddam presided on Sunday over what appeared to be the biggest military parade in Baghdad since the 1991 Gulf War, greeting army units with shots from a rifle he held in one hand. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
11. A Rwandan worker wipes as he cleans a mass grave outside the church in Nyanza, Rwanda April 4, 2004. Vowing never again, Rwandans began a week of commemoration on Sunday for the estimated 800,000 people killed a decade ago in 100 days of genocide that the outside world did little to prevent. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
12. A Kashmiri girl refugee carries a stone to helps her father to build a wall in the Neelum Valley near Kamsar camp, some 10 km (6 miles) north of the earthquake-devastated city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir February 15, 2006. Winter weather has made life more difficult for survivors of last year's massive earthquake in South Asia, where more than two million people have been living in tents or crude shelters patched together from ruined homes. REUTERS/Thierry Roge
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
13. Palestinians carry two wounded Palestinian babies after an Israeli artillery shell hit their house in the northern Gaza strip April 10, 2006. An Israeli artillery shell killed a young Palestinian girl and injured 12 others, including five children, when it hit a house in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
14. Wounded Israeli civilians get first aid, following a suicide attack at Tel Aviv's old central bus station on April 17, 2006. A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least five people at a sandwich stand in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Monday and wounded dozens more, medics said. REUTERS/Noam Wind
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
15. Nepali riot policemen beat pro-democracy activists after they were fired upon with tear gas for defying a curfew in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, April 22, 2006. Riot police clubbed and threw tear gas at tens of thousands of protesters as they shouted anti-monarch slogans while attempting to march towards the royal palace in protest of King Gyanendra. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
16. A would-be immigrant crawls after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain's Canary Island, May 5, 2006. Some 38 would-be immigrants arrived at the beach on a makeshift boat and some 39 were intercepted on a makeshift boat off Spain's Canary Island of Fuerteventura on their way to reach European soil from Africa. REUTERS/Juan Medina
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
17. Italy's Fabio Cannavaro lifts the World Cup Trophy after the World Cup 2006 final soccer match between Italy and France in Berlin July 9, 2006. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
18. An Israeli soldier walks as leaves Lebanese territory during the second day of ceasefire near the town of Menara August 15, 2006. As a truce between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbollah entered its second day on Tuesday, planning got underway for a beefed up U.N. peacekeeping force to back the Lebanese army when it deploys to the south. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
19. The Tribute in Lights shines on the skyline of lower Manhattan in New York, September 11, 2006, as the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center is observed. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
20. A North Korean soldier guards an army installation on the banks of the Yalu River at the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the 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 members weighed an arms embargo and financial sanctions on Pyongyang. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
21. Italy's Marco Materazzi falls on the pitch after being head-butted by France's Zinedine Zidane (R) during their World Cup 2006 final soccer match in Berlin July 9, 2006. REUTERS/Peter Schols
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
22. Somali refugees run from the dust at Ifo camp near Dadaab, about 80km (50 miles) from Liboi on the border with Somalia in north-eastern Kenya, January 8, 2007. Aid agencies are operating three large refugee camps in Dadaab where about 160,000 Somali refugees are held and said they could provide more staff to help Kenya with any new influx. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
23. Madonna carries her adopted son David at the Home of Hope orphanage in Mchinji village,135 km (84 miles) west of the capital Lilongwe April 17,2007. Malawi police and stone-throwing school students blocked journalists from covering pop star Madonna's visit to an orphanage on Tuesday where the boy she is adopting was due to meet his biological father. At right is Madonna's daughter Lourdes. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
24. The cover of Time magazine's December 27, 2010/January 3, 2011 issue featuring Mark Zuckerberg as the Person of the Year is seen in this image released to Reuters December 15, 2010. Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of The Facebook social networking site that has more than half a billion users, was named Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year on Wednesday. REUTERS/TIME Magazine/Handout
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
25. Benazir Bhutto prays as she arrives in Karachi, October 18, 2007. Bhutto ended eight years of self-exile on Thursday, returning to Karachi where more than 100,000 supporters poured onto the city's streets to welcome her home. REUTERS/Petr Josek
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
26. Convicted Bali bomber Imam Samudera alias Abdul Aziz talks to his daughter during his last family visit in Batu prison, Nusa Kambangan Island, October 29, 2007. Three Indonesian militants on death row for their involvement in planning the Bali bombings five years ago said they were ready to die and would not seek a presidential pardon. REUTERS/Beawiharta
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
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 January 26, 2008. Kenyans in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru feared more violence on Saturday after a disputed election triggered pitched battles between ethnic gangs that killed at least a dozen people. REUTERS/Peter Andrews
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
28. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures as he is driven into Wandsworth Prison in a police van, in south west London December 14, 2010. A British judge granted bail of 200,000 pounds ($317,400) on Tuesday for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden for alleged sex crimes and the target of U.S. fury over the release of secret diplomatic cables. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
29. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wears 3-D glasses to watch a programme about an Iranian rocket during a visit to the control centre for Iran's space programme near Tehran February 4, 2008. Iran launched a rocket on Monday designed to send its first homemade research satellite into orbit in the next year, state television said, a move likely to add to Western concerns about Tehran's nuclear plans. REUTERS/Fars News
Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties
30. Supporters reach out to touch the hand of democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) after he spoke at a rally in Dallas, Texas February 20, 2008. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

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