Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties Part 02

31. Riot police storm past a dead protestor, Carlo Giuliani, who has been shot and killed by
Carabiniere during rioting in central Genoa July 20, 2001. Police fired live rouds, tear gas and used water cannon in an attempt to disperse thousands of protestors demonstrating against the G8 summit. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

32. An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs. REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica

33. A protester burns a Chinese flag during a protest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa March 14, 2008. Protesters in Tibet's capital burnt shops and vehicles and yelled for independence on Friday as the region was hit by protests, prompting the Dalai Lama to urge Beijing to stop brute force. REUTERS/Stringer

34. Kenji Nagai of APF tries to take photographs as he lies injured after police and military officials fired upon and then charged at protesters in Yangon's city centre September 27, 2007. Nagai later died. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

35. The Northern Lights are seen above the ash plume of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano in the evening April 22, 2010. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

36. California gubernatorial hopeful Arnold Schwarzenegger is surrounded by a cloud of confetti following a campaign rally during Schwarzenegger's campaign bus tour in Clovis, California, October 4, 2003.REUTERS/Blake Sell

37. Rescuers carry a wounded man from the rubble of a building demolished by a bomb in the centre of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad June 14, 2004. A suicide car bomber blew himself up on a busy Baghdad street on Monday as a convoy of foreigners in civilian cars drove past, partly demolishing a nearby building, police at the scene said. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber

38. An Israeli border policeman fires teargas canister during a protest by Palestinians against the construction of the controversial Israeli security barrier in the West Bank village of Az-Zawiya June 20, 2004. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

39. A woman passes the scene of Sunday's explosion at al-Muhaya expatriate housing compound in the Wadi Laban suburb west of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia November 11, 2003. Saudi Arabia has detained suspects in the devastating suicide bomb attack on the housing complex after vowing to strike back with an iron fist. REUTERS/Sultan Al Fahed

40. Britain's Prince Charles grins next to the Duchess of Cornwall as they leave St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, southern England, after the Service of Prayer and Dedication following their marriage, April 9, 2005. Prince Charles and his long-term partner Camilla Parker Bowles, who became Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall on their marriage, married on Saturday in a low-key ceremony. Pictures of the Month April 2005 REUTERS/Toby Melville

41. The final Concorde, Flight 216, takes off from London's Heathrow Airport, en route to its birthplace Filton in western England, November 26, 2003. Concorde, which has made more farewell tours than Frank Sinatra, let out its final supersonic roar on Wednesday as it hurtled across the Bay of Biscay at twice the speed of sound before starting its new earthbound life at a heritage centre being built in Filton. REUTERS/Lee Besford

42. The new elected Pope Benedict XVI, known as German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, greets thousands of pilgrims from the balcony of the St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, April 19, 2005. German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

43. A photo of Saddam Hussein after his capture is shown during a press conference in Baghdad, December 14, 2003. U.S. troops captured Saddam Hussein near his home town of Tikrit announced U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer on Sunday, in a major coup for Washington's beleaguered occupation force in Iraq. REUTERS/Handout

44. A man carries two brothers who were killed when their home collapsed during an earthquake in Bam December 27, 2003. International rescue workers hacked desperately through flattened debris for survivors and cemeteries overflowed in Iran's ancient Silk Road city of Bam after an earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

45. Senegalese children run as locusts spread in the capital Dakar September 1, 2004. Only a military-style operation with bases across West Africa can stop the worst locust invasion for 15 years, Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade said on Tuesday as the insects swept into his capital. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned last week that the locust swarms infesting countries from Mauritania to Chad could develop into a full-scale plague without additional foreign aid. REUTERS/Pierre Holtz

46. A Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan. A Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 2, 2004. An armed gang, holding hundreds of people hostage in a Russian school, on Thursday freed four infants and at least two women. REUTERS/Viktor Korotayev

47. Britain's yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur holds flares as she arrives in Falmouth, Cornwall on her trimaran, after breaking the record for sailing solo round the world, February 8, 2005. I'm elated and absolutely drained, a tearful MacArthur said by radio after crossing the finishing line in just over 71 days and 14 hours to smash the record set last year. REUTERS/Stephen Hird

48. Fireworks light up Sydney's Harbour Bridge during the closing ceremony of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney October 1, 2000. IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch earlier declared the Sydney Olympic games the best ever.

49. Russian President Putin watches the launch of a missile during naval exercises in Russia's Arctic North on board the nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky. Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the launch of a missile during naval exercises in Russia's Arctic North on board the nuclear missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great), August 17, 2005. Russia's President Vladimir Putin oversaw the launch at sea of a ballistic missile on Wednesday, salvaging some honour after the embarrassment of two failed launches on a visit to the fleet last year. Others are unidentified. REUTERS/ITAR-TASS/PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE

50. Cuban President Fidel Castro addresses the audience during an event with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Havana's Revolution Square February 3, 2006. Chavez arrived in Cuba on Friday for a 24-hour visit to accept an international award from UNESCO and open the Havana international book fair honoring Venezuela. Picture taken February 3, 2006 REUTERS/Stringer

51. A woman puts her hand near a crack on a wall as she waits for food distribution in Port-au-Prince Haiti January 27, 2010. A shallow 4.9 magnitude aftershock rattled western Haiti on Tuesday, two weeks after a killer 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Service said. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

52. Drowned African immigrants lie on the coast in Fuerteventura, one of the Spanish Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco August 1, 2003. Six immigrants drowned, when their flimsy boat ran aground and 15 others disappeared on Thursday when their boat capsized six miles offshore. Fuerteventura is the nearest of the Canary Islands to the African coast and traffickers habitually head for its shores from launching points in southern Morocco, packing their passengers into overloaded boats. REUTERS/Juan Medina

53. Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales (L) receives a replica of South American independent fighter Simon Bolivar's sword from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas January 3, 2006. Morales is in Venezuela for a one-day visit. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

54. Shawn Sawyer of Canada is seen during a practice session through the Olympic rings at the Palavela figure skating venue ahead of the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, February 9, 2006. REUTERS/David Gray

55. China's national flag is raised during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium, August 8, 2008. The stadium is also known as the Bird's Nest. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

56. A Georgian man cries as he holds the body of his relative after a bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

57. Michael Phelps and Garrett Weber-Gale celebrate after the U.S. won the men's 4x100m freestyle relay swimming final at the National Aquatics Center during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 11, 2008. REUTERS/David Gray

58. Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates winning the men's 200m final of the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 20, 2008. Bolt set a new world record with a timing of 19.30 seconds. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

59. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2010 - A hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010. Energy giant BP Plc said on Tuesday it had sharply increased the amount of oil it was capturing from its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, but U.S. officials want to know exactly how much oil is still gushing out. REUTERS/Lee Celano

60. Bernard Madoff walks back to his apartment in New York December 17, 2008. Disgraced financier Madoff, accused of orchestrating a $50 billion fraud, was placed under house arrest on Wednesday as BNP Paribas became the latest European bank to be sideswiped by the scandal. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton