Best Pictures Of The Decade: The Noughties Part 04

91. Ukrainian woman places carnations into shields of anti-riot policemen standing outside the presidential office in Kiev. A Ukrainian woman places carnations into the shields of anti-riot policemen standing outside the presidential office in Kiev, November 24, 2004. Ukraine's authorities raised the stakes in a face-off with their liberal opposition on Wednesday as they prepared to announce results of a disputed election that are likely to infuriate
thousands of protesters in the streets. Pictures of the month November 2004 REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

92. A man walks in the street near the World Trade Center towers in New York City, early September 11, 2001. Both towers were hit by planes which crashed into the buildings, which collapsed shortly after. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

93. G8 leaders return into the Gleneagles Hotel following a group photo at the end of the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland July 8, 2005. The world's leading industrialised powers have agreed a package of financial measures for Palestinians and increased aid for developing nations, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs

94. The bomb destroyed number 30 double-decker bus in Tavistock Square in central London July 8, 2005. Police have stated that over 50 people have been killed in the four blasts that tore through three underground trains and the bus and have added that the scene is too dangerous to remove bodies from the underground carriages. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

95. A group of soldiers form a line to clean up fuel oil spilled from the Prestige oil tanker near the coastal town of Muxia on Spain's devastated North West Atlantic coast on January 27, 2003. The aging, single-hulled tanker foundered off the coast of Galicia in November 2002 with 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil on board, causing Spain's worst ever ecological disaster, contaminating hundreds of miles of coast and putting thousands of fishermen out of work. REUTERS/Miguel Vidal

96. Mujic Sabra, a Bosnian Muslim woman cries over the coffin of her son Mujo in a factory hall in Potocari where 610 victims of Srebrenica massacre wait for the funeral. Mujic Sabra, a Bosnian Muslim woman cries over the coffin of her son Mujo on July 10, 2005 in a factory hall in Potocari where 610 victims of Srebrenica massacre wait for the funeral. Tens of thousands of family members, foreign dignitaries and guests are expected to attend a ceremony in Srebrenica on July 11 marking the 10th anniversary of the massacre in which Serb forces killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys. 610 identified victims will be buried at a memorial cemetery during the ceremony, their bodies found in some 60 mass graves around the town. More than 1,300 Srebrenica victims are already buried there. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

97. Queen Beatrix closes her eyes as coffin of her father Prince Bernhard is carried into Royal Palace Noordeinde in The Hague. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands closes her eyes as the coffin of her father Prince Bernhard is carried into the Royal Palace Noordeinde in The Hague December 5, 2004. Prince Bernhard died on December 1 in Utrecht. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

98. Anti-war protesters gather in London at the start of a demonstration against war on Iraq, February 15, 2003. Millions of people are expected to take to the streets of towns and cities across the globe on Saturday to demonstrate against a looming U.S.-led war on Iraq in the biggest protests since the Vietnam war. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid

99. Coffins of U.S. military personnel are prepared to be offloaded at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware in this undated photo. The U.S. Air Force, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, released to Web site www.thememoryhold.org on April 14 more than 300 photographs showing the remains of U.S. service members returning home. The Pentagon tightly restricts publication of photographs of coffins with the remains of U.S. troops and has forbidden journalists from taking pictures at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the first stop for the bodies of troops being sent home. REUTERS/USAF/

100. Switzerland's Roger Federer celebrates winning his singles match against Spain's Rafael Nadal at the ATP World Tour Finals in London November 28, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

101. A mourner wearing a mask to ward off SARS hides under an umbrella during the funeral of SARS doctor Tse Yuen-man in Hong Kong May 22, 2003. Tse, the first front-line doctor to be killed by the desease in the territory, was given the highest honours at her funeral and was buried in Gallant Garden, a cemetary reserved for residents who perish in the line of duty. The deadly virus has infected 1,719 people and killed 255 since it swept into the congested territory. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

102. An Indian man cries as he holds the hand of his eight-year-old son who was killed when a tsunami hit on Sunday in Cuddalore, India. An Indian man cries as he holds the hand of his eight-year-old son who was killed when a tsunami hit on Sunday in Cuddalore, 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 27, 2004. India's weather bureau on Monday warned that more tsunamis could strike the coast over the next couple of days but said they would be smaller than the giant tidal wave triggered by an earthquake that killed thousands around Asia. REUTERS/Arko Datta

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103. An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative (R) who was killed in tsunami on Sunday in Cuddalore, some 180 km (112 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Madras December 28, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta

104. A view of Meulaboh town after Sunday massive earthquake and the powerfull tsunami it triggered on January 1, 2005. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a brief visit to the town of Meulaboh, just 150 km from epicentre of the earthquake where officials estimated 40,000 of the 120,000 residents had perished. REUTERS/Dudi Anung-State Secretariat

105. Picture obtained by ABC News and released May 19, 2004 shows a man identified as Sgt. Charles Graner posing over the body of detainee Manadel a-Jamadi in Abu Ghraib prison. According to testimony from Spc. Jason Kenner, obtained by ABC News, the man was brought to the prison by US Navy Seals in good health. Kenner said he saw extensive bruising on the detainee's body when he was brought out of the showers, dead. Kenner says the body was packed in ice during a battle between CIA and military interrogators over who should dispose of the body. The Justice Department opened an investigation into this death and four others today following a referral from the CIA. The photo was taken by Sgt. Charles Fredrick who in e-mails to his family has asked why the people responsible for the prisoner's death were not being prosecuted in the same manner that he is.

106. An explosion rocks Baghdad during air strikes March 21, 2003. U.S.-led forces unleashed a devastating blitz on Baghdad on Friday night, triggering giant fireballs and deafening explosions and sending huge mushroom clouds above the city centre. Missiles slammed into the main palace complex of President Saddam Hussein on the bank of the Tigris River, and key government buildings, in an onslaught that far exceeded strikes that launched the war on Thursday, Reuters correspondents said. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

107. Brazil's captain Cafu lifts the World Cup trophy after his team won the World Cup final against Germany in Yokohama June 30, 2002. This was Brazil's record fifth World Cup with Ronaldo scoring both goals in a 2-0 victory over Germany. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

108. Opponents of Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza, scream as they speak with a policeman in Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom. Opponents of Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza, scream as they speak with a special evacuation policeman after the forces took over the roof top of the synagogue in the Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif settlements bloc, August 18, 2005. Israeli troops using cranes and water cannon battled protesters on the rooftop of a Gaza settlement synagogue on Thursday as they assaulted the last bastions of resistance to evacuation of the occupied strip. REUTERS/Nir Elias

109. Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, wounded during an airstrike according to hospital sources, lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad, April 6, 2003. Abbas was fast asleep when war shattered his life. A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his arms. It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brother died. My mother was five months pregnant, the traumatised boy told Reuters at Baghdad's Kindi hospital. Our neighbours pulled me out and brought me here. I was unconscious, he said on Sunday. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber

110. U.S. Marine Corp Assaultman Kirk Dalrymple watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad April 9, 2003. U.S. troops pulled down a 20-foot (six metre) high statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad on Wednesday and Iraqis danced on it in contempt for the man who ruled them with an iron grip for 24 years. In scenes reminiscent of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Iraqis earlier took a sledgehammer to the marble plinth under the statue of Saddam. Youths had placed a noose around the statue's neck and attached the rope to a U.S. armoured recovery vehicle. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

111. Discovery Channel team rider Armstrong passes the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after winning his seventh Tour de France. Discovery Channel team rider Lance Armstrong of the U.S. passes the Arc de Triomphe in Paris after winning his seventh Tour de France, July 24, 2005. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

112. A man holding a baby uncovers the body of a dead man, suspected to have been sitting there for two days, outside the New Orleans Convention Center September 1, 2005. Several people among the thousands of stranded hurricane evacuees have died while waiting outside the building, with no sign of imminent help on the way. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

113. Am American flag flies near the base of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York, September 11, 2001. Planes crashed into each of the two towers, causing them to collapse. REUTERS/Peter Morgan

114. A man clings to the top of a vehicle before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard from the flooded streets of New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in Louisiana September 4, 2005. Residents continue to be rescued from their homes and the streets of the flood ravaged city. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

115. Smoke from the remains of New York's World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan as a lone seagull flies overhead in a photograph taken across New York Harbor from Jersey City, New Jersey September 12, 2001. Each of the twin towers were hit by hijacked airliners and collapsed in one of numerous acts of terrorism directed at the United States on September 11, 2001. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine

116. African would-be immigrants being rescued off the Canary Islands. The photo was taken at sea off the coast of Fuerteventura November 12, 2004. REUTERS/Juan Medina

117. a suspected of assassin for exiled Hatian president Jean Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas party being held in a car. The photo was taken in Petit Goave, Haiti March 3, 2004. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar

118. Conservative challenger Angela Merkel, leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is surrounded by photographers as she arrives to address a news conference following a party leaders meeting in Berlin September 19, 2005. Merkel reiterated on Monday the election result had given her Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU, a clear mandate to form the next government. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

119. British soldier jumps from a burning tank which was set ablaze after a shooting incident in the southern Iraqi city of Basra September 19, 2005. Angry crowds attacked a British tank with petrol bombs and rocks in Basra on Monday after Iraqi authorities said they had detained two British undercover soldiers in the southern city for firing on police. Two Iraqis were killed in the violence, an Interior Ministry official said. REUTERS/Atef Hassan FR05090016 also see GF1DTZKTLRAA

120. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is escorted by a United Nations security guard as he makes his initial appearance at the War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague July 3, 2001. Milosevic has said that he doesn't recognise the authority of the court, where he is facing charges of crimes against humanity, including mass murder and deportation. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen