President Obama: One Year in Office
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"I think we've done a pretty good job of working in this town without being completely consumed by it," the President said in an interview with TIME on Jan. 15.
Earthquake in Haiti
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Haitians try to restart their lives as they settle into temporary shelter at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 18.
Funeral in Haiti
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The Port-au-Prince cemetery had no more room, but the dead kept coming.
Unclaimed Dead
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Outside of the wall of the cemetery in Port-au-Prince
A Soldier's Loved Ones
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Rosie Ricketts, the widow of Staff Sergeant William "Seth" Ricketts, who was killed in an ambush on Feb. 27 in western Afghanistan, wakes her son Aiden before a viewing of her late husband's body at a funeral home in Corinth, Miss.
Protests in Thailand
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Coffins are displayed at a memorial ceremony for those who were killed during the April 10 demonstrations in Bangkok.
Volcanic Eruption in Iceland
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Eyjafjallajokull's eruption lights up the Icelandic sky. It was an awesome spectacle, but the ash that followed created a global mess.
World Cup in South Africa
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A group of boys play soccer beneath power lines near the newly built Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg.
New Stadium
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Fans watch two local teams during the first match to be played in Soccer City Stadium
Shelter in Haiti
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A crude structure in Gros Morne, several months after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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The waters near Venice, La., in June, more than two months after the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion spewed millions of tons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone
Photographed by Lynsey Addario / VII Network
Comforted by her sister and a nurse, Mamma Sessay, 18, screams in pain and fear as she prepares to deliver the second of twins at a hospital in Sierra Leone. Sessay had postpartum hemmorrhaging and died while being brought to the one doctor in the hospital.
Mamma Sessay's Funeral
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Relatives mourn over the body of Mamma Sessay before her burial in the village of Mayogbah on the day after her death.
The Most Malarial Town on Earth
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Three-month-old Sindrela Okello sleeps inside a mosquito net in Apac, Uganda, where almost one-quarter of the population is afflicted with malaria. Children are particularly vulnerable.
Southern Sudan
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A Dinka boy burns cow patties for protection from insects. The region is bracing for a referendum vote in January 2011 that would create an independent Southern Sudan.
Water Issues Along the Ganges in India
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As the demands on India's water supply continue to grow, the Ganges shore has receded and become more polluted.
Meth War in Mexico
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A burned house, riddled with bullet holes, remains untouched almost two years after a deadly firefight between Mexican soldiers and members of the La Familia drug cartel who were occupying the house.
The Chilean Miners Are Discovered
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Florencio Avalos, one of the 33 miners trapped in a copper and gold mine in Copiapó, Chile, peers into a video camera that was dropped down a borehole into the chamber where the men sought safety after the cave-in.
The War in Afghanistan Drags On
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A flare signals a landing position to a medevac helicopter near Patrol Base Beatley, in Marjah, Helmand province.
Afghan Civilian Casualty
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Corporal Nathaniel Matos from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, looks away from the body of Gulmakay, a 14-year-old Afghan girl who was killed by a U.S. Marines mortar strike in the village of Abdullah Jan.
Burn Pit
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U.S. Marines from the 2nd Platoon, Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines stand at Patrol Base Beatley in Helmand province.
Iraq War U.S. Troop Drawdown
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Soldiers from the Virginia National Guard's 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry await takeoff in the plane that will bring them home.
Remembering Hurricane Katrina
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A man carries an American flag during the Valley of the Silent Men Social Aid and Pleasure Club's 25th annual second line parade in New Orleans.
Floods in Pakistan
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A man walks through a flooded street in Nowshera. Floodwaters displaced tens of thousands of people in northwestern Pakistan
Homeless from Flooding
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A woman stands near what used to be her home in rural Punjab province one month after heavy rains first burst the riverbanks in northwestern Pakistan. As the Indus Valley River swelled, the flooding moved south, inundating vast portions of farmland.
Midterm Elections
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Raymond Hubbard, an Iraq-war veteran, casts his ballot in Sharon, Wis
Cholera in Haiti
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Family members remove the coffin of a cholera victim from the morgue at St. Nicholas Hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti.
Mortgage Crisis
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Displaced objects outside foreclosed homes in Orlando
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