Hundreds of thousands of people follow the funeral procession in Belgrade of Serbia's assassinated Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, March 15, 2003.
Children taking a ballet class in Hong Kong wear masks to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, April 27, 2003.
An Iraqi woman who lived next to this devastated building weeps after seeing the extent of damage caused by the May 12 blast at the al-Hamra compound in eastern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Simultaneous attacks targeted three residential compounds, killing 34 people and injuring nearly 200.
Canadian beef shows standard inspection stamps as it hangs in a butcher shop in Toronto, Canada, May 22, 2003. The first Canadian case of mad cow disease in a decade was confirmed earlier in the week, prompting the United States to temporarily ban beef imports from Canada. Alberta accounts for approximately 60 percent of Canada's beef production.
A North Korean border guard stands outside a compound of Military Armistice Conmmittee Meeting Room (MACM) as South Korean U.N. guard is posted inside the compound at Panmunjom, bordering to North Korea, July 2, 2003. North Korea's nuclear arms program was at the center of intense diplomacy in 2003.
Iranian conjoined twins, Ladan, left, and Laleh Bijani speak at a press conference in Singapore, June 11, 2003. The twins died July 8, following surgery to separate them.
Antony Pocino, left, places the ring on his partner Tom Graff's finger during a wedding ceremony outside B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada, July 8, 2003. Porcino and Gaff became the first lawfully married same-sex couple in Canada after the Appeal Court lifted a one-year moratorium earlier in the morning.
Colonel Onwuama Egbu Emeka, one of the Economic Community of West African States Mission's peacekeeping troops in Liberia, is carried aloft by a jubilant crowd crying "peace at least" at Robertsfield airport, Aug 4, 2003. Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was indicted in June by a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal, accepted an offer of asylum from Nigeria's president and on Aug. 11 he stepped down.
An unidentified employee stands up an empty coffin at the funeral parlor in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, southeast of Paris, Aug. 22, 2003. The summer heat killed nearly 15,000 people in France, many of them seniors.
Imam Samudra, accused mastermind in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, shouts "Allah Akbar" (God is great) after being sentenced to death, Sept. 10, 2003, in Denpasar, Indonesia.
People cry during a protest rally on Sept. 12, 2003, in response to the death of Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. Lindh was stabbed in the chest, stomach and arms on Sept. 10 while shopping with a friend at a crowded department store in downtown Stockholm. She died from her injuries a day later.
First Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei waves to people before boarding China's first manned spacecraft, Shenzhou 5, at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 15, 2003.
The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold III places his hands on the head of Gene Robinson as bishops gather during the consecration in Durham, N.H., Nov. 2, 2003. Robinson is the Epicopal church's first openly gay bishop.
Kirk Jones waits at the shoreline at the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls after surviving a plunge over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back to protect him, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 20, 2003.
A wounded woman is helped after an explosion outside of the British Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 20, 2003.