An anti-Aristide rebel shoots at the corpse of a police officer in Gonaives, some 62 miles north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 7. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide went into exile on Feb. 29, following a three week rebellion.
A Palestinian woman walks alongside a wall that is part of the barrier Israel is building to separate the outskirts of Jerusalem from the West Bank, in the village of Abu Dis, on Feb. 8.
Pope John Paul II is surrounded by Protestant bishops from the Pentecostal Church of the U.S. during his weekly general audience in the Paul IV Hall at the Vatican, on March 10.
Rescue workers remove victims at Atocha train station following a blast there, after explosions rocked three railway stations in Madrid March 11, just three days before Spain's general elections. The blasts killed more than 173 commuters and wounded more than 500 in Spain's worst terrorist attack.
Palestinian Hamas supporters hold portraits of Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, during a demonstration in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on March 22. Yassin was killed by a missile March 21 as he left a mosque in his wheelchair.
An Israeli settler protects his daughter during an attack by Palestinian militants on the road linking the Gush Katif settlement block in the Gaza Strip with the Kitsufim crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip on May 9. Writing in the background reads, in Hebrew, "Rooting Out Settlements," at right in blue, and "Victory For Terror," at left in red.
A Palestinian man carries a wounded child after an Israeli missile strike on a demonstration moments after an attack in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on May 19.
Firefighters inspect the debris of a passenger terminal after a section of its roof collapsed at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris, May 23. Four people were killed in the incident.
A Sudanese refugee cries upon reaching Bahai on the Chad border, after fleeing political violence in Darfur, Sudan, on July 9.
Coffins containing the identified bodies of victims of the Srebrenica massacre are displayed in the hall of an abandoned car battery factory in Potocari, near Srebrenica, some 47 miles north of Sarajevo, on July 10. The bodies were transported from Visoko and stored in the memorial center during preparation for a funeral of newly identified bodies of Muslims killed in the worst massacre of civilians since World War II.
An Afghan woman gets her voter identification card as others wait at a voter registration center in Kabul July 18.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waves to supporters from the balcony of the Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela on Aug. 16, after the electoral commission announced that Chavez survived a popular referendum to oust him.
An injured schoolgirl who escaped from a seized Russian school holds a cross in her hand in a hospital in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia on Sept. 3. More than 330 people, mostly children, died in the siege.
Protesters run away as anti-riot police throw tear gas after students threw stones during a march of striking government employees in Popayan, Colombia, 370 miles southwest of Bogota, on Oct. 12. Thousands of workers, students and Indians marched trhoughout the country to protest government economic policies.
Osama bin Laden speaks in this image made from an undated video broadcast on Oct. 29 by Arab television station Al-Jazeera.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat writes notes inside his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, in a file photo. Arafat, 75, the leader who dedicated his life to seeking a homeland for his people but was seen by many Israelis as a terrorist and an obstacle to peace, died November 11, in Paris.